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Jasper, Alberta
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Jasper is a specialized municipality in western Alberta, Canada. It is the centre of Jasper National Park, located in the Canadian Rockies within the Athabasca River valley. Jasper is approximately 362 kilometres west of Edmonton and 290 kilometres north of Banff, Alberta, at the intersection of Highway 16 and Highway 93. The Municipality of Jasper, comprising the Jasper townsite known as the Town of Jasper, governance is shared between the municipality and the federal Parks Canada agency. Jasper National Park was established in 1907, the railway siding at the location of the future townsite was established by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911 and originally named Fitzhugh after a Grand Trunk vice president. The Canadian Northern Railway began service to Fitzhugh in 1912, the townsite was surveyed in 1913 by H. Matheson. It was renamed Jasper after the fur trade post. An internment camp was set up at Dominion Park in Jasper from February 1916 to August 1916, by 1931, Jasper was accessible by road from Edmonton, and in 1940 the scenic Icefields Parkway opened, connecting Lake Louise and Jasper. Jasper is located in the Athabasca River valley, at the confluence with Miette River and it lies between the Victoria Cross Ranges, Pyramid Mountain, Maligne Range and Indian Ridge. Jasper is connected to the west via the Yellowhead Highway and the Yellowhead Pass to Prince George, toward the south, the Icefields Parkway leads to Banff and Banff National Park. Located near Jasper are Pyramid Lake and Patricia Lake, as well as Lake Annette, Lake Edith, Lac Beauvert, Maligne Lake, Medicine Lake and other smaller lakes. The Jasper Skytram, which visitors to The Whistlers summit. The Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives is located in the Jasper town site, Jasper experiences a borderline Humid Continental/Subarctic climate. The highest temperature recorded in Jasper was 36.7 °C on 16 July 1941. The coldest temperature recorded was −47.2 °C on 24 January 1916. With a land area of 924.06 km2, it had a density of 5. 0/km2 in 2016. In the 2011 Census, the Municipality of Jasper had a population of 4,051 living in 1,399 of its 1,615 total dwellings, a change of -5% from its 2006 population of 4,265. Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to record a population of 4,432 living in 1,606 of its 1,819 total dwellings, with a land area of 925.52 km2, its population density was 4. 8/km2 in 2011
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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Being Erica
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Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5,2009 to December 12,2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was announced by the CBC as The Session. It is produced by Temple Street Productions and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide, in Canada, the second season premiered on September 22,2009. Only 12 episodes were produced for the season due to budget cuts at the CBC. On May 11,2010, the CBC announced that Being Erica was renewed for a season of 13 episodes. Soapnet announced that it was picking up the third season as well. Season 3 debuted on September 21,2010, at 9 pm ET, in the United States, Season 3 began aired on Soapnet starting January 26,2011. The shows fourth and final aired in fall 2011. Because the show involves time travel, very young versions of the characters are played at times by different actors, Erica Strange – the protagonist in the series. At the beginning of the series, she is thirty-two, single, Jewish, however, she is an underachiever who has recently been fired from a mindless customer service job because she is overqualified. She has a nut allergy and after drinking a coffee with a nut syrup in she ends up in hospital where she is approached by someone she initially believes to be connected with the hospital. He introduces himself as Dr Tom and says he is a therapist who can help her, once home again, she is convinced poor choices made in her past have made her life a failure and seeks Dr. Toms help to undo many of her mistakes. She has a degree in English literature. During the third season she and Julianne start their own publishing company 50/50 Press, having written short stories throughout her life, Erica aspires to write fiction as an author. In the season 3 finale, Erica passes Dr. Toms test at the end of group therapy, the penultimate episode of season 3 ends with Erica walking down a street in Toronto looking for somebody to give her business card to so they can become her first patient. In the series finale of season 4, Erica successfully completes her doctor training and her office is a quote-plastered artists studio loft with a honeycomb-style bookcase and a tan leather chair behind a large, red desk. Even though she has to bid farewell to Dr. Tom, Dr. Tom Wexlar – Ericas therapist. He has a habit of citing quotations, often to Ericas annoyance, instead of helping Erica directly with her problems when they meet in the past, he is often vague and inscrutable, giving clues that relate to her present-day life
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Ukrainian Canadians
