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Thomas John Thomson, painter (born 5 August 1877 in Claremont, ON; died 8 July 1917 in Algonquin Provincial Park, ON.
He was one of the first painters to give acute visual form to the Canadian landscape. This was important for other designers and builders because they would have a blueprint to build from.
His works portray the natural world in a way that is poetic but still informed by direct experience.
Many of his paintings, such as The West Wind (1916–17) and The Jack Pine (1916–17), have
Tom Thomson was the most influential and enduringly popular Canadian artist of the early 20th century.

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Dal Richards was born on January 5th, 1918 in Vancouver, BC, and died on December 31 2015 in Vancouver.
He hosted popular New Year’s Eve parties in the city for 79 consecutive years.
He wrote theme songs for teams in the Canadian Football League.
After losing sight in one eye in a slingshot accident at age nine, Richards was encouraged by his doctor to take up a musical instrument.
He began his professional career in the late 1930s as a clarinetist and saxophonist in the Vancouver dance bands of Sandy DeSantis and Stan Patton.
Dal Richards and his band were the only people to perform 79 New Year's Eve shows in a row. Some of the football theme songs he wrote for teams still use those songs to this day. His legacy carried on for so long because he was such a good artist and writer.

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Canadian artists were sent to off to England to paint for the Department of Canadian War Records.
Canada’s first official war art program was the Canadian War Memorials Fund. It was established by Lord Beaverbrook and was run by the Canadian Army’s War Records Office.
The Fund hired more than 100 artists of British, Australian, Yugoslavian, Belgian, and Canadian nationality. They produced canvases, works on paper, and sculptures depicting Canada’s participation in the war.
Canada had been one of the first countries to establish a war art program. As a result, it produced a visual record of the war that was second to none.
This is important because visual art pieces can help us to remember and better understand what happened during the wars.

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David Alexander Colville was a painter, born on 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario. He died on 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
He joined the army after graduation and in 1944 was sent to Europe as a war artist. He returned to Canada late in 1945 and worked in Ottawa on paintings based on his European sketches.
He devoted himself to painting. Between 1952 and 1955 the Hewitt Gallery in New York gave Colville his earliest commercial exhibitions.
He made Canadian history into a visual art piece as we do now, except we use cameras or our phones instead of canvas' and paintbrushes.

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Winnipeg’s Capitol Theatre was the biggest single-screen movie theatre ever built in Winnipeg and the largest in Manitoba when it opened in 1921 with 2,000 seats.
On June 8, 1979, the theatre was renovated and the Capitol Theatre balcony was converted into another cinema. Cinema 1 then contained 864 seats, while Cinema 2 had 426.
The Capitol Theatre closed in 1990 and was demolished in 2003.
This was important because it was the first-ever theater with a movie screen that sat many people in one area. The people who would watch these movies were upper class people with more money.

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The McCord National Museum opened at McGill University. The founder, David Ross McCord, wanted to make history accessible to everyone.
Initially opened as the McCord National Museum in 1921, it closed to the public during the Great Depression.
It reopened in McGill University’s old Student Union Building in downtown Montreal in 1971.
The museum holds an estimated 2.1 million items, including objects, images, and manuscripts.
This was the first-ever museum built and carried many interesting artifacts and items.

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Allen Sapp was an artist born on 2 January 1929 on the Red Pheasant reserve in Saskatchewan; he died on 29 December 2015 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
He moved from the Plains Cree reserve to North Battleford, Sask, in 1960 to pursue a career as a professional artist.
Sapp is widely regarded as one of Canada's foremost Aboriginal painters.
In 1989, a public gallery was opened in his name to house a significant collection of his art donated to the City of North Battleford
He was the first known indigenous painter and the art that he made gave us knowledge about the indigenous way of life and people.

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Norman Mclaren was a filmmaker and designer.
He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation, and graphical sound.
His awards included an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival for Rythmetic, and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.
Norman developed a new way to film and use art to create entertainment. This new innovation was very profitable and made him a lot of money.

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The Mc Cord Museum opened in 1921 which was then closed cause of the great depression. The consequence of the museum closing down was that all of the items that they had wouldn’t have been available to the public. Which would leave the museum without any funding to keep it running. A lot of people would learn and study the items that they had to offer at the museum. This wouldn’t be available anymore for the public to learn about and see.

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The first-ever movie theater showed continuity because it had a screen in it. When this theater first opened it sat over 2,000 people in one room. Which for a movie theater was a lot. It was then split up into two theaters one theater with 864 seats and the other with 426 seats. This has changed a lot now. We now have digital projectors and surround sound speakers in all movie theaters. There is also some movie theater with reclining seats. They also sell popcorn, food, candy, and drinks to have while you are watching your movie.