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Active military families were more likely than Veteran and non-military families to have moved to a different province or territory in the past five years. The report detailed that 24. 1% of couple families and 15. 4% of one-parent families in the active category lived in a different province compared to 4. 0% and 1. 9%, respectively, for ...
National Defence Headquarters is a "combined" headquarters consisting of both military and civilian personnel. The Standing Committee on National Defence is responsible for examining legislation, activities, and expenditures of the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, as well as the effectiveness of related policies and ...
Previous National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Department of National Defence was established by the National Defence Act, which merged the Department of Militia and Defence (which was created in 1906 when the British Army withdrew its forces stationed in Canada), the Department of Naval Services (the department responsible for the administration of the Royal Canadian ...
The Ceremonial Guard (CG; French: Garde de cérémonie) is an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Armed Forces that performs the changing the guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall, with the National War Memorial being sentried by the National Sentry Program (NSP), which is carried out by different regiments and other units in order of precedence throughout the ...
The affair involved Gerda Munsinger, a German citizen who had been convicted in Germany as a common prostitute, a petty thief and a smuggler, who emigrated to Canada in 1956 in spite of a warning card dated 1952, and who was in 1960 the mistress of the former Associate Minister of National Defence Pierre Sévigny.
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada: Vancouver—Burrard: June 11, 1945: Canadian Army (1929-) Sydney Chilton Mewburn: Unionist: Hamilton East: December 17, 1917: Canadian Army (1910-) Daniel Roland Michener: Progressive Conservative: St. Paul's: August 10, 1953: Royal Air Force (1918) Fred J. Mifflin: Liberal: Bonavista—Trinity ...
Canada is an industrial nation with a highly developed science and technology sector. Since the First World War, Canada has produced its own infantry fighting vehicle, anti-tank guided missile and small arms for the Army. Regular and reserve units operate state-of-the-art equipment able to handle modern threats through 2030–2035.
Widows of Governors General of Canada (as former viceregal consort of Canada): Diana Fowler LeBlanc, widow of Roméo LeBlanc; Former Prime Ministers of Canada in order of their first assumption of office: Joe Clark (1979–1980) Kim Campbell (1993) Jean Chrétien (1993–2003) Paul Martin (2003–2006) Stephen Harper (2006–2015)