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Gatineau Park

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Gatineau Park (Parc de la Gatineau) is located in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. [1]

63 relations: Algae, American black bear, Camp Fortune, Capital Pathway, CBC News, Charles Ramsay Devlin, Chelsea, Quebec, Common loon, Deciduous, Evergreen, Federal Woodlands Preservation League, Gatineau, Gatineau Hills, Government of Canada, Gray wolf, Harrington Lake, Hiking, House of Commons of Canada, James Bernard Harkin, Kingsmere, Quebec, La Pêche Lake, La Pêche, Quebec, Lac Phillipe, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, LGBT community, List of National Parks of Canada, Meech Lake, Meech Lake Accord, Meromictic lake, Mountain bike, National Capital Commission, National Capital Region (Canada), National Parks Act (Canada), National Parks of Canada, Naturism, North American beaver, Nycole Turmel, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa River, Ottawa Valley, Outaouais, Percy Sparks, Pileated woodpecker, Pink Lake (Canada), Pontiac, Quebec, Prime Minister of Canada, Quebec, Rocky Mountains, ..., Savanna, Senate of Canada, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, The Farm (Canada), Thermal, Trans Canada Trail, Triangulation, Turkey vulture, White-tailed deer, William Lyon Mackenzie King, William Wallace Cory, World War I, Xtra Ottawa. Expand index (13 more) »

Algae

Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.

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Camp Fortune

Camp Fortune is a commercial alpine ski centre.

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Capital Pathway

The Capital Pathway, also known informally as the Bike Path, is a recreational pathway interlinking many parks, waterways and sites in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Charles Ramsay Devlin

Charles Ramsay Devlin (29 October 1858 – 1 March 1914) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada, in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, and an Irish MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Chelsea, Quebec

Chelsea is a municipality located immediately north of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada and about 10 km north of Ottawa.

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Common loon

The common loon or great northern diver (Gavia immer) is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Federal Woodlands Preservation League

Created by group of citizens worried about the massive logging near Meech Lake and Kingsmere, the Federal Woodlands Preservation League (Ligue contre le déboisement des sites fédéraux) began urging the Canadian Federal Government in 1934 to take action on preserving the Gatineau Hills' woodlands.

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Gatineau

Gatineau (locally), officially Ville de Gatineau, is a city in western Quebec, Canada.

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Gatineau Hills

The Gatineau Hills (Collines de la Gatineau) are a geological formation in Canada that makes up part of the southern tip of the Canadian Shield, and acts as the northern shoulder of the Ottawa Valley.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Harrington Lake

Harrington Lake (La résidence du lac Mousseau) is the name of the summer residence and all-season retreat of the Prime Minister of Canada, and also the name of the land which surrounds it.

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

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James Bernard Harkin

James B. Harkin (30 January 1875 – 27 January 1955), also known as the Father of National Parks, was a Canadian-born journalist turned bureaucrat with a passion for conservation but also widely renowned for his commodification of the Canadian landscape.

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Kingsmere, Quebec

Kingsmere is a community in Chelsea, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.

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La Pêche Lake

La Pêche Lake is a lake in Gatineau Park, Quebec, Canada.

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La Pêche, Quebec

La Pêche (Quebec French pronunciation) is a municipality along both sides of the Gatineau River in Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada, about north of downtown Gatineau.

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Lac Phillipe

Lac Philippe is a medium-sized lake located on the north side of Gatineau Park.

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Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality

Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais (French for "The hills of the Outaouais") is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada.

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LGBT community

The LGBT community or GLBT community, also referred to as the gay community, is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, LGBT organizations, and subcultures, united by a common culture and social movements.

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List of National Parks of Canada

Canada's National Parks are protected areas under the Canada National Parks Act, owned by the Government of Canada and administered for the benefit, education, and enjoyment of the people of Canada and its future generations.

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Meech Lake

Meech Lake (Lac Meech) is located within Gatineau Park in the Municipality of Chelsea, Quebec, Canada (about 20 km NW of Gatineau).

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Meech Lake Accord

The Meech Lake Accord (Accord du lac Meech) was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and all 10 Canadian provincial premiers.

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Meromictic lake

A meromictic lake has layers of water that do not intermix.

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Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated Mtn Bike or MTB) is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling.

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National Capital Commission

The National Capital Commission (NCC; Commission de la capitale nationale, CCN) is the Canadian Crown corporation responsible for planning, as well as taking part in the development, conservation and improvement of Canada’s Capital Region.

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National Capital Region (Canada)

The National Capital Region (Région de la capitale nationale), also referred to as Canada's Capital Region and Ottawa–Gatineau (formerly Ottawa–Hull), is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec, and surrounding urban and rural communities.

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National Parks Act (Canada)

The Canada National Parks Act, An Act respecting the national parks of Canada (the Act) is a Canadian federal law that regulates protection of natural areas of national significance.

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National Parks of Canada

National Parks of Canada are protected natural spaces throughout the country that represent distinct geographical regions of the nation.

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Naturism

Naturism, or nudism, is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating, and defending personal and social nudity, most but not all of which takes place on private property.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species.

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Nycole Turmel

Nycole Turmel (born September 1, 1942) is the former Canadian Member of Parliament representing the electoral district of Hull—Aylmer and served as the Opposition Whip in the New Democratic Party shadow cabinet.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Ottawa River

The Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: Kitchissippi) is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Ottawa Valley

The Ottawa Valley is the valley of the Ottawa River, along the boundary between Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.

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Outaouais

Outaouais; (also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada.

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Percy Sparks

Roderick Percy Sparks (1880–1959) was a Canadian manufacturer and environmentalist.

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Pileated woodpecker

The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a woodpecker native to North America.

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Pink Lake (Canada)

Pink Lake is a meromictic lake located in Gatineau Park, Quebec, Canada.

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Pontiac, Quebec

Pontiac is a municipality in western Quebec, Canada, on the north shore of the Ottawa River, in the Outaouais region of the Ottawa Valley.

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Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Senate of Canada

The Senate of Canada (Sénat du Canada) is the upper house of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons and the Monarch (represented by the Governor General).

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Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada

The Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (Président de la Chambre des communes) is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Parliament of Canada and is elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow Members of Parliament (MPs).

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The Farm (Canada)

The Farm (La Ferme) is the official residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parliament of Canada.

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Thermal

A thermal column (or thermal) is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere, a form of atmospheric updraft.

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Trans Canada Trail

The Great Trail, formerly known as Trans Canada Trail, is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans.

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Triangulation

In trigonometry and geometry, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by forming triangles to it from known points.

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Turkey vulture

The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia.

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

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William Wallace Cory

William Wallace Cory (June 16, 1865 – September 21, 1943) was Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from June 27, 1919 to February 17, 1931.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Xtra Ottawa

Xtra Ottawa (formerly Capital Xtra) was a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Camp Fortune, Quebec, Parc de la Gatineau.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatineau_Park

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