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The Canadian Museum of History originates from the collecting efforts of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), an organization established in 1842 in Montreal. [2] In 1856 the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada passed an act that enabled the GSC to establish a museum to exhibit items found from its geological and archaeological field trips; with the museum initially established in ...
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Ottawa, Ontario: 1968 [note 1] Canadian Museum of History: Gatineau, Quebec: 1968 [note 1] Canadian Museum of History corporation: Canadian War Museum: Ottawa, Ontario: 1942 Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Winnipeg, Manitoba: 2014 Independent Crown corporation: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 ...
Canada's national history museum, featuring a large collection, study, and preserve of materials that illuminate the human history of Canada [4] Canadian Museum of Nature: Centretown: 1968 Nature Canada's national natural history and natural sciences museum [5] Canadian War Museum: LeBreton Flats: 1942 Military Canada's national museum of ...
Canada Science and Technology Museum; Canadian Museum of History - located in Gatineau, includes the Canadian Children's Museum; Canadian Museum of Nature; Canadian War Museum; City of Ottawa Art Galleries - includes ASP, Barbara Ann Scott, Centrepointe Theatre, City Hall, Gallery 112, Karsh-Masson, Studio and Trinity galleries [2]
The Canadian Museum of Nature (French: Musée canadien de la nature; CMN) is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region.The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, a 18,910-square-metre structure (203,500 sq ft) in Ottawa, Ontario.
Among the oldest government buildings in the capital, the building was the first Ottawa home of the Geological Survey of Canada; the building was also used to host the inaugural exhibit of the Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880 (the genesis of the collection of the National Gallery of Canada), and to display the Geological Survey's museum ...
Tim Cook CM (born 1971) is a Canadian military historian and author. [1] Cook is an historian at the Canadian War Museum [2] [1] and the author of thirteen books about the military history of Canada. [2]
The museum first opened as the "Bytown Historical Museum" in 1917, in the former City Registry Office at 70 Nicholas Street, Ottawa. The Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa (WCHSO), a group of some 30 women whose objective it was to advance the study of Canadian history and literature, had amassed a collection of artifacts, and were ...