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Ukrainian Canadians is a term that refers to Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada. Self-identified Ukrainians are the plurality in several areas of Western Canada. Of the 1,251,170 who identify as Ukrainian, galicians are noted as being among the miners of the British Columbia gold rushes and figure prominently in some towns in that new provinces first census in 1871. Because there is so little documentary evidence of individual Ukrainians among these three groups, they are not generally regarded as among the first Ukrainians in Canada. During the nineteenth century the territory inhabited by Ukrainians in Europe was divided between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, the Austrian crownlands of Galicia and Bukovyna were home to many Ukrainian speakers. Austrian Galicia was one of the poorest and most overpopulated regions in Europe, emigration on a large scale from Galicia to the Balkans and even to Brazil was already underway by 1891. The first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada began with Iwan Pylypow and Wasyl Eleniak, who arrived in 1891, Pylypow helped found the Edna-Star Settlement east of Edmonton, the first and largest Ukrainian block settlement. However, it is Dr. Ukrainians from Central Ukraine, which was ruled by the Russian monarchy, also came to Canada – but in numbers than those from Galicia. Approximately 170,000 Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian Empire arrived in Canada from 1891 to 1914, as well, the semi-feudal nature of land ownership in the Austrian Empire meant that in the Old Country people had to pay the pan for all their firewood and lumber for building. They also attached importance to settling near to family, people from nearby villages or other culturally similar groups. The ULFTA transformed itself into the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians in 1946, by 1914, there were also growing communities of Ukrainian immigrants in eastern Canadian cities, such as Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, and Windsor. Many of them arrived from the provinces of Podillia, Volhynia, Kyiv, from 1914 to 1920, the political climate of the First World War allowed the Canadian Government to classify immigrants with Austro-Hungarian citizenship as aliens of enemy nationality. This classification, authorized by the 1914 War Measures Act, permitted the government to legally compel thousands of Ukrainians in Canada to register with federal authorities, about 5,000 Ukrainian men, and some women and children, were interned at government camps and work sites. Most were placed by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and its supporters, the Endowment Council of the CFWWIRF uses the interest earned on that amount to fund projects that commemorate the experience of Ukrainians and other Europeans interned between 1914 and 1920. The funds are held in trust by the Shevchenko Foundation and this was known as Project Сто, and organized by the UCCLA. In 1923, the Canadian government modified the Immigration Act to allow citizens of the Austrian Empire to once again enter Canada –. Around 70,000 Ukrainians from Poland and Romania arrived in Canada from 1924 to 1939, relatively little farmland remained unclaimed – the majority in the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta – and less than half of this group settled as farmers in the Prairie provinces. A few Ukrainian professionals and intellectuals were accepted into Canada at this time and they established a number of new organizations and affiliated newspapers, womens and youth groups, the most prominent of which was the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine
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University of Victoria
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The University of Victoria is a large public research university located in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. The University of Victoria, founded in 1903, is the oldest university in British Columbia and began as Victoria College, the University of Victoria is a non-denominational institution which is mostly centred around the leafy suburbs of Oak Bay. The university consists of more than 20,000 students, including many post-graduate, the University of Victoria is one of the most international universities in Canada, attracting students from around the world. The University of Victoria has also produced several Rhodes Scholars and Gates Scholars in recent years, while its alumni, academically, the University of Victoria is noted for its programs in the Faculty of Law, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, Economics, Political Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences and it is the nations lead institution in the VENUS and NEPTUNE deep-water seafloor observatory projects. The University of Victoria boasts one of the largest financial endowments in Canada, the Victoria Vikes represent the university in a number of competitive sports, including rowing, sailing, rugby, soccer, and basketball. The Vikes have especially long and eminent ties to competitive rowing where it has competed with the University of Cambridge, Sailing is also a popular sport for students at the University of Victoria and the UVic Sailing Club maintains facilities and boats on campus at the nearby Cadboro Bay. UVic consistently ranks as one of the top universities in Canada and it has been the top-ranked comprehensive university in Canada since 2010. In this category, Macleans magazine ranks UVic either first or second for eight consecutive years and it also ranked first nationwide and 20th internationally in the Times Higher Educations ranking of schools under 50 years old. In global rankings, UVic is within the top one per cent of universities around the world and it clocked in its highest ranking at 135 globally in 2010 and has since maintained a strong presence