أتلتيكو مدريد

أتلتيكو مدريد

أتلتيكو مدريد (بالإسبانية: Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D.)‏ هو نادي كرة قدم إسباني تأسس في 26 أبريل 1903 ويتمركز في العاصمة الإسبانية مدريد. ينشط الفريق حالياً في الدوري الإسباني وملعبه الأساسي هو الواندا ميتروبوليتانو الذي يتسع حالياً لـ67 الف متفرج أكبر من ملعب فيسينتي كالديرون السابق ب 15 الف متفرج وملعب فيسينتي كالديرون سيتم هدمه في عام 2017 وسيلعب أتلتيكو مدريد على ملعبه الجديد واندا ميتروبوليتانو في الجولة الرابعة أمام مالقا ضمن إطار منافسات الليغا لعام 2017-18. حصل أتلتيكو مدريد على لقب الدوري الإسباني في 10 مناسبات، وعلى كأس ملك إسبانيا 10 مرات أيضًا كما أنه فاز بثنائية الدوري والكأس مرة واحدة عام 1996، و‌كأس السوبر الإسباني في مناسبتين. على الصعيد الأوروبي فاز الفريق بكأس الكؤوس الأوربية عام 1962، وكان وصيف بطل دوري أبطال أوروبا ثلاث مرات أعوام 1974 و2014 و2016، كما فاز 3 مرات بثنائية الدوري الأوروبي وكأس السوبر الأوروبية أعوام 2010 و2012 و2018. كذلك فاز أتليتيكو بلقب الدوري الأوروبي 3 مرات أعوام 2010 و2012 و2018. بينما فاز بلقب كأس الاتحاد الأوروبي للأندية أبطال الكؤوس مرة واحدة في عام 1962.

يعدّ أتليتيكو مدريد ثالث أكثر أندية كرة القدم شعبيةً في إسبانيا بعد ريال مدريد وبرشلونة. ألوان النادي عندما يلعب على أرضه هي الأحمر والأبيض المخطط للقمصان مع سروايل زرقاء اللون وقد تم استعمال هذه الألوان من عام 1911، وحالياً فشركة نايكي هي المصنع الرسمي لملابس النادي وأذربيجان هي الراعي الأساسي للفريق.

خلال تاريخ النادي عرف الأتلتيكو بعدد من الألقاب منها "لوس كولتشونيروس" أو صانعي الوسائد بسبب ألوان القميص المخططة بالأحمر والأبيض والتي تشابه ألوان الوسائد القديمة. في السبعينات عُرف النادي باسم "لوس إنديوس" أي الهنود ويقال أن سبب هذه التسمية كان تعاقدات النادي مع لاعبين كثيرين من أمريكا الجنوبية بعد رفع الحظر عن اللاعبين الأجانب. إلاّ أن هناك عدد من النظريات المضادة التي تدّعي بأنّهم سمّوا بهذا الاسم لأن ملعبهم يتخذ شكل خيمة على ضفاف النهر أو لأن الـ"لوس إنديوس"(الهنود) كانوا العدو التقليدي لـ"لوس بلانكوس"(البيض) وهو لقب غريم الأتليتيكو التاريخي ريال مدريد.

قام ثلاثة طلبة باسكيين بتأسيس النادي عام 1903، وهم غورتازار، أزتورتشا، وأبدون. وكان اسم النادي Athletic Club de Madrid (نادي مدريد الرياضي). كان جزء من أتلتيك بيلباو. في عام 1904 انضم مؤسسو النادي للأعضاء المعارضين لنادي مدريد لكرة القدم. بدأ الفريق باللعب بالزي الأزرق والأبيض، كما كان نادي أتلتيك بيلباو، ولكن في عام 1911 أصبح الفريق يلعب بنفس الزي الحالي له. استقل الفريق عن أتلتيك بيلباو في عام 1923، وتم بناء ملعب خاص بالنادي. كان الفريق من أوائل من لعب بالدوري الإسباني. في 1939 دمج النادي مع أفياسيون ناسيونال من سرقسطة وتم تغيير اسم النادي إلى أتلتيك أفياسيون مدريد. تأسس أفياسيون ناسيونال في 1939 بواسطة القوة الجوية الإسبانية. في 1947 تم تغيير اسم النادي إلى مسماه الحالي وهو أتلتيكو مدريد.

