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Francis Pegahmagabow MM** (1891–1952) – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I; Frank Pickersgill (1915–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis; Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM DSC CD ScDMil (1913–2005) – war hero; George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) – last soldier killed in World War I
Canada withdraws from the War in Afghanistan at the end of the first phase. [133] [134] [143] 2018: 17 October The Cannabis Act becomes law, making recreational cannabis use legal throughout the country. Canada is the second country (after Uruguay in 2013) to legalize recreational cannabis use nationwide. [144] 2020: 7 January - March
Canadian Who's Who is a publication containing biographical information about 13,000 notable Canadians.Because of the absence of biographical fact-checking by the publishers (e.g. candidates send in their own biographical details without any checking), Canadian Who's Who is not used as a reference by mainstream Canadian media, and is rarely, if ever, quoted as a source, according to a ...
East Block (left) and the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council (right) have housed the office of the prime minister since Canadian Confederation, the former from 1867 to 1977 and the latter since 1977. Surveys have been conducted to construct historical rankings of individuals who have served as prime minister of Canada.
Released on Thursday, the list contains all of the people who made an impact in 2016, ranging from world leaders and local activists to top 40 artists. Time magazine reveals 2016 list of '100 Most ...
Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. (1990). 156 pp. Berger, Carl. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (1986) Berger, Carl, ed. Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing (1987) Bliss, Michael.
Historian, author, role in Canadian Civil Service Commission 1938 Clifford Sifton: Cabinet minister (Interior), promoted immigration 1955 John Graves Simcoe: Lieutenant-Governor (Upper Canada), military leader (Queen's Rangers) 1974 George Simpson: Governor-in-Chief (Rupert's Land), General Superintendent (Hudson's Bay Company) 1927 Thomas Simpson
The most influential of the amateur historians was François-Xavier Garneau (1809–1866), a self-educated poor boy who defined the essence of Quebec nationalistic history for a century with his Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu’ à nos jours (3 vol., multiple editions from 1845 onward). [1]