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The Nickle Resolution was a motion brought forward in 1917 by Conservative MP William Folger Nickle in the House of Commons of Canada. There had been controversy before the end of World War I over the honouring of Canadians—especially the appointment of Sam Hughes as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (a non-hereditary honour) in 1915 and the elevation of Hugh Graham as the Baron ...
Like that of the United Kingdom, the constitution of Upper Canada was established on the mixed monarchy model. Mixed monarchy is a form of government that integrates elements of democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy. [9] Upper Canada, however, had no aristocracy. The methods pursued to create one were similar to that used in Britain itself.
He is arguably Canada's most famous physician Sir Vincent Meredith, a member of a notable Canadian family, was the first Canadian-born president of the Bank of Montreal, then Canada's national bank. Although a baronet is not a peer, it is a British hereditary title and an honour that was conferred upon several Canadians.
At the outbreak of the war of 1812 80,000 of 110,000 inhabitants in Ontario were American born or descendants of Americans. In the Maritimes 110,000 of 135,000 were Americans who settled before 1775 or after and their descendants. This fact gave English-speaking Canada a pronounced American cultural flavor into the 1830s.
The history of monarchy in Canada stretches from pre-colonial times through to the present day. The date monarchy was established in Canada varies; some sources say it was when the French colony of New France was founded in the name of King Francis I in 1534, [1] while others state it was in 1497, when John Cabot made landfall in what is thought to be modern day Newfoundland or Nova Scotia ...
[29] Thus, by the time of Canada's formation in 1867, constitutional monarchy was, after their analysis of the American republic, unanimously selected by the Fathers of Confederation – led by the monarchist John A. Macdonald, and including delegates from Quebec [29] – and approved of by the three elected legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia ...
This would be the largest emancipation of African Americans prior to the American Civil War. [4] Of those that escaped to Canada, about 2000 settled in Nova Scotia and about 400 settled in New Brunswick. [5] Together they were the largest single source of African-American immigrants, whose descendants formed the core of African Canadians.
A demographic result was the shifting of the destination of American migration from Upper Canada to Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, without fear of Indigenous attacks. [110] After the war, supporters of Britain tried to repress the republicanism that was common among American immigrants to Canada . [ 110 ]