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Three of the innumerable American bullfrogs found on the frog farm of Harold Lee, Casitas Springs, California. Anon., “Nature – Frog Farm.” Pix, 6 January 1951, 30.
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“Is a frog game or fish? There is the rub.” A brief look at the history of ranaculture in Canada and Québec, Part 2

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Nov 27, 2022
Hello again, my reading friend. Welcome. You will of course remember that our subject this week is again ranaculture, in other words the breeding of frogs, on Canadian and Québec soil. To answer your question, my reading friend, the source of the photograph of the charming anurans you just saw, in other words, Pix, was a somewhat irreverent / macho Australian illustrated weekly published between 1938 and 1972. And yes, you are absolutely right. Casitas Springs was / is an unincorporated
Aerial photograph of General Motors’ Oshawa facilities.
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Learning from Experience: Why We Need Oral Histories

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Nov 25, 2022
The large industrial footprint of the General Motors Canada manufacturing facility in Oshawa suggests the scale of its importance and influence in the surrounding community.
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Arts & Design
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"Northern Lights" 3-D Mural: A Colourful Artistic Tribute to Canada’s Jet Age Beginnings

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Nov 22, 2022
In 1964, the Winnipeg International Airport opened as part the Department of Transport’s Air Terminal Building project begun by the Canadian government in the mid 1950s that resulted in the production of large, modern airport terminals in Gander, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The project was overseen by a chief architect from the Department of Transport, meaning the terminals had a cohesive modernist design, but each terminal was designed with unique features
A woman examining a bottle of olive oil in a grocery store, Gravel terrain in beige with boulders identified in pink, craters in purple, and crater rims in turquoise, A close up of the tread of a winter tire showing deep, wide, jagged grooves and wavy sipes.
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3 things you should know about food fraud, how winter tires work and Canadian artificial intelligence headed for the Moon.

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Nov 21, 2022
For the November edition, we explain how you may unknowingly be a victim of food fraud, how Canadian artificial intelligence will soon launch to the Moon, and how winter tires really work.
A typical advertisement of Canadian Frog’s Industries Company of Montréal, Québec. Anon., “Canadian Frog’s Industries Company.” La Patrie, 16 November 1952, 86.
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“Is a frog game or fish? There is the rub.” A brief look at the history of ranaculture in Canada and Québec, Part 1

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Nov 20, 2022
Do not close this webpage, my reader friend disturbed / alarmed by our topic for today! Yours truly realises that the breeding of frogs for the purpose of consuming their legs, in other words ranaculture, can be a rather off-putting subject. This being said (typed?), it is a topic which fits very well within the mandate of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, a brother / sister museal institution of the terrifically good Canada Aviation and Space Museum, also located in
Front cover of GM Canada’s Expo 86 pamphlet with wording “IN MOTION…IN TOUCH” displayed in large capital letters.
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Re-examining Archival Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Nov 17, 2022
Re-The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a laundry list of consequences on everyday life; a list far too long to synthesize into one tidy blog post. Instead, I want to shine a light on the impact that the pandemic has had on archival research. For much of the last two years, physical archives have been closed to researchers. For example, the University of Toronto’s archival collections have been shuttered for in-person use, while their online collections and services have remained accessible
An editorial cartoon which reflected the reaction of many Americans following the launch of Sputnik 2. John Milt Morris, “Our own non-fly doghouse.” The Nome Nugget, 8 November 1957, 2.
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Three Days of the Sputnik; or, “Radio-Moscow admits that the dog revolving around the earth in the satellite will never return”: Laika, Sputnik 2 and the daily press of Québec, part 3

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Nov 13, 2022
Hello, hello! How are you, my reading friend? Are we ready to plunge into the eternal silence of the infinite spaces which frightened the French theologian / physicist / philosopher / moralist / mathematician / inventor Blaise Pascal (1623-62)? Wunderbar! Actually, did you know that Pascal designed the first calculating machine? Indeed, he more or less directly manufactured 20 or so arithmetic machines / pascaline calculators / pascalines between 1645 and 1654, but I digress. Would you believe
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