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Washington Redskins

Washington Redskins

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Redskins compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the NFC East. The team plays its home games at FedExField in Landover, Maryland; its headquarters and training facility are at Inova Sports Performance Center at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia, and the Redskins Complex in Richmond, Virginia, respectively. 

The Redskins have played more than 1,000 games since their founding in 1932, and are one of only five franchises in the NFL to record over 600 regular season and postseason wins, reaching that mark in 2015.  The Redskins have won five NFL Championships (the latter three in Super Bowls), and have captured 14 divisional titles and five conference championships.   The Redskins were the first NFL franchise with an official marching band and the first with a fight song, "Hail to the Redskins". 

The team began play in Boston, as the Braves in 1932, and changed its name to "Redskins" the following year. In 1937, the team relocated to Washington, D.C., where they have been based since.  The Redskins won the 1937 and 1942 NFL championship games as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI. They have been league runner-up six times, losing the 1936, 1940, 1943, and 1945 title games, and Super Bowls VII and XVIII. With 24 postseason appearances, the Redskins have an overall postseason record of 23–18. Their three Super Bowl wins are tied with the Las Vegas Raiders and Denver Broncos, behind the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots (six each), San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys (five each), and the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants (four each). 

All of the Redskins' league titles were attained during two 10-year spans. From 1936 to 1945, the Redskins went to the NFL Championship six times, winning two of them. The second period lasted between 1982 and 1991 where the Redskins appeared in the postseason seven times, captured four Conference titles, and won three Super Bowls out of four appearances. The Redskins have also experienced failure in their history. The most notable period of general failure was from 1946 to 1970, during which the Redskins posted only four winning seasons and did not have a single postseason appearance.  During this period, the Redskins went without a single winning season during the years 1956–1968.  In 1961, the franchise posted their worst regular season record with a 1–12–1 showing.  Since their last Super Bowl victory following the end of the 1991 season, the Redskins have only won the NFC East three times with just nine seasons with a winning record. In those, the team only made the postseason in six of them.

According to Forbes, the Redskins are the fifth most valuable franchise in the NFL, and the 14th most valuable sports franchise in the world as of 2019, valued at approximately US$3.1 billion.  They also set the NFL record for single-season attendance in 2007, and have the top ten single-season attendance totals in the NFL.  The team's name and logo have drawn controversy over its history, with many criticizing it as offensive to Native Americans.

The team originated as the Boston Braves, based in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall.  At the time the team played in Braves Field, home of the Boston Braves baseball team in the National League. The following year, the club moved to Fenway Park, home of the American League's Boston Red Sox, whereupon owners changed the team's name to "Boston Redskins"; to round out the change, Marshall hired William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz, who was thought to be part Sioux, as the team's head coach.  However, the team had difficulty drawing fans as Boston was not much of a football town at the time. 

The Redskins relocated south from New England after five years to the national capital of Washington, D.C. in 1937. Through 1960, the Redskins shared baseball's Griffith Stadium with the first Washington Senators baseball team of the American League. In their first game in Washington, the Redskins defeated the New York Giants in the season opener, 13–3.  That same season, they earned their first division title in Washington with a 49–14 win over the Giants.  Shortly after, the team won their first league championship, defeating the Chicago Bears.  In 1940, the Redskins met the Bears again in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.  The result, 73–0 in favor of the Bears, remains the worst one-sided loss in NFL history.  The other big loss for the Redskins that season occurred in September during the coin toss prior to the Giants game. After calling the coin toss and shaking hands with the opposing team captain, lineman Turk Edwards attempted to pivot around to head back to his sideline. However, his cleats caught in the grass and his knee gave way, injuring him and bringing his season and hall of fame career to an unusual end

In what became an early rivalry in the NFL, the Redskins and Bears met two more times in the NFL Championship Game. The third time in 1942, where the Redskins won their second championship, 14–6.  The final time the two met was the 1943, which the Bears won 41–21.  The most notable accomplishment achieved during the Redskins' 1943 season was Sammy Baugh leading the NFL in passing, punting, and interceptions. 

