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The Dominion Observatory was an astronomical observatory in Ottawa, Ontario that operated from 1902 to 1970. The Observatory was also an institution within the Canadian Federal Government. The observatory grew out of the Department of the Interior's need for the precise coordinates and timekeeping that at that time could only come from an ...
31 July 2019. [ edit on Wikidata] The David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) is an astronomical observatory site in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1935, it was owned and operated by the University of Toronto until 2008. It was then acquired by the city of Richmond Hill, which provides a combination of heritage preservation, unique ...
National Research Council laboratories in Ottawa. The National Research Council Time Signal was Canada's longest running radio program, begun 5 November 1939 until its final broadcast on 9 October 2023. [1] Broadcast daily shortly before 13:00 Eastern Time across the CBC Radio One network, it lasted between 15 and 60 seconds, ending exactly at ...
Postal codes in Canada. A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish, and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth ...
Telescope 2. 203 mm Schmidt camera. Telescope 3. 300 mm Cassegrain reflector. Location of Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory. Related media on Commons. [edit on Wikidata] The Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory is a public astronomical observatory located on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada.
Algonquin Radio Observatory. The Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) is a radio observatory located in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1959 in order to host a number of the National Research Council of Canada 's (NRC) ongoing experiments in a more radio-quiet location than Ottawa. In 1962 it was selected as the site for ...
The observatory was renamed the Allan Ian Carswell Astronomical Observatory in 2017 after York University Emeritus Professor of Physics Allan Carswell. The observatory owns two telescopes housed in separate domes: a 60 cm (24 in) Cassegrain reflector, and a 1 m (39 in) custom-built telescope, the largest at a university in Canada.
2008. The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located on Observatory Hill, in Saanich, British Columbia, [1] was completed in 1918 by the Canadian government. The Dominion architect responsible for the building was Edgar Lewis Horwood. [2] The main instrument is the 72-inch- aperture (1.83 m) Plaskett telescope, proposed and designed by John S ...