Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

A painting depicting negotiations that would lead to the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867 | British North America Act, 1867

Federal responsibility for the North Bonneville relocation was expanded in 1974 with enactment of Public Law 93-251, referred to as the McCormack legislation.

This provision maintained the supremacy of the British North America Act in Canadian law until the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1982.

He played a major role in the enactment of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area Act, which protected scenic Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in North America, by making it into a National Recreation Area on the borders of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho.

This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events relating to the province of Quebec, Canada between the enactment of the British North America Act and the end of the 19th century.

The North American Industry Classification System definition of the Public Administration ( NAICS 91 ) sector states that public administration "... comprises establishments primarily engaged in activities of a governmental nature, that is, the enactment and judicial interpretation of laws and their pursuant regulations, and the administration of programs based on them ".

Quebec sovereigntists have, since 1982, demanded that the Queen or another member of the Canadian Royal Family apologize for the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1982, calling the event a part of a " cultural genocide of francophones in North America over the last 400 years.

The concept of an evolving constitution has notably been applied to determine the division of powers between provinces and the federal government in areas of jurisdiction not contemplated at the time of enactment of the British North America Act.

Since the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a massive increase in immigration from Latin America and Asia, intermarriage between white and non-white Americans has been increasing.

With an eye to the 1965 gubernatorial race, Godwin reached out to African American voters during the 1964 presidential campaign by campaigning for President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had led the movement for enactment of the Civil Rights Act of that year.

In 1897, following the enactment of the Dingley Tariff Bill that heavily taxed foreign sugar, Henry, James, and Robert Oxnard formed the American Beet Sugar Company.

: One was the enactment, during the war hysteria, of a law in one of the sovereign States making it a crime to teach a child the German language .... teacher in a German-language school was indicted and convicted .... The United States Supreme Court, nine old men, sworn to uphold the Constitution, struck down that law and released from jeopardy an American citizen whose only offense was that he was a victim of war hysteria.

With the enactment of the National Banking Act of 1863, during the American Civil War and its later versions that taxed states ' bonds and currency out of existence, the dollar became the sole currency of the United States and remains so today.

First, the American Articles of War were created by a legislative enactment and not by an executive order.

Ray's legacy is the enactment of the first laws in the U. S. that protected American Indian graves.

With the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( ARRA ), there is a push for widespread adoption of health information technology through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act ( HITECH ).

After the enactment of the 1965 Immigration Act, Asian American demographics changed rapidly.

At the time the constitution was adopted there was uncertainty over whether its enactment amounted to a ' legal ' amendment of the Free State constitution or a violation of its terms.

Under British constitutional legal theory, the Constitution of the Irish Free State ( Saorstát Éireann ) Act 1922 held the force of law because of the enactment of the United Kingdom's Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922, thus entrenching the primacy of the Treaty.

This arose from the fact that its enactment coincided with the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom.

With the enactment of the Constitution of the Irish Free State, the High Court became the High Court of Justice in Saorstat Éireann.

Irish citizenship originates from Article 3 of the Constitution of the Irish Free State which came into force on 6 December 1922, however Irish citizenship only applied domestically until the enactment of the Twenty-sixth Amendment on 5 April 1935 which applied it internationally.

When the Irish Free State was reconstituted as " Ireland " in 1937, following the enactment of the Constitution of Ireland ( Bunreacht na hÉireann ), domestic Irish nationality law was left unchanged.

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

For the first year of the law's enactment, the enforcement of the statute rested with the Federal Trade Commission, but this power was transferred to the SEC following its creation in 1934.

His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, depicts the horrors of slavery and influenced the enactment of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

If despite the expression of this intent herein, a court were to construe the Trade and Intercourse Act to apply to lands or land transfers in Hawaii before the date of enactment of this Act, then any transfer of land or natural resources located within the State of Hawaii prior to the date of enactment of this Act, by or on behalf of the Native Hawaiian people, or individual Native Hawaiians, shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act and any other provision of Federal law that specifically applies to transfers of land or natural resources from, by, or on behalf of an Indian tribe, Native Hawaiians, or Native Hawaiian entities.

These included tariff reform, the nation's first income tax ( as permitted by the 16th Amendment ), the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, enactment of antitrust laws, and the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission.

As stated in Seaboard and numerous other cases, the two primary reasons for the enactment of section 203 of the United States Code were to prevent the Government from having to deal with more than one claimant and to prevent the assignment of meretricious claims on a contingent-fee basis.

Nonetheless, as Frank Bowe predicted when he testified as the lead witness on Title III in the Senate hearings leading up to enactment, the fact that Title III calls for accessibility in, and alterations to, thousands of stores, restaurants, hotels, etc., in thousands of communities across the U. S. means that this Title probably has had more effect on the lives of more Americans with disabilities than any other ADA title.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

The reason for the enactment of the codes in California in the 19th century was to replace a pre-existing system based on Spanish civil law with a system based on common law, similar to that in most other states.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.

It circumvented Supreme Court limitations on the activities of labor unions, especially as those limitations were imposed between the enactment of the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914 and the end of the 1920s.

Some replica nihontō have been used in modern-day armed robberies, which helped contribute to the enactment of a ban on sale, import and hire of samurai swords in the UK.

Since the enactment of EU legislation concerning the concentration of particulate in the air, environmental groups such as Greenpeace have staged large protest rallies to urge the city council and the State government to take a harder stance on pollution.

The enactment of a law on 21 October 1793 made all suspected priests and all persons who harboured them liable to death on sight.

Some say that it was as a result of this that the cock began to be used as a weather vane on church steeples, and some a Papal enactment of the ninth century ordered the figure of the cock to be placed on every church steeple.

A statute of limitations is an enactment in a common law legal system that sets the maximum time after an event that legal proceedings based on that event may be initiated.

The publication of the President's assessment conveys information to Congress-information uniquely gleaned from the President's perspective in her various roles as Commander-in-Chief, chief law enforcer, negotiator with foreign powers, and the like-that shall aid the legislature in public deliberation on matters that may justify the enactment of legislation because of their national importance.

If a particular title of the United States Code is enacted into law, the enactment repeals all previous enactments on the subject ( including those found in the Statutes at Large ), thereby making that title of the United States Code " legal evidence " of the law in force.

The codification is based on the content of the laws, however, not the vehicle by which they are adopted ; so, for instance, if an appropriations act contains substantive, permanent legislation ( as is sometimes the case ), the permanent provisions will be incorporated into the Code even though they were adopted as part of a non-permanent enactment.

Of particular relevance to the second principle set out above, was the enactment of the Administrative Permission Law of the PRC ( APL ) on 27 August 2003, effective from July 2004.

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.

Application of the punitive damage rule is further expanded with the enactment of the PRC Law on Tort Liability effective as of July 1, 2010.

The motivation for their production and enactment was the absence of a general consensus on matters of faith following the separation with Rome.