You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

Mackenzie's faith was to link him to the increasingly influential temperance cause, particularly strong in Ontario where he lived, a constituency of which he was to represent in the Parliament of Canada.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

The per capita GDP in 2007 was by far the highest of any province in Canada at C $ 74, 825 ( approx.

Crandall University 106736150RR0001 was registered as a charitable organization in Canada on 1967-01-01.

Many area codes reserved 999 ; 320 was also formerly reserved in Bell Canada territory.

Acadia University / 106681893RR0001 was registered as a charitable organization in Canada on 1967-01-01.

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.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

* 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.

Canadian products aged less than three years ( or failing to meet the domestic Canadian whisky standards in some other way ) cannot be called " Canadian whisky " within Canada and in some other countries ( such as the U. S .).

Under Tax Court of Canada Rules of Tax Court of Canada Act, a person who is found to be in contempt may be imprisoned for a period of less than two years or fined.

The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

It is still used for everyday temperature measurements by the general population in the United States and Belize and, less so, in the UK and Canada.

The imperial gallon is used in everyday life ( and in advertising ) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and less frequently in Canada, including alongside litres per 100 km in advertisements and other official publications for expressing fuel economy figures in miles per gallon.

When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s there were no easily available jobs in the US and Canada and emigration fell to less than 50, 000 a year, bringing to an end the period of mass migrations that had opened in the mid-18th century.

Alexander took his duties as the viceroy quite seriously, feeling that, as governor general, he acted as a connection between Canadians and their king, and spent considerable time travelling Canada during his term ; he eventually logged no less than 294, 500 km ( 184, 000 mi ) during his five years as governor general.

It has been theorised that such is the case in Canada as its parliament is less influential on the executive than in other countries with Westminster parliamentary systems ; particularly, Canada has fewer MPs, a higher turnover rate of MPs after each election, and an Americanised system for selecting political party leaders, leaving them accountable to the party membership rather than caucus, as is the case in the United Kingdom.

Still on October 7, and less than one month after the Twin Towers fell, the U. S., aided by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries including several from the NATO alliance, initiated military action, bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda-related camps.

Britain had never experienced the boom that had characterized the U. S., Germany, Canada and Australia in the 1920s, so its bust appeared less severe.

Notable pioneering video artists also emerged more or less simultaneously in Europe and elsewhere with work by Domingo Sarrey ( Spain ), Juan Downey ( Chile ), Wolf Vostell ( Germany ), Slobodan Pajic ( France ), Wolf Kahlen ( Germany ), Peter Weibel ( Austria ), David Hall ( UK ), Paul Wong ( Artist ) ( Canada ), Lisa Steele ( Canada ), Colin Campbell ( Canada ), Miroslaw Rogala ( Poland ), Danny Matthys, Chantal Akerman ( Belgium ), Akram Zaatari ( Lebanon ), Mireille Astore ( Lebanon / Australia ) and others.

By Canadian law, Canadian whiskies must be produced and aged in Canada, be distilled from a fermented mash of cereal grain, be aged in wood barrels with a capacity limit of for not less than three years, and " possess the aroma, taste and character generally attributed to Canadian whisky ".

On February 1, 1796, the capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark ( now Niagara-on-the-Lake ) to York ( now Toronto ), which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the Americans.

Often the wind chill and visibility values will reach blizzard criteria ; however the duration of the event is often slightly less than that required for a blizzard warning in both the US and Canada.

Narwhals from Canada and West Greenland winter regularly in the pack ice of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay along the continental slope with less than 5 % open water and high densities of Greenland halibut.

New France ( Canada ) was considered less valuable, as its only significant commercial product at the time was beaver pelts.

:[...] The total amount that Canada agreed to pay under the new arrangement came to about $ 76, 800, 000, which was some $ 13, 870, 000 less than the United States had spent on the facilities.

Kohl agreed, although less than 20 % of West Germans supported remaining within NATO ; he also wished to avoid a neutral Germany, as he believed that would destroy NATO, cause the United States and Canada to leave Europe, and Britain and France would form an alliance.

Michelin has an important truck tire manufacturing plant in Waterville and the Department of National Defence has its largest air force base in Atlantic Canada located at CFB Greenwood along with an important training facility at Camp Aldershot, near Kentville.

A joint UN force of personnel from South Korea, the United States, Britain, Turkey, Canada, Australia, France, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand and other countries joined to stop the invasion.

In Australia, Canada and the United States electrical engineers make up around 0. 25 % of the labor force ( see < span id =" demographics_back "> note </ span >).

< cite id =" demographics "> Note I </ cite >-There were around 300, 000 people () working as electrical engineers in the US ; in Australia, there were around 17, 000 () and in Canada, there were around 37, 000 (), constituting about 0. 2 % of the labour force in each of the three countries.

Although not participating at all in the opening days of the invasion, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced on October 7 that Canada would contribute forces to the international force being formed to conduct a campaign against terrorism.

At age two, the family moved to Toronto, Canada where her father worked at the Norwegian air force base on Toronto Island during World War II.

The air force started life as a transport unit with aircrew being trained in Canada, Ethiopia and India.

* 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

The coalition force consists of ships from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Pakistan, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present day Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and U. S. authorities ordered the United States Air Force to surround the plane and force it to land in Whitehorse, Canada and to shoot down the plane if the pilots did not cooperate.

* 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

** Canadian Confederation: British North America Act of 29 March comes into force, creating the Dominion of Canada, the first independent dominion in the British Empire.

He asked Tubman to gather former slaves then living in Canada who might be willing to join his fighting force, which she did.

Although it performed poorly in the offensive against Canada, the small force of regulars backed by a well-armed militia, accomplished its defensive mission well.

The main effect of the War of 1812 on the wider Napoleonic Wars was to force Britain to divert troops, supplies and funds to defend Canada.

The provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were combined as the United Province of Canada in 1841, when The Union Act came into force.

" The criminal minds of Siderno are in Canada ", according to the Siderno police force.

After his death, the agency continued to operate and soon became a major force against the labor movement developing in the United States and Canada.

As Chief of Staff to Admiral Hipper, he was closely involved in Hipper's plans for a German battlecruiser squadron to sail across the Atlantic and sweep through the waters off Canada down to the West Indies and on to South America to sink the British cruisers operating in those waters, and thereby force the British to redeploy a substantial part of the Home Fleet to the New World.

The Crown also sits at the pinnacle of the Canadian Forces, with the constitution placing the monarch in the position of commander-in-chief of the entire force, though the governor general carries out the duties attached to the position and also bears the title of Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

In Canada and Australia, by contrast, debates over monarchy represent or represented debates whose driving force concerned each nation's relationship with the United Kingdom and the cultural heritage that that represents.