In Canadian and U. S. usage, a centillion is 10 < sup > 303 </ sup >.

As a result the Canadian government usage has replaced the ( locally ) defunct term Eskimo with Inuit ( Inuk in singular ).

Canadian spellings are primarily based on British usage as a result of Canada's long-standing connections with the UK.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

Between 1992 and 2005, automobile dependence rose in Canadian suburbs, while bicycle usage declined.

On the Canadian side, the Niagara Parks Commission governs land usage along the entire course of the Niagara River, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.

The usage of " eh " in Canada is occasionally mocked in the United States, where some view its use-along with aboot, an approximation of a Canadian raising-affected pronunciation of about-as a stereotypical Canadianism.

Since usage of the word " eh " is not as common in the United States as it is in Canada, it is often used by Americans, and indeed Canadians themselves, to parody Canadian English.

Galbraith's use of the term Scotch is revealing in demonstrating the usage of a Canadian speaking about his own community ; and certainly his use of the term is not pejorative.

The Canadian city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario ( formerly known as Sudbury and still referred to as Sudbury in everyday usage ) was named after Sudbury, becoming a settlement in 1883 following the discovery of rich nickel and copper ores there during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: " Arcadia, the name Verrazzano gave to Maryland or Virginia ' on account of the beauty of the trees ,' made its first cartographical appearance in the 1548 Gastaldo map and is the only name on that map to survive in Canadian usage.

This ended 123 years of the usage of TSE as a Canadian Stock Exchange.

Its first usage in the Canadian game was when the Toronto Argonauts flew to Winnipeg for an exhibition game.

Usage varies between cultural groups, but overall there is a distinction between American and Canadian usage.

Its usage has continued since Canada became a kingdom in its own right in 1867, and after a process of constitutional evolution ending with full sovereignty from the United Kingdom, is now applied to the Canadian monarch.

* Regular Force for usage in the Canadian Forces

The usage in Belgian, Swiss, and Canadian French accords with the etymology — déjeuner comes from a verb meaning " to break the fast ".

The first edition of the Gage Canadian Dictionary, published in 1983, and the second edition of the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, published in 1987, both include usage notes describing the term ' Newfie ' as offensive.

River Brethren remained the popular usage into the 20th century for the American members of the denomination while " Dunkers " was the popular moniker given to the Canadian denomination members until the 1930s.

* March 17-The Assembly resolve that the Council's disallowance of a money bill is contrary to English and Canadian usage.

In American and Canadian usage:

Chinook winds (), often called chinooks, commonly refers to foehn winds in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest.

In official French Canadian usage, a group captain's rank title was colonel d ' aviation.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

A term similar to this is the Canadian motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare (" From sea to sea.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

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

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

: 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 ).

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

* 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.

It is the only Canadian university selected for inclusion in the Education and Academia category of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.