The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

During the 19th century in the US, the length of canals grew from to over 4, 000, with a complex network making the Great Lakes navigable, in conjunction with Canada, although some canals were later drained and used as railroad rights-of-way.

Australia established its first central bank in 1920, Colombia in 1923, Mexico and Chile in 1925 and Canada and New Zealand in the aftermath of the Great Depression in 1934.

Millions of Irish diaspora | Irish left Ireland for Canada and U. S. following the Great Famine ( Ireland ) | Great Famine in the 1840s.

Other noted countries in the sport include Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Australia and Canada.

The Great Lakes, sometimes disambiguated as the Laurentian Great Lakes, are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes Waterway.

Since 2003, Canada has also been working with Gabon in the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, which Canada co-chairs, in support of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.

When not breeding, the auks spent their time foraging in the waters of the North Atlantic, ranging as far south as northern Spain through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain.

The Great Auk was found in the cold North Atlantic coastal waters along the coasts of Canada, the northeastern United States, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Great Britain, France, and northern Spain.

By late 1944, the United States, Canada, France, and Great Britain were closing in on Germany in the West, while the Soviets were closing from the East.

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.

Walker ( 2007 ) compares Irish immigrant communities in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain respecting issues of identity and ' Irishness.

IEC standards are also being adopted as harmonized standards by other certifying bodies such as BSI ( Great Britain ), CSA ( Canada ), UL & ANSI / INCITS ( USA ), SABS ( South Africa ), SAI ( Australia ), SPC / GB ( China ) and DIN ( Germany ).

He went to the United States following the American Revolutionary War and built a fur-trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region and Canada, and later expanded into the American West and Pacific coast.

Astor took advantage of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1794, which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region.

* Canadian Coalition for Democracies, a non-governmental advocacy organisation in Canada

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

* The Myasthenia Gravis Coalition of Canada

Coinciding with the War of the Sixth Coalition, though technically not considered part of the Napoleonic Wars but directly influenced and driven by it, the otherwise neutral United States declared war on the United Kingdom and attempted to invade British North America ( present day Canada ).

* Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition, Ontario, Canada.

After several years of legislative paralysis in the Province of Canada caused by the need to maintain a double legislative majority ( a majority of both the Canada East and Canada West delegates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature ), Macdonald had led his Liberal-Conservative Party into the Great Coalition with George-Étienne Cartier ’ s Parti bleu and George Brown ’ s Clear Grits.

He was a member of the Great Coalition government in the Province of Canada that secured Confederation between 1864 and 1867.

He became a leading figure in the creation of the Coalition when he was asked to become premier of the Province of Canada by then Governor General Sir Edmund Walker Head.

* Coalition of Progressive Electors, a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Upper Canada College is a member of the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario ( CIS ), the Canadian Association of Independent Schools ( CAIS ), the Secondary School Admission Test ( SSAT ) Board, the Association of Boarding Schools ( TABS ) and an associate member of the National Association of Independent Schools ( NAIS ), the International Boys ' School Coalition ( IBSC ), the Toronto Boys ' School Coalition ( TBSC ), and the college principal is a member of the Headmasters ' and Headmistresses ' Conference ( HMC ) in the UK.

Liberals for Life, a pro-life group allied with the Campaign Life Coalition, was accused of infiltrating the Liberal Party of Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

During the 1980s, the group was heavily involved in women's struggles, playing an important role in mobilizing support for a woman's right to choose in Canada, largely as a participant in the broader Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics.

She has served on numerous organizations and Boards including the National Black Coalition of Canada, the Board of Governors of York University, the Board of Trustees for The Hospital for Sick Children, the Board of Directors of the Donwood Institute, the Board of Harbourfront and Chair of the Metro Toronto Housing Authority.

The United Church of Christ, United Church of Canada, National Council of Churches, National Coalition of American Nuns, and Presbyterians for Restoring Creation are among some of the religious organizations that have raised questions about whether or not the " privatization " of water is ethical.

Betar has also worked in Toronto and Montreal with off-campus organizations such as the Canadian Coalition for Democracies to promote the importance of secular and participatory politics in Canada.

The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology.

It is primarily the politicians of Canada West that, with the Great Coalition, orchestrated the process which led to the legislative union of the British North American colonies.

* National Citizens Coalition, a right-wing political organization in Canada

* Student Environmental Action Coalition, a coalition of environmental groups in the United States and Canada

The Canadian Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, or CAUCE Canada, is a consumer organization, campaigning against what is commonly known as spam e-mail.

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.