Millennium Bureau of Canada

Millennium Bureau of Canada was a small, temporary agency of the Government of Canada, to celebrate the "millennium" during the year 2000.

The The Weather Network and MétéoMédia served as partners with the agency, as the official promoters of related activities across Canada.

The 665 projects carried out by the Millennium Bureau include:

  • Tall Ships in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Relay 2000 of the Trans Canada Trail in Hull, Quebec on September 9, 2000
  • Literacy Builders
  • Canada Remembers 2000
  • Pacific Grace Replica Schooner
  • Meewasin Valley Trail System
  • Canada Dance Festival
  • Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic Millennium Exhibit
  • The Islendingur: A Timeless Adventure in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland

The CMPP received more than 10,000 applications representing more than $1.9 billion in financial assistance for millennium projects. Since it was launched in 1998, the CMPP approved 1,745 projects representing just over $149 million in funding.

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    At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgment of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let’s talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn’t mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.
    Walter Wellesley (Red)

    I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)