Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.

* 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ).

* 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ).

* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".

For the most part American vocabulary, phonology and syntax are used, to various extents, in Canada ; therefore many prefer to refer to North American English rather than American English.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

* 1948 – Paul Cellucci, American politician and diplomat, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and United States Ambassador to Canada

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

The first large wave of permanent English-speaking settlement in Canada, and linguistically the most important, was the influx of Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, chiefly from the Mid-Atlantic States – as such, Canadian English is believed by some scholars to have derived from northern American English.

Although he said English Canada had a negligible conservative influence, subsequent writers claimed that loyalists opposed to the American Revolution brought a Tory ideology into Canada.

Despite these differences, English as it is spoken in both Canada and the United States is similar, with the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution having had a large influence on the early spoken form of Canadian English.

Those Loyalists who settled in Canada, Nova Scotia, or the Bahamas after the American Revolution are known as United Empire Loyalists.

* May 17 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.

* August 21 – American Revolution – Battle of Fort St. Jean: American rebels launch an invasion of Canada.

The Province of Upper Canada ( French: province du Haut-Canada ) was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution.

During and after the Revolution, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

After the Canadian colonies of France were, via war and treaties, ceded to the British Crown, and the population was greatly expanded by those loyal to George III fleeing north from persecution during and following the American Revolution, British North America was in 1867 confederated by Queen Victoria to form Canada as a kingdom in its own right.

The area was under British rule associated with the colony of Canada until after the American Revolution.

A receiving centre for fleeing refugees from the American Revolution some years later, Kingston became the primary community of southeastern Upper Canada.

Permanent European-American settlement did not take place until after the American Revolution, about 1801, after most of the Iroquois had been forced to cede their lands to New York and had emigrated to Upper Canada.

During the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin twice encamped there traveling to and from Canada as an emissary of the Continental Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to have Canada join the Colonies in the revolution.

By the end of the Revolution, most Tories had fled Pownal for safety among the United Empire Loyalists who resettled in Canada.

During the American Revolution, Fort Edward ( Nova Scotia ) played a pivotal role defending Halifax from a possible land attack and serving as the headquarters in Atlantic Canada for 84th Regiment of Foot ( Royal Highland Emigrants ).

After the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, invited pacifists from the former American Colonies, including Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren to settle in British North American territory on the promise of exception from military service and the swearing of judicial oaths.

Following the success of rebellious colonists in the American Revolution, the United Empire Loyalists ( as they were later called ) migrated to Canada.

The Quiet Revolution () was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the rapid and effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state ( État-providence ) and a re-alignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions.

" Many Loyalist refugees made the difficult overland trek into Canada after losing their homes, property, and security during the Revolution.

Following the end of the Revolution and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Loyalist soldiers and civilians were evacuated from New York and resettled in other colonies of the British Empire, most notably in Canada.

As a result of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, Canada moved toward a greater degree of administrative decentralization, with Quebec often opting out of important federal initiatives and instituting its own, as with the Quebec Pension Plan.

This continued to be the law of Canada following the American Revolution.

* Band ( First Nations Canada ), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

The British Army and their Imperial forces in Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued identification tags from the beginning of the First World War.

The First Session of the FAO Conference was held in the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec, Canada, from 16 October to 1 November 1945

** First Nations of Canada

The games of British soldiers and immigrants to Canada, influenced by stick-and-ball games of First Nations, may have influenced the game to be played on ice skates, often played with a puck, and played with sticks made by the Mi ' kmaq of Nova Scotia.

In Canada, from oral histories, there is evidence of a tradition of an ancient stick and ball game played among the Mi ' kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada.

There are many banks such as Century National Bank, National Commercial Bank, Pan Caribbean Bank, Scotia-Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and First Global Bank.

* 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

* 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.

* 1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.

* 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown ( later called Saint John ), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.

First published by Knopf Canada and Picador in December 1999, shortly after the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the alter-globalization movement and an international bestseller.

American troops in the War of 1812 invaded Upper Canada across the Niagara River and the Detroit River, but were defeated and pushed back by British regulars, Canadian fencibles and militias, and First Nations warriors.

* " Native American " ( United States )/" First Nations " ( Canada ) in place of " Indian "

In the decades following Confederation, it was common practice to refer to the prime minister as Premier of Canada, a custom that continued until the First World War, around the time of Robert Borden's premiership.

First sold in Canada, it was such a commercial success it became available year round and, apart from the duration of the Second World War, has been produced ever since.

Even when laws are upheld, the complication of compliance with the First Amendment requires careful and cautious drafting of legislation, leading to laws that are still fairly limited in scope, especially in comparison to those of other countries such as the United Kingdom, France or Canada.

The University of Victoria Law Programs has a long history of protecting human rights and the environment, and has worked closely on a large number of precedent setting environmental and First Nations legal cases across Canada and around the world.