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Greenpeace, one of the leading international environmental organizations, was founded in Vancouver in 1971. In 1968 the Canada Council awarded a $3,500 grant to Joachim Foikis of Vancouver "to revive the ancient and time-honoured tradition of town fool".
Miami University Middletown, located in Middletown, Ohio, was founded in 1966 as Ohio's first regional campus. [43] Miami University Hamilton , located in Hamilton, Ohio , was established in 1968, and the Miami University Voice of America Learning Center , located in West Chester, Ohio , was established in 2009 to house the Farmer School of ...
Net gain of one person every 2 minutes; Canada's fertility rate from 1929 to 2019. The rate fell below two in the 1970s. In 2010, Canada's annual population growth rate was 1.238%, or a daily increase of 1,137 individuals. [41] Between 1867 and 2009 Canada's population grew by 979%. [41]
After Ukraine became independent Canada was one of the first nations to recognize Ukraine. From 1992 to 1994, Ukrainian Canadians were vital in fundraising to purchase a building in Ottawa to house the Embassy of Ukraine. As well, Canada has recognized the Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine) as an act of genocide.
One reason the term was not used by placement agencies was that less than half of the children who rode the trains were in fact orphans, and as many as 25 percent had two living parents. Children with both parents living ended up on the trains—or in orphanages—because their families did not have the money or desire to raise them or because ...
Ohio State had wins against then 20th ranked Penn State and 5th ranked Michigan State. Going into the Michigan game, Ohio State was ranked 2nd and Michigan was ranked 5th by the College Football Playoff committee. Michigan defeated Ohio State for the first time since 2011. This loss effectively eliminated Ohio State from playoff contention.
The port also saw Canada's first overseas military deployment as a nation to aid the British Empire during the Second Boer War. Halifax was founded below a drumlin that would later be named Citadel Hill. The outpost was named in honour of George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, who was the President of the Board of Trade.
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...