The Canada Memorial Foundation has its origins in a Letter to the Editor published in a British newspaper in 1988 suggesting a monument in memory of the contribution of Canadians to World War I and World War II. By 1991 the Foundation had been set up, mostly on the initiative of Canadian-British businessman Conrad Black, and the first scholarships were awarded. Canadian students were given grants to study in the UK and British students to study in Canada.
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Canadian Memorial
Unveiled by the Queen. The Canadian Memorial Foundation website has a colourf...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
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Royal Ballet School
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Thomas Arnold
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Henry Hugh Armstead
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Tower Hamlets Council
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River Tyburn
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Corporation of the City of London
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