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  2. Marriage in Canada - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, there were 146,618 marriages in Canada, down 6.8% from 157,395 in 2000, [1] but by 2020, there were only 98,355 marriages registered in Canada, which was the lowest total since 1938. [2] Prince Edward Island had the highest crude marriage rate (6.5 per 1,000 people) and Quebec had the lowest (3.0).

  3. Divorce demography - Wikipedia

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    This compares the number of divorces in a given year to the number of marriages in that same year (the ratio of the crude divorce rate to the crude marriage rate). [1] For example, if there are 500 divorces and 1,000 marriages in a given year in a given area, the ratio would be one divorce for every two marriages, e.g. a ratio of 0.50 (50%).

  4. Divorce Act (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    Instead, there was a patch-work of divorce laws in the different provinces, depending on the laws in force in each province at the time it joined Confederation: In the three Maritime provinces , divorce was governed by laws enacted by the colonial governments prior to Confederation in 1867 (in Nova Scotia from 1758, in New Brunswick from 1791 ...

  5. Marriage rates are up, and divorce rates are down, new ... - AOL

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    In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people. Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.

  6. Divorce rates are trickier to pin down than you may think ...

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  7. Canadian family law - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, family law is primarily statute-based. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over marriage and divorce under section 91(26) of the Constitution Act, 1867. The main piece of federal legislation governing the issues arising upon married spouses’ separation and the requirements for divorce is the Divorce Act.

  8. Study finds the bigger the age gap, the more likely that the ...

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    But even just being one year apart puts you at a 3 percent higher divorce rate. Although, according to the knower-of-all-things, Facebook, those low age gaps are pretty common. The company used ...

  9. Divorce law by country - Wikipedia

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    The federal government used this power in 1968 to enact the first Divorce Act which applied throughout Canada. This means that Canada's divorce law is now uniform throughout Canada, including Quebec, which differs from the other provinces in its use of the civil law as codified in the Civil Code of Quebec as opposed to the common law that is in ...