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Moncton
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Moncton is a city located in Westmorland County in the southeastern portion of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the centre of the Maritime Provinces. The city has earned the nickname Hub City due to its inland location in the region and its history as a railway. The city proper has a population of 71,889 and has an area of 142 km2. The CMA includes the city of Dieppe and the town of Riverview, as well as adjacent suburban areas in Westmorland. Although the Moncton area was first settled in 1733, Moncton is considered to have founded in 1766 with the arrival of Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants from Philadelphia. An agricultural settlement, Moncton was not incorporated until 1855, the city was named for Lt. Col. Robert Monckton, the British officer who had captured nearby Fort Beauséjour a century earlier. Moncton regained its charter in 1875 after the economy rebounded. The city adopted the motto Resurgo after its rebirth as a railway town, the strength of Monctons economy has received national recognition and the local unemployment rate is consistently less than the national average. Acadians settled the head of the Bay of Fundy in the 1670s, the first reference to the Petcoucoyer River was on the De Meulles map of 1686. Settlement of the Petitcodiac and Memramcook river valleys began about 1700, gradually extending inland, in 1755, nearby Fort Beausejour was captured by English forces under the command of Lt. Col. Robert Monckton. The Beaubassin region including the Memramcook and Petitcodiac river valleys subsequently fell under English control, later that year, Governor Charles Lawrence issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia. This action came to be known as the Great Upheaval, the Settlers consisted of eight families, Heinrick Stief, Jacob Treitz, Matthias Sommer, Jacob Reicker, Charles Jones, George Wortmann, Michael Lutz, and George Koppel. There is a dedicated in their honor at the mouth of Halls Creek. They renamed the settlement The Bend, the Bend remained an agricultural settlement for nearly 80 more years. Even by 1836, there were only 20 households in the community, at this time, the Westmorland Road became open to year round travel and a regular mail coach service was established between Saint John and Halifax. The Bend became an important transfer and rest station along the route, over the next decade, lumbering and then shipbuilding would become important industries in the area. The turning point for the community was when Joseph Salter took over a shipyard at the Bend in 1847, the expanded shipyard ultimately grew to employ about 400 workers
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New Brunswick
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New Brunswick is one of Canadas three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual province. In the Canada 2016 Census, Statistics Canada estimated the population to have been 747,101, down very slightly from 751,171 in 2011. The majority of the population is English-speaking of Anglo and Celtic heritage and it was created as a result of the partitioning of the British colony of Nova Scotia in 1784 and was originally named New Ireland with the capital to be in Saint John. The name was replaced with New Brunswick by King George II. The provincial flag features a ship superimposed on a background with a yellow lion passant guardant on red pennon above it. The province is named for the city of Braunschweig, known in English and Low German as Brunswick, located in modern-day Lower Saxony in northern Germany. The then-colony was named in 1784 to honour the reigning British monarch, George III, the original First Nations inhabitants of New Brunswick were members of three distinct tribes. The largest tribe was the Mikmaq, and they occupied the eastern and they were responsible for the Augustine Mound, a burial ground built about 800 BCE near Metepnákiaq. The western portion of the province was the home of the Wolastoqiyik people. The smaller Passamaquoddy tribe occupied lands in the southwest of the province. The next French contact was in 1604, when a party led by Pierre du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain set up camp for the winter on St. Croix Island, the colony relocated the following year across the Bay of Fundy to Port Royal, Nova Scotia. The whole maritime region was at that time claimed by France and was designated as the colony of Acadia, one of the provisions of the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 was the surrender of Acadia to Queen Anne. The bulk of the Acadian population thus found themselves residing in the new British colony of Nova Scotia, the remainder of Acadia was only lightly populated and poorly defended. The Maliseet from their headquarters at Meductic on the Saint John River, participated in guerilla raids and battles against New England during Father Rales War. About 1750, to protect his interests in New France, Louis XV caused three forts to be built along the Isthmus of Chignecto and this caused what is known to historians as Father Le Loutres War. During the French and Indian War, the British completed their displacement of the Acadians over all of present-day New Brunswick, Fort Beauséjour, Fort Menagoueche and Fort Gaspareaux were captured by a British force commanded by Lt. Col. Robert Monckton in 1755. Inside Fort Beauséjour, the British forces found not only French regular troops, Governor Charles Lawrence of Nova Scotia used the discovery of Acadian civilians helping in the defence of the fort to order the expulsion of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia. The Acadians of the recently captured Beaubassin and Petitcodiac regions were included in the expulsion order, other actions in the war included British expeditions up the Saint John River in the St. John River Campaign
