In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

* Adrian Aucoin ( born 1973 ), Canadian National Hockey League player

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

Three Canadian organizations operate programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada ( DFAIT ), the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) and the Department of National Defence ( DND ).

In the past, telecommunications included telegraphy available through Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

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.

An agreement with Western Union required that U. S. company to route messages in a specified ratio of 3: 1, with three telegraphic messages transmitted to Canadian National for every message transmitted to Canadian Pacific.

Canadian National Parks in the watershed include Kootenay National Park, Yoho National Park, Glacier National Park, and Mount Revelstoke National Park.

Railway connections between the port of Sydney to Canadian National Railway in Truro are maintained by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

It has created crown corporations to promote Canadian culture through media, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) and the National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ), and promotes many events which it considers to promote Canadian traditions.

Canadian Forces identity discs ( abbreviated " I discs ") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to National Defence Headquarters with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body.

In Canadian football ( and, until 1998, the National Football League ), the drop kick can be taken from any point on the field, unlike placekicks, which must be attempted behind the line of scrimmage.

The four remaining players in the backfield ( five in Canadian football ), including the quarterback, are also eligible receivers — except in the National Football League, where a quarterback who takes the snap from " under center " is never eligible.

The Minister of National Defence Art Eggleton advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to authorize more than 100 Canadian Forces members serving on military exchange programs in the United States and other countries to participate in U. S. operations in Afghanistan.

:* Canadian Military Oral History Collection at University of Victoria, Special Collections

* Drumlin field, northwestern Manitoba, image from Geological Survey of Canada Canadian Landscapes Photo Collection

* Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario

In 1996 an album called Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music, was released as a four-CD box set to mark the 25th anniversary of the Juno Awards.

An artist's rendering of the World Peace Capital ( as seen in the George Seibel Niagara River Collection at the Niagara Falls Public Library in Niagara Falls, Ontario ) showed the property with bridges spanning both countries ( at Grand Island in the US and the Canadian mainland on the other side ).

The Canadian Tourism Commission placed the event in its Signature Experiences Collection, one of six such events or locations in Alberta.

Summer 2010 Canadian Invasion Tour: Remix Collection.

The Harmonization of Federal Legislation with Quebec Civil Law and Canadian Bijuralism: Collection of Studies, Ottawa: Dept.

Large collections of work from the Group of Seven can be found at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Casson along with four of the artists ' wives are buried onsite at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in the small patch of consecrated land bordered by trees, with graves marked by large chunks of the Canadian Shield.

In Vaughan, the major attractions include the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, located in the community of Kleinburg and features works by Canadian artists including Inuit and First Nations artists.

Many pieces — objets d ' art, paintings, sculptures, books, furnishings, and rugs — are drawn from the Crown Collection, so that, in Adrienne Clarkson's words, " the mix of furniture and other objects here now reflects the country, the people who came and settled here, and became part of the Canadian story.

Thomson was a friend of the Group of Seven, famous landscape painters many of whose works are on permanent display at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Numerous examples of his work are also on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

By the 1960s, radio and television had begun to help disseminate French folk songs, especially after the 1967 foundation of the Centennial Collection of Canadian Folk Songs, including recordings of Quebec performers like Yves Albert and Jacques Labrecque, as well as Acadian Edith Butler.

* Crepeau, Pierre, Pointing at the Wind: The Weather Vane Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Canadian Museum c. 1990

Harold " Hal " Robert Steacy ( June 7, 1923 – April 7, 2012 ) was a Canadian mineralogist who was the curator of the Canadian National Mineral Collection at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa.

In October 2009 TCF Canada Inc. presented the Countess with a portrait of herself by the noted Canadian artist Christian Cardell Corbet of which the oil sketch resides in the Canadian Portrait Academy Permanent Collection.

* Painted In Peel: The Peel Landscape by the Group of Seven and Their Contemporaries, featuring works from the permanent collection, and those of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Ontario ( 2004 )

The Canadian Aviation Museum was formed in 1964 at RCAF Station Rockcliffe as the National Aeronautical Collection from the amalgamation of three separate existing collections.

He contacted the Canadian National Collection of Insects in Ottawa where the butterfly was identified as P. icarus, a new alien butterfly to Canada and to North America.

Fletcher also initiated the Canadian National Collection ( CNC ) of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes.

The British and Canadian Liaison Officers, as well as Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, the American Red Cross, and similar interested organizations were informed from time to time as training aids were developed.

Juniors competed last year at American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club, recognized shows to be eligible to compete in this Class -- the Finals for the year.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

Gordon A. Lonsdale, 37, a mystery man presumed to be Russian although he carries a Canadian passport.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

In the Canadian Rockies, great groves of aspen are already glinting gold.

After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.

Canadian anthropology began, as in other parts of the Colonial world, as ethnological data in the records of travellers and missionaries.

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

A term similar to this is the Canadian motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare (" From sea to sea.

Examples of assistive technology for visually impairment include the Canadian currency tactile feature, which a system of raised dots in one corner, based on Braille cells but not standard Braille.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

The other major family of abugidas, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, was initially developed in the 1840s by missionary and linguist James Evans for the Cree and Ojibwe languages.

Later in the 19th century, other missionaries adapted Evans ' system to other Canadian aboriginal languages.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

* A. M. ( musician ), a Canadian electronic musician

* 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ( d. 1931 )

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.