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Foster Hewitt
Foster Hewitt was a Canadian radio broadcaster, broadcasted hockey games. Many Canadians were big fans of Foster Hewitt, because of this enthusiastic voice.Foster Hewitt was able to have a successful future because he used the radio to broadcast hockey games. Hewitt's broadcasts has helped hockey to become a national sport for Canada, because he has show his true passion for hockey as a Canadian. Hewitt was a remarkable broadcaster, that had a strong passion for hockey. -
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The Manhattan Project
the world's scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom.Scientists ALBERT EINSTEIN, who fled Nazi persecution, and ENRICO FERMI, who escaped Fascist Italy, were now living in the United States. They agreed that the President must be informed of the dangers of atomic technology in the hands of the Axis powers.A mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet, blowing out windows of civilian homes up to 100 miles away. -
The Bren Gun Girl
Veronica Foster, popularly known as "Ronnie, The Bren Gun Girl", worked for the John Inglis Co. producing Bren Light Machine Guns and became the Canadian propaganda 'Poster Girl.Veronica Foster, who was never actually called 'Ronnie' by anyone, became overwhelmingly popular after the series of propaganda posters were widely produced and displayed.Veronica quickly became the most popular Canadian icon for women’s successful involvement in the war effort. -
Battle of Honh Kong
It was in the defence of Hong Kong that Canadian soldiers first committed to battle during the Second World War. To help defend the Crown Colony, Canada sent a force of 1,975, consisting of two battalions – the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada; a brigade headquarters group; and various specialists details. What ensued was seventeen and one half days of intense fighting, known as the Battle of Hong Kong -
Evolution of human rights
The human rights issue offers a case study of a gradual and significant reconceptualization of state sovereignty. Through a comparative study of the impact of international human rights pressures on Argentina and Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s, this article explores the emergence and the nature of the principled human rights issue-network and the conditions under which it can contribute to changing both state understandings about sovereignty and state human rights practices. -
Liberation of the Netherlands
In the final months of the Second World War, Canadian forces were given the important and deadly task of liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. British and American troops first entered the southern Netherlands in early September, three months after the D-Day landings in Normandy. The First Canadian Army was Canada's principal fighting arm in northwest Europe during the war. A powerful strike force under the command of Canadian General Harry Crerar, it included the 2nd Canadian Corp
