HISTORIC SITES IN CANADA
The Canadian National Parks Branch during the summer of 1925 car-ied on its work of preserving tho historic sites of national importance throughout Canada. Sixteen sites have been marked, usually by the building of a stone cairn and the placing of a bronze tablet. Tablets were unveiled at Chambly Cemetery, Fort Richelieu and Port liongueuil, Quebec, and one on M'Gill University ground, Montreal, the site of old Hoehelaga. - Other unveilings took place with appropriate ceremonies lit Fort Nottawasaga, Ontario, For Calgary, Alberta, and at Battleford and Batoche, Saskatchewan. In British Columbia tbo turning of the first sod in the construction of the old Cariboo wagon road, made historic during the days of the Gold Bush, and, the wreck of The, Beaver, the historic pioneer vessel of the British Columbia coast, were suitably commemorated, the former at Y#.le and tho latter sit JfrpigWt feltttj VjWHOUtCJ.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 12
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148HISTORIC SITES IN CANADA Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 12
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