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What event, more than 125 years ago, symbolized the birth of Canada as a modern nation?
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Why would thousands of people, in a small Quebec town, climb metal stairs 200 feet straight up into the air?
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How could the reopening of a bridge some 70 years ago…connect the future to the past?
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What native Canadian mammal was bombed with dynamite?
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What institution in Saskatchewan became one of the biggest buildings in the entire British Empire?
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