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MONTREAL - A pair of wooden crosses made from a shipwreck in New Zealand have been sent to Quebec to honour the 185-year-old wish of a francophone man who rebelled against British rule.

Canada, the second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America. Despite Canada’s great size, it is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries. This fact, coupled with the grandeur of the landscape, has been central to the sense of Canadian national identity, as expressed by the Dublin-born writer Anna Brownell Jameson, who explored central Ontario in 1837 and remarked exultantly on “the seemingly interminable line of trees before you; the boundless wilderness around you; the mysterious depths ...

By Shawn McWha For thousands of years the waterway that we have come to know as the Ottawa River served as a major transportation artery for the First Nations people who moved into the region following the retreat of the glaciers about 10,500 years ago. It was, however, only a little more than 400 years…

Mutual recognition is a logical, GDP-bolstering next step, and would fuel Canadian prosperity