in global ranking charts. UVic has also named as the Canadian Research University of the Year for 12 of the past 14 years by Research Infosource. The university has also been home to more than 40 faculty members who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada since it was founded. Victoria College, which had established in 1903 as an affiliated college of McGill University, gained autonomy. The non-denominational university had enjoyed 60 years of prior teaching tradition at the university level as Victoria College and this 60 years of history may be viewed conveniently in three distinct stages. Between the years 1903 and 1915, Victoria College was affiliated with McGill University, offering first- and second-year McGill courses in Arts, administered locally by the Victoria School Board, the College was an adjunct to Victoria High School and shared its facilities. Both institutions were under the direction of a single Principal, E. B, the opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the college to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria. University of British Columbia was created in 1908, a single, public provincial university, it was modeled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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Glory Days (2002 TV series)
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Glory Days is an American horror/mystery-based television series broadcast from January to March 2002 on The WB Television Network. The series was created by Kevin Williamson, and stars Eddie Cahill, the series involves novelist Mike Dolan returning to his hometown, where various odd and unpleasant occurrences are happening. Eddie Cahill as Mike Dolan Poppy Montgomery as Ellie Sparks Jay R, after picking up the series, The WB asked Williamson to retool the show and turn it into a mystery series instead. The characters and relationships remained the same but a spin was added. The series was produced by Dimension Television and Outerbanks Entertainment, and filmed at The Bridge Studios in Vancouver, to date, Glory Days has not yet been released on DVD in the United States. It is, however, available on Region 2/PAL DVDs in Europe, in most European countries it is released under the DVD title Demontown with seven episodes edited into three feature-length parts, Demontown, Demontown II, and Demontown III. Each part is available as three separate straight-to-DVD ‘movies’, in the Netherlands, the series is available as a 2-disc DVD set with all three parts included. Glory Days at the Internet Movie Database Glory Days at TV. com
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Earthsea (miniseries)
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Legend of Earthsea is a two-night television miniseries adaptation of the Earthsea novels by Ursula K. It premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in December 2004, in the land of Earthsea, a young wizard named Ged has visions about a girl and doors opening. Meanwhile, King Tygath wants to rule the land and release the Nameless Ones and he sends men to attack Geds village, in search of the wizard of prophesy. Ged learns his first spell from an elderly woman, when the invasion comes, Ged uses a mist spell and lures the invaders over a cliff, saving the village. However, Ged also falls off the cliff, Tygath tries to convince High Priestess Thar to release the Nameless Ones, but she refuses. She is poisoned by Rosa, her attendant who has been tricked by the lover, Kossil. A magus named Ogion arrives at Geds village and revives Ged and he tells Ged his true name and takes him for training, but Ged is too impatient, he is sent to the magic school on Roke. There he meets the bully, Jasper, and befriends a student named Vetch, Ged shapeshifts into a hawk to show off. Jasper then challenges him to raise a spirit from the dead, the demon attacks Ged before being driven away by the Archmagus, who tells him that this Nameless One will hunt Ged down and try to possess him, using Geds power for further destruction. Ged must go somewhere in hiding until he can find its true name, with the help of Jasper, King Tygath takes control of the magic school. He throws a knife at the Archmagus, apparently killing him, with the help of Ogion, Ged confronts the Gebbeth and attempts to drown him using a rock, however, it escapes with Geds likeness and voice. Geds impersonator becomes a murderer, and Vetch, a magus himself, chases Ged until he realizes Ged is not possessed by the Gebbeth and they are attacked by the dragon, Orm Embar, but Ged uses the dragons true name to bind him and ask three questions. He wastes his first question, but with his second, he learns the Gebbeths location, the dragon tells him where to find the two pieces of the Amulet of Peace, which when reunited would save Earthsea, but Ged could have asked the true name of the demon. Meanwhile, Thar appoints a successor, Tenar, and tells her the incantation to release the Nameless Ones, Kossil strangles Rosa and frames Tenar, leading to her imprisonment. Ged and Vetch return to Roke for help in decoding the dragons riddle, the Archmagus survived Tygaths attack and made the real Jasper into a village fool as punishment. He sends Ged and Vetch to unseal the Nameless Tombs on Atuan, but Ged is captured and brought before Thar, in the labyrinth, Ged is locked in the cell next to Tenar. They break free and recognize each other from their visions, Thar realizes her mistake right before her death. Kossil tries to force Tenar to reveal the incantation and fails, so Tygath kills Kossil, Vetch finds the tomb first and is taken by the Gebbeth