The Redskins played in the NFL Championship one more time before a quarter-century drought that did not end until the 1972 season. With former Olympic gold medalist Dudley DeGroot as their new head coach, the Redskins went 8–2 during the 1945 season. One of the most impressive performances came from Baugh, who had a completion percentage of .703.  They ended the season by losing to the Cleveland Rams in the 1945 NFL Championship Game, 15–14. The one-point margin of victory came under scrutiny because of a safety that occurred early in the game. In the first quarter, the Redskins had the ball at their own 5-yard line. Dropping back into the end zone, quarterback Baugh threw to an open receiver, but the ball hit the goal post (which at the time was on the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone) and bounced back to the ground in the end zone. Under the rules at the time, this was ruled as a safety and thus gave the Rams a 2–0 lead. It was that safety that proved to be the margin of victory. Owner Marshall was so mad at the outcome that he became a major force in passing the following major rule change after the season: A forward pass that strikes the goal posts is automatically ruled incomplete. This later became known as the "Baugh/Marshall Rule"

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins

حبيب نورمحمدوف

حبيب نورمحمدوف

حبيب نورمحمدوف (20 سبتمبر 1988 - ) (بالروسية: Хабиб Абдулманапович Нурмагомедов)، (بالإنجليزية: Khabib Nurmagomedov)‏ هو لاعب روسي محترف في الفنون القتالية المختلطة، ولد في منطقة داغستان الروسية. بطل العالم مرتين في قتال السامبو وبطل العالم للوزن الخفيف في بطولة القتال النهائي (UFC)، في سجله 28 انتصار بدون أي خسارة، وبذلك يعتبر صاحب أطول سلسلة انتصارات (متواصلة) في الفنون القتالية المختلطة (MMA)، وهو أول روسي يفوز بلقب UFC.  واعتبارًا من 8 أكتوبر 2018، أصبح يحتل المرتبة الثانية في الترتيب الرسمي لبطولة القتال النهائي UFC (بالإنجليزية: Ultimate Fighting Championship).

ولد حبيب عبد المنعم نورمحمدوف في قرية سليدي في منطقة تسومادينسكي من داغستان، وهي جمهورية ذاتية الحكم داخل روسيا، تابعة للاتحاد السوفياتي، ثم انتقل إلى عاصمة دولة داغستان في روسيا ماخاشكالا في طفولته. ثم انتقل لفترة قصيرة في سنواته الأقدم إلى كييف، أوكرانيا، حيث تدرب في كومبات دوربو، وهو الثاني من بين ثلاثة أطفال، بما في ذلك الأخ الأكبر ماغوميد وأخته الصغرى أمينة ثم انتقلت عائلة والده من سيلدي منطقة تسومادنسكي، إلى كيروفول، حيث قام والده بتحويل الطابق الأرضي من المبنى المكون من طابقين إلى صالة رياضية. نشأ نورماغوميدوف في المنزل مع إخوته وأقاربه.  وبدأ اهتمامه بفنون القتال عند مشاهدة الطلاب يتدربون في صالة الألعاب الرياضية.

كما هو الحال مع العديد من الأطفال في داغستان، بدأ المصارعة من سن مبكرة: بدأ في سن الثامنة تحت وصاية والده عبد المنعم نورماغوميدوف. وهو رياضي مزين وخبير في الجيش، كان والده قد تصارع أيضا من سن مبكرة، قبل أن يتدرب في الجودو والسامبو في الجيش. وشمل تدريب حبيب نورمحمدوف في طفولته مصارعة دب، في الوقت الذي كان عمره تسع سنوات في عام 1997.

