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Bancroft
(Encyclopedia)Bancroft, village, SE Ont., Canada, on the York River. Its industries include milling, quarrying, dairying, lumbering, and tourism. The Bancroft Gembore...Schefferville
(Encyclopedia)Schefferville, town (1991 pop. 303), E central Que., Canada, on the Labrador border. With the closure of the Iron Ore Co. in 1983, the town shut down almost completely. ...Kentville
(Encyclopedia)Kentville, town (1991 pop. 5,506), W N.S., Canada, on the Cornwallis River, NW of Halifax. It is a tourist and trade center in the Annapolis valley, a fruit-growing region. ...Elliot Lake
(Encyclopedia)Elliot Lake, city, S central Ont., Canada, W of Sudbury. The focus of a 1950s uranium-mining boom, it is now a retirement home center. Uranium mining en...Indian Head
(Encyclopedia)Indian Head, town, SE Sask., Canada, E of Regina. In a wheat-growing region, it has flour mills and grain elevators. A dominion experimental and forestr...Newfoundland, island and province, Canada
(Encyclopedia)Newfoundland, island and province, Canada: see Newfoundland and Labrador, province. ...Fort Anne National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia)Fort Anne National Historic Site: see Annapolis Royal, N.S., Canada. ...Fort George
(Encyclopedia)Fort George, river, c.480 mi (770 km) long, rising in Lake Nichicun, E Que., Canada. It flows W into James Bay at Fort George, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. ...Last Judgment
(Encyclopedia)Last Judgment: see Judgment Day. ...pyrotechnics
(Encyclopedia)pyrotechnics pīˌrōtĕkˈnĭks, pīˌrə– [key], technology of making and using fireworks. Gunpowder was used in fireworks by the Chinese as early as the 9th cent., and it was they who brought fir...Browse by Subject
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