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- ... that Kitigan Zibi, a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec, is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
- ... that Bill Orban developed the 5BX plan to help Royal Canadian Air Force pilots keep fit?
- ... that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River?
- ...that the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island?
- ...that General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?