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Canada is a nation with a phenomenal culture that is a cross of English and French as well as Scotts and Irish traditions alongside First Nation traditions, and traditions from Russia and Poland as well as Ukraynia and Romania including Italy and the former Yugoslavia as well as the Iberian Peninsula. Traditions from Armenia and Georgia as well as Turkey and Greece including Hungary are also known, besides traditions from both Germany and Austria as well as Switzerland including traditions from all the Scandinavian nations and all three Baltic nations besides Finland and The Netherlands as well as Belgium and Luxemburg. Traditions from China and Japan including The Philippines and Vietnam alongside Thailand and all Indonesia as well as both Malaysia and Singapore are also known, including ones from the whole Indian Subcontinent. Traditions from Persia and Iraq in Art and Food as well as Music are known including those from Syria and Jordan, when so many traditions from Lebanon and Israel are also known, while great traditions from Egypt and Morocco as well as Algeria are known including those from Tunisia. It is also to mention that traditions from South Africa and all West Africa as well as The Congo and East Africa including Ethiopia are known.
In dealing with Latin America traditions from
México and Guatemala as well as El Salvador and both Nicaragua and Costa Rica including Honduras and Belize alongside Panama are today known in Canada as well as traditions from Haiti and Jamaica as well as Cuba and The Dominican Republic, when traditions from all South America are known. This is especially when dealing with Colombian and Argentine including Chileno and Peruvian ones while Ecuadorian traditions and Venezuelan traditions also exist, alongside ones from all Brazil and both Paraguay and Uruguay as well as Bolivia. Traditions from the Continental United States of America are felt and especially those of the Old West, as well as various traditions from Hawaii and New Zealand as well as Samoa.
The most recognizable image in dealing with First Nations in Canada is the Totem Pole because of the Pacific Northwest First Nations of British Columbia and Alaska, with the beliefs of the Raven and the Owl being common in these First Nations alongside the Long Houses of this region and the Canoes used by these People.
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The Totem Poles and Longhouses of British Columbia
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The Teepees of the First Nations of Alberta and the other lands of the Saskatchewan as a river basin let alone elsewhere in the Prairie Provinces, are common styles of Art and Tradition in dealing with the First Nations and especially amongst the Soux.
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Recreation of a Teepee Village
Great Traditions in Painting when dealing with First Nations by Anglo or French originated Painters is common, and especially those by Paul Kane let alone other Painters who knew First Nation peoples on the Prairies or the Saint Laurence if not all the Great Lakes.
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Paul Kane's Painting of a Cree Chief
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Paintings of First Nations with European influence and Pere Marquette with the First Nations
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The arrival of the French and the merger with French culture and Mohawk as well as Algonquin culture allowed for a Mestizo culture along the Saint Laurence to be developed, with the use of the Canoe and Buck Skins as well as Coon Caps to become always popular. Fairy Tales of Flying Canoes are common in Canadien Folklore, with them being portrayed in many Paintings from Québec as a Province that are presented in many Art Galleries.
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Comte de Frontenac dancing with Mohawks
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A painting of a Flying Canoe above Montréal in the early 20th century full of adventurers
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A Flying Canoe of Lumberjacks and Fir Trappers from the 19th century
The culture of Canada is legendary for Architecture with the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and The Legislative Assembly Buildings of Ontario and Alberta as well as British Columbia in Toronto and Edmonton as well as Victoria being masterpieces for Government Buildings, while Castles like that of Casa Loma near Toronto being beautiful masterpieces of architecture in Canada. The same is with the great  and immortal Château Frontenac in Ville de Quebec, and the Empress Hotel in Victoria. The Olympic Stadium in Montréal and the Basilique de Notre Dame in Montréal let alone all that cities old section are also masterpieces, while as for the Ville Marie Place and Underground City as well as McGill University they are also masterpieces. The tallest building in Canada is a building that is single tier has a revolving restaurant on top in which that is  Toronto's CN Tower, when right next door one sees the Domed Rogers Centre which was originally called The Skydome. The TD Canada Trust Tower is one of the greatest buildings in all North America, with its Tower being Crowned with a setting of cornered squares being set around an Antenna when niches are in between the sections of this building.
