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  2. Red River Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) of land in British North America. This land was granted to Douglas by the Hudson's Bay Company in the Selkirk Concession.

  3. Douglas, Ontario - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 1 March 2012, at 11:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  4. Douglas Coupland - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Coupland [a] OC OBC RCA (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture , popularized the terms Generation X and McJob .

  5. Douglas - Wikipedia

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    Douglas, Ontario, a community in Admaston/Bromley township; Douglas, British Columbia, the community at the Peace Arch border crossing Douglas, the Canadian inspection station of the Peace Arch Border Crossing; Douglas, Manitoba, a settlement in the Rural Municipality of Elton; Rural Municipality of Douglas No. 436, Saskatchewan

  6. Souvenir of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Souvenir of Canada is a 2002 book written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland.A feature film based on the book was released theatrically in 2006. In the book's introduction, Coupland states his intention was to author a book about Canada "that only Canadians would get."

  7. Orthodox Mennonites - Wikipedia

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    There is also a growing settlement of Orthodox Mennonites in the Desbarats and Bruce Mines area of Northern Ontario. This group migrated to the north from the Walkerton community and other Ontario communities around 2012. This growing community runs several sawmills, a cedar planing mill, market gardens and an engineered truss factory. [14] [15 ...

  8. Douglas Glover (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Glover (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario.Canada) is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario.He has published five short story collections, four novels (including Elle which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), three books of essays, and The Enamoured Knight, a monograph on Don Quixote and novel form.

  9. History of childhood - Wikipedia

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    Sutherland, Neil. Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada From the Great War to the Age of Television (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997). Comacchio, Cynthia. 'Nations are Built of Babies': Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900 to 1940 (Montreal and Kingston McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993). Comacchio, Cynthia.