September
Day 03
As long as it effectively manages problems such as funding, Sport Canada will continue to provide the Canadian public with international-caliber athletes who compete with the very best in the world.
The National Hockey League (or NHL) is the largest and most successful North American professional hockey league.
Leagues competed vigorously for the best players in order to be successful and attract spectators and fans. While this was beneficial to players because they could command higher salaries, it was bad for business because owners' expenses skyrocketed.
By the 1930s, however, the NHL remained as the only major professional league in North America. This effectively kept players' salaries down and reduced expenses.
The NHL's team owners realized that in order for the league to be a successful commercial business, they would have to stop competing against each other off the ice. This was best accomplished by ensuring that only one major league existed, so that competition was reduced.
The NHL owners generated very high profits because, having a monopoly in the hockey market, they could limit the sale and trade of players. When players signed on to a team, they generally did so for life, and at the pay rate determined by the owner.
Day 02
Banff National Park is Canada's oldest and most famous national park. It was founded in 1885 after the discovery of the Cave and Basin Hot Springs. From humble beginnings as a 26 square kilometer hot springs reserve, Banff National Park now consists of 6,641 square kilometers of unparalleled mountain scenery nestled in the heart of the magnificent Canadian Rockies.
Each year, millions of visitors come to Banff to marvel at the emerald waters of Lake Louise, walk amongst the flower-filled heavens at Sunshine Meadows, and drive beneath the towering jagged peaks lining the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper.
Nearly ten millennia later, a struggling nation forged a crazy dream of connecting itself from sea to sea with steel rails, and from this railway venture was born Canada's most famous park, Banff National Park.
Banff National Park contains some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the world. Snow-capped peaks, glistening glaciers, icefields, alpine meadows, blue cold crystal clear lakes, raging rivers, mineral hot springs, deep canyons, hoodoos and sweeping vistas are just one part of the allure of Banff National Park.
Lake Louise, with its blue-green water set against the stark backdrop of Victoria Glacier, is the highest permanent settlement in Canada at 1,536 meters (5,039 feet) above the sea level and probably the most beloved and most photographed scene in the Canadian Rockies.
Banff National Park is part of the UNESCO Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site.
UNESCO(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Day 01
The First World War began when the archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
This led to a serious dispute, and soon other countries were involved. Within a few weeks, a war had begun.
The people in these countries at first welcomed the news of a war. Many people were intensely patriotic, and supported the war effort without thinking carefully about the reasons for the war.
In the western part of Europe, the opposing sides fought many bloody battles. Soldiers on both sides lived in filthy trenches that had been dug out of the ground.
The Great Lakes are bordered by the Canadian province of Ontario and by eight U.S. states including (from west to east) Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Large cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Toronto lie on the shores of the Great Lakes system.
Lake Michigan is deeper than Lake Huron, but the latter is larger in area, at 59,600 square kilometers.