Canadian stock exchanges have a particular focus on mining companies, particularly junior exploration companies through the TSX Venture Exchange ; Canadian companies raise capital on these exchanges and then invest the money in exploration globally.

Gretzky made his first international appearance as a member of the Canadian national junior team at the 1978 World Junior Championships in Montreal, Quebec.

* Burlington Braves, a Canadian junior football league team

* Burlington Chiefs, a Canadian junior " A " box lacrosse team

She became Canadian junior champion in the sport in 1987.

In 2009, a junior member of the Hall was elected Rhodes Scholar by the Canadian Rhodes Foundation for 2010 – 2011.

The Bourse de Montréal / Montreal Exchange assumed responsibility for the trading of derivatives and the Vancouver Stock Exchange and Alberta Stock Exchange merged to form the Canadian Venture Exchange ( CDNX ) handling trading in junior equities.

The Canadian Hockey League is an umbrella organization that represents the three Canadian-based major junior ice hockey leagues for players 16 to 20 years of age.

The WHL is one of three leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League ( CHL ) as the highest level of junior hockey in Canada.

Originally considered an " outlaw league " by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, the WHL was sanctioned as the top junior league in Western Canada when junior hockey was reorganized in 1970.

The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ( CAHA ) informed the Oil Kings that they were required to play in a junior hockey league for the 1966 – 67 season or would be held ineligible to compete for the Memorial Cup.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ( French: la Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec, abbreviated QMJHL in English, LHJMQ in French ) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League.

The QMJHL is the smallest of the three Canadian junior leagues in terms of number of teams.

The Memorial Cup is a junior ice hockey club championship trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League ( CHL ) champion.

Sutherland, who was also overseas, was President of the Ontario Hockey Association and he brought forward the idea to present a trophy to honour all the young Canadian hockey players who died in battle and have it awarded to the best junior hockey team in Canada.

" The ( Memorial ) cup, coveted prize of Canadian junior hockey, was the brainchild of Capt.

In Canadian hockey, junior league players are selected based on skill, motor coordination, physical maturity, and other individual merit criteria.

In 1934 the last trustee appointed to supervise the Cup died, and the Lord Minto of the day eventually transferred it to the Canadian Lacrosse Association, which decided to award it as the trophy for the national junior men's champion, starting in 1937.

* Lethbridge Hurricanes, A Canadian junior hockey team

The Vernon Vipers ( former the Vernon Lakers ) are one of the most decorated junior teams in Canadian history having won the Royal Bank Cup ( formerly the Centennial Cup ) 6 times, four coming in the 1990s.

In 1999, after competing for 45 years in junior football ( Canadian Junior Football League ), the Regina Rams became a member of the Canada West Conference of the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union ( CIAU ), now Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ).

In 1874, Mackenzie negotiated a new free trade agreement with the United States, eliminating the high protective tariffs on Canadian goods in US markets.

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.

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.

In 1982 the Canadian Central Bank ’ s lending rates ran up to 14 % which drove chartered bank lending rates as high as 19 %.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

Examples of this type of vehicle include high speed backhoes such as the Australian Army's High Mobility Engineering Vehicle ( HMEV ) from Thales or the Canadian Army's Multi-Purpose Engineer Vehicle ( MPEV ) from Arva.

Although Canada is internationally a fairly strong country in diving, the vast majority of Canadian high schools and universities do not have diving teams, and many Canadian divers accept athletic scholarships from American colleges.

Alexander would have been seen in this event by two of his Canadian viceregal successors: Vincent Massey, who was then the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Massey's secretary, Georges Vanier, who watched the procession from the roof of Canada House on Trafalgar Square.

At the time of its founding, it was the sole high school operating in more than one-seventh of Canadian territory.

* Canadian high commission in Kingston

After the attacks, the Associated Press would re-publish a " bizarre " story by the Cody Enterprise that quoted witnesses stating that Nawaf entered the United States during the autumn of 1999, crossing along the Canadian border as one of two men delivering skylights to the local high school in Cody, Wyoming.

The local rivers have shown more improvement though continue to have levels of mercury and other pollutants exceeding EPA limits, an exhaustive study conducted in 2007 by the University of Pittsburgh found that dangerous chemicals in fish catches were twice as high or more on the Canadian side of Lake Erie and six times higher in fish catches far upriver on the Allegheny.

Expectations were high for the Canadian team, but the team lost to the Czech Republic in the semi-finals.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada ( Attorney General ) case.

* During construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, blasting and excavation reveal high concentrations of nickel – copper ore at Murray Mine on the edge of the Sudbury Basin located near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

* November 16 – Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, is executed for high treason.

* March 10 – Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper

Canadian bread is known for its heartier consistency due to high protein levels in Canadian flour.

The incumbent governor general and his or her spouse are also the only people in Canada, other than serving Canadian ambassadors and high commissioners, entitled to the use the style His or Her Excellency and the governor general is granted the additional honorific of The Right Honourable for their time in office and for life afterwards.

Canadian high schools offer many extracurricular activities, including athletics.

The most popular sports in Canadian high schools are ice hockey, rugby, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, football, baseball, basketball, track and field athletics, and volleyball.