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.

In five of the Canadian provinces, English law was received automatically, under the principle of a settled colony inheriting English law.

In 1998, Oxford University Press produced a Canadian English dictionary, after five years of lexicographical research, entitled The Oxford Canadian Dictionary.

Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.

The four remaining players in the backfield ( five in Canadian football ), including the quarterback, are also eligible receivers — except in the National Football League, where a quarterback who takes the snap from " under center " is never eligible.

Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919 that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations and that the United States consumed 470, 000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17, 000 pounds in both France and Germany.

Macdonald was designated as the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served in that capacity for most of the remainder of his life, losing office for five years in the 1870s over the Pacific Scandal ( corruption in the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway ).

Under Canadian law, a person has the right to a jury trial for all crimes punishable by five years of imprisonment or more.

Lemmy Kilmister during Motörhead's 2011 The Wörld is Yours TourIn 1975 Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind after he was arrested at the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan on drug possession charges ; he spent five days in jail.

* 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

Support for Peary came again in 2005, however, when British explorer Tom Avery and four companions recreated the outward portion of Peary's journey with replica wooden sleds and Canadian Eskimo Dog teams, reaching the North Pole in 36 days, 22 hours – nearly five hours faster than Peary.

In a series of five speeches to the nation in January 1935, Bennett introduced a Canadian version of the " New Deal ," involving unprecedented public spending and federal intervention in the economy.

According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, the law school ranks among the top five in Canada.

Women can be appointed to the Canadian Senate, an achievement by five Canadian women called the Famous Five.

The five BNA Acts enacted by the Canadian Parliament do have official French-language versions, and the English-language and French-language versions are equally authoritative ( as with all legislation enacted by the Canadian Parliament ).

This Act extended the duration of the 12th Canadian Parliament through October 1917, beyond the normal maximum of five years.

As the sovereign is shared equally with 15 other independent countries in a form of personal union, as well as with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister only, appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

The highest concentration of large deer species in temperate North America lies in the Canadian Rocky Mountain and Columbia Mountain regions between Alberta and British Columbia where all five North American deer species ( White-tailed deer, Mule deer, Caribou, Elk, and Moose ) can be found.

Winning a total of five medals in three consecutive Winter Games made him the most decorated Canadian athlete in Winter Olympic history until 2006.

Tied with track and field athlete Phil Edwards and fellow short track speed skater François-Louis Tremblay, he is one of the five most decorated Canadian athletes in all Olympic Games.

The Battle of Hill 70 was a subsidiary operation of World War I between the Canadian Corps and five divisions of the German Sixth Army.

The five life zones represented are the Lower Sonoran, Upper Sonoran, Transition, Canadian, and Hudsonian.

* Roman Gaul, after Julius Caesar's conquest of 58 – 51 BC that consisted of five provinces

In the other five provinces and the three territories, reception was governed by reception statutes.

), Azad Kashmir and Punjab provinces of Pakistan, Punjab, Kashmir and Ladakh of India, central-east Russia south of the Taiga, and the former Central Asian Soviet republics ( the five " Stans " of the former Soviet Union ).

The five areas listed in 1: 1 as the geographical location of the first readers were Roman provinces in Asia Minor.

** West Java, Central Java, East Java, three out of five provinces in this island.

Most old Japanese swords can be traced back to one of five provinces, each of which had its own school, traditions and " trademarks " ( e. g., the swords from Mino province were " from the start famous for their sharpness ").

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the five provinces that comprise modern Lebanon were mandated to France.

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the League of Nations mandated the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to the direct control of France.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

Lazio is divided into five provinces:

It is composed of five provinces, namely: Batanes with Basco as the capital, Cagayan, Tuguegarao City as the capital, Isabela considered to be the heart of the region with Ilagan as the capital, Nueva Vizcaya with Bayombong as the capital, and Quirino with Cabaruguis as the capital.

Turkmenistan is divided into five provinces welayatlar ( singular – welayat ): Ahal Province ( Aşgabat ), Balkan Province ( Balkanabat, formerly Nebitdag ), Daşoguz Province ( formerly Tashauz ), Lebap Province ( formerly Charjou Province ) ( Turkmenabat, formerly Charjou ), Mary Province

During this siege, Hideyoshi proposed that Ieyasu currently controlled five provinces were submitted, and Ieyasu receive the eight Kantō provinces that Kitajo ruled.

He offered Ieyasu the eight Kantō provinces which they were about to take from the Hōjō in return for the five provinces that Ieyasu currently controlled ( including Ieyasu's home province of Mikawa ).

Ieyasu now gave up control of his five provinces ( Mikawa, Tōtōmi, Suruga, Shinano, and Kai ) and moved all his soldiers and vassals to the Kantō region.

Barton herself traveled along with five other Red Cross expeditions to the Armenian provinces in the spring of 1896, providing relief and humanitarian aid.

Calabria is divided into five provinces:

The region, with a population of over 5. 9 million inhabitants, is divided in five provinces: Naples, Benevento, Avellino, Caserta and Salerno.

Campania is divided into five provinces:

In the last months of World War II some five million German civilians from the German provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia fled the onslaught of the Red Army and became refugees in Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and Saxony.

In 55 BC, after the Triumvirate met at the Lucca Conference, he was again consul with Pompey, and a law was passed assigning the provinces of the two Hispanias and Syria to Pompey and Crassus respectively for five years.

* Emperor Jovian negotiates a disastrous peace with Persia, surrendering four of the five Roman provinces gained by Caesar Galerius in 298, and the cities Nisibis and Singara ( Mesopotamia ).