In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

* Adrian Aucoin ( born 1973 ), Canadian National Hockey League player

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

Three Canadian organizations operate programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada ( DFAIT ), the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) and the Department of National Defence ( DND ).

In the past, telecommunications included telegraphy available through Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

An agreement with Western Union required that U. S. company to route messages in a specified ratio of 3: 1, with three telegraphic messages transmitted to Canadian National for every message transmitted to Canadian Pacific.

Canadian National Parks in the watershed include Kootenay National Park, Yoho National Park, Glacier National Park, and Mount Revelstoke National Park.

Railway connections between the port of Sydney to Canadian National Railway in Truro are maintained by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

It has created crown corporations to promote Canadian culture through media, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) and the National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ), and promotes many events which it considers to promote Canadian traditions.

Canadian Forces identity discs ( abbreviated " I discs ") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to National Defence Headquarters with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body.

In Canadian football ( and, until 1998, the National Football League ), the drop kick can be taken from any point on the field, unlike placekicks, which must be attempted behind the line of scrimmage.

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.

The Minister of National Defence Art Eggleton advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to authorize more than 100 Canadian Forces members serving on military exchange programs in the United States and other countries to participate in U. S. operations in Afghanistan.

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Category: Canadian Ministers of Railways and Canals

In 1918, the ICR and NTR were merged by the federal government into the newly formed Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) system.

Meanwhile, Canadian National Railways was making a radio network to keep its passengers entertained and give it an advantage over its rival, CP.

The first tilting train to enter into regular service in North America was the United Aircraft TurboTrain, used by Canadian National Railways in the 1970s.

* Canadian National Railways Sleeping Car No. 1683 St. Hyacinthe — photographs and short history of a Sleeping Car built in 1929.

In 1915, the ICR became part of Canadian Government Railways and 3 years later in 1918 it became part of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ).

* List of Canadian National Railways companies

In the Canadian House of Commons, the bill considered is Bill C-1, an Act Respecting the Administration of Oaths of Office, while in the Senate, it is Bill S-1, an Act Relating to Railways.

This service was operated by the ICR until 1918 when the ICR was merged into Canadian National Railways ( CNR ).

The first train across the causeway was a Canadian National Railways work train, led by steam locomotive # 2639 on April 18, 1955.

There was also a Canadian National Railways ( earlier, Grand Trunk Railway ) line running in a North / South direction and crossing the CASO line at Welland Diamond.

The railway was referred to as the Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) between 1918 and 1960 and as Canadian National / Canadien National ( CN ) from 1960 to present.

One of the early logos or heralds of the Canadian National Railways.

At the same time, CNoR was also directed to assume management of Canadian Government Railways ( CGR ), a system comprising the Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( IRC ), National Transcontinental Railway ( NTR ), and the Prince Edward Island Railway ( PEIR ), among others.

On December 20, 1918, the federal government created the Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) – a title only with no corporate powers – through a Queen's Privy Council for Canada Order in Council as a means to simplify the funding and operation of the various railway companies.

Canadian National Railways was born out of both wartime and domestic urgency.

In 1999, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and the Canadian National Railway announced their intention to merge and form a new corporation entitled North American Railways to be headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Both lines later became part of Canadian National Railways.

After World War II, two developments eventually proved disastrous to previously profitable passenger rail transport offered by Canadian National Railways ( CNR ), the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), and smaller lines.

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In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton to be its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railroad town for well over a century until the closure of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ) locomotive shops in the late 1980s.

The Canadian National Railway | CNR repair shops were the largest employer in Moncton until their closure in the late 1980s.

The land was a major Canadian National Railway rail switching yard encompassing the CNR Spadina Roundhouse ( the desolate downtown lands were part of a master plan for revitalizing the area which includes CityPlace ).

Weyburn had since become an important railroad town in Saskatchewan – the Pasqua branch or the Souris, Arcola, Weyburn, Regina CPR branch ; Portal Section on the CPR / Soo Line ; Moose Jaw, Weyburn, Shaunavon, Lethbridge CPR section ; the Brandon, Marfield, Carlyle, Lampman, Radville, Willow Bunch section of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ); and the Regina, Weyburn, Radville, Estevan, Northgate CNR section have all run through Weyburn.

Bennett ( who had been a corporate lawyer with Canadian Pacific as a client prior to entering politics ) to pressure CNR into ending its on-train radio service in 1931 and then withdrawing from the radio business entirely in 1933.

Canadian National Hotels was the CNRs chain of hotels and was a combination of hotels inherited by the CNR when it acquired various railways and structures built by the CNR itself.

Regardless of the political and economic importance of railway transportation in Canada, there were many critics of the Canadian government's policies in maintaining CNR as a Crown corporation from its inception in 1918 until its privatization in 1995.

As such, CNR lost money for many years, except during the Second World War when its extensive network reaching into the resource hinterland proved beneficial, and during the late 1980s and early 1990s following deregulation of the Canadian railway industry.

Where CNR failed to address costs was largely due to government interference, such as the requirement to purchase locomotives from all Canadian locomotive manufacturers, resulting in operational inefficiencies.

The CRBC acquired radio stations from the Canadian National Railway radio network in Ottawa, Vancouver and Moncton for $ 50, 000 as well as CNR Radio studios in various other cities and leased or established additional stations in Montreal, Chicoutimi, Quebec City, Toronto and Windsor.

Although it has always owned its locomotives and coaches, GO's trackage was originally owned entirely by Canada's two major commercial railways: the large majority by the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ) and the remainder by Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ).

The large fleet of CNR was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, and only the Canadian Pacific Railway, the N & W, the Cotton Belt and Reading Railroad built their own.