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- ... that after months of work, future Canadian impresario Samuel Gesser made only $200 from his first production, a 1953 Pete Seeger concert?
- ...that the first radio network in North America was created by the Canadian National Railway in 1923?
- ...that British Columbia's Creston Valley, the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area?
- ...that over Édouard Deville’s lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom?
- ...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?