Alouette 1 was Canada's first satellite, launched September 29, 1962.🧵
It made Canada the third country in the world to design and build its own satellite, after the Soviet Union and the United States
Designed for a one-year life, it kept working for about ten years before being switched off in 1972
Its long, tube-like STEM antennas (a Canadian invention that unrolled from a coil like a carpenter's tape measure) became a widely copied piece of spacecraft technology.
The round white ceramic sockets with holes in the centre are vacuum tube sockets
Alouette 1 was designed at the very end of the tube era and used a mix of vacuum tubes and early transistors
If you know someone - someone in Constitutional Law perhaps?
Here is an 1858 Proclamation that declares all of the land in British Columbia under dominion of Queen Victoria, and essentially wipes any previous proclamations/acts
Going to post each for the scholars
I wonder if this was cited in the Cowichan case, or any case for that matter?
Should it be determined that the Crown does not hold Title to all lands in Canada, its Citizens will launch the largest Class Action in the history of humanity
The Defendants will be the Crown, non-treaty First Nations, and others
Kamloops Residential School
Death of Pupils 1935-1945
Lets look through them all, it won't take long
Before we get started lets establish a baseline
The mortality rate of school children was much higher in the 1930's than today
1935-1945, the average mortality rate of non indigenous CDN school children was 2.5-3 per 1,000, per year
In the 1930's the Kamloops Residential School population was just over 300 students
This 1934 letter details Indian Affairs ensuring they had enough dairy cattle, barns, and bulls, to provide each student over 2 quarts of fresh milk every day