Each year, Parks Canada’s staff in Gros Morne National Park along with volunteers from nearby communities take part in Bird Studies Canada and the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count.
Today, John Aldag, Member of Parliament for Cloverdale - Langley City, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, commemorated Charles Marega (1871-1939) as a national historic person with the unveiling of a HSMBC plaque.
Parks Canada and Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada will take part in a plaque unveiling ceremony to commemorate Charles Marega as a national historic person.
James Cockburn is one of the Fathers of Confederation. In 1864, he attended the Québec Conference, during which delegates negotiated the terms of Confederation, later defined in the British North America Act of 1867, which helped to build the constitutional foundations for a new country called the Dominion of Canada. After Confederation, Cockburn was the first Speaker of the House of Commons.
Today, Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada recognized the national historic importance of James Cockburn as a person of national historic significance.