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Secondary school
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A secondary school is both an organization that delivers level 2 junior secondary education or level 3 secondary education phases of the ISCED scale, and the building where this takes place. Level 2 junior secondary education is considered to be the second, Secondary schools typically follow on from primary schools and lead into vocational and tertiary education. Attendance is compulsory in most countries for students between the ages 11 and 16, the systems and terminology remain unique to each country. School building design does not happen in isolation, schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, storage, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from the roll of the school. A general classroom for 30 students needs to be 55m2, or more generously 62m2, a general art room for 30 students needs to be 83m2, but 104 m2 for 3D textile work. A drama studio or a specialist science laboratory for 30 needs to be 90 m2, examples are given on how this can be configured for a 1,200 place secondary. The building providing the education has to fulfil the needs of, The students, the teachers, the support staff, the adminstrators. It has to should meet health requirements, minimal functional requirements- such as classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity, textbooks, Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establish building costs. Future plans are audited to ensure that standards are not exceeded. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula in 2014 and it said the floor area should be 1050m² +6. 3m²/pupil place for 11- to 16-year-olds + 7m²/pupil place for post-16s. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m², a secondary school, locally may be called high school, junior high school, senior high school. Sweden, gymnasium Switzerland, gymnasium, secondary school, collège or lycée Taiwan, Junior High School, Senior High School, Vocational High School, Military School, in Nigeria, secondary school starts from JSS1 until SSS3. Most students start at the age of 10 or 11 and finish at 16 or 17, Students are required to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. To progress to university students must obtain at least a credit in Maths, English, in Somalia, secondary school starts from 9th grade until 12th. Students start it when they are around 14 to 15 years of age, Students are required to study Somali and Arabic, with the option of either English or Italian depending on the type of school. Religion, chemistry, physics, biology, physical education, textile, art, design, when secondary school has been completed, students are sent to national training camp before going to either college, or military training. In South Africa, high school begins at grade 8, Students study for five years, at the end of which they write a Matriculation examination
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Education in Canada
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Education in Canada is for the most part provided publicly, funded and overseen by federal, provincial, and local governments. Education is within provincial jurisdiction and the curriculum is overseen by the province, Education in Canada is generally divided into primary education, followed by secondary education and post-secondary. Within the provinces under the ministry of education, there are district school boards administering the educational programs, in some provinces early leaving exemptions can be granted under certain circumstances at 14. Canada generally has 190 school days in the year, officially starting from September to the end of June, in British Columbia secondary schools, there are 172 school days during a school year. In Alberta, high school students get an additional four weeks off to accommodate for exam break, classes typically end on the 15th of those two months. Elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education in Canada is a provincial responsibility, some educational fields are supported at various levels by federal departments. Vocational training can be subsidized by the Learning branch of Human Resources, in many places, publicly funded high school courses are offered to the adult population. Nonetheless, more than 51% of Canadians have a college degree, the majority of schools, at 67%, are co-educational. Canada spends about 5. 4% of its GDP on education, the country invests heavily in tertiary education. Recent reports suggest that from 2006 the tuition fees of Canadian universities have increased by 40 percent, although these classes are offered, most appear to be limited by the area or region in which students reside. Furthermore, subjects that typically get assessed assume greater importance than non-assessed subjects or facets of the curriculum, the students in the Canadian school system receive a variety of classes that are offered to them. The system is set up to meet the needs of the individual student. The Constitution of Canada provides constitutional protections for some types of publicly funded religious-based and language-based school systems, the provision did originally apply to Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Newfoundland and Labrador, since these provinces did have pre-existing separate schools. This constitutional provision was repealed in Quebec by an amendment in 1997. The constitutional provision continues to apply to Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta, there is a similar federal statutory provision which applies to the Northwest Territories. In practice, this means that there are publicly funded English schools in Quebec, and publicly funded French schools in the other provinces. Quebec students must attend a French school up until the end of school unless one of their parents qualifies as a rights-holder under s.23 of the Charter. Most education programs in Canada begin in kindergarten or grade one and go to grade twelve, except in Quebec, after completion of a secondary school diploma, students may go on to post-secondary studies
