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 * ... that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences?
 * ... that the celebrated Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC?
 * ... that between 1920 and 1929 the Canadian Pacific Steamships vessel SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm bore six different names, but sailed under only four of them?
 * ... that Thomas Scott, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, organized the 95th Manitoba Grenadiers in thirteen days to put down the North-West Rebellion of 1885?
 * ... that the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television?