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.

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.

Much of the province's sparsely inhabited north and east lie on the irregular granite Canadian Shield, including Whiteshell, Atikaki, and Nopiming Provincial Parks.

On the Canadian side, the Niagara Parks Commission governs land usage along the entire course of the Niagara River, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.

There are several Canadian National Parks in the Pacific Northwest, including Pacific Rim National Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Range alongside Rogers Pass, Kootenay National Park and Yoho National Park on the British Columbia flank of the Rockies, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in the Strait of Georgia.

In the five national parks of the Canadian Rockies, mountain rescue is solely the responsibility of Parks Canada's, Mountain Safety Program Specialists.

Yoho, together with Jasper NP, Kootenay NP and Banff NP, along with three British Columbia provincial parks — Hamber Provincial Park, Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, and Mount Robson Provincial Park — form the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site.

This park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, together with the other national and provincial parks that form the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, for the mountain landscapes containing mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons, and limestone caves as well as fossils found here.

Subsequently, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society ( CPAWS ) filed a court injunction, which halted the development.

The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site is located in the Canadian Rockies.

It includes the Burgess Shale site, a World Heritage Site in its own right from 1980 to 1984, when it was included in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks WHS designation.

That year the UNESCO World Heritage Committee " requested the Canadian authorities to consider adding the adjacent Provincial Parks of Mount Robson, Hamber, Mount Assiniboine and Kananskis " to the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks site.

At a 1990 meeting, " the Committee welcomed the Canadian proposal to include, in the Rocky Mountains Parks site, Mount Robson, Hamber and Assiniboine Provincial Parks, following its request at its Eighth Session in 1984.

" Kananaskis ( now Peter Lougheed ) Provinicial Park has not been included within the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks site.

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Parks, had only a vague knowledge of the Canadian anthem and so improvised something that made " O Canada " sound somewhat like " O Christmas Tree ".

Elk Island Park was later granted federal park status in 1913, and then designation as an official National Park under the National Parks Act which passed through the Canadian Parliament in 1930.

Parks Canada, which manages the Canadian National Parks system, was removed from Environment Canada and became an agency reporting to the Minister of Heritage in 1998.

Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural ( watershed ).

The act is often seen as a watershed in the development of French Canadian nationalism as it provided for a province ( Lower Canada ) that was seen by les Canadiens to be their own, separate from the Anglo Upper Canada.

Regardless, for its entire run Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired before the Canadian watershed of 9: 00 p. m.

The Great Lakes region, as distinct from The Great Lakes Basin, defines a unit of political entities defined by the U. S. states and the Canadian Province of Ontario encompassing the Great Lakes watershed, and bordering one or more lakes.

Behiels ( 2010 ) suggests that experts in Canadian politics are now reporting that a watershed political realignment is underway, the kind of shift that occurs but once a century.

The watershed ( 7000 square kilometers or 2600 square miles ) has been recognized by the designation of the Grand as a Canadian Heritage River.

It drains an area of the prairie country near the Canadian border in the extreme northeast corner of the state in the watershed of the Red River.

The watershed also includes a small southern portion ( less than 1 %) of the Canadian province of Quebec.

The northern part of the watershed is sparsely inhabited Canadian Shield terrain.

At Marmora, the watershed enters Paleozoic limestone-plain country, with unusual outcroppings of Canadian Shield through the limestone at Allan Mills and just above Crowe Bridge.

Throughout the 1740s and early 1750s, British and Canadian traders had increasingly come into contact in the Ohio Country, including the upper watershed of the Ohio River in what is now western Pennsylvania.