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[e] The British government made the transfer after Canada and the Hudson's Bay Company agreed to the terms, including a payment of £300,000 from Canada to the Company. [ 18 ] Due to a vague description and lack of quality surveying, part of the western border with the United States was unclear and disputed . [ 16 ]
Canada became the fourth country in the world and the first country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act in 2005. [238] Court decisions, starting in 2003, had already legalized same-sex marriage in eight out of ten provinces and one of three territories. Before the passage of the ...
The Saint Lawrence Seaway, a joint project between Canada and the United States, is officially opened. [114] 1960 1 July First Nations people are granted the right to vote in federal elections without having to give up their status and treaty rights. [115] 1965 15 February Canada adopts the maple leaf for the national flag. 1967 27 April
The country now known as Canada is—generally—the land between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans, plus 52,455 islands, and minus the state of Alaska. Canada’s southern border is ...
From the 16th to the early 18th century, Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River. [10] Following the British conquest of New France, this area was known as the British Province of Quebec from 1763 to 1791. [11] In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
A Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Civil Government of Canada was appointed on May 2, 1828 "to enquire into the state of the civil government of Canada, as established by the Act 31 Geo. III., chap. 31, and to report their observations and opinions thereupon to the house." It reported on July 22 of the same year.
Canada became a semi-independent federated grouping of provinces and a dominion after the Constitution Act of 1867 (formerly called the British North America Act, 1867). [9] Originally three provinces of British North America, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada (which would become Ontario and Quebec) united to form the new ...
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