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A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts. Cultural centers can be neighborhood community arts organizations, private facilities, government-sponsored, or activist -run.
The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture has been influenced firstly by its indigenous cultures, and later by European culture and traditions, mostly by the British and French. [1]
A culture area is a concept in cultural anthropology in which a geographic region and time sequence is characterized by shared elements of environment and culture. [3]A precursor to the concept of culture areas originated with museum curators and ethnologists during the late 1800s as means of arranging exhibits, combined with the work of taxonomy.
Montreal is the cultural centre of Québec, French-speaking Canada, and French-speaking North America as a whole, and an important city in the Francophonie. It is the largest French-speaking city in North America, and the cultural capital of the Quebec province. The city is a hub for French-language television productions, radio, theatre ...
Monument to Multiculturalism by Francesco Pirelli, in Toronto [1]. Multiculturalism in Canada was officially adopted by the government during the 1970s and 1980s. [2] The Canadian federal government is widely credited as the initiator of multiculturalism as a political initiative for managing diversity, rooted in constitutional liberalism, particularly due to the public emphasis on related ...
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Canada contained five broad cultural regions, defined by common climatic, geographical and ecological characteristics. Each region gave rise to distinctive building forms which reflected these conditions, as well as the available building materials, means of livelihood, and social and spiritual values of the resident peoples.
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