Vancouver is a whole masterpiece in design as it is called "The City of Glass" with so many buildings being constructed in the city that it is hailed as a City of the Future alongside Toronto and Montréal let alone a Global City for all The Pacific Rim. The Jameson House and Private Residences at The Hotel Georgia as well as The Melville and Condominium Buildings at Coal Harbour including The Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel are Brutalist structures that exist in Vancouver, with these buildings being some of the most modern designs in all North America.

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The Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and The Legislative Assembly Building of Ontario in Toronto
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The Legislative Assembly Building of Alberta in Edmonton and The Parliament Buildings in Victoria British Columbia
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Château Frontenac in Ville de Quebec and The Empress Hotel in Victoria
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Basilique de Notre Dame de Montréal
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The old Harbor and Notre Dame de Bon Secours as well as Marche Bon Secours
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Place Jacques Cartier and the Town Hall
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The Olympic Stadium and Underground City and Metro
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Place Ville Marie
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Canada boats the greatest Universities and High Schools as well Elementary Schools in the World, with McGill University being the Canadian Harvard in which Barney Fife has nothing in comparison to the intelligence of Robin and other Canadians no matter how Patriotic post 9-11 American from New York he is for he is a Pervert and a borderline Rapist. The Universal Health Care is vital to Canadians, but it has flaws in Medical Long Lines and Death Panels. 
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McGill Univertsity
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Toronto's CN Tower and the Rogers Centre
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The TD Canada Trust Tower
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​Casa Loma
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​Vancouver in all of its Glory
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One of Vancouver's greatest buildings is the Jameson House when others are The Condominiums at Coal Harbour
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The Private Residences at The Hotel Georgia and The Melville including The Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel
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Canada is a true leader in literature with Mazo de La Roche and Lucy Maud Montgomery as well as Leonard Cohen being symbols of Canadian Literature alongside Margaret Atwood, of which Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables and Cohen was Canada's greatest later 20th century Poet with his Poems of Suzanne and So Long Marianne as well as Who By Fire and Alleluia. Neil Peart is a Drummer but he is also a Poet and Lyricist as well as Storyteller, with this all allowing him to become one of Canada's greatest Literally masters. The same is with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell as well as Sarah McLachlan, while Bryan Adams is also a great Canadian Poet as well as Gordon Lightfoot.
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Anne of Green Gables
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Leonard Cohen
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Joni Mitchell and Sarah McLachlan
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Neil Peart
The Theatre in Canada is legendary and especially when dealing with the Shakespearean Festival in Stratford Ontario, and the great Theatre Companies in Toronto and Ottawa were where Christopher Plummer began as well as Donald Sutherland. Those Comics on SCTV such as John Candy and Catherine O'Hara as well as Andrea Martin and Rick Moranis let alone Martin Short and Joe Flaherty as well as Eugene Levy are products of Canadian Theatre when the same is with Dan Aykroyd, when Michael J. Fox also started on a Theatre's Stage. SCTV was one of Canada's greatest exports in Acting and especially Comedy Theater, with them not only being huge on Television but in Movies as individuals or in a group of a few of them like it was in Club Paradise with Jimmy Cliff and the late and great Robin Williams. The immortal William Shatner is Canadian when Lorne Greene was also Canadian, and Yovonne De Carlo was also Canadian as well as Mary Pickford. 
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The Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre
Canada has a Film Industry that is one of the greatest in North America, with Canadian Films in French like Black Robe and Jesus of Montréal holding huge praise including one being nominated for Best Foreign Film in 1990 when My American Cousin is a film from Alberta and certain Films about First Nations are from Canada. Various Television Shows have been made in Canada, and one current series that is very popular is Wapos Bay which is a Clay Animation Series about a First Nation town in Saskatchewan. Long ago in the 1960s the animated Dudley Do Right of The Mounties was popular, as it was based on a Mountie who patrolled an area of the Klondike during the Gold Rush of 1896 with him riding his Horse but siting backwards. In Canada Television Shows are presented in English or in French and various old Movies from the United States are dubbed in French when certain Television Shows that were originally in English are dubbed to speak French. 
Great Children's Movies were made in Canada and set in Montréal with the tale of Jacob Two Two meets The Hooded Fang being one of the greatest Fairy Tales in Canadian Film, of which this Tale is so amazing that it is beyond a cult classic. Animated TV Shorts for Holiday events like Christmas and Halloween were common in the 1970s, and especially when dealing with The Gift of Winter and Witch's Night Out. The animation was different in either short but the storytelling was still excellent and especially with Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner acting in the first one and just Gilda being in the second, while Catherine O'Hara was in the second alongside Gilda with the other actors involved in both shorts also being remarkable. 
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Canada's greatest Movie nominated for an Academy Award
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Jacob Two Two meets The Hooded Fang
Canada has a Musical Tradition of Classical Music being performed in various Concert Performing Arts Centers, while Jazz is popular in Canada as well as Blues and Country while Folk is also popular and especially amongst Canadiens and First Nations as well as Anglos and Irish in Ontario and Nova Scotia as well as Newfoundland.  Bob Dylan did influence Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, in which Gordon Lightfoot and Young as well as Mitchell were Folk Artists alongside the immortal Cohen. 
Robbie Robertson and The Band were Dylan's backup band and they became legends on their own, in which Rock and Roll came to Canada because of Elvis Presley and Bill Haley and The Comets including Buddy Holly in those years before the man named Dylan became a known name let alone Four young Lads from Liverpool Great Britain named The Beatles.  Robertson is the biggest First Nation Guitarist and Singer Songwriter from Canada, with his Solo album in 1987 being the biggest album by any Canadian that year and especially because of U2 being on that album.  Garth Hudson influenced so many Canadian Keyboard Players for decades to come while Richard Manuel influenced many Canadian Blues Piano Players from years to come, and they too were in The Band with Robertson. Dylan was at Woodstock and The Band were at Woodstock and in Suits and Ties when Dylan was in Jeans and a Hat, with The Band and Dylan reuniting in the epic Motion Picture of The Last Waltz which was The Band's farewell. In that Movie the group also performs with Neil Diamond and Neil Young as well as Van Morrison including Muddy Waters and Joni Mitchell, besides Eric Clapton and both Ronnie Wood and Ringo Starr.   
Bryan Adams is one of North America's greatest Rock and Rollers when Aldo Nova was a rival of his in the early 1980s, while as for Saga and Triumph they were Rock and Roll Bands that were big in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Red Rider was another such band, while as for Loverboy they were the only big band to come from Vancouver while Red Rider and both Saga and Triumph were from Ontario. Sara Mc Lachian is a legendary female singer songwriter for Canada while Anne Murray is the Canadian Queen of Country, with K.D Lang being Canada's biggest Country singer since Murray as well as her being a Blues singer besides her being an LGBT activist. Alannis Morrissette was the biggest Canadian Singer Songwriter in the 1990s, when Shania Twain is a singer songwriter who rivaled K.D Lang as a Country Singer but then she crossed over to Pop and became immortal. It is true that Justin Beber is from Canada but the same is with Michael Bublé, while as for The Weekend and Drake they are also Canadians although The Weekend is of Haitian parents and Drake is of an African American father and a Yiddish mother. 
The first major Rock Band to had ever been from Canada outside of The Band was The Guess Who who were from Winnipeg, with their songs of No Time and Laughing as well as American Woman and Undun including the beautiful ballad of These Eyes being huge songs and especially with These Eyes having a Horns section and a Mellotron setting for the strings. After they broke up their Guitarist who was Randy Bachman formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive {or BTO for short}, with You've Ain't Seen Nothing Yet and Let It Ride being huge songs. 
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson as well as Neil Peart are the three men {in which two were from Willowdale in Toronto and one was from Hamilton Ontario} who made history, with them being a Trio that sounded like a five piece band who made music for almost five decades under the name of RUSH. Celine Dion is the Queen of all Canadian Singers, with her being a native of the rural areas surrounding Montréal who became the greatest singer to be based in that majestic city and her becoming the greatest performer to be based in Las Vegas since Elvis Presley himself.
In the 1940s Guy Lombardo was a master of Swing and The Canadian Brass was a big band from Canada, when Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka were Pop Singers and Songwriters from the early 1960s who made it big in the 1970s as songwriters and performers in Las Vegas. 
