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1. Directions: Choose the appropriate punctuation for the brackets by selecting an “A” to add a comma to the square bracket, a “B” to eliminate the comma in the square bracket, or a “C” to leave the punctuation the way it is. At the beginning of the last century[, ] many newcomers to Canada from Europe saw themselves as having landed in a country that had no culture, no history. They assumed they were free to find land[ ] clear it[ ] and build on it. Coming from societies that had strong class systems[, ] they felt the new world offered them opportunities[, ] that the old one denied them. Whether they consciously knew it or not[ ] though[ ] their presence in the new land was encroaching on the way of life of people who already lived here. The concept of land and land ownership that the Europeans brought with them[ ] in particular their notion of private ownership[ ] was alien to the indigenous peoples of North America. This problem[ ] along with many other cultural problems[ ] would have a profound effect on the people who lived in North America before the European invasion.
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In 1979[ ] when Joseph Smallwood wrote that “Eight out of every ten of today’s Newfoundlanders were born too late to know our pre-Confederation Newfoundland[, ]” he was trying to point out that Newfoundland had changed dramatically since it joined confederation at one minute to midnight on March 31[, ] 1949. In No Apology from Me[ ] Smallwood lists all the benefits that Newfoundland gained from joining Confederation. The interesting omission to his book[ ] however[, ] is a list of what Newfoundland would have been like in 1979[ ] if it had not joined Canadian confederation[] but had remained a British protectorate or become a nation unto itself. Instead[ ] Smallwood goes on to list the roads[ ] hospitals[ ] schools[ ] airports[ ] as well as the 500 doctors[ ] 2200 nurses[ ] and 5000 other hospital employees who were supported by funds from the government of Canada. The question is[, ] would Newfoundland be bereft of all these in 1979 if it weren’t for Canada?
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In her book: Algonquin Story,1 Audrey Saunders Miller recounts a story about Bud Callahan and Archie Belaney[; ] the man who was popularly known as[: ] Grey Owl. Archie Belaney was a man who was quick to boast of his prowess in the wilderness[, ] he bet he could cross Algonquin Park without checking in with the park rangers[ ] and without being caught. There were some rangers who felt differently about such a boast[: ] Albert Ranger, Zeph Nadon, Mark Robinson, and Bud Callahan. They had been fighting poachers who had been trapping animals illegally in the park[; ] and they felt there was one thing they could not afford to do[: ] let Archie Belaney boast he could fool them. Already the rangers had caught poachers who had been quite original in their schemes. One Native person had used stilts on entering the park to avoid detection[, ] another individual placed his snowshoes on his feet backward in order to make his tracks appear to head in the direction of the park boundary. As such[; ] when Archie Belaney entered the park, the rangers were ready for him. They knew the land better than he did[, ] they knew he would have to follow one of the major routes. There was little choice[: ] in winter, the park was difficult to cross even for those who knew it. The most obvious route lay along old Gilmour Road[, ] north around Crown Lake[, ] passed Big Porcupine Lake, at the entrance to the park[, ] and across the rest of the park. Bud Callahan came across his tracks just as Belaney was entering the park[ ] and caught up with him before dusk on his first day across the park. Belaney tried to give Callahan the slip overnight[, ] but Callahan caught up with a cold, tired Belaney the very next day again; Belaney had fallen through the ice on a beaver pond and now had dangerously frozen feet.
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Nothing captures the mystery and beauty of Algonquin Park[, ] like the pictures of Tom Thomson. But, as Audrey Saunders Miller points out in Algonquin Story[, ] the beauty of the park that Thomson captured in his painting is too often overshadowed by the story of his mysterious death. Thomson[ ] originally from Owen Sound[ ] had a background in photography that would hold him in good stead as a painter[ ] but it was his love of the north and of wilderness that drew him to the area around Algonquin Park. There was one thing that Thomson was more enthused about than painting and photography[ ] fishing. Miller points out one of the important differences between fishing and painting for Thomson[ ] “fishing was an occupation which could be carried on in the company of friends . . . , but painting was a solitary pastime . . . (164). Thomson enjoyed his solitary time on the waterways of Algonquin Park[ ] and, when he was on one of his solitary trips through the park in the early part of July in 1917[] he went missing. His body surfaced in Canoe Lake on July 16[ ] the cause of his death was not clear when the body was examined. His lungs did not contain water[ ] one of the indications of drowning. Instead[, B] there was a bruise on his temple. How it came to be there—whether by accident[ ] ill health[ ] or foul play—no one will ever know. After his death[ ] his artist[, ] friends erected a cairn in memory of Thomson on Hayhurst’s Point overlooking Canoe Lake[ ] a place where they felt they could not work anymore.
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Algonquin Park had its beginning[ ] in 1885 [ ] when Alexander Kirkwood[ ] a clerk in Ontario’s Department of Crown Lands[ ] first suggested to the Commissioner of Crown Lands[ ] T. B. Pardee[, ] that a “National Forest and Park” be set up “for the preservation and maintenance of the natural forest” (Miller 77). In 1888[, ] James Dickson[ ] a provincial surveyor[ ] filed a report recommending that “eleven of the eighteen townships that were afterwards set aside to form the Park in 1893 be so utilized” (80). Both Kirkwood and Dickson[, ] saw that a park would not only save the land from being torn apart by those interested in its resources[ ] but also be important in protecting the headwaters and tributaries of four rivers[ ] the Muskoka[ ] the Petawawa[ ] the Gonnechere[,] and the Madawaska. Additionally[, ] a park would save fur-bearing animals such as[ ] the caribou[, ] the moose[, ] the white-tailed deer[ ] and the beaver[, ] that had been hunted to near extinction in the region. The Royal Commission that finalized the parameters of the park saw it as[ ] “a public park, and forest reservation, fish and game preserve, health resort and pleasure ground for the benefit, advantage and enjoyment of the people of the province” (85). So much of what the park has come to represent to the people of Ontario would never have existed [] if it were not for the efforts of a handful of people.
