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Gillingham F.C. is an English football club based in Gillingham, Kent. The club was formed in 1893, and
played in the Southern League until 1920, when its top division was absorbed into the Football League as its
new Division Three. The club was voted out of the league in favour of Ipswich Town at the end of the 1937–
38 season, but returned 12 years later, when that league was expanded from 88 to 92 clubs. Twice in the late
1980s Gillingham came close to winning promotion to the second tier of English football, but a decline set
in, and in 1993 the club narrowly avoided relegation to the Football Conference. In 2000, the "Gills" reached
the second tier of the English league for the first time in the club's history and went on to spend five seasons
at this level, achieving a club-record highest league finish of eleventh place in 2002–03. The club has twice
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won the fourth-level division in the football league pyramid: the Football League Fourth
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Banff National Park

Canada's National Parks are protected areas under the Canada National Parks Act, owned by
the Government of Canada and administered for the benefit, education and enjoyment of the people
of Canada and its future generations. National parks are administered by Parks Canada, a Crown
agencyoperating under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. Canada's
first national park was created in 1885 through an Order-in-Council to reserve 26 km2 (10 sq mi) over
the Cave and Basin Hot Springs to prevent the land from being sold for private development despite
claims being made for it. Modeled after the American experience with Yellowstone National Park,
the Rocky Mountains Park Act, adopted in 1887, established the Rocky Mountains Park (now Banff
National Park (pictured)). As of 2018 there are 39 National Parks and eight National Park Reserves,
covering an area of approximately 328,198 km2 (126,718 sq mi), or about 3.3% of the total land area
of Canada, and representing 30 of the country's 39 natural regions. (Full list...)
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