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Melville Waddington served with the 12th Brigade Ammunition Column of the Canadian Field Artillery, receiving his commission in March 1916. [5] [8] He was found to be fit for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 21 April 1916. [5] He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 16 April 1917, and was posted to No. 20 Squadron on 18 June 1917.
This is a list of Canadian historical population by province and territory, drawn from the Canadian census of population data and pre-Confederation censuses of Newfoundland and Labrador. Since 1871, Canada has conducted regular national census counts. The data for 1851 to 1976 is drawn primarily from Historical Statistics of Canada, 2nd edition ...
Events from the year 1865 in Canada. Incumbents. Crown. Monarch – Victoria [1] ... Arrest on U.S.A.-bound Canadian ship of man ready to kill "Yankees" [8]
The North-West Mounted Police is established to enforce Canadian sovereignty of the Northwest Territories. [62] 1 July: Prince Edward Island enters Confederation as the seventh province. [63] 3 October: Treaty 3 is signed between the Ojibwe First Nations and the Canadian Crown, surrendering lands in Northwestern Ontario (present-day) and ...
The Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service, also known as the British Columbia Coast Steamships (BCCS), was a division of Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), which began operating Pacific coastal shipping routes in the late 19th century. The development of coastal passenger and cargo shipping routes extended from British Columbia to Alaska and to ...
Canada's cities span the continent of North America from east to west, but many of them are located relatively close to the border with the United States.Cities are home to the majority of Canada's approximately 35.75 million inhabitants (as of 2015)—just over 80 percent of Canadians lived in urban areas in 2006.
It provided government subsidies for branch lines and passenger services, [11] which at the time were still operated primarily by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. In 1978, Canadian National passenger services were transferred to a new federal agency, Via Rail. CN was privatized in November 1995.
Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007) – Squamish and Nuu-chah-nulth ; Nicola (1780/1785–c. 1865) – Grand chief of the Okanagan people, and jointly chief of the Nlaka'pamux-Okanagan-Nicola Athapaskan alliance in the Nicola Valley and of the Kamloops group of the Secwepemc; Andy Paull (1892–1959) – Squamish; Stewart Phillip