* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.

Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once directed the Governor General of Canada to issue an order-in-council directing that government papers be written in the British style.

Lotbinière, who may have won the job of building the fort only because he was related to Governor Vaudreuil, had lost a bid to become Canada's chief engineer to Nicolas Sarrebource de Pontleroy, one of the two surveying engineers, in 1756, all of which may explain the highly negative report.

Canada's Governor General, Roland Michener, proclaimed the exhibition open after the Expo flame was ignited by Prime Minister Pearson.

Still, the existence of a Canadian Royal Family is contested, mostly by individuals in Canada's republican movement, but also by former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Iona Campagnolo.

Since their creation in 1937, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature ( one each for text and illustration ), and translation.

They were initiated in 1992 by then Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn and the first recipient was Gweneth Lloyd, co-founder of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

Published in English as The Tin Flute ( 1947 ), the book won the 1947 Governor General's Award for fiction as well as the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal.

He and Baroness Tweedsmuir together established the first proper library at Rideau Hall, and, with his wife's encouragement, Buchan founded the Governor General's Literary Awards, which remain Canada's premier award for literature.

The circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canada's history, invoked by Governor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau.

He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing.

Weadick hoped to include native people as a feature of his Stampede, but Indian Affairs opposed his efforts and asked the Duke of Connaught, Canada's Governor General, to support their position.

In 2005, Canada changed its Letter of Credence and Letter of Recall by removing all references to Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, Canada's head of state, instead having them run in the name of the Governor General, who is the Queen's representative.

The Governor General of Canada's residence in The Citadelle

The trophy was commissioned in 1909 by Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Canada's Governor General, who originally hoped to donate it for Canada's senior amateur hockey championship.

The Canadian victory in 1917 at Vimy Ridge, however, helped fuel Canadian pride and nationalism at home and the Governor General, while conscious of his role's remaining connection to the British government, used this military win to positively and publicly encourage reconciliation between Canada's two main linguistic groups.

Another high-profile gossip columnist was fired for a salacious article about Canada's Governor General.

On his trip back to Britain in 1904, having finished his term as Canada's Governor General, Lord Minto wrote in his journal "... so our life in Canada is over and it has been a great wrench parting from so many friends and leaving a country which I love, and which has been very full of interest to me ".

Upper Canada's Lieutenant Governor, John Graves Simcoe, would not allow such a sale between Indians, so he bought this tract of land from the Mississauga and gave it to Brant.

The council also funds and administers many of Canada's top arts awards, including the Governor General's Literary Awards.

In 2012, he received Canada's Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

Founded in 1829 by Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Sir John Colborne, UCC is the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario, the third oldest in the country, and is described as one of Canada's most prestigious preparatory schools, having many of Canada's most powerful and wealthy as graduates.

Starting at 2: 00 p. m., Expo Commissioner General Pierre Dupuy officiated over the medal ceremony, in which participating nations and organizations received gold and silver medallions, as well as the ceremony in which national flags were lowered in the reverse order to which they had been raised, with Canada's flag lowered first and Nigeria's lowered last.

Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated in 1892 by then-Governor General of Canada, the Lord Stanley of Preston, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.

For forty years, Hewitt was Canada's premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster for the General Motors ( later Imperial Oil ) Hockey Broadcast on Saturday nights.

He was also one of the founders ( 1882 ) and Directors of Toronto General Trust, Canada's first trust company and an ancestor of TD Canada Trust.

As Inspector General, Galt reformed the Province of Canada's banking system trade policies.

Justices are appointed by the lieutenant governors of Canada's provinces, and by the commissioners of Canada's territories, on the advice of their relevant premier or Attorney General.

Governments will often issue standards for purchases by government agencies ( e. g. Canada's Canadian General Standards Board CAN / CGSB 44. 15M on " Straight Stacking Chair, Steel " or CAN / CGSB 44. 232-2002 on " Task Chairs for Office Work with Visual Display Terminal ").

As Canada's ambassador to the UN, Rock spoke to the UN General Assembly on April 13, 2004, encouraging participation of the member nations of the United Nations on the matter of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

He was elected Moderator in 2003 and his term expired at the United Church of Canada's 39th General Council in the summer of 2006.

