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Canada and maintained
Germany, France, Japan, and Canada have maintained higher savings rates than the U. S. over the long run.
Throughout the Civil War, the Confederacy maintained a network of underground operators in southern Maryland, particularly Charles and St. Mary's counties, smuggling recruits across the Potomac River into Virginia and relaying messages for Confederate agents as far north as Canada.
Offices of the General Conference for the USA and Canada are maintained in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Although he became an American naturalized citizen in 1958, he still maintained friendships in Canada and remembered his roots with the 1968 album, My Nova Scotia Home.
In the winter months thousands of people flock to Pittsburg to take advantage of the state-funded and club-supported and maintained trails that can bring snowmobilers from anywhere in the state of New Hampshire to Pittsburg, with access to the states of Maine, Vermont and the border crossing to Canada.
Drinking water for the adjacent towns of Derby Line and Stanstead is pumped from wells in Canada, stored in a reservoir in the United States and distributed through a system maintained by Canadians.
An analysis of mtDNA in 2005 found differences between the caribous from Newfoundland, Labrador, south-western Canada and south-eastern Canada, but maintained all in R. tarandus caribou.
MTS was developed, maintained, and used by a consortium of eight universities in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom:
Since then, the band has maintained a large fan base all over the world, most notably in the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Canada, France, Brazil and Australia.
Chauhan also maintained contacts among various groups in Canada, the USA and Germany.
Pierre La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada / U. S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years ' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France.
Throughout its more recent history, St Andrews has maintained strong links with leading academic institutions in the United Kingdom including the Oxbridge and also the top research schools from United States and Canada, including McGill, Harvard, MIT and Princeton to name a few.
Currently the project is developed and maintained by research groups at Białystok University, Poland, the University of Alberta, Canada, and Shinshu University, Japan.
He always maintained that Canada, separated by great barriers, running north and south, into four zones, each having unimpeded communication with the adjoining portions of the United States, was a profoundly artificial and badly-governed nation, that was destined by its natural configuration to enter into a commercial union with the US.
The Constitutional Act of 1791 resolved the dispute through the creation of Upper Canada west of the Ottawa River ( subject to English common law ) and Lower Canada around the St. Lawrence River ( where civil law was maintained ).
The extensive trading network throughout the region connected to Canada through the Great Lakes, was maintained through a vast system of fortifications, many of them centred in the Illinois Country and in present-day Arkansas.
It is maintained and operated by the national park service, Parks Canada, and now is used for tourism and by recreational boaters.
The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 gave Britain control of part of Acadia ( peninsular Nova Scotia ) and Newfoundland ; however, France maintained control of its colonies at Île Royale, Île St-Jean ( now Prince Edward Island ), Canada and Louisiana, with Île Royale being France's only territory directly on the Atlantic seaboard ( which was controlled by Britain from Newfoundland to present-day South Carolina ) and it was strategically close to important fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, as well as being well placed for protecting the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Drinking water for the adjacent towns of Derby Line and Stanstead, is pumped from wells in Canada, stored in a reservoir in the United States and distributed through a system maintained by Canadians.
In a court case that went all the way the Supreme Court of Canada, Deane maintained that he was not under orders to shoot and was convicted of criminal negligence causing death.
Central to the Downtown Yonge business improvement area, the square is owned by the city and is the first public square in Canada to be maintained through a public-private partnership.
In fact, this proposal did result in an increase in support for a sovereign Quebec: polls at the time showed that people were more likely to support independence if Quebec maintained an economic partnership with Canada.
It maintained a very high reserve against its capital and enjoyed the highest share price of any bank in Canada.

Canada and mechanized
Contributors are Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh ( including the mechanized infantry battalion ), Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation ( Soviet Union before December 24, 1991 ), Senegal, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela
These were worn in the field in Canada by units in training but are also evident in photos of men deployed to West Germany during the Cold War, as armoured and mechanized units sometimes preferred to wear coveralls when carrying out maintenance.
However, its role was strictly that of a mechanized infantry battalion and had nothing to do with the parachute operations of the regiment in Canada.
These were worn in the field in Canada by units in training but are also evident in photos of men deployed to West Germany during the Cold War, as armoured and mechanized units sometimes preferred to wear coveralls when carrying out maintenance.

Canada and infantry
In Upper Canada, besides the militia, there was only one British infantry regiment, a detachment of veterans and a company of artillery.
* The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada infantry ( along with The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum ) at Minto Armoury
In Britain, every infantry battalion bears a number, even if it is the only remaining battalion in the regiment ( in that case it is the 1st Battalion, with the exception of The Irish Regiment of Canada, which has a 2nd Battalion only ).
The 48th Highlanders of Canada is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve ( i. e., part-time militia ) infantry regiment based in Toronto, parading out of Moss Park Armoury.
The Black Watch ( Royal Highland Regiment ) of Canada, a reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces, also bears this motto.
He joined the Permanent Force as an infantry officer when Canada established its own professional infantry unit in 1883.
Of the above, five infantry battalions, three field artillery batteries, and six garrison artillery batteries moved by sea from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to St. John, New Brunswick, then overland by sleigh from St. John to Riviere du Loup, Province of Canada, between Jan. 1, 1852 and March 13, 1862.
Including the units sent overland and the British forces already in the Province of Canada, British field forces in the province would have amounted to nine infantry battalions and four field artillery batteries by mid-March, 1862, aa force equivalent to three brigades ( ie, one division ), with the equivalent of two more split between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Once reinforcements had arrived from Canada, each brigade would have had one small armoured regiment ( two squadrons, each 20 tanks ), and two four-company infantry battalions.
The PPCLI is the main lodger unit of Canadian Forces Base ( CFB ) Edmonton in Alberta and CFB Shilo in Manitoba, and belongs to the Land Force Western Area ; as such it is the " local " regular infantry regiment for much of western and Pacific Canada.
In the First World War, none of the existing militia infantry regiments in Canada were mobilized.
This unit of Canadian Volunteer Militia recruited amongst railway employees had infantry and artillery companies deployed along the railway lines in Canada East and Canada West.
The Calgary Highlanders is a Canadian Army Primary Reserve infantry regiment, headquartered at Mewata Armouries in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
On August 18, 1944 Major David Vivian Currie, commanding the Sherman tanks of C Squadron of the 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment ( The South Alberta Regiment ), with attached infantry from " B " and " C " companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and the Lincoln and Welland Regiment ( all of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division ), was ordered to move from Trun to capture and hold the village, and to attempt to link up with the American forces understood to be advancing towards the village from Chambois.
The Royal Regiment of Canada is an infantry unit based in Toronto, Ontario, part of Land Force Central Area's 32 Canadian Brigade Group.
That same month, the 1st Battalion deployed to Hohne, West Germany where it joined the 22nd Armoured Brigade. The 2nd Battalion also deployed abroad, when it took part in mechanised infantry exercises in the BATUS, Canada which lasted for 6-weeks.
With many of its soldiers drawn from Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces in recent decades, the regiment maintains a general connection as the " local " infantry regiment for eastern Canada.
The GGFG is the most senior militia infantry regiment in Canada.
An artillery and infantry officer, he was the Commanding Officer of the Highland Fusiliers of Canada from 1971 – 1973 and then was the Senior Staff Officer to the Major General Reserves for Canada, completing 24 years of militia service.

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