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	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- THE LEGISLATURE AND EARLY LEGISLATION IN UPPER CANADA
		Upper Canada's parliament met once a year and between the years 1792 and 1820, the sessions lasted on the average 31 sittings or days.
		In the pioneer society of Upper Canada legislation was new and practical in nature since it was needed to foster growth in the new province operating under a new constitution.
		News of the regicide horrified the citizens of Upper Canada.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /lluc/lluc2.html (6615 words)

	Parliament of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Parliament of Canada (French: Parlement du Canada) is Canada's legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.
		The Parliament of Canada was granted limited power to amend the constitution by a British Act of Parliament in 1949, but it was not permitted to affect the powers of provincial governments, the official positions of the English and French languages, or the five-year term of Parliament.
		The Parliament of Canada last requested the Parliament of the United Kingdom to enact a constitutional amendment in 1982, when the Canada Act 1982 was requested and passed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parliament_of_Canada (4210 words)

	Canadian House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moreover, the Government of Canada is responsible solely to the House of Commons; the Prime Minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains the support of the Lower House.
		The new Parliament of Canada consisted of the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the Senate and the House of Commons.
		The Parliament of Canada was based on the Westminster model (that is, the model of the Parliament of the United Kingdom); however, unlike the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the powers of the Parliament of Canada were limited in that other powers were assigned exclusively to the provincial legislatures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_House_of_Commons (4102 words)

	Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Canada was a major front in the War of 1812 between the United States and British Empire and its successful defence had important long-term effects on Canada, including the building of a sense of unity and nationalism among British North Americans.
		Canada joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990 and hosted the OAS General Assembly in Windsor in June 2000, and the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001.
		Canada's two official languages, English and French, are the mother tongues of 59.7% and 23.2% of the population, respectively.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Canada (6701 words)

	CANADA - LoveToKnow Article on CANADA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Canada the isotherms by no means follow parallels of latitude, especially in summer when in the western half of the country they run nearly north-west and south-east; so that the average temperature of 55 is found about on the Arctic circle in the Mackenzie river valley, in lat.
		The several kinds of geese including the Canada goose, the Arctic goose or wavey, the laughing goose, the brant and othersall breed inthe northern regions, but are found in great numbers throughout the several provinces, passing north in the spring and south in the autumn.
		An act authorizing the change of control was passed by the ithpetlal parliament in July 1868; the arrangement made with the Hudsons Bay Company was accepted by the Canadian parliament in June 1869; and the deed of surrender from the Hudsons Bay Company to Her Majesty is dated November I9th, 1869.
	56.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CANADA.htm (20927 words)

	Canada - Currency
		In 1796 the Legislature of Upper Canada passed an Act for the better regulation of coins current in the province, and by this Act certain coins of various countries, including Portugal, America, Great Britain, Spain and France, were made legal tender at specified values.
		On the two Canadas being united in 1840, an Act was passed repealing all past legislation dealing with currency, and creating as the new basis a pound currency.
		On December 10th, 1858, the first purely Canadian coins were struck at the Royal Mint in London ; they were of twenty, ten and five cent pieces in silver, and one cent in copper.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/canada-51.shtml (1157 words)

	Immigration Canada services. Employment and Canada immigration department office. Get Canadian citizenship
		When the European explorers arrived, Canada was populated by a diverse range of Aboriginal peoples who, depending on the environment, lived nomadic or settled lifestyles, were hunters, fishers or farmers.
		Parliament received the power to legislate over matters of national interest (such as criminal law, trade and commerce, and national defence), while the provinces were given legislative powers over matters of "particular" interest (such as property and civil rights, hospitals and education).
		The Parliament of Canada has since passed a bill, on February 2, 1996, guaranteeing Canada 's 5 major regions that no constitutional change concerning them would be made without their unanimous consent.
	www.go-to-canada.com /en_history.htm (1125 words)

	Canada - Confederation
		This attitude caused in turn the greatest irritation in Upper Canada, and since by the Act of 1841 Upper and Lower Canada sent an equal number of members to the House, the Assembly was equally divided, and it became almost impossible to carry on the public business.
		He felt that the dignity of Canada should not have allowed her to send delegates to beg for a fresh Treaty, but that there should be a fair Treaty, and not one dictated by the American Government.
		Canada reeled under the dislocation of trade, and a lesser people might have succumbed ; as it was the unneighbourly action of the U.S.A. ruffled her pride.
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	A Brief History of Canada
		Parliament received the power to legislate over matters of national interest (such as criminal law, trade and commerce, and national defence), while the provinces were given legislative powers over matters of "particular" interest (such as property and civil rights, hospitals and education).
		Canada has participated in the United Nations since its inception and is the only nation to have taken part in almost all of the UN's major peacekeeping operations.
		The Parliament of Canada has since passed a bill, on February 2, 1996, guaranteeing Canada's 5 major regions that no constitutional change concerning them would be made without their unanimous consent.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Village/1479/canada.html (1731 words)