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French in Canada
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French is the mother tongue of about 7.3 million Canadians according to Census Canada 2011. Most native speakers of the French language in Canada live in Quebec, about 80% of Quebecs population are native francophones, and 95% of the population speak French as their first or second language. There are also French-speaking communities in Manitoba and Ontario, where make up about 4 percent of the population. As well as smaller communities in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. Many, but not all of these communities are supported by French-language institutions, by the Official Languages Act in 1969, Canada recognized English and French as having equal status in the government of Canada. The federal government provides services and operates in both languages, French is the sole official language in Quebec at the provincial level and is co-official with English in New Brunswick. The provincial governments of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Manitoba are required to provide services in French where justified by the number of francophones, however, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires all provinces to provide primary and secondary education to their official-language minorities at public expense. In 1524, the Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, working for Italian bankers in France, in 1529, Verrazzano mapped a part of the coastal region of the North American continent under the name Nova Gallia. In 1534, Francis I, King of France, sent Jacques Cartier to discover new lands and he discovered the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, sealed an alliance with the local people and obtained passage to go farther. During his second expedition, Cartier discovered the Saint Lawrence River, however, Cartier failed to establish a permanent colony in the area, and war in Europe kept France from further colonization through the end of the 16th century. At the beginning of the 17th century, French settlements and private companies were established in the area which is now eastern Canada, in 1605 Samuel de Champlain founded Port Royal and in 1608 he founded Quebec City. In 1642 the foundation of Ville Marie, the settlement which would eventually become Montreal, in 1634, Quebec contained two hundred settlers, who were principally involved in the fur trade. The trade was profit-making and the city was on the point of becoming more than a temporary trading post. In 1635, Jesuits founded the school of Quebec for the education of children. Ten years later, in 1645, the Compagnie des Habitants was created, uniting the political, French was the language of all the non-native people. With the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the British began their domination of eastern North America, the British took mainland Nova Scotia in 1713. Present-day Maine fell to the British during Father Rales War, while present-day New Brunswick fell after Father Le Loutres War, in 1755 the majority of the French-speaking inhabitants of Nova Scotia were deported to the Thirteen Colonies. After 1758, they were deported to England and France, the Treaty of Paris completed the British takeover, removing France from Canadian territory, except for Saint Pierre and Miquelon at the entrance of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Troy
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The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the Iliad, a new capital called Ilium was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople and declined gradually in the Byzantine era and these excavations revealed several cities built in succession. Troy VII has been identified with the city that the Hittites called Wilusa, the origin of the Greek Ἴλιον. Today, the hill at Hisarlık has given its name to a village near the ruins. It lies within the province of Çanakkale, some 30 km south-west of the provincial capital, the map here shows the adapted Scamander estuary with Ilium a little way inland across the Homeric plain. Troy was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998, Ancient Greek historians variously placed the Trojan War in the 12th, 13th, or 14th centuries BC, Eratosthenes to 1184 BC, Herodotus to 1250 BC, Duris of Samos to 1334 BC. Modern archaeologists associate Homeric Troy with archaeological Troy VII, in the Iliad, the Achaeans set up their camp near the mouth of the River Scamander, where they had beached their ships. The city of Troy itself stood on a hill, across the plain of Scamander, recent geological findings have permitted the identification of the ancient Trojan coastline, and the results largely confirm the accuracy of the Homeric geography of Troy. In November 2001, the geologist John C, kraft from the University of Delaware and the classicist John V. Luce from Trinity College, Dublin, presented the results of investigations, begun in 1977, into the geology of the region. Besides the Iliad, there are references to Troy in the major work attributed to Homer. The Homeric legend of Troy was elaborated by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid, the Greeks and Romans took for a fact the historicity of the Trojan War and the identity of Homeric Troy with the site in Anatolia. Alexander the Great, for example, visited the site in 334 BC and there made sacrifices at tombs associated with the Homeric heroes Achilles and Patroclus. After the 1995 find of a Luwian biconvex seal at Troy VII, with the rise of critical history, Troy and the Trojan War were, for a long time, consigned to the realms of legend. However, the location of ancient Troy had from classical times remained the subject of interest. The Troad peninsula was anticipated to be the location, leChavaliers location, published in his Voyage de la Troade, was the most commonly accepted theory for almost a century. In 1822, the Scottish journalist Charles Maclaren was the first to identify with confidence the position of the city as it is now known, the hill, near the city of Çanakkale, was known as Hisarlık. In 1868, Heinrich Schliemann visited Calvert and secured permission to excavate Hisarlık, in 1871–73 and 1878–79, he excavated the hill and discovered the ruins of a series of ancient cities dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period
