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The Canada Games (French: Jeux du Canada) is a multi-sport event held every two years, alternating between the Canada Winter Games and the Canada Summer Games. They represent the highest level of national competition for Canadian athletes. Two separate programs are organized in order to cover the seasons of summer and winter: the Canada Summer ...
2007 Whitehorse, Yukon. 2009 Prince Edward Island 2. 2011 Halifax, Nova Scotia. 2013 Sherbrooke, Quebec. 2015 Prince George, British Columbia. 2017 Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2019 Red Deer, Alberta. 2021 Niagara Region, Ontario. 1 These provinces/territories have yet to choose the city. 2 Held across the entire province.
The Second City Detroit was a comedy theater and training center in Novi, Michigan. It was the Second City's third mainstage location in North America following the Second City Chicago and Toronto. [47] Originally established in September 1993 in downtown Detroit, [47] it relocated to a strip mall in Novi in 2005.
Snakes & Lattes is a board game café chain headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with three venues in the city and five US venues. The chain is often cited as the main inspiration for other board game cafés in the western world. [1] [2] [3] It is sometimes incorrectly called North America's first board game café, though others predate it.
In 2022, Beijing became the first city to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens (1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics), Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024 Summer Olympics), London (1908, 1948 and 2012 Summer Olympics), St. Moritz (1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics), Lake ...
Map of Pan American Games locations (host cities in red dots). Countries that have hosted one Pan Am Games are shaded green, while countries that have hosted two or more are shaded blue. The Pan American Games have been hosted by 17 cities in 11 countries. Mexico and Canada have hosted three Pan American Games each, more than any other nation.
Chicago Cubs: 5–0: Houston Astros: 23,441: Miller Park: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Houston Astros moved two of their 2008 games to Milwaukee due to the effects of Hurricane Ike. Game 1 featured the first neutral-site no-hitter, thrown by Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano. [27] [28] [29] September 15: Chicago Cubs: 6–1: Houston Astros ...
World's Columbian Exposition. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool ...