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Canada First permanent English settlement in North America 1585: Roanoke Colony: North Carolina: United States: Settlers were left on the island on August 17, 1585. [13] 1587-1623 Mantle Site: Ontario Canada Massive late Woodland Huron-Wendat village site, with trade links reaching as far as Newfoundland. 1596 Monterrey: Nuevo León: Mexico ...
For international access the NANP is assigned the country code 1, which is dialed as a prefix in the international E.164 telephone numbering plan. The trunk prefix for dialing long-distance calls, across numbering plan area (NPA) boundaries within Canada or to other NANP countries, is also 1.
An area code of three digits dialed after the country code determines the area served in the United States and its territories, Canada, and much of the Caribbean. Zone 2 uses two 2-digit codes (20, 27) and eight sets of 3-digit codes (21x–26x, 28x, 29x), mostly to serve Africa , but also Aruba , Faroe Islands , Greenland and British Indian ...
this was the first part of North America to have its code changed three times: from 213 to 714 1951: to 619 in 1982, and to 760 in 1997 was to have originally split off the portion of 760 serving San Diego County to a new 442 area code in late 2008/early 2009; that plan was cancelled
Telephone dial number card of c.1948 with the local telephone number 4-5876 in Atlantic City, NJ, using the central office prefix 4, later converted to AT4 Face of a 1939 rotary telephone dial with the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey, as the central office prefix, later converted to LA6.
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the telephone country code 1. Some North American countries, most notably Mexico, do not participate in the NANP.
The term dominion was chosen to indicate Canada's status as a self-governing polity of the British Empire, the first time it was used about a country. [126] With the coming into force of the British North America Act, 1867 (enacted by the British Parliament), Canada became a federated country in its own right.
As part of documenting and evacuation of former slaves to British North America, the Book of Negroes was compiled in New York City. Enslaved Africans in America who escaped to the British during the American Revolutionary War became the first settlement of Black Nova Scotians and Black Canadians. [24] 1783 3 September