A kakistocracy is a government by the least qualified or worst citizens.- For the past several years, Anticosti Island,along with private interests, has been trying to get an oil industry under way, despite protests from environmentalists.
- Copal is a resin from tropical trees used in making varnish. It is sometimes called ‘young amber’, but can be distinguished from real amber by its citrine colour.
- Yannick Bisson is detective William Murdoch on the tv series Murdoch Mysteries.
- Beginning in 1659, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groselliers, were the first Europeans to penetrate the north of America into Canada, to negotiate treaties with the Cree and to establish a trading pattern that would lead to the creation of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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