في عام 2001 ، انتقلت عائلته إلى محج قلعة (ماشكلا) ، حيث تدرب في المصارعة في سن ال 12 ، والجودو من سن 15 عامًا. بدأ التدريب في لعبة السامبو القتالية مرة أخرى في عمر 17 عامًا تحت والده. ووفقًا لنورماغوميدوف، كان الانتقال من المصارعة إلى الجودو أمرًا صعبًا، ولكن والده أراد منه الاعتياد على المنافسة في سترة جكية .  عبد المنعم هو حاليا مدرب كبير لفريق قتال سامبو الوطني في جمهورية داغستان، حيث يقوم بتدريب العديد من الرياضيين في سامبو والمصارعة في ماخاتشكالا، روسيا. وكان نورماغوميدوف يدخل في كثير من الأحيان في معارك شوارع في شبابه، قبل أن يركز انتباهه على فنون القتال المختلطة.

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Khabib

Khabib

Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov (Avar: ХIабиб ГӀабдулманапил НурмухӀамадов; Russian: Хабиб Абдулманапович Нурмагомедов, [xɐˈbip ɐbˌdʊlmɐˈnapəvɪt͡ɕ nʊrmɐɡɐˈmʲɛdəf]; born 20 September 1988) is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. He is a two-time Combat Sambo World Champion and the reigning UFC Lightweight Champion. With 28 wins and no losses, he holds the longest active undefeated streak in MMA.  As of March 17, 2020, he is #2 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings. 

An ethnic Avar hailing from the Dagestan region of Russia, Nurmagomedov is the first Muslim to win a UFC title.  In 2018, his headline bout with Conor McGregor at UFC 229 drew 2.4 million pay-per-view buys, the most ever for an MMA event. Trained in sambo, judo, and wrestling, Nurmagomedov's style of grappling has made him one of the most dominant athletes in the history of MMA.  As of September 2019, he is the most followed Russian celebrity on Instagram. 

Khabib Nurmagomedov was born on 20 September 1988, in the village of Sildi in Tsumadinsky District of the Dagestan ASSR, an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union,    before moving to Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in his childhood. The second of three children, he has an older brother, Magomed, and younger sister, Amina.  His father's family had moved from Sildi, Tsumadinsky District, to Kirovaul, where his father converted the ground floor of their two-storey building into a gym. Nurmagomedov grew up in the household with his siblings and cousins.  His interest in martial arts began when watching students training at the gym. 

As is common with many children in Dagestan, he began wrestling from an early age: he started at the age of eight under the tutelage of his father Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov.  A decorated athlete and a veteran of the Army, his father had also wrestled from an early age, before undergoing training in judo and sambo in the military.  Khabib's training as a child included wrestling a bear when he was nine years old. 

In 2001, his family moved to Machachkala,  where he trained in wrestling from the age of 12, and judo from 15. He resumed training in combat sambo, under his father, at 17.  According to Nurmagomedov, the transition from wrestling to judo was difficult, but his father wanted him to get used to competing in a gi jacket.  Abdulmanap is currently a senior coach for the combat sambo national team in the Republic of Dagestan, training several athletes in sambo in Makhachkala, Russia.  Nurmagomedov frequently got into street fights in his youth, before focusing his attention on mixed martial arts.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabib_Nurmagomedov

Revelstoke

Revelstoke

Revelstoke (/ˈrɛvəlstoʊk/) is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, with a census population of 6,719 in 2016. By 2019, using smartphone data from Telus Insights, the community reported 14,570 actual residents in December 2018; the city's population is known to fluctuate according to seasons.  Revelstoke is located 641 kilometres (398 mi) east of Vancouver, and 415 kilometres (258 mi) west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River. East of Revelstoke are the Selkirk Mountains and Glacier National Park, penetrated by Rogers Pass used by the Trans-Canada Highway and the Canadian Pacific Railway. South of the community down the Columbia River are the Arrow Lakes, Mount Begbie, and the Kootenays. West of the city is Eagle Pass through the Monashee Mountains and the route to Shuswap Lake.

Revelstoke was founded in the 1880s when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was built through the area; mining was an important early industry. The name was originally Farwell, after a local land owner and surveyor. In yet earlier days, the spot was called the Second Crossing, to differentiate it from the first crossing of the Columbia River by the Canadian Pacific Railway at Donald. The city was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway in appreciation of Lord Revelstoke, head of Baring Brothers & Co., the UK investment bank that, in partnership with Glyn, Mills & Co., saved the Canadian Pacific Railway from bankruptcy in the summer of 1885 by buying the company's unsold bonds, enabling the railway to reach completion.

