* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; the campaigns of the French and Indian War resulted in British control of modern Canada.

Conversely in francophone Canada, one hundredth of a Canadian dollar is informally called a sou ( penny ), though cent is official in both English and French.

The French also built the Louisbourg Lighthouse in 1734, the first lighthouse in Canada and one of the first in North America.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ) is a public organisation in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications.

* Township ( Canada ), known as canton in Canadian French

The languages of Aboriginal peoples in Canada started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary to the English of Upper Canada.

* The name of the letter Z is normally the Anglo-European ( and French ) zed ; the American zee is less common in Canada, and it is often stigmatized, though the latter is not uncommon, especially in younger speakers.

This is particularly the case in eastern Canada apart from Quebec which is French speaking.

In Canada, English and French are official languages and places have names in both languages.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

The Constitution of Canada ( La Constitution du Canada in French ) is the supreme law in Canada ; the country's constitution is an amalgamation of codified acts and uncodified traditions and conventions.

As a bilingual act of parliament, the Canada Act 1982 has the distinction of being the only legislation in French that has been passed by an English or British parliament since Norman French ceased to be the language of government in England.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

In Quebec, Canada and in France there is a French movement with the founder Olivier Manitara and The Essene Spirit.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

* French River, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada

In Canada, English Speaking, popular authorities include Kerr & King's Procedures for Meeting and Organizations.

* Public Speaking Champion: Dan Powell, Royal Military College of Canada

* Government of Canada, Health Canada – Institute for International Research Conference – Speaking Notes for David C. Dingwall, Minister of Health, The Toronto Hilton Hotel, Toronto, 1 April 1996

Chante also developed the Roger's Love Music Speaking Tour where she spoke to school students across Canada and donated tens of thousands of dollars to their music programs.

Additionally, half of the team from the United States and Canada qualify through the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Championships.

A banknote ( more commonly known as a bill in the United States and Canada ) is a type of currency, and commonly used as legal tender in many jurisdictions.

Sightings now commonly occur in a majority of the United States and Canada.

In Canada, this definition is therefore more commonly called a " twinstick ".

The word dessert is most commonly used for this course in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Ireland, while pudding or, informally, sweet or afters are alternative terms that may also be used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, including New Zealand and India.

Dalhousie University ( commonly known as Dalhousie or Dal ) is a public research university with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and a fourth, the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Nevertheless, it is commonly felt in Canada and Greenland that the term Eskimo is pejorative.

In Canada, federalism typically implies opposition to sovereigntist movements ( most commonly Quebec separatism ).

The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Most of these differ substantially from the English commonly spoken elsewhere in Canada.

Vicar of Winkfield pear, a heritage variety, no longer commonly found, British Columbia, Canada

In Canada, Mexico and the United States, PCS services are provided in the 1850-1990 MHz frequency band ( commonly referred to as the " 1900 MHz band ").

This frequency band was designated by the United States FCC and Industry Canada to be used for new wireless services to alleviate capacity caps inherent in the original AMPS and D-AMPS cellular networks in the 800-894 MHz frequency band ( commonly referred to as the " 850 MHz band ").

The medicines that are commonly used as sclerosants are polidocanol ( POL ), sodium tetradecyl sulphate ( STS ), Sclerodex ( Canada ), Hypertonic Saline, Glycerin and Chromated Glycerin.

Lévesque's government pursues an agenda to secede Quebec from Canada by democratic means and strengthen Francophone Québécois culture in the late 1970s, such as the controversial Charter of the French Language more commonly known in Quebec and Canada as " Bill 101 ".

Such networks are commonly referred to by terms such as " specialty channels " in Canada or " cable networks " in the U. S.

In the UK, Ireland and Australia adult male chickens over the age of 12 months are primarily known as cocks, whereas in America and Canada they are more commonly called roosters.

In the United States and Canada, where only women commonly wear engagement rings, women occasionally present their partners with an engagement ring.

The name Shiraz for this grape variety is also commonly used in South Africa and Canada.

Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, ( March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949 ), commonly known as Charles Ponzi, was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U. S. and Canada.

The Supreme Court of Canada developed the concept of public interest standing in three constitutional cases commonly called " the Standing trilogy ": Thorson v. Canada ( Attorney General ), Nova Scotia Board of Censors v. McNeil, and Minister of Justice v. Borowski.

The raised variant of typically becomes, while the raised variant of varies by dialect, with more common in the west and a fronted variant commonly heard in Central Canada.

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was the general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967.