The PolyGram acquisition included Deutsche Grammophon which traces its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone making Deutsche Grammophon UMG's oldest unit.

Sony Music was partnered with American Idol and distribute its music, and In 2010, Sony was replaced by as the music label for American Idol by UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A & M Records.

It is now part of Universal Music Group ( UMG ) since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label.

Starting in 2011 UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A & M Records will be signing contestants from American Idol / Idol series.

Universal Music Publishing is headquartered at 2100 Colorado Avenue, which is down the block from UMG's offices.

Even though California is where a lot of UMG's corporate decisions are made, UMG has a major workforce in New York which considers it as a secondary headquarters.

UMG's New York City headquarters deals mainly with Universal's marketing, Information Systems, and finance.

It is also where several of UMG's labels are headquartered.

UMGI manages UMG's offices in most countries outside of North America.

In May 2007, UMG was accused of abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in order to squelch criticism, by forcing YouTube to remove several videos that contain UMG's music in it.

Interscope Records operates as one third of UMG's Interscope Geffen A & M label group.

Following UMG's acquisition of PolyGram in 1998, Geffen Records and A & M Records were merged into Interscope.

* Soundtrack album: Song of Norway and Cabaret ( LP version only, the CD was reissued on MCA, later on UMG's Hip-O Records.

UMG's reissue arm Hip-O Records has reissued several Blue Thumb recordings including such acts as the Crusaders, Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks and the Pointer Sisters.

Because of the unrelated label in the Philippines owning the rights to the Universal Records name in that country, parent company Universal Music Group does business there as MCA Music, Inc., using UMG's former name.

Today, as part of Universal Music Group, Hip-O reissues many albums from UMG's huge back catalogue-including such labels as Decca, Interscope, Geffen, A & M, Mercury, Polydor, MCA, Island and others.

Intermittent, he was appointed President of urban music at Universal Music Group's Island Records, resulting in So So Def once again making a move to UMG's The Island Def Jam Music Group.

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

* Canadian Special Air Service Company, a Canadian unit from 1947 to 1949

* The Toronto Scottish Regiment ( Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own ), a Canadian militia unit

When all operations on the Anglo-Canadian front were ordered to halt at 21: 00, only one unit had reached its D-Day objective, but the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division had succeeded in pushing farther inland than any other landing force on D-Day.

" The next morning, they found a Canadian military police unit and remained with them for the next six weeks.

In 1945, the unit was disbanded ; the Canadian members were sent to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion as replacements, and the American members were sent to either the 101st Airborne Division or the 82nd Airborne Division as replacements.

The Canadian Special Operations Regiment ( CSOR ) is known as a commando unit and Canadian Joint Task Force Two, or JTF2, is also sometimes referred to as a " commando " unit, but it is technically a specialist counter-terrorism unit.

* de Havilland Canada-former Canadian unit of the British de Havilland Aircraft Company and later as part of Boeing

The origin of the name, which was what it would be called or referred to in popular vernacular, was most likely a corruption of the name of French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet, who in 1673, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River and camped on a huge mound, a few miles ( a unit of distance ) south of present-day Joliet.

The Canadian Forces ' Rangers Arctic reserve unit still use Enfield 4 rifles as of 2012, with plans announced to replace the weapons sometime in 2014 or 2015.

The CFJHQ was transformed back into Headquarters, 1st Canadian Division, on 23 June 2010, the unit once more falling under the control of the Canadian Army.

A Canadian anti-aircraft unit of 1918, running to stations.

Taylor Downing's book " Spies in the Sky " tells of his work with a specialist unit interpreting aerial photo-reconnaissance information, before moving to Normandy with Canadian forces.

In the British Army and armies modelled on it ( such as the Australian, the New Zealand, the Canadian, the Indian and the Pakistani ), the term regiment is used confusingly in two different ways: it can mean an administrative identity and grouping or a tactical unit.

It is the smallest unit in the militaries that use it and is the primary unit upon which infantry organization is based in the British Army, Royal Air Force Regiment, Royal Marines, United States Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Air Force Security Forces, Canadian Forces, and Australian Army.

The Zavikon Island is located in the Canadian territory and belongs to the Leeds and Grenville municipal unit.

* Clear traces of Spengler's philosophy can be found in the works of Canadian ( Manitoba ) novelist Gabrielle Roy.

The last house in Ranney, the former KD Line yardmaster's house, was demolished in 2003, and the area is now devoid of all traces of community except for continuing railroad activity on the KD Line and the Canadian Pacific.

The modern Royal Canadian Air Force, formerly known as Canadian Forces Air Command, traces its ancestry to the unification of Canada's armed services in 1968, and is one of three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces.

Bombardier Recreational Products or BRP is a Canadian company ( once part of Bombardier Inc .) that traces its roots back to the year 1942 when Joseph-Armand Bombardier founded L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

The Fort is adjacent to Aletheia University, which traces its origins back to 1872 when the Reverend Dr. George Leslie Mackay, a Canadian Presbyterian, established a mission and then a medical service and a school.

DRDC Atlantic traces its formation to 1944 when it was established as the Defence Research Establishment Atlantic ( DREA ) by the Royal Canadian Navy.

The Royal Newfoundland Regiment ( R NFLD R ) traces its origins to 1795, and since 1949 has been a militia or reserve unit of the Canadian Army.

The book traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies.

The Canadian Airborne Regiment traces its origin to the Second World War – era 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion ( 1 Can Para ) and the First Special Service Force ( FSSF ) which was administratively known as the 2nd Canadian Parachute Battalion.

Unlike many Canadian Arctic islands, no traces of Inuit or Thule camps have been found, suggesting the island has never been occupied, and this is likely due to its extreme northern latitude.

Although the expedition located only traces of Franklin's presence, Austin is credited with organising successful sledging expeditions along the coasts of several Canadian Arctic islands, including Bathurst, Byam Martin, Melville, and Prince of Wales Island.

* James Cameron, the Canadian film director, traces his family origins to the village

Oxfam Canada traces its history to 1963, when the British-based Oxford Committee for Famine Relief sought to establish a Canadian branch.