* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

In their 1999 study of the Prime Ministers of Canada, which included the results of a survey of Canadian historians, J. L.

* 1920 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, Governor of the Bank of Canada ( d. 2004 )

* 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

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

* 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

Also, the court pointed out that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other Commonwealth realms that share the Crown would first have to be sought if Canada wished to continue its relationship with these countries.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

* 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1991 )

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

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.

Unlike in the United States, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Industry Canada have not set any requirement for maintaining AMPS service in Canada.

In May 2010 Dartmouth joined the Matariki Network of Universities ( MNU ) together with Durham University ( UK ), Queen ’ s University ( Canada ), University of Otago ( New Zealand ), University of Tübingen ( Germany ), University of Western Australia ( Australia ) and Uppsala University ( Sweden ).

:* International: Access to important cable links between US and Canada as well as between NZ and Australia ( Southern Cross Cable Network ); satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Pacific Ocean )

Super Bowl XXVI was telecast in over 100 countries around the world, including Australia ( Network Ten ), Canada ( CTV ), Mexico ( Canal 5 ) and the United Kingdom ( Channel 4 ).

In addition to the United States, this Super Bowl was also broadcast in Canada on CTV, in Mexico on Canal 5, in Australia on Network Ten and the United Kingdom on Channel 4.

* The Referral Network Inc., The Referral Network of Canada Inc., a Canadian-based business networking organization

* Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network ( C * UUYAN ) is the Continental ( US & Canada ) Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network, an organization by and for Unitarian Universalist young adults ( age 18 – 35, inclusive ).

ISIS Canada is a National Network of Centres of Excellence ( NCE ) developing better ways to build, repair and monitor civil structures.

* VENUS ( Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea ), an oceanographic observatory near Victoria, B. C., Canada

In 1994, the HGTV Network cable television channel was launched in the United States and Canada, followed in 1999 by the DIY Network cable television channel.

DBS technology is used for DTH-oriented ( Direct-To-Home ) satellite TV services, such as DirecTV and DISH Network in the United States, Bell TV and Shaw Direct in Canada, Freesat and Sky Digital in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and New Zealand and DSTV in South Africa.

Although hundreds of independent student organizations are active worldwide, most groups in North America are either affiliated with United Students for Fair Trade ( USA ) or the Canadian Student Fair Trade Network ( Canada ).

* Cartoon Network ( Canada )

In 1985, The Nashville Network began airing an edited half-hour version of the program as Grand Ole Opry Live ; the show moved to Country Music Television and CMT Canada in 2001 ( expanding to an hour in the process ), and then to the Great American Country ( GAC ) cable network in 2003.

CBC News is the largest broadcast newsgathering operation in Canada, providing services to CBC radio as well as CBC News Network, local supper-hour newscasts, CBC News Online, and Air Canada ’ s in-flight entertainment.

Global Television Network ( more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV ) is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division.

The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus together with the Canadian Digital Media Network hosted Canada 3. 0, a digital media forum in Stratford that attracted 1, 500 attendees.

A series based on the original cartoon started airing on Cartoon Network ( United States ) on August 22, 2005, as part of their Tickle-U programming block, and aired on Teletoon / Télétoon ( Canada ) on August 29, 2005.

In the same year, Echostar, partnering with Bell Canada, launched Dish Network Canada.

TWC's sister channel in Canada is The Weather Network in English and MétéoMédia in French, which use similar technology that is currently in use in the USA.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

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.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

Dawson's support for anthropology created impetus for the profession in Canada.

In 1903 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, but soon relocated to Chicago, Illinois to work for Hull Laboratory.

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

` 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.

Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

The potential punishment for an assault in Canada varies depending on the manner in which the charge proceeds through the court system and the type of assault that is committed.

* 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ).

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.

* Automated banking machine, another term for Automated teller machine used mainly in Canada

Carnegie gave most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.