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This is the broadcast of PM Pierre Trudeau public statement on the enactment of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis, 1970.

This website sets out a variety of resources (including interactive resources) related to Canada's official policy of multiculturalism.

This document is the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, which sets out the official multiculturalism policy of Canada and provides for its implementation.

This is a photograph of one of the Fathers of Confederation, Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley. Sir Tilley hailed from New Brunswick.

In this case, Fred Christie, a Black man living in Montreal, sued the York Tavern after the latter refused to sell him a glass of beer. The case involved the freedom of contract, including the right to discriminate provided that there are no laws or…

This news story from 2010 discusses the role of the reference to "the Supremacy of God" in the preamble of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Different perspectives on the significance of the preamble are given.

A photograph of St James Cathedral in Toronto, ON

Photograph of St. James Cathedral, West Side, reflected in building

A vintage postcard of a Mountie (RCMP officer)

This is a photograph of Ukrainian women cutting lumber in the Athabasca region, circa 1930.

This is a replica of the One Dish One Spoon Wampum, which established an agreement to share resources of territories in vast regions of the Great Lakes peacefully among a number of Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee.

Image of Dr. W.E. Cummer

Image of a painting

Image of a painting