The construction of the Trans-Canada Highway in 1962 further eased access to the region, and since then tourism has been an important feature of the local economy, with skiing having emerged as the most prominent attraction. Mount Revelstoke National Park is just north of the town. The construction of Revelstoke Mountain Resort, a major new ski resort on Mount MacKenzie, just outside town, has been underway since late 2005, and first opened during the 2007-2008 ski season. Revelstoke is also the site of a railway museum.

Revelstoke is situated in prime black bear and grizzly bear habitat. In 1994 the Revelstoke garbage dump was fenced with an electric fence excluding bears from feeding on the garbage. The population of bears that had been feeding at the dump turned to town to forage for food and many were destroyed as 'nuisance bears'. The destruction of so many bears led to the creation of an education program meant to keep bears wild and the community safe.

Revelstoke holds the Canadian record for snowiest single winter. 2,447 centimetres (963 in) of snow fell on Mt. Copeland outside town during the winter of 1971–72. That works out to just over 80 feet (24 m) of snow. The townsite received 779 centimetres (307 in) and snow levels were higher than many roofs around town by more than a few metres

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelstoke,_British_Columbia

WE Charity

WE Charity

We Charity (stylized as WE Charity), formerly known as Free the Children, is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. The organization implements development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity. It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada, the U.S. and U.K., promoting service learning and active citizenship. 

This includes WE Day, a series of large-scale motivational events held in 17 cities throughout the school year.

We Charity promotes a philosophy of socially conscious living, embodied in the phrase "ME to WE" – the title of a 2004 book by Craig and Marc Kielburger.  That brand theme "we" is reflected in the organization's programs such as its WE Day events, launched in 2007,  leading up to an updated branding of "We Charity" in early 2015.

The organization has received high ratings from independent third-party charitable sector evaluators including Charity Navigator,  and Charity Intelligence Canada  GuideStar, 

WE Charity (formerly Free the Children) was founded in 1995 by Craig Kielburger when he was 12 years old. Craig says he was reading through the Toronto Star newspaper before school one day when he came across an article about the murder of a 12-year-old Pakistani boy named Iqbal Masih, a former child factory worker in Pakistan’s carpet trade who had spoken out against child labour.  However, both local police and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan determined that Masih's murder was unconnected to his anti-child labour activism and the carpet industry.  There are also reports that Masih was 19 and not 12 at the time.  

One of the group's first actions was to collect 3,000 signatures on a petition to the prime minister of India, calling for the release of imprisoned child labour activist Kailash Satyarthi.  The petition was sent in a shoe box wrapped in brown paper. On his eventual release, Satyarthi said, "It was one of the most powerful actions taken on my behalf, and for me, definitely the most memorable." 

Shortly afterward, Kielburger spoke at the convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour, where union representatives pledged $150,000 for a rehabilitation centre in India. The Bal Ashram centre was built by Satyarthi.

In December 1995, Kielburger embarked on an eight-week tour of South Asia to meet child labourers and hear their stories first-hand. It was on that trip that Kielburger had a meeting with then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, in which Kielburger convinced Chrétien to take a public stand against child slavery. 

In 1999, at the age of 16, Kielburger wrote Free the Children, a book detailing his trip to South Asia four years earlier and the founding of his charity. 

Free the Children initially fundraised for organizations that raided factories and freed children from forced labour situations. When it became clear that the rescued children were being resold by their impoverished families, the organization changed its approach. Free the Children started building schools in Nicaragua, Kenya, Ecuador and India.  The organization later evolved an international development model with projects related to education, water, health care, food security and income generation. 

In 2007, at age 25, Craig Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada.  the second-youngest Canadian ever to receive the honour. His brother Marc Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2010. 

In 2008, EY and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, presented the Social Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Canada to the Kielburgers for their work with Free the Children. 

