... financial position of the organization as at March 31, 2011. Major Accounting Choices The MMFA made the decision to prepare its 2011 financial statements in accordance with the Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The museum follows the fund accounting method for financial statement presentation purposes. This choice was adopted in order to provide greater insight to the financial statements users. Most of ... in the next section. Current Assets Grants receivable increased from $8.9 M to $15.9 M in 2011 and represent about 65% of current assets. One important point to remem...

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Canadian-American artist Agnes Martin is best known for geometric paintings based on grid patterns. Like many of the abstract expressionists with ... Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, and Jack Youngerman, were brought together in the exhibition "Nine Artists/Coenties Slip," held at the downtown branch of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974. Although the Coenties Slip painters never constituted a formal group, they represented, in their diverse ways, a break with abstract expressionism. ... . The critic Lawrence Alloway included several of Agnes Martin's compositions in the imp...

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... Quebec. We can see Canada's own movements leading the way in new schools of artistic technique, which could be considered the first truly Canadian art as its own unique entity. The city of Montreal during the early twentieth century we see changes begin to unfold, happening at a ... it during this crucial era we can get a unique look back into the sentiment of the time. The Montreal Museum of Fine Art features a permanent exhibit on Quebec and Canadian Art. With its own wing and many works featured in an array of mediums; a vast display of everything from ... up until around 1950 (span o...

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... purposes (Brayley & Searle, 2000). Tourism is the world's largest industry. It already employs one sixteenth of the world's work force and generates annual worldwide revenue of over 2.5 trillion Canadian dollars. The tourism industry includes companies, individuals and organizations that provide travel and transportation, services, lodging and accommodation, food and beverage services, entertainment and recreation, recreation centers, camp grounds, ... was established in 1983 to enhance the educational and interpretive programs in Algonquin Park. It works under the association of the Mi...

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... purposes (Brayley & Searle, 2000). Tourism is the world's largest industry. It already employs one sixteenth of the world's work force and generates annual worldwide revenue of over 2.5 trillion Canadian dollars. The tourism industry includes companies, individuals and organizations that provide travel and transportation, services, lodging and accommodation, food and beverage services, entertainment and recreation, recreation centers, camp grounds, ... was established in 1983 to enhance the educational and interpretive programs in Algonquin Park. It works under the association of the Mi...

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... sets (just instruments) to Buckinghamshire, England. One was given to the Verney family to be put on display at the Clayden House, and the other was given to the British Museum's Department of Ethnology. Even though the west now had the capability of making gamelan music, it was a long time before the west actually heard gamelan. The instruments brought over by ... Exhibition in Amsterdam. America's first introduction to gamelan took place in 1883 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This ensemble actually left their instruments to be kept at the Field Museum in Chicago It was the ne...

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... cross country skiing in the winter. Agency Background Fort William Historical Park The provincial government declared in 1971 it would take on a project to reconstruct Old Fort William. Unfortunately, the Canadian Pacific railway combined with the surrounding industrial and residential development made it impractical and far to costly to build on the original site. The Fort was instead erected nine miles ... by a costumed character who, will introduces you to other inhabitants of the Fort. Along the way a guest would expect to run into an assortment of Ojibwa Natives, Scottish gentlemen...

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... did not matter- everyone was equal and, no pessimists were allowed. The house even incorporated a garden, which was extremely rare in the midst of war. At present the house is a museum, with the interior of the house being exactly the same of what it was during the war years of 1914-1918. As stalemate set in Generals realised not only did ... since the "race to the sea" it had seemed that the horrible attritional warfare would never end. No general seemed capable of coming up with a successful plan. Only when the Canadian General Arthur Currie and the French General Nivelle devised this...

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... resort and pleasure ground for the benefit, advantage and enjoyment of the people of the Province"(The Wildlands League (b), 2000). Algonquin Park is located on the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. It lies in a transition zone between deciduous forests found mainly in areas to the south of the park and coniferous forests typical of areas to the north (The Friends ... such as camping, canoeing and hiking. Furthermore, it has allowed for tourist programs and attractions to be established within the park such as the Algonquin Visitor Centre, the Algonquin Logging Museum and the Algonq...

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... April 1912. Many dreamed that the wreak would be found in one piece and that it could be risen back to the surface of the ocean and made it a floating museum. There were numerous suggestions of possible ways to raise the wreck, some as farfetched as filling the hull with ping pong balls to make her buoyant. Of course, this did ... bulge outwards. And so this is how the Titanic wreck now lays upon the ocean floor. Yet, her resting site is not a peaceful one. Despite attempts by the American and Canadian governments to prevent looting of the wreck, the submersible Nautile, sponsored by Am...

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