* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

In their 1999 study of the Prime Ministers of Canada, which included the results of a survey of Canadian historians, J. L.

* 1920 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, Governor of the Bank of Canada ( d. 2004 )

* 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

* 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

Also, the court pointed out that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other Commonwealth realms that share the Crown would first have to be sought if Canada wished to continue its relationship with these countries.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

* 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1991 )

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

Unlike in the United States, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Industry Canada have not set any requirement for maintaining AMPS service in Canada.

The Canadian census is run by Statistics Canada.

For the 2006 Census of Canada, respondents were able, for the first time, to choose to complete their census questionnaire online.

As of the 2011 census the population was 6, 699, an increase of 8. 3 percent from the 2006 census ; it has the lowest population of any capital city in Canada.

In Canada, there is a significant Polish Canadian population: there are 242, 885 speakers of Polish according to the 2006 census, with a particular concentration in Toronto ( 91, 810 speakers ).

The Québécois self-identify as an ethnic group in both the English and French versions of the Canadian census and in demographic studies of ethnicity in Canada.

Canada is an urbanized nation where over 80 % of the population live in urban areas ( loosely defined ), and roughly two-thirds live in one of Canada's 33 census metropolitan areas ( CMAs ) with a population of over 100, 000.

* Religion, 2001 census, Canada

While the 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17, 480, the latest membership statistics from the Canadian Unitarian Council show as of September 1, 2007 they had 5, 150 " official " members.

Nowadays Michif is spoken in scattered Métis communities in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada and in North Dakota in the U. S. There are some 230 speakers of Mitchif in the United States ( down from 390 at the 1990 census ), most of whom live in North Dakota, particularly in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.

The census showed a population count of 3, 215 Acadians and habitants in the administrative districts of Acadia and Canada ( New France ).

Statistics Canada classifies Sydney as a medium population centre which for census purposes includes the neighbouring communities of Westmount, a significant portion of Sydney River, and a other portions of the former Cape Breton County.

Although the census information for 2000 is not yet available, 1991 census data reveal that UK immigrants constituted 30. 6 % of the immigrant population ; U. S., 19. 9 %; Canada, 10. 5 %; and Portugal and the Azores, 13. 5 %.

2011 census figures for metropolitan areas in Atlantic Canada.

Winsor's exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867.

According to the Government of Canada 2006 census, 94. 2 % of the population were Caucasian ; of the visible minorities, 1. 7 % were Chinese, 1. 2 % were South Asian, and 0. 8 % were black.

The population was 1, 225 at the 2000 census: 80 percent are habitual speakers of French, aided by its proximity to French-speaking Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada.

Essex County is the southern-most county and census division in Canada located in Southwestern Ontario.

Essex County has a population of 177, 891, and the census division including Windsor has a population of 388, 782 as of the Canada 2011 Census.

The former city of Chicoutimi had a population of 60, 008 in the Canada 2001 Census, the last census in which Chicoutimi was counted as a separate city.

In addition to conducting about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life, Statistics Canada undertakes a country-wide census every five years on the first and sixth year of each decade.

Statistics Canada publishes numerous documents covering a range of statistical information about Canada, including census data, economic and health indicators, immigration economics, income distribution, and social and justice conditions.

The former city of Jonquière had a population of 54, 842 in the Canada 2001 Census, the last census in which Jonquiére was counted as a separate city.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

Statistics Canada in 2001 reported a " religion " total of 145, 525 for Cape Breton, including 5, 245 with " no religious affiliation.

Buddhists are a tiny minority ( 105 in 2001, according to Statistics Canada ), although Gampo Abbey in Pleasant Bay has been operational since 1984.

It is quite evident in the words of this statement, which was adopted by the attendees of the 2001 youth conference held at the Unitarian Church of Montreal: " We the youth of Canada are deeply concerned about the direction the CUC seems to be taking.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

In 2001, the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge was absorbed into the much larger Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, which is a cooperative effort between the United States and Canada to preserve the area as an ecological refuge.

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks prompted Canada to re-evaluate its policies toward Afghanistan.

In April 2001, Prime Minister Patterson and other Caribbean leaders met with President George W. Bush during the Summit of the Americas in Quebec, Canada, at which a " Third Border Initiative " was launched to deepen U. S. cooperation with Caribbean nations and enhance economic development and integration of the Caribbean nations.

The United Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the DPRK on December 13, 2000, as did Canada in February 2001 followed by Germany and New Zealand on March 1, 2001.

On December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to Newfoundland and Labrador.

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

In the 2001 Census of Canada, 98, 670 Canadians, or just over 1 % of the population of Quebec identified " Québécois " as their ethnicity, ranking " Québécois " as the 37th most common response .< ref >

A 2001 book by Quebec nationalist writer Normand Lester, Le Livre noir du Canada anglais ( later translated as The Black Book of English Canada ) accused Bennett of having a political affiliation with, and of having provided financial support to, fascist Quebec writer Adrien Arcand.

This contains articles corresponding to talks presented at the annual conventions of the Mars Society in Boulder in 1999, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2000, and at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in 2001.

Recent television espionage programmes are La Femme Nikita ( 1997 – 2001 ), Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ), 24 ( 2001-2010 ), NBC's Chuck ( 2007-present ), and Spooks in the UK ( release as MI-5 in the USA and Canada ) 2002-2011.

With the unprecedented implementation of Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids ( SCATANA ) plan, all civilian airplane traffic in the United States and Canada was grounded until September 13, 2001.

* Swinglehurst, Edmund: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Thunder Bay Press, Canada, 2001, ISBN 1-57145-269-9 ( NOTE: the illustration of The Roses of Heliogabalus in this book is printed the wrong way round!

** War in Afghanistan ( 2001 – present ) – In 2001, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia invaded Afghanistan seeking to oust the Taliban and find al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.