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Places in Pacific Time that have not observed DST since the database cut-off date (1970) 6446092 on OpenStreetMap: CA +5546−12014 America/Dawson_Creek MST - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John) −07:00: −07:00: Places in Mountain Time that stopped using DST in 1973 6483979 on OpenStreetMap: CA +5848−12242 America/Fort_Nelson MST - BC (Ft Nelson ...
Port Arthur, Ontario (now part of Thunder Bay), was the first municipality in the world to enact daylight saving time, on July 1, 1908. [4] [5] (Germany later became the first country to adopt the time change, on April 30, 1916.) [6]
The Government of Canada recommends that all-numeric dates in both English and French use the YYYY-MM-DD format codified in ISO 8601. [11] The Standards Council of Canada also specifies this as the country's date format. [12] [13] The YYYY-MM-DD format is the only officially recommended method of writing a numeric date in Canada. [2]
In Canada, the provinces of New Brunswick, [1] Nova Scotia, [2] and Prince Edward Island are in this zone, though legally they calculate time specifically as an offset of four hours from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT–4) rather than from UTC. Small portions of Quebec (eastern Côte-Nord and the Magdalen Islands) also observe Atlantic
Canada Flag Coat of arms Motto: A mari usque ad mare (Latin) "From Sea to Sea" Anthem: "O Canada" Royal anthem: "God Save the King" Capital Ottawa 45°24′N 75°40′W / 45.400°N 75.667°W / 45.400; -75.667 Largest city Toronto Official languages English French Demonym(s) Canadian Government Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy • Monarch Charles III • Governor ...
Canada has no longwave time signal transmitters. The American station WWVB is the only option for reliable time signals during geomagnetic storms in the Western Arctic, based on WWVB's published pattern maps. If WWVB is not available, those who need precision time transfer may be able to use GPS time transfer instead.
Ontario [a] is the southernmost province of Canada. [9] [b] Located in Central Canada, [10] Ontario is the country's most populous province.As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5 per cent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec).
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, [10] it is the fourth-most populous city in North America.