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The DieHard brand is also used on hand tools, power tools, battery chargers, booster cables, power inverters, alkaline batteries, tires, work boots, and the batteries for Craftsman power tools. Battery chargers were initially made by Associated Equipment under the "608" model prefix, and then later Schumacher Electric under the "200" model prefix.
Canada Lands was reactivated in August 1995 by the Government of Canada as a "federal nonagent commercial Crown corporation" for the disposition of physical government properties deemed superfluous. [ 4 ] : 69 It is mandated by the government to act as its agent for the disposal of such assets, [ 4 ] : 67 and the government is the company's ...
That was the pattern of land ownership in the earliest British settlements in what is now eastern Canada. When the Crown granted land to settlers, the land grant normally included all minerals, other than precious minerals. [6] The result is that in Ontario, Quebec, and the four Atlantic provinces, much of the mineral rights are privately owned ...
The United Kingdom transferred most of its remaining land in North America to Canada, with the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land becoming the North-West Territories. [e] The British government made the transfer after Canada and the Hudson's Bay Company agreed to the terms, including a payment of £300,000 from Canada to the Company. [18]
The general sale of property comes with a buyer beware guide (Latin: caveat emptor) with three classification; firstly, owner must disclosed the full extent of the quality of the property; secondly, potential environmental contamination must be clear; thirdly, the law does not accommodate to the full extent for fraud.
The British American Land Company (BALC) was a company formed in 1832 for the purpose of purchasing land and encouraging British immigration to Lower Canada.It was founded and promoted by John Galt, Edward Ellice [a] and others to acquire and manage the development of almost 1,100,000 acres (1,719 sq mi; 4,452 km 2) of Crown land and other lands in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada, in ...
This list of place names in Canada of Indigenous origin contains Canadian places whose names originate from the words of the First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, collectively referred to as Indigenous Peoples. When possible, the original word or phrase used by Indigenous Peoples is included, along with its generally believed meaning.
In 1956, the Government of Canada purchased 6 km 2 (1,500 acres) of the land previously owned by the Sulpicians for the Mohawks to live on, but did not grant this land reserve status. [ 12 ] In 1975, the Mohawk Council submitted a comprehensive land claims asserting Aboriginal title to lands along the St. Lawrence River , the Ottawa River and ...