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Onega, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Onega, Lake, Finnish Aäninen, Rus. Onezhskoye Ozero, lake, c.3,800 sq mi (9,800 sq km), NW European Russia, in Karelia, between Lake Ladoga and the White Sea. The second largest lake in Europe, it is...

Cambridge Bay

(Encyclopedia)Cambridge Bay, hamlet, Canadian government post and weather station, on the southeast shore of Victoria Island, Nunavut Territory. ...

Chesterfield Inlet

(Encyclopedia)Chesterfield Inlet, hamlet, Canadian government post in the Nunavut Territory, at the mouth of Chesterfield Inlet of Hudson Bay. ...

Langevin, Sir Hector Louis

(Encyclopedia)Langevin, Sir Hector Louis ĕktôrˈ lwē läNzhəvăNˈ [key], 1826–1906, Canadian legislator, b. Quebec. A lawyer, he served in the Legislative Assembly (1857–67) and its successor, the House of...

Alaska Highway

(Encyclopedia)Alaska Highway, all-weather road, 1,523 mi (2,451 km) long, extending NW from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska. An extension of an existing Canadian road between Dawson Creek and E...

Chauveau, Pierre Joseph Olivier

(Encyclopedia)Chauveau, Pierre Joseph Olivier pyĕr zhôzĕfˈ ôlēvyāˈ shōvōˈ [key], 1820–90, French Canadian educator and politician, prime minister of Quebec (1867–73), b. Quebec. He became superintend...

Hamilton, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia)Hamilton, city, S Ont., Canada, at the western end of Lake Ontario. It is situated on a narrow plain between its harbor (connected by canal with the lak...

Fréchette, Louis Honoré

(Encyclopedia)Fréchette, Louis Honoré lwē ônôrāˈ frāshĕtˈ [key], 1839–1908, French Canadian poet and politician, b. Lévis, Que. He worked (1865–71) as a journalist in Chicago and while there wrote a ...

Aroostook War

(Encyclopedia)Aroostook War, Feb.–May, 1839, border conflict between the United States and Canada. In 1838, Maine and New Brunswick both claimed territory left undetermined on the U.S.-Canadian border, including ...

MacLennan, Hugh

(Encyclopedia)MacLennan, Hugh məklĕnˈən [key], 1907–90, Canadian writer, b. Glace Bay, N. S. From his vantage at McGill Univ. in Montreal where he taught from 1951 to 1981, MacLennan wrote novels and essays t...