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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2939. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Canada is big (second only to Russia in area) and sparsely populated (30 million). These facts, as trite as they are, do explain a lot about the country, even its scientific endeavors. Almost all astronomy carried out in Canada during centuries of exploration prior to 1900 was connected with surveying and time-keeping. Even the efforts by Sandford Fleming to introduce worldwide time zones in the ...

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