| Parks Canada | news releases
The Government of Canada is investing over $870,000 in federal infrastructure funding for a conservation initiative to protect wildlife in Bruce Peninsula National Park.
| Parks Canada | news releases
A new Mi’kmaw Interpretive Centre officially opened this weekend at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site.
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Marco Mendicino, Member of Parliament for Eglinton – Lawrence on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, today commemorated the importance of Kathleen “Kay” Livingstone as a person of national historic significance.
| Parks Canada | backgrounders
Livingstone actively engaged in creating a Canada-wide network of African-Canadian women. She was the driving force behind the first National Black Women’s Congress (1973), providing a national forum to address the concerns of Black women and advance their cause, and was a founder of the Canadian Negro Women’s Association (1951).
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Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown was a prolific author and ardent conservationist.
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Today, Pam Goldsmith-Jones, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, commemorated Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown (1908-1976) as a national historic person with the unveiling of a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque.
| Parks Canada | media advisories
Marco Mendicino, Member of Parliament for Eglinton – Lawrence will take part in the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque unveiling ceremony to commemorate Kathleen “Kay” Livingstone as a national historic person.
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On Sunday, October 1st, Fort Chambly National Historic Site will host the Harvest Celebration, which traditionally marks the end of summer, to commemorate the end of an exceptional season.
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Today, at the Lachine Canal National Historic Site, Parks Canada honoured Montreal-born Commander J. Campbell Clouston of the Royal Navy as a Hometown Hero.
| Parks Canada | backgrounders
J. Campbell Clouston was born near the Lachine Canal in Montreal, Quebec, on August 31, 1900, to William Stewart Clouston and Evelyn Campbell, from Lachine. Subsequently living across from the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club, “Campbell,” as referred to by family and friends, learned to sail on nearby Lake Saint Louis, winning, the Challenge Cup in 1913.
