Schooner a vessel for Toronto underground history. What High Park used to look like in Toronto. Just shy of 400 acres, High Park is among Toronto's largest downtown green spaces.
The gently undulating landscape is home to a river, a lake, a zoo, a famous grove of Japanese cherry trees, even a historic homestead complete with the tomb of its former owners. Those departed former residents were the Howards, and Toronto owes the existence of High Park to them. John G. PS1 Pluralistic School - PS1. Get in early: sell your teaching materials to millions. We have a great, early opportunity for teachers who are interested in selling their high-quality, original teaching materials on the new TES Resources.
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Stone Everyone is a travel writer, but not everyone knows it. Canadian First Nations Seek to Protect Forest Homeland. He didn't mention his name, only that he was 62 years old and belonged to the Poplar River First Nation, indigenous people who live on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg, in Manitoba.
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BetterLesson is always looking to hire talented, passionate professionals interested in helping educators. Toronto’s first Jewish nurse writes of early Toronto. Memoirs of Dorothy Goldstick Dworkin In the following article, the former Dorothy Goldstick relates her experiences working as a nurse and midwife in Toronto’s fledging Jewish community from 1907 to 1911, when thousands of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Russian Pale were arriving in the city each year.
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Without it they will continue to stay away from political participation, public policy and voting. CIVIX will conduct a Student Vote parallel election for elementary and secondary schools during the Ontario Municipal and School Board Elections this fall. Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. Americans have a split vision of education.
Conventional wisdom has long held that our K-12 schools are mediocre or worse, while our colleges and universities are world class. While policy wonks hotly debate K-12 reform ideas like vouchers and the Common Core state standards, higher education is largely left to its own devices. No-trafficking.org. Young filmmakers from international schools compete in UN-led contest to raise awareness of human trafficking and slavery in product supply chains September 2012 The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) has partnered with international schools in Bangkok to raise awareness of human trafficking and slavery in the supply chains of basic, everyday products.
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Clare Gass went to the battlefields of France during the First World War and served with her colleague and friend Lt. Col. John McCrae — author of In Flanders Fields. Canada's greatest Second World War air ace also hailed as hero in Israel. Socrative Landing. Inside Kingston Penitentiary. Ottawa opens exhibit on First World War internment camps in Banff, Alta.
Ottawa opens exhibit on First World War internment camps in Banff, Alta.
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