• The Ingenuity Gap is a non-fiction book by Canadian academic Thomas Homer-Dixon. It was written over the course of eight years from 1992 to 2000 when it...
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    Thomas Homer-Dixon (category Academic staff of the University of Toronto)
    He coined the term “ingenuity gap,” and his work resulted in the book The Ingenuity Gap. The book was published in six countries and won the 2001 Governor...
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    Homer-Dixon, Thomas F (2002). The Ingenuity Gap. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-375-71328-6. Archived from the original on January 14, 2021...
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    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda is a book by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the Canadian Forces, with help from Major...
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    A progress trap is the condition human societies experience when, in pursuing progress through human ingenuity, they inadvertently introduce problems...
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    Emily Carr (redirect from The Book of Small)
    1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was...
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  • The 2001 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on...
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  • in the latter part of the 20th century. The idea of a mosaic, in which each cultural group retained a distinct identity and still contributed to the nation...
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    American-Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside. He has written both non-fiction...
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  • Post Edward Greenspon, former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail Greg Ip, economic journalist, The Wall Street Journal Peter Jennings, journalist and...
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  • Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the events of the Paris Peace Conference...
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  • contributing editor to The Atlantic, and he has also written for The Cambodia Daily, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg...
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    Stephen Leacock (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada)
    professor, but in his works he reflected with wit and ingenuity on everyday situations. During the summer months, Leacock lived at Old Brewery Bay, his...
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    known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-led societies; the confusion between leadership...
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    Hugh MacLennan (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
    Canada: The Mackenzie, the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, the Red, the Saskatchewan, the Fraser, the St. John (1962). The Colour of Canada (1967) The Other Side...
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  • Northrop Frye (category Companions of the Order of Canada)
    one of the most influential of the 20th century. Frye gained international fame with his first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), which led to the reinterpretation...
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    Margaret MacMillan (category Canadian Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    on the history of international relations. MacMillan was the 2018 Reith lecturer, giving five lectures across the globe on the theme of war under the title...
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  • Domino, (1995), tells the story of a castrato singer seen through the experience of an aspiring painter in the London of the 1770s. In 1998, King published...
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    Marshall McLuhan (category Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template)
    McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message" in the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and the term global village...
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    M. G. Vassanji (category Canadian expatriates in the United States)
    30 May 1950 in Kenya) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. Vassanji's work has been translated into several languages...
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  • George Woodcock (category Academic staff of the University of British Columbia)
    volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated...
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  • short sketches, the artist tells of her experiences among First Nations people and cultures on British Columbia's west coast. The book won the 1941 Governor...
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    Inside the New Canadian Army also won the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award in Non-fiction. Blatchford was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, the daughter...
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  • Pierre Berton (category Academic staff of the Royal Military College of Canada)
    of human ingenuity and willpower, as the builders defeated the harsh landscape of northern Ontario, the seemingly endless Prairies, and the imposing Rocky...
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  • J. M. S. Careless (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada)
    Ontario and attended the University of Toronto Schools. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 from Trinity College at the University of Toronto...
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  • F. R. Scott (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
    for the regenerative balance of the Laurentian landscape and a firm respect for the social order." He witnessed the riots in the city during the Conscription...
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  • Rachel Manley (category British emigrants to the British West Indies)
    daughter of the former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of the film director...
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    Donald Creighton (category Companions of the Order of Canada)
    major works include The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence, 1760–1850 (first published in 1937), a detailed study on the growth of the English merchant...
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  • was a Canadian robber and the author of the influential prison memoir Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978). At the time of publishing, Caron...
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  • Arthur R. M. Lower (category Companions of the Order of Canada)
    strongly influenced by the ideas of American historian Frederick Jackson Turner regarding the influence of the frontier – The West – on distinctly American...
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