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The Canadian silver dollar (French: Dollar argent du Canada) was first issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.The coin's reverse design was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn and portrays a voyageur and a person of Indigenous descent paddling a birch-bark canoe.
Election 1965: November 8, 1965 40.18: 32.41 17.91 9.50 Gallup November 3, 1965 [1] 44: 29 18 9 — — Gallup October 1965 [2] 47: 30 16 7 — — Gallup September 1965 [3] 48: 28 15 9 — — Gallup July 1965 [4] 45: 29 15 11 — — Gallup May 1965 [4] 45: 29 15 11 — — Gallup March 1965 [4] 45: 29 15 11 — — Gallup January 1965 [5] 47 ...
Results in Quebec [1]; Party Seats Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Votes % +/- Liberals: 56 19 0 0 0 0 0 928,530 45.58 Progressive Conservative
The 1965 Canadian federal election was held on November 8, 1965 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 27th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the House.
Expansion in the numismatic line was a key element of the 1990s. The first significant sign was the creation of the two-hundred dollar gold coin. Starting in 1990, this coin was sold for a higher price than its face value. The first coin commemorated the Silver Jubilee of Canada's flag and sold for $395.00.
The $1 coin (the "loonie") was released in 1987. The $1 banknote remained in issue and in circulation alongside the one-dollar coin for the next two years, until it was withdrawn in 1989. The coin was to be the voyageur-design silver (then nickel) dollar coins that had previously been in limited circulation. The dies were lost or stolen in ...
Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow, following the end of Reconstruction. Payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states until 1965. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws.
Poll taxes are regressive, meaning the higher someone's income is, the lower the tax is as a proportion of income: for example, a $100 tax on an income of $10,000 is a 1% tax rate, while $100 tax on a $500 income is 20%. Its acceptance or "neutrality" depends on the balance between the tax demanded and the resources of the population.