One of the greatest Composers to ever rise from Canada  has always been Lewis Furey, with his voice being  similar to that of the Late and Great David Bowie and him playing piano as well as him like Leonard being a great Poet. Furey did the music for Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang and he has always been a grand intellectual for the city of Montréal, in which he is Jewish and he is also an Anglophile of the city.

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RUSH in 1982
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Celine in all her glory
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Robbie Robertson and his solo album
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Lewis Furey
One of the greatest Museums ever established in Canada when dealing with National History is the Canadian Museum of History which is located in Hull across the Ottawa river from the Canadian Capitol City, and the building is a reflection of great themes of First Nation origins in representing a Turtles Head from beneath a Shell when dealing with its main building. The other buildings of this great museum are designed out of a melting glacier and the Canadian Shied as a whole, of which this complex is one of the greatest complexes for any Museum in all North America let alone the whole British Commonwealth. 
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The Canadian Museum of History
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Canada is a nation of modern Painters, and the Group of Seven was developed in the 1910s and 1920s as a group of great Modern Painters who were influenced by Van Gogh  and Cezanne as well as Monet and Surrat.  Their Work is in the National Gallery which is also in Hull across the river from Ottawa, with the building being of Glass and Steel and with Trapezoid shaped Glass settings on its façade's roof making the building a work of art itself.
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Two Paintings by the Group of Seven
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The National Art Gallery
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Canada is a leader in Sports and especially because of Hockey which was created out of a game with a club on the ice that was played by First Nations, with Wayne Gretzky being the greatest Hockey player of all time. Curling is a sport that came to North America from Scotland, when Slolom Skiing and Cross Country Skiing as well as Bobsledding and Luge are extremely popular alongside Snowboarding and Speed Skating including Figure Eight Skating . La Crosse is the Summer Sport outside of Baseball as the Blue Jays still exist , with this also being born by First Nations and it uses nets besides uniforms and Rigby Rules and educate.
Besides Winter Sports the Sports of both Football {Soccer} and American Football and both Baseball and Softball are popular including Golf and Boxing as well as Wrestling and Cycling and both Basketball and Vollyball, while Skateboarding and the Sports of X Games Paint Ball Shooting as well as both X Games Cycling and X Games Rock Climbing are beyond popular in Canada. Traditional Rock Climbing itself is very popular and much a part of Canadian History, when Canoeing and Sailing are also popular Sports besides them being very much a part of Canadian History. Long Distance Running and Hurdles as well as Pole Vaulting and Long Jumping besides the Decathlon and Equestrian Sports as well as Gymnastics, are all Olympic Sports going back to 1896. Golf and Boxing as well as Wrestling and Cycling are too Olympic Sports, alongside Baseball and Football {Soccer.}
Professional Major League Baseball or MLB has only one Team in Canada with that being the Toronto Blue Jays who won the World Series in 1992 and 1993, with The Canadian Football League or CFL is nation wide and mainly set by American Football Players.  
Canada has hosted one Summer Olympiad in 1976 in Montréal and two Winter Olympic Games in 1988 in Calgary and in 2010 in Vancouver as well as three Pan American Games, with those Games being in 1967 in Winnipeg and 1999 again in Winnipeg while the latest Pan American Games to occur in Canada would occur in 2015 in Toronto
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The Olympic Stadium in Montréal
Canada has an interesting cuisine where Game Meat and especially Venison and Moose as well as Bison and Elk including Caribou Meat, when in reality there is no National Dish because of the huge diversity of people and influences in Canada. Pea Soup and Chicken Dishes of Nouveau Cuisine are common with Poutine being a common snack of French Fries drenched in Gravy and Cheese Curds, while as for Lobster and Sea Crab as well as Trout and Bass including Salmon they are so commonly eaten alongside Duck and Pheasant including Quail while some Geese are allowed to be eaten but never ever Canadian Geese. Common styles of Steak and especially Rib Eye are eaten alongside Angus Beef, while as for Fruits and Vegetables they include Broccoli and Lettuce as well as Cabbage and Tomatoes including {of course} Potatoes and Corn besides Squash and Pumpkins alongside Cranberries and Blackberries besides Apples. Maple Syrup is important and especially when dealing with Pancakes and Waffles as well as Crepes, when Tea as well as Hot Cocoa are commonly drunken besides Beer and Whiskey including Scotch and imported Rum. Wine is now beginning to be developed in Canada, but most Wines drunken by Canadians are imported from Europe or Australia if not the United States via California or Washington State as well as New York State's Finger Lakes and Vermont as well as Argentina and Chile. Arroz con Pollo and Mofongo as well as Arroz con Leche including Tasajo are all commonly eaten today, with Canada becoming so much more diverse. 
