* 2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist ( b. 1924 )

* 1963 – Michelle Douglas, Canadian human rights activist

* 1939 – Raôul Duguay, Canadian artist, poet, musician, and political activist

* 1958 – Marc Emery, Canadian cannabis activist

* Irshad Manji, Canadian lesbian and human rights activist

* 1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist ( d. 1981 )

* 1970 – Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist

* 2006 – Heather Crowe, Canadian waitress and activist ( b. 1945 )

* 1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, British-born Canadian diplomat and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1982 )

* 1970 – Sarah Harmer, Canadian singer-songwriter and activist

* 1908 – Muriel Duckworth, Canadian activist ( d. 2009 )

* 18-Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking activist.

In 1998, he testified in the case of Jim Wakeford, a Canadian medical-marijuana user and activist.

* 1943 – Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian activist

** Elijah Harper, Canadian Aboriginal activist

** Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist

* July 17 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist

** Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist ( b. 1958 )

* March 14 – Emily Murphy, Canadian woman's rights activist ( d. 1933 )

* March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40, 000 km, 26 month Man in Motion tour which raises $ 26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.

* October 25 – J. Esmonde Barry, Canadian healthcare activist and political commentator ( d. 2007 )

On the issue of patents, some critics of the FTAA, such as Canadian activist Maude Barlow, have accused the US of attempting to patent Latin America-made inventions.

* J Robert Verdun, a Canadian shareholder-rights activist

He was a long-time activist in the anti-apartheid movement and was a member of the official Canadian delegation to the 1994 South African election.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, ( born November 18, 1939 ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney ( 20 October 18731 September 1951 ), was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.

* The Canadian Encyclopedia, Nellie Letitia McClung

Murphy is known as one of the " The Famous Five " ( also called " The Valiant Five ")— a group of Canadian women ’ s rights activists that also included Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby.

Ellen Cashman ( 1845 – January 4, 1925 ), better known as Nellie Cashman, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who became famous across the American and Canadian west as a nurse and gold prospector.

Organized and presented by ACTRA, the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, which represented performers, writers and broadcast journalists, the Nellie statuettes were presented annually until 1986.

In 1987, responsibility for presenting the Canadian television and film awards was transferred to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, which continued to present the Nellie in several categories, but now focuses on its Prix Gémeaux, Genie and Gemini Awards.

Their self-titled 1988 debut album was emblazoned with a prominent slogan from Canadian social justice activist Nellie McClung, Never retract, never retreat, never apologise ... get the thing done and let them howl.

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.

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.

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.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

Alberta's per capita GDP in 2007 was 61 % higher than the Canadian average of C $ 46, 441 and more than twice that of all the Maritime provinces.

In 2006, the deviation from the national average was the largest for any province in Canadian history.

The study found GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 % above average U. S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

Immigration into the province was eased tremendously by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line in 1880s.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

( in fact, the Earl of St. Andrews had already lost his place in the line of succession when he married the Roman Catholic Canadian Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988, but St. Andrews ' place in the line of succession was significantly lower than Phillips '.

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

The program was successful in terms of increasing the population of blue foxes, but their predation of Aleutian Canadian geese conflicted with the goal of preserving that species.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

* 1926 – Keith Davey was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer ( d. 2011 )

A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1, 300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 2, 300 men.

For example, abeyance was used as a settlement method in a Canadian lawsuit involving the University of Victoria Students ' Society ( UVSS ), the BCCLA, and a campus pro-life to whom the UVSS denied funding to.

While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.