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Redpath Museum, the Glossary

The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located on the university's campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1]

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Anaconda

Anacondas or water boas are a group of large boas of the genus Eunectes.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, and of Glencoe in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Burgess Shale

The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Heritage Information Network

The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN; label, RCIP) is a special operating agency within the federal Department of Canadian Heritage that provides a networked interface to Canada's heritage institutions.

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Canadian Museums Association

The Canadian Museums Association (CMA; Association des musées canadiens, AMC), is a national non-profit organization for the promotion of museums in Canada.

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Carolina parakeet

The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), or Carolina conure, is an extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face, and pale beak that was native to the Eastern, Midwest, and Plains states of the United States.

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Charles Palache

Charles Palache (July 18, 1869 – December 5, 1954) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer.

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Claudiosaurus

Claudiosaurus (claudus is Latin for 'lameness' and saurus means 'lizard') is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar.

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Dendrerpeton

Dendrerpeton (from δένδρον, 'tree' and ἑρπετόν, 'creeping thing') is a genus of an extinct group of temnospondyl amphibians.

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Digital Museums Canada

Digital Museums Canada (DMC;, MNC) is a funding program in Canada "dedicated to online projects by the museum and heritage community," helping organizations to build digital capacity.

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Ethnology

Ethnology (from the ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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George Barnston

George Barnston (1800 – 14 March 1883) was a fur trader and a naturalist born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Gorgosaurus

Gorgosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago.

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Greek Revival architecture

Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821.

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Green Line (Montreal Metro)

The Green Line (Ligne verte), also known as Line 1 (Ligne 1), is one of the four lines of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan

Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (July 18, 1848 – January 28, 1938), known as Sir Hugh Graham between 1908 and May 1917, was a Canadian newspaper publisher.

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John William Dawson

Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.

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Labrador duck

The Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius) is an extinct North American duck species.

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Limnoscelis

Limnoscelis (/limˈnäsələ̇s/, meaning "marsh footed") was a genus of large diadectomorph tetrapods from the Late Carboniferous to early Permian of western North America.

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Marrella

Marrella is an extinct genus of marrellomorph arthropod known from the Middle Cambrian of North America and Asia.

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McCord Stewart Museum

The McCord Stewart Museum, formerly known as the McCord Museum of Canadian History, is a public research and teaching museum. Redpath Museum and McCord Stewart Museum are museums in Montreal.

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McGill station (Montreal Metro)

McGill station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in the downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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McGill University

McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Mineralogy

Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Montreal Metro

The Montreal Metro (Métro de Montréal) is a rubber-tired underground rapid transit system serving Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Natural History Society of Montreal

The Natural History Society of Montreal, which ran from 1827 to 1928, was the oldest scientific organisation in Canada, and one of the oldest in North America.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Pallache (surname)

(Previously, this page expanded into a family history–now in separate entry: q.v. "Pallache family.") The Pallache (see Pallache family for many spellings of name) are a Sephardic Jewish family who originated on the Iberian Peninsula, spread into diaspora in the late 15th Century into Europe and the Arab world, and have since experienced further diaspora and moved further afield.

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Peel station (Montreal Metro)

Peel station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Peter Redpath

Peter Redpath (August 1, 1821 – February 1, 1894) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist, closely associated with Redpath Sugar. Redpath Museum and Peter Redpath are Redpath family.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Redpath Hall

Redpath Hall is a historic building at 3461 McTavish Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the main campus of McGill University. Redpath Museum and Redpath Hall are McGill University buildings and Redpath family.

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Redpath Sugar Refinery

The Redpath Sugar Refinery is a sugar storage, refining and museum complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Redpath Museum and Redpath Sugar Refinery are Redpath family.

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Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Redpath Museum and Royal Ontario Museum are Egyptological collections in Canada.

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Scallop

Scallop is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.

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Sherbrooke Street

Sherbrooke Street (officially in rue Sherbrooke) is a major east–west artery and at in length, is the second longest street on the Island of Montreal, Canada.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redpath_Museum

, Scallop, Sherbrooke Street, Smithsonian Institution, South America, T. H. Clark, Victorian architecture, Walter Frederick Ferrier.

Redpath Museum, the Glossary

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See also

Egyptological collections in Canada

First Nations museums in Canada

Greek Revival architecture in Canada

McGill University buildings

Museums established in 1882

Museums in Montreal

Natural history museums in Quebec

Redpath family

University museums in Canada

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