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Moncton Hospital
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Moncton Hospital is a Canadian hospital in Moncton, New Brunswick. Moncton Hospital operates as a tertiary referral hospital for New Brunswick, as well as neighbouring regions of northeastern Nova Scotia. It has specialization in neurosurgery and trauma care services, operated by Horizon Health Network, the Moncton Hospital traces its history to 1895. Moncton Hospital is also a hospital for the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Greater Moncton List of hospitals in New Brunswick Moncton Hospital web site
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Sidney Crosby
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Sidney Patrick Crosby, ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, during his two-year major junior career with the Rimouski Océanic, he earned back-to-back CHL Player of the Year awards and led his club to the 2005 Memorial Cup final. Nicknamed The Next One, he was one of the most highly regarded draft picks in hockey history, in his first NHL season, Crosby finished sixth in league scoring with 102 points and was a runner-up for the Calder Memorial Trophy. He started the 2007–08 season with the captaincy and subsequently led them to the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals. The Penguins returned to the Finals against Detroit the following year and won in seven games, in the 2009–10 season, Crosby scored a career-high 51 goals, winning the Maurice Rocket Richard Trophy as the NHLs leading goal scorer. During the off-season, he received the Mark Messier Leadership Award, in 2010–11, Crosby sustained a concussion as a result of hits to the head in back-to-back games. The injury left him sidelined for the rest of the season, in 2013–14, Crosby again won the Hart Memorial Trophy as well as his second Art Ross Trophy and his third Ted Lindsay Award. In 2015–16, Crosby captained the Penguins to the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals, Crosby was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP. In the 2017, he was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history, internationally, Crosby has represented Canada in numerous tournaments for the countrys junior and mens teams. He played in back-to-back IIHF World U20 Championships, winning silver in 2004, at the 2006 IIHF World Championship, he led the tournament in scoring, while also earning Top Forward and All-Star Team honours. Four years later, Crosby was named to Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, playing the United States in the gold medal game, he scored the game-winning goal in overtime. He captained the 2014 Canadian Olympic ice hockey team at the Sochi Olympics, leading the team to a gold medal victory over Sweden. In 2015, he led Team Canada to a gold in the World Championship in Prague, thus becoming a member of the Triple Gold Club, in 2016, Crosby captained Canada to gold in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey and was elected MVP by a unanimous vote. Crosby was born in the Grace Maternity Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on August 7,1987, to Troy, Crosbys jersey number and 2007 contract signing reflect his birthdate. Crosby grew up in nearby Cole Harbour, and has a younger sister and his father was a goaltender who played for the Verdun Junior Canadiens in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Troy played in the 1985 Memorial Cup and had been drafted 240th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in 1984, growing up, Crosby admired Steve Yzerman and, like his father, was a Canadiens fan. Crosby began playing hockey by himself in his basement at the age of two years, shooting pucks against the familys clothes dryer, he learned to skate at three, from age 12 to 15, Crosby attended Astral Drive Junior High School. He was a student and, according to the vice-principal
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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game
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Ice hockey
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Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. In North America, the National Hockey League is the highest level for mens hockey, the Kontinental Hockey League is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe. The International Ice Hockey Federation is the governing body for international ice hockey. The IIHF manages international tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking, worldwide, there are ice hockey federations in 74 countries. Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th century United Kingdom and these games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed, such as shinny and ice polo. The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. Amateur ice hockey began in the 1880s, and professional ice hockey originated around 1900. The Stanley Cup, emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy, was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the Canadian amateur champion, in international competitions, the national teams of six countries predominate, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Of the 69 medals awarded all-time in mens competition at the Olympics, in the annual Ice Hockey World Championships,177 of 201 medals have been awarded to the six nations. In Russia and the Ukraine, where hockey can also refer to bandy, the name hockey has no clear origin. The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word hockey when he translated the proclamation in 1720, the 1573 Statute of Galway banned a sport called hokie—the hurling of a little ball with sticks or staves. A form of this word was thus being used in the 16th century, though much removed from its current usage. According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word derives from the Scots Gaelic puc or the Irish poc. The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck. Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times, in Europe, these games included the Irish game of hurling, the closely related Scottish game of shinty and versions of field hockey. IJscolf, a game resembling colf on a surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was played with a curved bat, a wooden or leather ball
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Riverview High School (New Brunswick)
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Riverview High School, or simply RHS, is a public high school in Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada. It is part of the provinces Anglophone East School District, offering education to students from nine to twelve. As of 2017, the school holds roughly 1076 students through grade nine and it is the only high school in Riverview, and one of four Anglophone high schools in Greater Moncton. The school was founded in September 1962 starting with two Grade 10 classes, prior to that date Grades 10 through 12 from the then community of Riverview Heights attended Moncton High School. From its beginnings until 1978, the school was located at 45 Devere Road. In 1978 a new facility was opened on an 18-hectare site about two kilometres west of the old school, the new school also has a swimming pool, a feature the old school did not possess. In 2006 the auditorium began to operate independently for community use and plays host to many different shows each year, the most recent play was a rendition of Beauty and the Beast, put on by students at the school. The school has its own song, the schools colours are red and white, the mascot is a lion. A member of the United States short track speed skating team and winner of a medal in the 5000m relay in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Represented Canada in the 60m at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, list of schools in New Brunswick Official School Website Anglophone East School District Website
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Bernice MacNaughton High School
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Bernice MacNaughton High School, is a high school in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Bernice MacNaughton High School was named after Dr. L. Bernice MacNaughton, a Moncton teacher, founded in 1975 as a trade school, Bernice MacNaughton originally accommodated 1,400 students. It became the MacNaughton Science & Technology Center in 1994 but was reestablished as a school in 1999. 2003 saw the first graduating class of BMHS, the auditorium was renovated in 2006. By 2008, a new roof for the schools cafeteria had been completed, in November 2012, the City of Moncton announced that it would contribute $750,000 toward a new artificial turf sports field on MacNaughtons grounds. The Province of New Brunswick later announced that it would invest a further $400,000 toward the sports field, MacNaughton is located in Monctons West end and is within walking distance of the citys walking trails and Centennial Park. Its campus offers access to ski trails and two sports fields. The school features a large, central cafeteria and foyer, BMHS also has several science laboratories, special woodworking and metalworking shops, two art rooms, a darkroom, several computer labs, and two music rooms. Bernice MacNaughton High School runs on a two-semester arrangement, most courses run on a full-semester basis, but some grade nine specialty courses are half-semester courses. Classes commence at 08,45 and end at 15,30 AST, students take five sixty-minute courses every day, with an hour-long break between the third and fourth classes and seven- or eight-minute breaks between all other classes. In 2008, BMHS implemented a thirty-minute directed learning period, known colloquially as Period 6, in order to allow fellow Clan members to study, work on homework. During the 2009–2010 school year, the learning period was moved to 10,54 AST. In the 2012–2013 school year, the learning period was rotated throughout the day as a function of the day of the week. The directed learning period was removed in the 2013–2014 school year, eight twelfth grade students are appointed to lead each Clan. BMHS offers an array of extracurricular activities, MacNaughton offers a wide selection of sports clubs and organized teams at the junior varsity and senior varsity, male and female. The BMHS Bike Klub was a program where members built custom motorcycles and bicycles. In 2008, they completed a custom motorcycle, dubbed Betty. The BMHS breakfast club serves a free breakfast to students on school mornings, bMHSs intermediate and senior Reach for the Top teams compete in provincial tournaments
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Greater Moncton