One of the greatest pastimes for Canadians is The Winter Carnival in Ville de Quebec, which is a great celebration of all things Winter such as the building of Ice Castles and Ice Sculptures of Trolls and Dwarves as well as Hobbits and Wizards as mentioned in Tolken's Fairy Tales besides Elves and the enjoyment of Games like Ice Canoeing and Toboggan Rides. The Snowman Bonhome is the Mascot and a Parade takes place in the Carnival, with the celebration always coming on the feast of Saint John The Baptist.
The Winter Carnival
The various Festivals based on Chinese Folklore and Hindu as well as Persian or Japanese Folklore and Tradition besides Hindu homage to a God or Goddess are known throughout Canada's Provinces, wherever a population of Chinese or Japanese as well as Iranian and Hindu originated Canadians live. One common Chinese Festival is always the Moon Cake Festival, where Moon Cakes are made and huge Lanterns are manufactured and presented of which it was in an ancient rebellion that messages were put in Moon Cakes and many Lanterns are made in the form of Pagodas and Temples as well as the homes of those Rebels. Holi is a great celebration that is Hindu which is celebrated in Canada and the same is with the Festival of Lights, while Chinese and Persian New Year are celebrated as well as Tet the Vietnamese New Year in which when dealing with Chinese New Year Dragons are always seen as well as Flowers. Korean celebrations are also known alongside traditional Thai celebrations, where as for traditional celebrations from Sri Lanka and Nepal they are also common.  
Festivals occur that are Russian or Ukraynian as well as Armenian and Georgian in origin wherever people who are Russian and Ukraynian as well as Armenian and Georgian in origin live in Canada, and especially when dealing with those who live in Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as Manitoba. Cossack Dancers and Armenian as well as typical Russian Gypsy and Russian Peasant Dancers are common in these Festivals, when Borsht and Caviar as well as Porridges are eaten alongside various types of meats and fish. Jews honor Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana as well as Chaunakah and Purim including Passover, when Muslims honor Ramandan.
The celebrations of Christmas and Easter are colorful in Canada, and especially when dealing with the traditions originally from France and England as well as Ireland and Germany as well as Italy and Denmark as well as Sweden and Norway. These include those from Russia and Poland as well as Ukraynia and Armenia including Georgia and Hungary alongside those from the formers Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that survived Communism as well as those from Poland and both Romania and Bulgaria, while traditional Christmas and Easter celebrations from Ethiopia are also known as well as Kenya and South Africa. Traditions in dealing with Christmas and Easter as well as various Saint's Feast Days that are from Latin America are common in Canada today, and this is especially when dealing with traditions that are Mexican and Guatemalteco alongside Cuban as well as Dominican and Haitian in origins when Colombian and Venezolano as well as Peruvian and Ecuadorian traditions now also exist. The same is with Chilean traditions and Argentine traditions alongside Uruguayo and Paraguayo traditions and Brasileiro traditions. Carnivals like those in Trinidad and Tobago and Santo Domingo as well as Barranquilla Colombia are common today in Canada, when Jamaican and Barbadian as well as Bahamian traditions are also common today in Canada.
Since recent times ​Santa Claus has been with a Canadian Passport for the spot where supposedly he hails from is Canada's northernmost place, and all letters sent are responded by addresses in Canada and no where else.
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The Moon Cake Festival
Images of Celebrations from Ukraynia and Russia as well as Armenia {honoring Armenian Genocide} and Latin America as well as India
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An Armenian Wedding in Canada
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Ukraynian Easter Eggs