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travel to the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. What seemed to be a grand adventure in the mind of a nine-year old was actually my friend and I racing as fast as our legs (and our chaperone) would allow us through the museum’s exhibits. I had always been an inquisitive child; however, that trip was the first time I truly understood how much joy I could experience while learning. I aspire to help others experience the childlike joy which I felt when first visiting the Royal BC Museum and I intend

The Spirit (Kermode) Bear Spirit Bear, also known as the Kermode bear, is a rare kind of black bear. It was named after Frances Kermode of the Royal British Columbia Museum. These majestic bears are not polar bears or albinos. They have white fur with a creamy look, brown eyes, white claws, and a soft black nose. The Kermode bears can also be called “Spirit Bear” because the whiteness of their fur is so pale, they look like spirits. . This type of American Black Bear is horribly endangered. Maybe

the levee from his land, in/to Shuanna? … With bitumen and baked brick I built anew, and completed its work. … Great doors of cedar wood with copper cladding. I installed all their doors, threshold slabs and door fittings with copper parts.” *(British Museum) Long before the great king, Cyrus’ death the Persian Empire had reached the milestone that allowed it to be the first empire that was so large. Cyrus had a son, who took over the throne in 530 B.C.E., named Cambyses II. Cambyses would show

Painter. He was a well-known Canadian landscape artist best known for his works of the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range (a mountain range spanning the Idaho Panhandle, the state of Washington, and the southeastern province of British Columbia). Born in London, England, to portrait painter and minaiturist John Bell-Smith and his wife, Georgina Boddy Bell-Smith, he began his art training under his father at a young age before immigrating to Montreal in 1867. After his arrival in Canada, he worked

the estate of a British scientist by the name of James Smithson. In 1829, James Smithson passed away, and lest an unusual request in his will. According to the Smithsonian's web page, this request was that his whole estate would be given to “the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” James had always been a man fond of the sciences and he was a part of the Royal Society of London

The “Sons of Freedom” are a small radical group that diverged from a religious sect known as the Doukhobors.  This zealous and revivalist subsect evolved from the Doukhobors only to gain the government’s attention for their extremely radical acts.  They have initiated bombings, arson, nudist parades, and hunger strikes, all in protest to the land ownership and registration laws of Canada.  Such obscene and violent demonstrations have caused a great deal of conflict between the Sons of Freedom and

The Cambridge Dictionary Online defined museums as “places of study, buildings where objects of historical, scientific or artistic interest are kept, preserved and exhibited”. To The Museums Association, a museum is “an institution which collects documents, preserves, exhibits and interprets material evidence and associated information for the public benefit”. Since 1998, this definition has changed. Museums now enable the public to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment. They

the E.J. Pratt medal for a group of poems, she also won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study English at Radcliffe College(Margaret Atwood).”She received her M.A. from Harvard in 1962...she taught English from 1964 to 1965 at the University of British Columbia, then returned to Harvard and completed all of the requirements for her doctorate”(Margaret Atwood). “In 1966, her poetry volume The Circle Game was published, and it won Canada’s Governor General’s Award, and The Blind Assassin(2000) won the

Scotia has preserved or reconstructed a number of historical sites. These include Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Park, in Baddeck, with exhibits relating to Bell's inventions while he lived here; Fort Anne National Historic Site, in Annapolis Royal, including the remains of a French fort built from 1695 to 1708; Fort Edward National Historic Site, in Windsor, containing the remains of a mid-18th-century earthen fortification; and Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, near Louisbourg

TRADITIONAL USE STUDIES Chapter 1 1.1. The Traditional Use study Traditional Use Studies have been developed in research to study mainly the land occupancy laws and the impacts of Traditional Land Use on the aboriginal community in Canada. The primary purpose of Traditional Use Studies is to examine the Canadian First National and indigenous people around the world, and used in gathering knowledge about the contemporary and traditional land uses of the communities. For the last quarter of the