Before 1841, the territory roughly corresponding to Southern Ontario in Canada belonged to the British colony of the Province of Upper Canada, while the southern portion of Quebec and the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador belonged to the colony of the Province of Lower Canada ( until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the colony of Newfoundland ).

Before the end of 1802, the stone was transferred to the British Museum, where it is located today.

Before the revolution, state penetration of the rural areas was limited by the power of local notables, but under Nasser, land reform reduced their socioeconomic dominance, and the incorporation of peasants into cooperatives transferred mass dependence from landlords to government.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before videotape became the exclusive transmission format during the early to mid-1980s, any ( color ) video recordings used in documentaries or filmed program inserts were usually transferred onto film.

Before political power was transferred to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in order to take advantage of the Emperor's authority, the power of the Imperial Family was increased.

Before the land was officially transferred to Canada, McDougall sent out surveyors to plot the land according to the square township system used in Ontario.

Before the fateful day, the Great Race transferred their best minds forward through time into the bodies of the " beetle folk " ( the Coleopterous race ), Earth's dominant species after humankind.

Before the close of 1768 he was transferred from the northern to the southern department, but he resigned in December 1770 in the midst of the dispute with Spain over the possession of the Falkland Islands.

" Before Lowell was transferred to the prison in Connecticut, he was held in a prison in New York City which he later wrote about in the poem " Memories of West Street and Lepke " from his book Life Studies.

Before the creation of the Aldridge-Brownhills seat in 1974, the town had been part of the Walsall North constituency since 1955, when it had been transferred from the now-defunct Cannock constituency.

Before Eurostar services transferred in November 2007 to St Pancras International Eurostar trains passed through Kensington Olympia going from Waterloo International station to North Pole depot and the station was a backup terminus for the services should Waterloo International have become unusable and immigration facilities were maintained there.

Before civil parishes were introduced, the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844 transferred many ( but not all ) parishes which were detached parts of a county to the county in which they were geographically located.

Before Shockwave could animate Jetfire, however, Prime transferred the Creation Matrix to the mind of Buster Witwicky, who used it to take control of Jetfire and rescue Prime.

Before his deployment to Europe, Butlin transferred to the 216th ( Bantams ) Battalion, with which he was sent to England.

Before Siadous was transferred back to France, he gave Belbenoît a one year permit to leave the penal colony.

Before October 1, 1999, GROM was subordinate to the Ministry of Interior, after which time command was transferred to the Ministry of National Defence.

Before this event had taken place, Weiner transferred the radio broadcasting equipment, including the radio tower to yet another ship which he called Fury.

Before the Alpha designation was finally transferred to Allegheny College ( its current location ), the Ohio Wesleyan chapter disappeared temporarily because of a lack of membership.

Before the course was finished, he was transferred to the instructing staff and in June 1943 he was appointed the first commandant of the new Police Civil Affairs Training Centre at Peel House in London ( gazetted with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel ) and charged with the task of setting up the training school for policemen and provost officers who would maintain law and order in Axis territory as it was liberated by advancing Allied forces.

Before 1830, the gatehouse was owned by Monmouth Corporation, but was then formally transferred to the Duke of Beaufort as part of a property exchange.

Before being transferred into a Robotix body by Compucore, she was Argus ' assistant, and shared a romantic relationship with him.

Their third feature film The Land Before Time, was their first production created primarily in Ireland, Sullivan transferred much of the ownership of the Dublin studio to the three animators, and renamed the company Sullivan Bluth Studios.

Before seizing power in 2003, Bozizé's rebel group was equipped and trained in Chad.

Before Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

Before central power stations were widely introduced it was common for industries, large hotels and commercial buildings to generate their own power and use low pressure exhaust steam for heating.

Before the constitutional rewrite, which was completed in 2000, the president enjoyed more power.

Before 2000, the President had the right to enact regulations on matters not governed by parliamentary law, but this power was removed, and existing regulations were converted into regular statutes by the Parliament.

Before Arbenz come to power in 1951, the Communist movement preferred to carry out many of their activities through the so-called mass organization.

Before long steam power was applied to drive textile machinery.

Before coming to power, the Khmer Rouge also demonstrated characteristics of " the Buddhist ideals of propriety and social justice ", more so than the current government.

Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight and consuming more power, making this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the handover of power, some 300, 000 Kosovars, mostly Serbs, left the province, many had been expelled by the Albanians.

Before colonization the senior queen acted as a check and counterweight to the king's power, both through her direct control of some military forces and her control of rainmaking medicines and rites and of key aspects of the Ncwala national ritual that annually binds the fate of the king and the nation together.

* Before the Chiefs ' first touchdown, he sent in the play " 65 toss power trap.

Before the summer 2006 offensive began, indications existed that soldiers in Afghanistan had lost influence and power to other groups, including potentially the Taliban.

Before the development of the transformer, electric power distribution primarily used direct current at the same voltage used by motors and lights.

Before October 5, even as opposition grew, Milošević continued to hold significant power.

Before the advent of the CCD beam profiler, the beam width was estimated using the knife-edge technique: slice a laser beam with a razor and measure the power of the clipped beam as a function of the razor position.

Before his death, he is thought to have named Aurelian as his successor, although Claudius ' brother Quintillus briefly seized power.

Before flue-gas desulfurization was installed, the air pollution | air-polluting emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.

Before Henry held real power, it was alleged that there was a plot to spirit Eleanor away and deliver her to the king of France ; de Maulay was accused of the plot and fell out of favour.

Before the end of the war, architect Charles Holden drew up plans to redevelop the city centre, but locals were so opposed that the Citizens ' Defence Association was formed and swept to power in the 1945 municipal elections.