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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is a discredited former British doctor who became an anti-vaccine activist. He was a gastroenterologist until he was struck off the UK medical register for unethical behaviour, misconduct and fraud. In 1998 he authored a fraudulent research paper claiming that there was a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and autism and bowel disease.After the publication of the paper, other researchers were unable to reproduce Wakefield's findings or confirm his hypothesis of an association between the MMR vaccine and autism, or autism and gastrointestinal disease. A 2004 investigation by Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer iden...
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  • 1. Wakefield Covered Bridge Wakefield
    Wakefield is one of many villages of the Municipality La Pêche, with the village centre on the western shore of the Gatineau River, at the confluence of the La Pêche River in the Outaouais region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is thirty-five kilometres northwest of Ottawa, Ontario. The village, named after the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, is now the southern edge of the municipality of La Pêche, and was founded in 1830 by Irish, Scottish, and English immigrants. Wakefield is approximately a twenty-five-minute drive north of the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge that divides Gatineau and Ottawa , along the Autoroute 5, a modern four lane divided highway which has recently been extended to the village. Wakefield is unique in that it is a primarily Anglophone town in a pri...
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  • 3. Edelweiss Wakefield
    Sommet Edelweiss is a ski area located in Wakefield, Quebec, 30 minutes north of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the Gatineau Hills.
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  • 4. Vorlage Ski Area Wakefield
    Vorlage is a ski hill located at the village of Wakefield, within the municipality of La Pêche, Quebec, in the Gatineau Hills north of Ottawa, Ontario. It consists of 18 runs, 13 of which have night skiing. It was opened in 1941 and has a terrain park.
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  • 7. Omega Park Montebello
    Parc Omega is a safari park in Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Quebec, Canada . Along a 12-kilometre nature route are lakes, meadows, small valleys, forests, and rocky hills. It is home to many wildlife species including beaver, elk, raccoon, timber wolf, coyote, muskox, deer, turtle, boar, red fox, Alpine ibex, caribou, black bear, moose, wild turkey, and bison. During the summer there are shows featuring birds of prey especially bald eagles. The site also has a restaurant with a panoramic view. The park is open daily, year round. The park is a drive-through experience, meaning visitors stay in their cars and drive through the park on a winding trail. They also offer three walking trails, playgrounds and picnic areas. The park runs two low-power FM radios stations that provide guidance and dire...
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  • 8. Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum Carp
    Emergency Government Headquarters is the name given for a system of nuclear fallout shelters built by the Government of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s as part of continuity of government planning at the height of the Cold War. Situated at strategic locations across the country, the largest of these shelters are popularly referred to as Diefenbunkers, a nickname coined by federal opposition politicians during the early 1960s. The nickname was derived from the last name of the Prime Minister of the day, John Diefenbaker, who authorized their construction. Over fifty facilities were built along several designs for various classes of service. Most of these facilities were built, often in great secrecy, at rural locations outside major cities across Canada. The majority of the larger facilities ...
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  • 9. Upper Canada Village Morrisburg
    Upper Canada Village is a heritage park near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada.
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  • 10. Stewart Park Perth
    This is a list of all astronomers who are credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets. A second table lists all institutional discoverers of minor planets such as observatories and surveys . As of October 2018, the MPC credits a total of 523,800 numbered minor planets to 1018 astronomers and 235 institutional discoverers , respectively. For a detailed description of the table's content, see § Notes.
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