left In keeping with his democratic ideals, Mackenzie refused the offer of a knighthood three times, and was thus the only one of Canada's first eight Prime Ministers not to be knighted.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

In 1871, Canada's first formal census was conducted, which counted the population of Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

* 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.

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.

Canada's first reported Fujita Scale F5 tornado approaching Elie, Manitoba | Elie

* 1957 – Toronto's CHUM-AM, ( 1050 kHz ) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n ' Roll music format.

* 1958 – Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.

He was Canada's first saddlebag preacher, and travelled from Lake Ontario to Detroit for 50 years preaching the gospel.

However, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that " ships entering the North-West passage should first report to his government.

Rocky Mountain National Park became Canada's first national park in 1885.

John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor in 1793.

The scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and a transfer of power from his Conservative government to a Liberal government led by Alexander Mackenzie.

* Canada's first political scandal, CBC Video

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.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

* 1952 – Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.

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.

* UNB offered Canada's first university-level engineering program, established in 1855.

A survey of scholars in 1997 by Maclean's magazine ranked King first among all Canada's prime ministers, ahead of Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

In 1909, he became Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour, a civil service position.

External Affairs minister Louis St. Laurent dealt decisively with this crisis, the first of its type in Canada's history.

** Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga ' a Final Agreement

Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only as per long-established convention originating in Canada's former colonial power, the United Kingdom, which stipulates that the monarch's representative, the governor general, must select as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the elected House of Commons ; this individual is typically the leader of the political party that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.

Because the prime minister is, in practice, the most politically powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state, when, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the governor general.

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

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.

These spiritual attitudes not only guided Canada's relations with Hitler but gave the prime minister the comforting sense of a higher mission, that of helping to lead Hitler to peace.

* June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's 13th prime minister.

* November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.

* July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister and the first French-speaker to hold that office.

* July 23 – Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.

* March 30 – Jane Sym-Mackenzie, second wife of Canada's second prime minister ( b. 1825 )

* December 29 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

* December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

* December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.

* June 16 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.

** Richard Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.

* March 22 – Jane Sym, second wife of Canada's second prime minister ( d. 1893 )

He or she will host members of Canada's royal family, as well as foreign royalty and heads of state, and will represent the Queen and country abroad on state visits to other nations, though the monarch's permission is necessary, via the prime minister, for the viceroy to leave Canada.

Granatstein ranked Mulroney eighth among Canada's prime ministers in their 1999 book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.

On June 4, 1979, the day before his 40th birthday, Clark was sworn in as Canada's youngest prime minister, after defeating the Liberal Party in the May 1979 general election.