* 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?

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.

A provincial court ruled that the Lord's Day Act was unconstitutional, but the Crown proceeded to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Bankruptcy also referred to as Insolvency in Canada is governed by the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and is applicable to businesses and individuals.

Trustees in bankruptcy, 1041 individuals licensed to administer insolvencies, bankruptcy and proposal estates and are governed by the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act of Canada.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

Originally called Dominion Day (), the name was changed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

Under the federal Holidays Act, Canada Day is observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case July 2 is the statutory holiday, although celebratory events generally take place on July 1 even though it is not the legal holiday.

The CRTC reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for the Broadcasting Act, and has an informal relationship with Industry Canada, which is responsible for the Telecommunications Act.

* St-Alphonse / Lac Cloutier Water Aerodrome, airport in Canada.

Dial + 64 ( 8 ) 320-1231, from USA / Canada and rest of NANP dial 011-64-8-320-1231 to hear your 3 digit area code & 7 digit local number read back to you from N. Z.

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

Canada: Thomson Brooks / Cole.

The Standards council of Canada then sponsored, on January 21, 1993, the registration of an encoded character set for use in ISO / IEC 2022, in the ISO-IR international registry of coded character sets.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Criminal offences are found within the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal / provincial laws, with the exception that contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada.

One comparison made with the wealthier areas of Canada is that of the region's political and / or work culture.

* Atlantic Canada Portal / Portail du Canada Atlantique

Examples of modern gold collector / investor coins include the American Gold Eagle minted by the United States, the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf minted by Canada, and the Krugerrand, minted by South Africa.

*** Bennett Lake Volcanic Complex ( British Columbia / Yukon, Canada )

*** Blake River Megacaldera Complex ( Quebec / Ontario, Canada )

**** Misema Caldera ( Ontario / Quebec, Canada )

In Canada, La Niña will in general cause a cooler, snowier winter, such as the near-record-breaking amounts of snow recorded in the La Niña winter of 2007 / 2008 in Eastern Canada.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

The remnants of this plate on the Surface of the Earth are the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer plate in the Northwestern USA / Southwestern Canada, and the Cocos Plate on the west coast of Mexico.

Bruce Cox, Director of Greenpeace Canada, responded that Greenpeace has never demanded a universal chlorine ban and that Greenpeace does not oppose use of chlorine in drinking water or in pharmaceutical uses, adding that " Mr. Moore is alone in his recollection of a fight over chlorine and / or use of science as his reason for leaving Greenpeace.

Vancouver Island, Canada ; the cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver, Washington, US ; and Mount Vancouver on the Yukon / Alaska border ; are named after him.

This region constitutes 1. 5 million square miles ( 3. 9 million km² ) in the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, comprising over 1 / 3 the area of modern day Canada and stretching into the north central United States.

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 ).

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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.

The composition of the Constitution of Canada is defined in subsection 52 ( 2 ) of the Constitution Act, 1982 as consisting of the Canada Act 1982 ( including the Constitution Act, 1982 ), all acts and orders referred to in the schedule ( including the Constitution Act, 1867, formerly The British North America Act, 1867 ), and any amendments to these documents.

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

* Canada in the Making-a comprehensive history of the Canadian Constitution with digitized primary sources.

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

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

This highball is often referred to as a Rum and Coke in the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland, where the lime juice may or may not be included.

His assessment was based on a large sample of glossolalia recorded in public and private Christian meetings in Italy, The Netherlands, Jamaica, Canada and the USA over the course of five years ; his wide range included the Puerto Ricans of the Bronx, the Snake Handlers of the Appalachians, and Russian Molokan in Los Angeles.

These fourteen countries came to be known as the " Cairns Group ", and included mostly small and medium sized agricultural exporters such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, and New Zealand.

In Canada they included soldier and governor of Quebec James Murray, Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and politician and social reformer Tommy Douglas.

The economic stagnation was only one factor ; other push factors included a zest for travel and adventure, and the pull factors of better job opportunities abroad, personal networks to link into, and the basic cultural similarity of the United States, Canada, and Australia.

This included Holden's first V8 engine, a Chevrolet engine imported from Canada.

The first constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation, included a provision in Article 11 for the absorption of Canada.

If the territory included all the tributaries of the Mississippi on its western bank, the northern reaches of the Purchase extended into the equally ill-defined British possession — Rupert's Land of British North America, now part of Canada.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

Once part of the French Colonial Empire, the Louisiana Territory stretched from present-day Mobile Bay to just north of the present-day Canadian border, and included a small part of what is now southwestern Canada.

Attending dignitaries included President William Howard Taft, along with representatives from France, Canada and the United Kingdom.

LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

By the early 1900s, the movement included England, Canada, Croatia, France, Denmark, Italy, America, the Philippines, China, and Hungary.

Amongst the policies introduced by Trudeau's last term in office included an expansion in government support for Canada ’ s poorest citizens and the introduction of the National Energy Program ( NEP ), which created a firestorm of protest in the Western provinces and increased what many termed " Western alienation ".

Moreover, because of the limited airplay Rush's previous extended-length songs received, Permanent Waves included shorter, more radio-friendly songs such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill ", two songs that helped Permanent Waves become Rush's first U. S. Top 5 album ; both songs continue to make appearances on classic rock radio stations in Canada and the United States to this day.

Cities visited by the tour included Columbia, SC, Annapolis, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, NY, into Canada, and through the mid Western US ending in Texas.

Notable prime time soap operas in Canada have included Riverdale, House of Pride, Paradise Falls, He Shoots, He Scores, Loving Friends and Perfect Couples, North of 60, and The City.

In Canada and Mexico there has been a call for swimming to be included in the public school curriculum.

After recording Stage Fright, the Band was among the acts participating in the Festival Express, an all-star rock concert tour of Canada by train that also included Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.

These included Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ) and Vancouver Island, where Governor James Douglas encouraged black immigration because of his opposition to slavery and because he hoped a significant black community would form a bulwark against those who wished to unite the island with the United States.

The losses for Newfoundland are listed separately on this table because it was not part of Canada at that time, but are included in the CVWM registry.

In June 2007, the Canadian High Commission in South Africa declined to grant Winnie Mandela a visa to travel to Toronto, Canada, where she was scheduled to attend a gala fundraising concert organised by arts organisation MusicaNoir, which included the world premiere of The Passion of Winnie, an opera based on her life.