	Canada - free-definition
		Canada, which has been inhabited by aboriginal peoples, known in Canada as the First Nations, for about 10,000 years, was first visited by Europeans around 1000, when the Vikings briefly settled at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
		Canada's judical branch of government is composed of a variety of federal and provincial level courts that deal with cases involving federal or provincial realms of jurisdiction.
		Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges (including the Rocky Mountains) and the wild animals that reside within them, such as moose, beavers, and grizzly bears.
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /Canada.html (3935 words)

	1996 Country Commercial Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canada applies higher seasonal duties on fresh vegetable imports during the local marketing season but for perishables they are in effect for a relatively short period.
		Canada is, however, one of the few OECD countries that still has a formal investment review process, and foreign investment is prohibited or restricted in several sectors of the economy.
		Canada has no restriction on outward foreign investment, and Canadian firms have a significant presence in the United States Since the beginning of 1994, investment relations between the United States and Canada have been governed by the NAFTA negotiated by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/economics/commercial_guides/canada.html (17649 words)

	Judicial Assistance in Canada
		Canada''s accession to the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters (20 UST 361; TIAS 6638) provides a simple but indirect method for effecting service in civil and commercial matters when more direct means prove inappropriate or unfeasible.
		Canada is not a party to any multilateral treaty on obtaining evidence, such as the 1970 Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters.
		Although there are no rules in Canada which prohibit foreign tribunals or litigants from taking evidence from a willing person, the conduct of a hearing presided over by a foreign official or pursuant to a federal or state investigation remains subject to the consent of the Government of Canada.
	travel.state.gov /law/canada_legal.html (2599 words)

	Canada ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
		In fact, Canada's founders, led by Sir John A. Macdonald wished their new nation to be called the "Kingdom of Canada", however the British Colonial Office at the time worried it would anger the Americans and requested "Dominion" to be used instead.
		Canada occupies most of the northern portion of North America, sharing land borders with the contiguous United States to the south and with the US state of Alaska to the northwest, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.
		Canada is the world's second-largest country in total area, after Russia, and the fourth largest in land area, after Russia, China and the United States.
	www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=156 (4937 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit - Election Dictionary
		Generally, if Canada’s governing party cannot earn the support of a majority of MPs on a major budget vote, a vote to accept the speech from the throne or a major piece of legislation, the vote is treated as a confidence motion.
		The houses of Parliament are the elected lower house, the House of Commons and the Senate, whose members are appointed by the prime minister.
		Elections Canada defines a third party as "a person or group, other than a candidate, registered party or electoral district association of a registered party," and requires that they be registered if they spend $500 or more in election advertising expenses.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/electiondictionary.html (5240 words)

	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- The 1st Parliament of Upper Canada
		The spot was marked by an old oak tree known as the "Parliament Oak." A picture of the decaying tree is in the Niagara-on-the-Lake museum.
		Simcoe arranged the opening of the first parliament in the tiny clearing on the sloping banks of the Niagara River with all the pageantry and pomp he could manage.
		The meeting of the colonial legislature exemplified the linkage that connected the corridors of power in Parliament and the backwoods of Upper Canada.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /pp/pp2.html (2248 words)

	Upper Canada People
		Governor-general of Canada (as Marquis of Lorne), 1878-1883.
		Educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto; studied law and called to the oar, 1853; made Q C., 1867; Bencher of the Iaw Society, 1871.
		In 1879 consecrated bishop of Montreal; in 1901 archbishop; and in 1904 primate of all Canada.
	webhome.idirect.com /~griffish/gene/ucpeople.html (11146 words)

	Canada : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		Canada has always been a loosely linked country, a confederation of provinces, not a union of states.
		What rankled most with them was that Canada never recognized French as a second national language; the French were expected to be bilingual if they wanted good careers, but the English-speakers got along nicely with just their own tongue.
		But all Canada would be poorer by losing the special flavor and rich cultural heritage imparted by the presence of La Belle Province.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/canada/0216020044.html (3756 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2004 - Voter Toolkit - Election Dictionary
		An 1840s Upper Canada radical reformist party named the Clear Grits merged in 1870 with reformers in Quebec to form the Liberals.
		In her role as Sovereign, Elizabeth II performs only ceremonial duties, which are usually delegated to her representative in Canada, the non-partisan and appointed Governor General.
		Canada does not use voting machines or punch-tab systems that are sometimes used in other countries.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes2004/voterstoolkit/anelectiondictionary.html (3315 words)

