In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Waves of immigration from around the globe peaking in 1910 and 1960 had a lesser influence, but they did make Canada a multicultural country, ready to accept linguistic change from around the world during the current period of globalization.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

The family did not adjust easily to life in Eastern Canada and two of the children, John ( aged 5 ) and Emma ( aged 7 ) died of round worms, a common parasite.

For the Construction of RN7 Canada Pledge US $ 75 and IDB US $ 31 Million for the construction of the road which started in 2009 ; it did suffer major setback because of the earthquake also.

He ended slavery in Upper Canada long before it was abolished in the British Empire as a whole – by 1810 there were no slaves in Upper Canada, but the Crown did not abolish slavery throughout the Empire until 1834.

Moncton's economic depression did not last long and a second era of prosperity came to the area in 1871 when Moncton was selected to be the headquarters of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( ICR ).

While he did not do this, he did admit, for the first time, that he had refused the Order of Canada in 1990.

The United Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the DPRK on December 13, 2000, as did Canada in February 2001 followed by Germany and New Zealand on March 1, 2001.

Many in the colony however, began to chafe against the aristocratic Family Compact who governed while benefiting economically from the region's resources, and who did not allow elected bodies the power to effect change ( much as the Château Clique ruled Lower Canada ).

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 ".

Capone did not only control the sale of liquor to over 10, 000 speakeasies, but he also controlled the supply: from Canada to Florida.

Dials outside Canada, the United States, and large cities in Britain ( before all-figure dialing ) usually did not bear alphabetic characters or an indication of the word " operator " in addition to numbers.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and U. S. authorities ordered the United States Air Force to surround the plane and force it to land in Whitehorse, Canada and to shoot down the plane if the pilots did not cooperate.

It did not, however, immediately provide for any changes to the legislation establishing the constitutions of Australia and Canada.

The reason for the delay in relation to Canada and Australia was because the Statute still did not clarify the ability of the British Parliament to legislate concerning the Provinces of Canada, especially Quebec, which raised many objections, and the States of Australia.

In 1974, Canadian New Democratic Party MP Max Saltsman tried to use his Private Member's Bill to create legislation to annex the islands to Canada, but it did not pass in the Canadian House of Commons.

In 1867, Britain united most of its North American colonies as the Dominion of Canada, giving it self-government and responsibility for its own defence, although Canada did not have an independent foreign policy until 1931.

The military of Canada did not officially participate in the war effort, as it was appointed to the UN truce commissions and thus had to remain officially neutral in the conflict.

The environment was a key focus of Mulroney's government, as Canada became the first industrialized country to ratify both the biodiversity convention and the climate change convention agreed to at the UN Conference on the Environment.

His role in the dealings, however, would forever follow him in his native Quebec, who did not ratify the Constitution ( although the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec was bound by it ).

The War Measures Act, 1914 was subsequently adopted on 22 August 1914 to ratify all steps taken by Canada from the declaration of war, to continue until the war was over.

: We believe that Canada has evolved into four economic, geographic, commercial and political regions which, has the potential to become one strong and united nation once Canadians have been allowed to draft and ratify a true Constitution for Canada at a constituent assemble of elected delegates.

He was a key organizer in the " Yes " Campaign, led by Tory Leader Peter MacKay, to ratify the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party of Canada.

Here are some instances of collective behavior: the frequent use of the word, " like ," among adolescent girls, the national debates in Canada and the U. S. about whether to ratify the Kyoto protocols, a change from 50 % market saturation by the WordPerfect 5. 1 for DOS word processing program to the even more widespread use of Microsoft Word, and the Esperanto movement for a neutral international language.

Bill C-60 primarily implemented amendments to meet compliance obligations of two WIPO treaties Canada is seeking to ratify, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Subsequently, with the passage of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, Quebec's civil law became entirely statute based, using the civil law system for matters within provincial jurisdiction.

The statute, an essential transitory step from the British Empire to the Commonwealth of Nations, provided that all existing Dominions became fully independent of the United Kingdom ( upon its ratification by the federal legislature for Canada ) and all new Dominions would be fully independent upon the grant of Dominion status.

In the United States and Canada wildlife are generally defined in statute as property of the state.

The regnal year standard is still used with respect to statutes and law reports published in some parts of the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries ( England abandoned this practice in 1963 ): a statute signed into law in Canada between February 6, 1994 and February 5, 1995 would be dated 43 Elizabeth II, for instance.

That year the British parliament passed a statute applying the laws of Upper Canada to the district and giving the Hudson's Bay Company power to enforce those laws.

In Canada, landscape architecture, like law and medicine, is a self-regulating profession pursuant to provincial statute.

In Canada, a municipality is a city, town, township, county, or regional municipality which has been incorporated by statute by the legislatures of the provinces and territories.

Designed to operate in geostationary orbit, 35, 790 km ( 22, 240 statute miles ) above the earth, thereby remaining stationary with respect to a point on the ground, the advanced GOES I – M spacecraft continuously view the continental United States, neighboring environs of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and Central, South America and southern Canada.

However the Lord Lieutenant, as with Governors-General in other Westminster Systems such as in Canada, chose to appoint someone to head the executive even though no such post existed in statute law.

2 ) was a statute of the Parliament of Canada that provided for the declaration of war, invasion, or insurrection, and the types of emergency measures that could thereby be taken.

Unlike the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was added to the Constitution of Canada in 1982, the Bill of Rights is not a constitutional instrument but rather an ordinary statute.

This last power resulted in the federal Parliament's creation of the Supreme Court of Canada, which is, despite its role as supreme arbiter of all Canadian law, a creation of simple, rather than constitutional, statute.

Since the British North America Act was an Imperial statute extending to Canada, any Canadian law violating the BNA Act was inoperative.

In 1966, the modern position of Solicitor General was created with the repeal of the previous Solicitor General Act and the passage of a new statute creating the ministerial office of the Solicitor General of Canada.

This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events relating to the province of Quebec, Canada between the beginning of the 20th century and the Westminster statute.

A year later, in 1883, the Society was incorporated by a statute of the Parliament of Canada.

That same year, the U. K. Parliament passed a statute requiring that the laws of Upper Canada be enforced by the HBC in Rupert's Land and the Columbia District.

* Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the statute that regulates the law on bankruptcy and insolvency in Canada

The right to separate schools is provided by the Constitution of Canada in the three provinces of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and by federal statute in the three territories, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut.

While the development of competition law stalled in Europe during the late 19th century, in 1889 Canada enacted what is considered the first competition statute of modern times.

The monarch's birthday had been observed in Canada since 1845, when the parliament of the Province of Canada passed a statute to officially recognize Queen Victoria's birthday, 24 May.

Canada passed its first colonial copyright statute in 1832 but was subject to imperial copyright law established by Britain until 1921.

The first Canadian colonial copyright statute was the 1832 Copyright Act, long title “ An Act for the Protection of Copy Rights ”, passed by the Parliament of the Province of Lower Canada, granting copyright to residents of the province.