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Greater Moncton is the area encompassing Metro Moncton. Greater Moncton is also known as Greater Moncton Census Metropolitan Area, Moncton Metropolitan Area or Moncton CMA, Greater Moncton has a population of 144,810. Metro Moncton Water and Sewer System – The water system used comes from The Turtle Creek Reservoir, codiac Transpo – Public transit system. List of schools in Greater Moncton Events in Greater Moncton Transportation in Greater Moncton Memramcook Region Greater Shediac Tantramar Region
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Riverview, New Brunswick
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Riverview is a Canadian town in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. Riverview is located on the side of the Petitcodiac River, across from the larger cities of Moncton. Riverview has an area of 34 square kilometres, and a density of 564.6 inhabitants per square kilometre. Riverviews slogan is A Great Place To Grow, Riverview first became a permanent settlement when settlers from Yorkshire, England, settled there in 1733. The Town of Riverview was formed on July 9,1973 with the amalgamation of the three villages of Bridgedale, Gunningsville and Riverview Heights, harold Findlay became the first mayor and seven councillors were elected at-large to serve a population of 14,177. Since that time, Riverview has grown to include almost 19,130 represented by four ward councillors, riverviews linguistic majority is English, with 90. 6% speaking English as a first language and only 7. 8% speaking French as a first language. About 27% of the population is bilingual and understands both English and French. Hospital services are located in Moncton, New Brunswick, See Moncton Sport Facilities Riverview Aquatic Centre - a full size indoor swimming pool with 6 lanes connected with Riverview High School. Caseley Park - A large park in front of town named after former mayor of Riverview. The park includes a monument of a Centurion Tank and a monument to the victims of the Polytechnique massacre, riverfront Park - A park by the Petitcodiac River Causeway featuring an outdoor workout center often referred to as the Green Gym. The Centre controls all air traffic between Europe and Eastern Canada and this centre monitors over 430,000 flights a year, 80% of which are either entering or leaving North American airspace. See Media in Greater Moncton See Greater Moncton Transportation There are currently seven schools in Riverview, including one high school, one middle school, and five elementary schools. In December 2011, it was announced that a new K-8 school would be constructed in East Riverview that is expected to open for the 2013 school year. Riverview High School Riverview Middle School Riverview East School West Riverview Elementary School Frank L. Bowser Elementary School Claude D, official website Maps Events in Riverview
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Dorchester, New Brunswick
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Dorchester is a village and shire town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is named for Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, an 18th-century Governor-General of the old Province of Quebec and it is located on the eastern side of the mouth of the lush Memramcook River valley near the rivers discharge point into Shepody Bay. Dorchester is an English-speaking community but it is adjacent to French-speaking Acadian areas farther up the Memramcook River valley, many residents commute to work in the nearby towns of Sackville and Amherst or the cities of Moncton and Dieppe. Tourism is centred on the historic and natural features of the area, One of Dorchesters most historic buildings houses the Keillor House Museum. The annual shorebird migration to the mud flats of nearby Johnsons Mills is celebrated by a model of a semi-palmated sandpiper situated in the village square. Although situated on the CN Rail main line between Halifax and Montreal, Dorchester no longer has a station, with travellers having to entrain/detrain in Sackville or Moncton. The nearest airport is the Greater Moncton International Airport, a 40 km drive in Dieppe, the shire town of the county, Dorchester has several fine historic homes and civic buildings most of which were built by local lawyer and Master Builder, John Francis Teed. During the 19th century, Dorchester and neighbouring Dorchester Island were important shipbuilding centres, numerous master mariners also lived in Dorchester and vicinity during the Age of Sail. It was a centre for the stagecoach, as well as a busy ship port, the community was transformed with the construction in 1872 of the Intercolonial Railway between Halifax and Rivière-du-Loup. In 1911, the founded the Dorchester Light and Fire Company which is currently known as the Dorchester Volunteer Fire Department. In 1965, the courthouse was destroyed by arson. The building was never rebuilt, and much of the economy behind it left the community, many in the community came to the town square to watch the building burn. The only thing left of the courthouse was the safe and it is now being used in the village hall, located where the courthouse once stood. Premier Louis Robichauds government during the 1960s created an industrial park, the industrial park had no tenants and the pier sitting in the Memramcook River was quickly silted in by mud from the tides of the Bay of Fundy. Today all that remains are the roads and the railbed as well as broken street lights, a deteriorating sea wall. In 1993, the jailhouse was also closed and it is currently a gym and storage facility. Edward Barron Chandler - Edward Barron Chandler, a father of confederation and his family who built their home, Chandler House, John Francis Teed, Master Builder - an architect and lawyer who is a third-generation Loyalist was one of Dorchester, New Brunswicks most celebrated master builders. Teeds reputation was sealed with the construction of Mount Allison Universitys Centennial College Hall, in 1895, he supervised the expansion of St. Francis Xavier Universitys Xavier Hall with the addition of a new two-storey west wing
