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Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation
Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (Anishinaabe language: ''Adikamegosheng Anishinaabeg'', syncoped as ''Dikmegsheng Nishnaabeg''), formerly known as the Whitefish Lake First Nation, is an Ojibway First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada. Its reserve is located at Whitefish Lake 6 on the shores of Whitefish Lake, 20 km southwest of Sudbury. It is immediately south of the community of Naughton in Greater Sudbury, and is considered part of Greater Sudbury's Census Metropolitan Area. In the Canada 2016 Census, the community of Whitefish Lake had a population of 386 living on the reserve, a decrease of 2.0% from 2011. Atikameksheng membership have hunting and fishing rights within the Robinson-Huron Treaty Area. An annual pow-wow is held in July each year. The current chief of the First Nation is Craig Nootchtai. In May 2008, the chief and council of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek announced litigation against Canada and Ontario for violating the Robinson-Huron Treaty, which states that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unorganized North Sudbury District
Unorganized North Sudbury District is an unorganized area in the Canadian province of Ontario, comprising all portions of the Sudbury District which are not organized into incorporated municipalities. Despite its name, there is no longer an accompanying "South Part", as that subdivision has subsequently been incorporated into municipalities and Statistics Canada has not renamed the North Part. The subdivision consists of three non-contiguous areas, totalling 35,594.71 square kilometres, or about 92% of the district. It had a population of 2,306 in the Canada 2011 Census. Communities * Benny * Biscotasing * Cartier * Estaire * Foleyet * Gogama * Mattagami * Metagama * Paget * Shining Tree * Sultan * West River * Westree * Whitefish Falls * Willisville Ghost towns * Burwash * Jerome Mine * Kormak * Kukatush * Nemegos * Nicholson * Ramsey Demographics Population:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census * Population in 2006: 2415 * Population in 2001: 2910 * Populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway Book Shop
The Highway Book Shop was a bookstore and publishing company, located on Ontario Highway 11 near Cobalt, Ontario, which operated from 1957 to 2011. Considered a landmark and cultural institution in the region, it was one of the largest and most famous independent bookstores in Canada. First established as a conventional printing business in 1957 by Douglas Pollard and his then-wife Jean (née Hope),"Highway Book Shop owner remembered as interesting entrepreneur" '''', November 27, 2009. the business expanded into book sales after accepting a box of books as alternative payment for a printing job. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loma Lyns
Loma Lynn Rowlinson (formerly Mathias), known professionally as Loma Lyns, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and television personality. Career Her single "Red Handed" was a Top 40 hit on the Canadian country charts in 1990, and her single "Countin' on You This Time" was a Top 40 hit in Europe. She also had chart success in 1998 with "Love Me, I'm Alive", the theme song for the Canadian Special Olympics which she co-wrote with Chuck Labelle. She has shared the stage with many country music celebrities, has appeared on CBC, CTV and performed on the last season of the Tommy Hunter Show as an upcoming artist and also sang back-up for country superstar Colin Raye. She has performed at festivals and clubs across Canada and into the U.S. In the early 90s her music video "Who's the Stranger" garnered airtime on Canada's CMT. A Whitefish Lake Ojibway from Northern Ontario, Canada, Loma has also been a host of television programming on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, and co-host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudbury Star
''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury, Ontario. It is owned by the media company, Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation. History The ''Sudbury Star'' began as a daily in January 1909 as the ''Northern Daily Star'',C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital''. Dundurn Press, 1993. . in competition with the city's established daily ''Sudbury Journal'', but it was in immediate financial trouble and folded within just six months. Staff took over ownership of the struggling newspaper, led by foreman William Edge Mason, who then found 10 prominent investors to provide financial backing to the paper."Sudbury Star Publisher William E. Mason Dead". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 23, 1948. W.E. Mason Equipment was created to take over management of the paper, and by World War I the paper was flourishing and the ''Sudbury Journal'' was out of business. In 1922 Mason acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellar (film)
''Stellar'' is a Canadian romantic drama film, directed by Darlene Naponse and released in 2022. The film stars Braeden Clarke and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as an indigenous man and woman who meet and initiate a romantic relationship, setting off a cosmic chain of events that may save the world from destruction. The film entered production in 2021 on the territory of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation near Sudbury, Ontario. Its cast also includes Rossif Sutherland, K. C. Collins, Billy Merasty, Tina Keeper and R. H. Thomson. The film premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. It was subsequently selected as the opening film of the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is the world's largest Indigenous film and media arts festival, held annually in Toronto in the month of October. The festival focuses on the film, video, radio, and new me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falls Around Her
''Falls Around Her'' is a 2018 Canadian drama film, directed by Darlene Naponse."Falls Around Her opens imagineNATIVE" ''Northern Stars'', August 28, 2018. The film stars as Mary Birchbark, an internationally famous musician who returns to her home community to recharge and reevaluate her life, only to find that her fame is not so easily left behind. The cast also includes |
Darlene Naponse
Darlene Naponse is an Anishinaabe filmmaker, writer, director, and community activist from Canada. She is most noted for her 2018 film ''Falls Around Her'', which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018 and subsequently won the Air Canada Audience Choice Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in October."Darlene Naponse's Falls Around Her wins imagineNATIVE audience choice award" , October 26, 2018. A member of the |
Cardinal (TV Series)
''Cardinal'' is a Canadian crime drama television series, which was first broadcast on January 25, 2017, on CTV (in English) and Super Écran (in French)."CTV and Super Écran Partner on New Serialized Drama" . ''Broadcaster'', February 11, 2016. The series adapts the novels of crime writer , focusing on police detective John Cardinal ( Billy Campbell) and his partner Lise Delorme ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBCS-FM
CBCS-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Sudbury, Ontario, broadcasting at 99.9 FM, and serves all of Northeastern Ontario through its network of relay transmitters. The station's studio is located at the CBC/Radio-Canada facilities at 43 Elm Street in Sudbury. History On July 28, 1975, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation received approval from the CRTC to operate a new english-language FM station at Sudbury, Ontario. The proposed frequency was 97.1 MHz (later read 99.9 MHz when launched). The station was launched on May 5, 1978 on 99.9 MHz. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliates CKSO and CKSO-FM."Sudbury Radio History Highlights" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Life (newspaper)
Northern Life may refer to: * ''Northern Life'' (newspaper), a community newspaper in Sudbury, Canada * ''Northern Life'' (TV programme), a regional news programme on Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle upon Tyne, England See also * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
