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The first non-U.S. chapter was created in 1956 in Ontario, Canada. The first YPO University was held in Miami Beach, Florida. YPO merged with its graduate organization, World Presidents Organization (WPO), in 2007. The YPO Global Pulse survey launched in 2009, and is a quarterly economic confidence index that shares business insights from CEOs ...
Journeys: A History of Canada. Oxford, UK: Nelson Education. ISBN 978-0-17-644244-6. Hayes, Derek (2002). Historical Atlas of Canada. Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 1-55054-918-9. Kingsford, William (1890). The History of Canada: Canada under French rule. Harvard University. Morton, Desmond (2001). A short history of Canada (5th ed.). Marks and ...
Grey Owl (1888–1938) (real name Archibald Stanfield Belaney) – conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the beavers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba Rick Hansen CC OBC LLD ( hc ) DLitt ( hc ) (born 1957) – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research
Canada's prime ministers during its first century. The prime minister of Canada is an official who serves as the primary minister of the Crown, chair of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada. Twenty-three people (twenty-two men and one woman) have served as prime ministers.
August 7 - Canada joins a United Nations force to fight in Korean War; August 22 – August 30 - Rail workers strike shuts down much of the Canadian economy; October 31 - The oil pipeline linking Edmonton to Sarnia is completed; November 28 - Canada joins onto the Colombo Plan; December 18 - Korean War: First Canadian troops arrive in Korea.
In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911. Chong Lim would travel to visit Sum Ying regularly in the ensuing years and they had three children. [40] However, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented her from joining her husband in Canada. In 1954, she emigrated to Canada under the sponsorship of her husband. [41]
The government invokes the War Measures Act to apprehend the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), a separatist paramilitary group in Quebec that was responsible for over 160 violent incidents that killed eight people and in October 1970 had kidnapped a British official (later released) and Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte, who they ...
It was one of the worst tornadoes in Canadian history — killing six people, injuring 200, and causing C$17 million dollars in property damage. September 27 - TVOntario begins broadcasting; October - Canada establishes formal relations with the People's Republic of China. [4]