* 1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.

Ye Gude Olde Days, from Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game, 1899.

" 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.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.

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.

" Nonetheless, the concept of the Canadian Royal Family did not emerge until after the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, when Canadian officials only began to overtly consider putting the principles of Canada's new status as an independent kingdom into effect.

By the 1960s, loyal societies in Canada recognized the Queen's cousin, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, as a " Canadian princess "; but, it was not until October 2002 when the term Canadian Royal Family was first used publicly and officially by one of its members: in a speech to the Nunavut legislature at its opening, Queen Elizabeth II stated: " I am proud to be the first member of the Canadian Royal Family to be greeted in Canada's newest territory.

In honour of the military uses of cordite, the Royal Military College of Canada's mechanical engineering department built a ship and named it Cordite for use in thermodynamic research.

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.

She did, however, greet a numbers of Canada's Royal Family, including the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ; The Queen Mother ; and Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York.

He was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame ( 2005 ) and Commemorated on Royal Canadian Mint silver and gold coins for his spacewalk to install Canadarm2 on the International Space Station ( 2001 ).

* H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston " Canada's RMC – A History of Royal Military College " Second Edition 1982

The Royal Canadian Mint's $ 20 silver coin, launched on July 18, 2007 has evoked one of the darkest moments in the history of polar exploration and rankled Canada's main Inuit organization.

Canada's intelligence service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police spied on Frye, watching his participation in the anti-Vietnam War movement, an academic forum about China, and activism to end South African apartheid.

The Royal Union Flag is also an official flag in Canada, used as a symbol of Canada's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, and of its allegiance to the Crown.

Because of Kingston's military tradition and the fact that several military buildings already existed at the old naval dockyard, Point Frederick was chosen as the location for Canada's first military college, the Royal Military College of Canada ( RMC ).

The Royal Military College of Canada, established in 1876, is Canada's only military university ( Collège Militaire Royal in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec is a military college ), providing academic and leadership training to officer cadets, other members of Canada's armed forces and civilians.

Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is Canada's eighth-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and home to 60 percent of the population of the province.

Flagship downtown stores exist in Canada's largest cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg.

Rogers Broadcasting operates 51 Canadian radio stations ( Rogers Radio ), ( 36 FM and 10 AM radio stations ) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005 ; Omni Television, which operates two multicultural television stations in Ontario ( OMNI. 1 and OMNI. 2 ) as well as one in Vancouver ( Channel M ) acquired in April 2008 ; Citytv acquired in 2007 ; which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver ; Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada ; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service and The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40 % stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A & E Television Networks ' 20 % ownership.

* Winnipeg is the home of Le Cercle Molière ( the oldest continuously running theatre company in Canada ), the Manitoba Theatre Centre ( Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre ), the Pantages Playhouse, Fantasy Theatre for Children ( Manitoba's oldest children's theatre ), Merlyn Productions, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Rainbow Stage, Theatre Projects Manitoba, the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, and the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.

The airport is operated by the Winnipeg Airport Authority as part of Transport Canada's National Airports System and is one of eight Canadian airports that has US Border Pre-clearance facilities.

The 1950 flood reached a high of 30 ft ( 9. 2 m ) at Winnipeg — causing the largest evacuation in Canada's history of 100, 000 people and $ 606 million CAD ( 1997 ) of damage, prompting the government of Manitoba to set up flood safety measures.

The-year-old building, regarded as " Western Canada's oldest skyscraper ," will mark the college's second urban campus in downtown Winnipeg and is only one block from the Princess Street Campus.

The University of Winnipeg is a provincially and privately funded post-secondary institution with undergraduate and a growing number of graduate programs including Canada's obly masters degree in development practce with a focus on Indigenous development, as well as a Professional, Applied and Continuing Education and a high school division.

At the time, Winnipeg was Canada's third largest city and the new Winnipeg Arena was considered to be the finest facility in the western half of North America.

Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.

Billows, Eymond Toupin, and future provincial leader Markus Buchart hosted the Green Party of Canada's national convention in Winnipeg in August 1998.

Star Media Group includes the flagship Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper, and thestar. com ; The Grid city magazine: a 90-per-cent interest in the Metro daily commuter papers in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon and Regina ; a joint interest in Sing Tao daily Chinese-language newspaper ; toronto. com ; and several other specialty publications, magazines and distribution services.

The Ottawa and Winnipeg stores were the first and second retail buildings in Canada to comply with Canada's C2000 Green Building Standard, which acknowledges buildings that achieve a 50 % reduction in energy consumption over conventional structures.

In May 2012 Allison Crowe performed Hallelujah live on-stage with Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet for the World Premiere of " The Doorway – Scenes from Leonard Cohen "-created and choreographed by Jorden Morris.

In the same year, Manitoba's Native Communications radio network launched Streetz FM, a hip hop station in Winnipeg which was Canada's first radio station marketed primarily to aboriginal youth.

The tallest were located in Canada's biggest cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, but up to fifteen skyscrapers were found in Winnipeg, most of which were built before 1920.

Lill also worked as a journalist for CBC Radio in Winnipeg before moving to the Manitoba capital in 1979 where she produced radio documentaries for Our Native Land, a national, CBC Radio program about Canada's indigenous peoples.

The league's expansion into Calgary was met with skepticism, as the league had previously failed in Western Canada's largest markets of Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg, when in competition with the NHL.

As a direct competition to Canada's leading low-cost carrier WestJet, Zip flew mostly between the western cities of Abbotsford, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg.

The fifth games took place in Winnipeg in 1967, Canada's Centennial year.

* The Canadian Encyclopedia-Kain, Karen featuring a clip of Karen's performance in the National Ballet of Canada's 1976 production of Giselle

The Company was an idea of Campbell's for a long time – she began her career as a ballet dancer, having been a student at Canada's National Ballet School.

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Honorary Chair-The Quinte Ballet School of Canada's Gala Dinner and Auction to raise funds in support of the school's scholarship and bursary program

* In 2006, she received the Philanthropist of the Year award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals for donating time and money to Canada's National Ballet School, The Learning Partnership and Canadian Women's Foundation.

He returned to Canada in 1949 and after a brief musical theatre diversion in Vancouver and California, moved to Toronto to join Celia Franca during the formative years of Canada's National Ballet.

During a summer course at Canada's National Ballet School ( often called The National ) intended to help improve movement and his control for his gymanstic acrobatic training, his abilities for ballet were recognized by Betty Oliphant, founder and director of the school.