* December 23-Jeanne Sauvé is appointed Canada's first female Governor General

Canada's largest scrip fundraising company, Fundscrip, demonstrated scrip's popularity by boasting a 75 % repeat purchase rate among groups seeking to easily support their respective causes.

Fatah also stated that: " In refusing to step aside, Elmasry and the CIC have demonstrated the authoritarian and dictatorial nature of their structure .… They purport to speak for Canada's 600, 000 Muslims, but are not accountable or answerable to them .… We demand he not … masquerade as leader of the community.

Coulter asserted that Canada's non-participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq demonstrated that Canada's " loyal friendship " with the United States was weaker than in the past.

Canada's centennial in 1967 is often seen as an important milestone in the history of Canadian patriotism, and in Canada's maturing as a distinct, independent country, after which Dominion Day became more popular with average Canadians.

" O Canada " had served as a de facto national anthem since 1939, officially becoming Canada's national anthem in 1980 when the Act of Parliament making it so received Royal Assent and became effective on July 1 as part of that year's Dominion Day celebrations.

These parks include Paramount's Great America, now acquired by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and renamed to California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, And Kings Island.

* Nickelodeon Central was an area inside of California's Great America, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Canada's Wonderland, and Dreamworld that featured shows, attractions, and themes featuring the Nickelodeon characters.

Smaller newspapers like The Dominion, publishing primarily online but in a newspaper format, have attempted to fill gaps in Canada's journalistic coverage while avoiding the vulnerabilities of the previous generation of alternative media.

A common tale states that Tilley was the originator of the word " Dominion " in Canada's name.

Canada's centennial in 1967 is often seen as an important milestone in the history of Canadian patriotism, and in Canada's maturing as a distinct, independent country, after which Dominion Day became more popular with average Canadians.

In 1956, Dominion Tar began accumulating shares of Howard Smith Paper Mills, Canada's largest fine paper company.

The only references to a Viacom property were the characters and titles used in Nickelodeon Universe ( Kings Island ) and Nickelodeon Central ( Kings Dominion, Carowinds, Great America, and Canada's Wonderland ), all of which were rethemed to the children's area utilized by Cedar Fair's own legacy parks, Peanuts for the 2010 season.

" Thus, the first five parks of the Paramount Parks were established: Paramount's Kings Island, Paramount's Kings Dominion, Paramount's Great America, Paramount's Carowinds, and Paramount Canada's Wonderland.

* The Italian Job: Stunt Track at Kings Island, Kings Dominion, and Canada's Wonderland were all renamed Backlot Stunt Coaster.

In 1951, Canada became a State Member of the International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) and the Dominion Hydrographer is Canada's representative.

* March 1-The location of the boundary between Labrador and Quebec is settled by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, accepting the Dominion of Newfoundland's claim rather than Canada's.

The Dominion Lands Act ( short for An Act Respecting the Public Lands of the Dominion ) was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the settlement of Canada's Prairie provinces.

The Dominion of Canada, however, continued to operate as before the Statute was passed-at Canada's request-because the federal and provincial governments could not agree on an amending formula for the Canadian Constitution, among other federal-provincial conflicts ( e. g., there was no Canadian citizenship until 1 January 1947, but Canadians were " British Subjects " prior to that date ; and court cases from provincial courts could by-pass the Supreme Court of Canada for direct appeal to the Privy Council in London, which also had power to overrule the Canadian Supreme Court, until 1947-because the provinces did not want Ottawa to have the last word in judicial disputes, and did not want a Canadian citizenship that would be distinct from imperial citizenship.

Three parks were involved in the sale — Kings Island, Kings Dominion, and Carowinds — along with a 20-percent stake in Canada's Wonderland.

The population has consistently risen every year since the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867 ; however the population of Newfoundland and Labrador had not been included in post-confederation tallies prior to its entry into confederation as Canada's tenth province in 1949.

The ride features a mirrored layout to that of other wooden roller coasters located at California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, and Kings Dominion.

John Radclive was Canada's first professional executioner, placed on the federal payroll as a hangman by a Dominion order-in-council in 1892, on the recommendation of the justice minister Sir John Thompson: Radclive had trained under British hangman William Marwood.

In 1940, the Commission reported that the Depression resulted from problems in the definition of the Canadian Dominion ; the BNA had developed in the context of a wheat-timber-fish economy, and could not support Canada's mixed and industrializing economy.