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== Wiki Loves Monuments : And the winner is... ==
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[[File:Chapelle des Indiens, Tadoussac, Québec.jpg|thumb|Tadoussac Chapel was built between 1747 and 1750 (it is also the oldest wooden church in North America) - Quebec. Tadoussac Chapel WAS built entre 1747 and 1750 (it est aussi The Oldest wooden church in North America) - Quebec.]]
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The largest photographic competition in the world took place throughout the month of September. This year, more than 50 countries - including the southernmost continent on the planet Antarctica - participated in the hunting of monumental images! Not only harvested 370,000 pictures in the competition represent the best of the heritage of humanity, but the whole point of the Wiki Loves Monuments lies in the fact that the image bank is freely licensed and fully reusable by all.

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The 2012 edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest photo contest in the world with over 353 000 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

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== Canadian Copyright Collection from the British Library ==

[[File:Dancing_pavilion_at_Bo-Lo,_Bois_Blanc_Island,_Detroit_River_(HS85-10-28621).jpg|thumb|The dancing pavilion at the Boblo Island Amusement Park, Ontario (1914). Financed by Henry Ford, this was the world's second largest dance hall at the time, holding up to 5,000 dancers. The music was provided by one of the world's largest orchestrions (pictured on the right): a 16 foot tall, 14 foot wide, self-playing orchestra with 419 pipes and percussion section.]]
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The dancing pavilion at the Boblo Island Amusement Park, Ontario (1914). Financed by Henry Ford, this was the world's second largest dance hall at the time, holding up to 5,000 dancers. The music was provided by one of the world's largest orchestrions (pictured on the right): a 16 foot tall, 14 foot wide, self-playing orchestra with 419 pipes and percussion section.
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You can see more details on the collection on Wikimedia Commons.

Philip Hatfield (Curator, Canadian Collections, British Library) and Andrew Gray (former Wikipedian in Residence, British Library) Funding for the project was given by Wikimedia UK and by the British Library Eccles Centre for American Studies.

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=== Who we are ===

Wikimedia Canada is a non-profit organization committed to the growth, development, and distribution of free educational material and media. It is the official Canadian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs many online projects, including Wikipedia, and has chapters in countries around the world. Feel free to register on the Wiki and partake in the discussions.

[[File:Wikimedia_logo_=== News ===
* December 2: [[:WMFblog:2014/01/22/wiki-tuesday-at-bibliotheque-nationales-du-quebec/|Wiki Tuesday at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]]
* November: [[:w:cr:Projet:Wikipetia_Atikamekw|Second project]] at the Otapi High School in Manawan, Quebec to write articles on the [[:w:cr:Portal:Atikamekw|Wikipedia in Atikamekw]].
* October 18: [[:WMFblog:2014/10/18/first-glam-collaboration-in-canada-with-banq/|First GLAM collaboration in Canada with BAnQ]]
* October: [[:WMFblog:2014/10/08/international-francophone-contribution-month/|International Francophone Contribution Month]]
* September: [[:Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Canada|Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in Canada]]
* June: A [[:w:cr:Projet:Wikipetia_Atikamekw|project]] is on-going in Otapi High School, Manawan, Quebec to develop the [[:w:cr:Portal:Atikamekw|Wikipedia in Atikamekw]].

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=== Our mission ===

*To aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content without the payment of royalties.
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