In 2016, Free the Children rebranded as WE Charity. The charity runs domestic programs for young people in Canada, the US and the UK, and international development programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

In September 2017, WE Charity moved to a new headquarters in downtown Toronto, Canada. Named the “WE Global Learning Centre”, it provides office space for staff and features technology-enabled facilities for use by public groups such as educators, school groups, and youth wishing to start non-profits or social enterprises.  The official opening of the WE Global Learning Centre on September 27, 2017 was attended by international figures including former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, and actor and activist Mia Farrow.  The Centre features a theatre, broadcast studio, and an open concept design. WE Charity is also looking to integrate its new headquarters into the Toronto Corktown community by offering programming and outreach projects to residents.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Charity

Wasaga Beach

Wasaga Beach

Wasaga Beach (variant: Wasaga) is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Situated along the longest freshwater beach in the world,  it is a popular summer tourist destination. It is located along the southern end of Georgian Bay, approximately two hours north of Toronto. To the west, Collingwood and The Blue Mountains also attract visitors much of the year. The town is situated along a very long sandy beach on Nottawasaga Bay in Georgian Bay and the winding Nottawasaga River. The beaches are part of the Wasaga Beach Provincial Park; the park area totals 168 hectares (415 acres).  Wasaga Beach also has many seasonal residents.

The economy has struggled for some years, particularly since a major fire in late November 2007 destroyed many of the stores, and due to a reduction in the number of tourists in an area where the primary shopping season is three to four months per year.  In March 2017, the town passed its Downtown Development Master Plan, a 20-year strategy for significant redevelopment of the tourist area and adding a downtown to the business area. The goal is to improve tourism, diversify the economy, and rid itself of the "party town" image. 

Wasaga Beach and the surrounding area was inhabited by the Huron (Wyandot) people for centuries before they were dispersed in 1650 by the French-allied Algonquin people. The word Nottawasaga is of Algonquin origin. Nottawa means "Iroquois" and saga means "mouth of the river"; the word "Nottawasaga" was used by Algonquin scouts as a warning if they saw Iroquois raiding parties approaching their villages. 

In the early 1800s, Upper Canada was drawn into a struggle between Great Britain and the United States. Wasaga Beach evolved into a strategic location in the War of 1812 when the schooner HMS Nancy was sunk at her moorings in an effort by the Americans to cut the supply line to Fort Michilimackinac and points to the north and west.  Lumbering was the main industry for the remainder of the 19th century. Logs crowded the river and the bay, floating down to feed local saw mills. 

Wasaga Beach's unsuitable sandy soil contributed to the late European settlement of the area, as the lack of suitable farming land made it unattractive to settlers. In the 1820s the first sign of settlement in the area began as John Goessman surveyed Flos Township. In 1826, land was being sold for four shillings an acre. Though unsuitable for farming, the Wasaga Beach area had an abundance of trees. In the late 1830s and throughout the rest of the century the logging industry would play an important role in the development of the area. 

During the 1900s, families began to discover the beauty of the area and the beach gradually became a place for family picnics and holidays during the summer months. During the 1940s, while stationed at a nearby military base, servicemen from across Canada visited Wasaga Beach's amusement park, and they made Wasaga Beach known across the country. After the war, Wasaga Beach continued to be a popular place for cottages and day trips, beginning the century-old tradition of city dwellers travelling to the beach in the summer.

Wasaga Beach entered history's headlines in 1934 when the first overseas flight from mainland Canada, across the Atlantic to England and in a plane called the "Trail of the Caribou", used Wasaga Beach's long flat sandy beach as a take off strip. 

The town was originally referred to as "the northern border of Flos Sunnidale and Nottawasaga Townships". The first municipal reference occurred when a designation of Local Improvement District emerged in 1947. In 1949, Wasaga Beach progressed to the status of a police village in the Township of Sunnidale, and graduated to incorporated village status in 1951.

The incorporation of the Town of Wasaga Beach became effective January 1, 1974. The permanent population stood at 4,034, a dramatic increase from 1965, when only 500 people called Wasaga Beach home. Today the town has 20,665 full-time residents and 16,000 seasonal and part-time residents

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