History of Canada

The 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from June 15 1841 to 1843. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in April 1841. All sessions were held at Kingston, Canada West. ...more on Wikipedia about "1st Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 2nd Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from November 28 1844 to December 1847. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in October 1844. All sessions were held at Montreal, Canada East. ...more on Wikipedia about "2nd Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 3nd Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1848 to 1851. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in January 1848. The first session was held at Montreal, Canada East. In 1849, rioters protesting the Rebellion Losses Bill burned the parliament buildings. The remaining sessions were held in Toronto. ...more on Wikipedia about "3rd Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1852 to June 1854. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in October 1851. Sessions were held in Quebec City. ...more on Wikipedia about "4th Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1854 to November 1857. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in July 1854. Sessions were held in Quebec City until 1856 and then in Toronto. ...more on Wikipedia about "5th Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1858 to June 1861. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in December 1857. Sessions were held in Toronto in 1858 and then in Quebec City from 1859. In 1857, Queen Victoria had chosen Ottawa as the permanent seat for the Canadian government. ...more on Wikipedia about "6th Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 7th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1861 to May 1863. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in 1861. This was the first election in Canada to use a list of eligible voters prepared before the election. All sessions were held in Quebec City. The 7th Parliament ended following a vote of no confidence on May 6 1863. ...more on Wikipedia about "7th Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada was in session from 1863 to July 1866. Elections were held in the Province of Canada in August 1863. Sessions were held in Quebec City until 1866; the last session was held in Ottawa. ...more on Wikipedia about "8th Parliament of the Province of Canada"

The Act Against Slavery was an Act passed by Upper Canada on 1793-07-09 to prohibit slavery. The Act remained in force until 1833 when the British Parliament's Emancipation Act abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Act Against Slavery"

The Annexation Bill of 1866 was a bill passed in the United States House of Representatives in July 1866. It called for the annexation of British North America and the admission of its provinces as states and territories in the Union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annexation Bill of 1866"

At various times in Canadian history, groups and individuals have campaigned in favour of Canada's partial or total annexation by the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annexationist movements of Canada"

A number of instances of anti- Chinese legislation in Canada existed in the late 19th and early 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-Chinese legislation in Canada"

Assiniboia refers to a number of different locations and administrative jurisdictions in Canada. The name is taken from the Assiniboine First Nation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Assiniboia"

The Balfour Declaration of 1926 is a report of the October-November 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London. It states that the United Kingdom and the Dominions "are autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth". It was first introduced by Canada's Prime Minister at that time, William Lyon Mackenzie King. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balfour Declaration 1926" Made by shortopedia.

BC Rail ( AAR reporting marks BCOL and BCIT), known as the British Columbia Railway between 1972 and 1984 and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE; AAR reporting marks PGE and PGER) before 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. It was a class II regional railway and the third-largest in Canada, operating 2 320 km (1,441 miles) of mainline track. It was owned by the provincial government from 1918 until 2004, when it was sold to Canadian National Railway. ...more on Wikipedia about "BC Rail"

Black Donnellys is the common nickname of the Donnelly family, a family that emigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland, to Canada about 1845- 1846, and who participated in a notorious feud in Biddulph Township, Ontario. Biddulph Township contains the village of Lucan, a location forever linked with this feud. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Donnellys"

Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from Nova Scotia, a celebrated racing ship and a symbol of the province. The name "bluenose" originated as a nick-name for Nova Scotians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bluenose"

The Bridge River is, or was, a major tributary of British Columbia's Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of Lillooet. Its native name in the Lillooet language is Xwisten (pronounced Hwist'n). Dubbed Riviere du Font by Simon Fraser's exploring party in 1808, it was for a while known by the English version of that name, Fountain River; its confluence with the Fraser occurs at a double gorge formed by the two rivers, which are forced through narrow banks at this point and so reminiscent of a fountain (in another version of the name, the surname of one of Fraser's men was supposedly du Font, giving the location its name of the Lower Fountains (the Upper Fountains being another few miles upstream on the Fraser, today's community of Fountain The river was renamed due to the location of a bridge across the Fraser at this point, originally a pole-structure built by the native St'at'imc people but replaced at the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in 1858 by a white-run tollbridge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bridge River"

The British Columbia Coast is one of Canada's two continental coastlines, the other being the coastline from the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean via the Northwest Passage and Hudson Bay to the Ungava Peninsula and Labrador and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Nova Scotia. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Columbia Coast"

By 1763, British North America included 19 British colonies and territories on the continent of North America. Increasing friction between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies lead to the American Revolutionary War (starting in 1775) and the formation of the United States of America in 1776. ...more on Wikipedia about "British North America"

The British North America Acts 1867–1975 were a series of Acts of the British Parliament dealing with the government of Canada. The first and most important Act of the series, the British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867), was passed in 1867, and created the self-governing dominion of Canada. Canada and the other British dominions achieved full legislative sovereignty with the passage of the Statute of Westminster 1931, but prior to the Canada Act 1982 the British North America Acts were excluded from the operation of the Statute of Westminster and could only be amended by the British Parliament. ...more on Wikipedia about "British North America Acts" It must be shortopedia. History_of_Canada

"Canada", or "The Centennial Song" (French: "Une chanson du centenaire") was written by Bobby Gimby in 1967 to celebrate Canada's centennial and Expo '67. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canada (song)"

This article covers Canada and the American Civil War. The United Kingdom (and therefore its North American colonies) was officially neutral for the duration of the American Civil War and sympathies in the nation were divided. Despite this, tensions between Britain and the North were high due to incidents on the seas such as the Trent Affair and the Confederate commissioning of the CSS Alabama from Britain. If the conflict had continued to escalate Canada would have been the first target of Union forces. During the war Britain thus reinforced its garrisons in Canada. Many Canadians also felt the smaller, weaker United States that would result from the separation of the South would be a positive development. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canada and the American Civil War"

Canada's official position was as a "non-participant" in the Vietnam War, but the war had an important impact on the country and Canada and Canadians had an impact on the conflict itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canada and the Vietnam War"

Canada does not possess any weapons of mass destruction and has signed treaties repudiating possession of them. Canada ratified the Geneva Protocol in 1930. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canada and weapons of mass destruction"

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