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Converted small area of fishing camps west of Suomi ON from CST/CDT to EST/EDT; this improves alignment with boundaries shown on the official Ontario road map. Also applied a few cosmetic changes. 23:33, 25 October 2020: 1,114 × 942 (381 KB) MapGrid: Time zone boundary adjustment in the vicinity of Schefferville.
In 2019, the legislature of British Columbia began the process of eliminating the practice of observing daylight saving time in the province. On October 31, 2019, the government introduced Bill 40 in the legislature, which would define "Pacific Time" as "7 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)". [ 28 ]
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [24] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Port Arthur, Ontario (now part of Thunder Bay), was the first municipality in the world to enact daylight saving time, on July 1, 1908. [4] [5] (Germany later became the first country to adopt the time change, on April 30, 1916.) [6]
File:Canada Alberta-British Columbia location map.svg. ... Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:43, 30 June 2024: 2,863 × 1,960 (948 KB) NordNordWest
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').
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