* Magna International, Canada's largest automobile parts manufacture

It is North America's largest automobile parts manufacturer, and one of Canada's largest companies.

He was also one of Western Canada's first automobile enthusiasts and owned many British vehicles.

Harkin identified the emergence of the automobile as a key component in driving tourism to Canada's national parks.

For instance one of Canada's largest manufacturing industries is the pulp and paper sector, which is directly linked to the logging industry.

However, in recent years, the number of terminal exchanges have heavily reduced Canada's primary industry, making them rely more on quaternary industry.

Howe favoured Central Canada's steel industry given its proximity to a larger workforce and less exposure to coastal attack.

Being in Calgary, with Canada's highest concentration of engineers and geoscientists, the Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and the Schulich School of Engineering maintain ties to the petroleum and geoscience industry.

The National Policy of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald placed high tariffs on US goods and was very successful in building Canada's manufacturing industry.

Given Canada's small market and its position next to the dominant producer of feature films, the Canadian film industry receives substantial assistance from the government.

Most of Canada's film ( and television ) industry produces output geared towards mainstream North American audiences, with Alliance Atlantis and Lions Gate Entertainment in particular enjoying significant successes in recent years.

Canada's music industry has produced internationally renowned Canadian artists.

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences administers Canada's music industry awards, the Juno Awards, which commenced in 1970.

Canada's first nation-wide music awards began as a reader poll conducted by Canadian music industry trade magazine RPM Weekly in December 1964.

Canada's main stream music industry has suffered as a result of the internet and the boom of independent music.

The ceremony is held each year as part of Canada's main annual music industry awards the Juno's.

** Occupying this region gains control of Toronto and most of Canada's industry, while also preventing Britain and Canada from using it for air or land attacks against the U. S. industrial heartland in the Midwest.

Ultimately, the DoC found that Canada's stumpage system was not specific to any single industry and thus not countervailable.

* In March 2006, a NAFTA panel ruled in Canada's favour, finding that the subsidy to the Canadian lumber industry was de minimis, i. e., a subsidy of less than one percent.

As a celebration of Canada's own Wild West and the cattle ranching industry, the Stampede welcomes around 1. 2 million people each year.

Much of Canada's film industry services American producers and films driven by American distribution, and this part of the industry has been nicknamed " Hollywood North ".

Canada's difficulties in the film industry are often difficult to explain.

* Canada's film industry competes directly with that of the United States.

This decision was made after Prentice dialogued with senior Bell and Telus executives and suggested that consumers " seek alternatives ", even in Canada's limited-competition cellular industry.

For a time, this was Canada's largest livestock market and the centre of Ontario's meat packing industry, and reinforced Toronto's nickname as Hogtown.

W. Averell Harriman of the United States, Malcolm MacDonald of Britain, Maurice Couve De Murville, France's Foreign Minister, and Howard C. Green, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, concluded, meanwhile, a round of consultations here on future tactics in the conference.

Frequently referred to as " Canada's birthday ", particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces ( the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec ) on July 1, 1867.

The Queen also participated in celebrations of Canada's 100th anniversary on July 1, 1967.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

Canada's political history has also had an influence on Canadian spelling.

Canadian Government policies such as ; publicly funded health care, higher and more progressive taxation, outlawing capital punishment, strong efforts to eliminate poverty, an emphasis on cultural diversity, and most recently legalizing same-sex marriage – are social indicators of Canada's political and cultural values.

She received a star posthumously on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 5, 2005.

After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.

* 1978 – Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories.

St-Laurent won, and was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada on 15 November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after Wilfrid Laurier.

St. Laurent was ranked # 4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers ( through Jean Chrétien ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.

The distinguished literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye, the former Governor-General of Canada Roméo LeBlanc, and former Supreme Court Justice Ivan Cleveland Rand, developer of the Rand Formula and Canada's representative on the UNSCOP commission.

Described on the provincial vehicle-licence plate as Canada's Ocean Playground, the sea is a major influence on Nova Scotia's climate.

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

" 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.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

In 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the permanent capital of the Province of Canada, initiating construction of Canada's first parliament buildings, on Parliament Hill.

Trudeau is credited with introducing Canada's " Multiculturalism Policy " on October 8, 1971 recognizing that while Canada was a country of two official languages, it did not have a single unitary culture but rather recognized the plurality of cultures-" a multicultural policy within a bilingual framework ".

* QT: QueerTelevision, an LGBT newsmagazine which aired on Canada's CityTV in the 1990s

Twain's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.