With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

As chairman of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chairman if Cerberus had successfully acquired Air Canada.

St. Laurent was ranked # 4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers ( through Jean Chrétien ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.

He would hold the office of prime minister to his death in 1891, and the Canadian Pacific would be completed by 1885 with Macdonald still in office.

As with all other Canadian prime ministers, Harper is styled as The Right Honourable (), a privilege maintained for life.

The position of prime minister is not outlined in any Canadian constitutional document and is mentioned only in passing in Schedule B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

Because the prime minister is, in practice, the most politically powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state, when, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the governor general.

Further, the prime minister plays a prominent role in the legislative process — with the majority of bills put before parliament originating in the Cabinet — and the leadership of the Canadian Forces.

Further, as executive power is constitutionally vested in the monarch, meaning the Royal Prerogative belongs to the Crown and not to any of its ministers, the sovereign's supremacy over the prime minister in the constitutional order is thus seen as a " rebuff to the pretensions of the elected: As it has been said, when the Prime Minister bows before the Queen, he bows before us Canadian people.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also furnish constant personal security for the prime minister and his or her family.

In earlier years, it was traditional for the monarch to bestow a knighthood on newly appointed Canadian prime ministers.

The Canadian Heraldic Authority ( CHA ) has granted former prime ministers an augmentation of honour on the personal coat of arms of those who pursued them.

Relative to the times he lived in, he was likely the wealthiest Canadian to become prime minister.

The respected author Bruce Hutchison wrote that had the economic times been more normal, Bennett would likely have been regarded as a good, perhaps great, Canadian prime minister.

Former Prime Minister John Turner, who as a child knew Bennett while he was prime minister, praised Bennett's promotion of Turner's economist mother to the highest civil service post held by a Canadian woman to that time.

** William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.

** Isabel J. Cox, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen ( d. 1985 )

** U. S. President Bush meets Canadian prime minister Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991.

They were also made against Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Chancellor of West Germany ( later all of Germany ), Helmut Kohl, when in power.

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.

As such, the Canadian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada her Canadian prime minister's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor general-designate.

This dispute flared up again in July 2005 following the visit of a Canadian minister to the disputed island.

* John Livingstone Brown ( 1867 – 1953 ), Canadian politician, farmer and minister

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

The Prime Minister of Canada () is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

The Canadian 2 dollar coin, commonly called toonie, was introduced on February 19, 1996 by Public Works minister Diane Marleau.

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

* November 11 – Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., Canadian minister and librarian ( b. 1912 )

A white trillium serves as the emblem and official flower of the Canadian province of Ontario.

* The Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC ) split off from the Unitarian Universalist Association in 2002 and serves Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations in Canada.

The governor general also serves as honorary Colonel of three household regiments: the Governor General's Horse Guards, Governor General's Foot Guards and Canadian Grenadier Guards.

The monarch also serves as the Honorary Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

A number of Canadian civilian organizations have association with the monarchy, either through their being founded via a royal charter, having been granted the right to use the prefix royal before their name, or because at least one member of the Royal Family serves as a patron.

Dr. Gordon McBean is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.

Endel Tulving, a Canadian neuroscientist, proposed that " a Festschrift frequently enough also serves as a convenient place in which those who are invited to contribute find a permanent resting place for their otherwise unpublishable or at least difficult-to-publish papers.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( French: Société Radio-Canada ), commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC / Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster.

A portion of the former battleground serves as a preserved memorial park and site of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

It serves as the place of commemoration for Canadian soldiers killed in France during the First World War with no known grave.

Canadian Record newspaper office serves Hemphill County.

Railroad: Canadian National Railway ( formally Illinois Central ) serves the Magee area.

The Canadian monarch, seen as the fount of honour, is at the apex of the Order of Canada as its Sovereign, followed by the governor general, who serves as the fellowship's Chancellor.

In Canada, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms serves the same function.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, La Guarde Nativite de Cornwall, Canadian Cancer Society, the Agape Centre ( which serves free meals to more than 100 residents a day ), Salvation Army, United Way, Canadian Mental Health Association, St. John Ambulance and Canadian Red Cross all have offices in Cornwall.

Today it serves as the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Air Force.

Donald J. Carty, ( born 1946 ) is a Canadian businessman who serves as chairman of Virgin America and Porter Airlines.

This railroad also serves the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

CSX now serves much of the eastern U. S., with a few routes into nearby Canadian cities.

He then serves with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during D-Day, and the CIA, before being recruited by Team X, a black ops unit.