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In January 1893, concerned about Canada's possible annexation, a goal then being pursued by the Continental Union Association, a group of Ontario and Quebec Liberals, Prime Minister Sir John Thompson delivered a speech on tolerance, Canadian nationalism and continued loyalty to Britain. Thompson eventually learned that the desire to make Canada ...
Conference room at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Teletype terminals at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Organigramme. Emergency Government Headquarters is the name given for a system of nuclear fallout shelters built by the Government of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s as part of continuity of government planning at the height of the Cold War.
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a world power, radically transforming a principally agricultural and rural dominion of a dying empire into a truly sovereign nation, with a market economy focused on a combination of resource extraction and refinement, heavy manufacturing, and high-technology research and development.
Cold War history of Canada (1945−1992). Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. C. Canada and the Vietnam War (8 P) Cold War ...
Military collaboration was close during World War II and continued throughout the Cold War, bilaterally through NORAD and multilaterally through NATO. However, Canada has long been reluctant to participate in US military operations that are not sanctioned by the United Nations, [12] such as the Vietnam War or the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [13]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Canada is "not for sale" amid a flurry of comments from President-elect Donald Trump about the country potentially becoming a part of the United States. "I love the ...
Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada with the latest instance coming Tuesday when he said that he wanted to acquire the U.S.'s northern neighbor with "economic force."
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the war. [4] Britain made several concessions to the United States at the expense of the North American colonies. [5] Notably, the borders between Canada and the United States were officially demarcated; [5] all land south of the Great Lakes, which was formerly a part of the Province of Quebec and included modern-day Michigan, Illinois and Ohio, was ...