	Ontario, Canada
		Ontario Province is the political, industrial and cultural heart of Canada and its second largest province, situated between Québec and Manitoba.
		Success in this struggle sharpened local self-awareness and gave Upper Canada a sense of its own identity.After the Anglo-American war the policy of encouraging immigration with land-grants and other inducements led to a quadrupling of the population.
		Ontario, on the basis of its population, is entitled to 95 members in the Federal Parliament and 24 senators in the Senate.
	www.planetware.com /canada/ontario-cdn-on-on.htm (1314 words)

	~ Canada Day Quiz ~
		Canada is the world's largest country, after the collapse of the Russian Federation.
		Canada has set aside more than 100 national parks and historic sites in honour of the people, places and events that have marked the country's history.
		Canada's substantial role in the First World War won it representation distinct from Britain in the League of Nations (the predecessor to United Nations) after the war.
	www.accessv.com /~shawgrp/Canada.htm (1411 words)

	Constitution Act, 1930 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And whereas the Senate and Commons of Canada in Parliament assembled have submitted an address to His Majesty praying that His Majesty may graciously be pleased to give his consent to the submission of a measure to the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the confirmation of the said agreements:
		The foregoing provisions of this agreement may be varied by agreement confirmed by concurrent statutes of the Parliament of Canada and the Legislature of the Province.
		In order that the said national parks may be administered by Canada as such, all the rights of the Crown in all the lands, mines and minerals (precious and base) and the royalties incident thereto within any of the said parks are hereby vested in Canada, so far as they are not already so vested.
	www.solon.org /Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1930.html (2455 words)

	NationMaster.com - Detailed Country Profile: Canada
		A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown.
		Canada's paramount political problem is meeting public demands for quality improvements in health care and education services after a decade of budget cuts.
		The issue of reconciling Quebec's francophone heritage with the majority anglophone Canadian population has moved to the back burner in recent years; support for separatism abated after the Quebec government's referendum on independence failed to pass in October of 1995.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/ca (482 words)

	allAfrica.com: Gambia: Gender, Nation Building And Role of Parliaments Learn From Rwanda (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The objective of this conference is for the Rwanda parliament to share what they called good practices with other parliaments in the world and learn about what they have alone to achieve the objectives stated in international instruments and declarations such as the Beijing + 10 Declaration and the resolutions of the Inter-Parliamentary Union's Assemblies.
		The Rwandan Parliament would also like to see strategic partnerships and capacities of parliaments reinforced in their traditional missions of legislating, overseeing government action and advocating for the consideration of gender dimension in the parliament mission the conference also had specific objectives such as,
		Women constitute 48.8 percent of parliament and is leading world ranking of women in parliament, constituting all the seven political parties in Rwanda.
	allafrica.com /stories/200703070942.html (657 words)

	Queen Marie Collection
		The next stop was Hamilton, Ontario in Canada, where she spoke to a crowd from the rear of her train.
		After dinner, she went to the Parliament House and seated on a throne, received Romanian delegates and children in Romanian costumes gave her flowers.
		On the upper deck of the ship, Marie told reporters she was sorry to leave America, since she enjoyed her visit.
	speccoll.library.kent.edu /women/triptoamerica.html (3790 words)

	Encyclopedia [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A sound wave is usually represented graphically by a wavy, horizontal line; the upper part of the wave (the crest) indicates a compression and the lower part (the trough) indicates a rarefaction.
		[click for more] (10th century(9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000....
		Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796 Events Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York March 9 - Widow Joséphine de Beauharnais marries General Napoléon Bonaparte.
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	The Parish Register of Kingston 1785-1811 - PART 1
		She died in Kingston on the 10th of June, 1821, and was buried in the family plot in St. Paul's Churchyard.
		In the Upper Canada Gazette of July 10, 1794, he is mentioned as a Captain of Militia in the County of Lenox (Q Series, 280,1, p.246).
		This attempt to perpetuate in Upper Canada the American institution, the Town Meeting, which is still in full vigour in the United States, was repugnant to Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe.
	my.tbaytel.net /bmartin/kingstn1.htm (19246 words)

	The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Volume 41
		All the upper tribes prefer, also, to trade with the French rather than with the Dutch, since the route to the former is far easier.
		The governor of Canada, De Lauson, grants to the Jesuits a tract of land, ten leagues square, in the Onondaga country.
		They declared, in a word, that all the four Nations of the upper Iroquois were on fire; that they were leaguing together, and arming to repulse this enemy; and that all this compelled them earnestly to seek for Peace with us, even though they might not have had any such thoughts before.
	puffin.creighton.edu /jesuit/relations/relations_41.html (17502 words)

	The Kathmandu Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Speaking at the "Problems and Challenges of Judiciary" on the occasion of the 10th conference of the Judges of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court today, Chief Justice Upadhyaya said that it is not only maintaining formality to give justice but it is the right of every individual to get justice from the judiciary.
		CDM is the mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, which allows the developed countries to invest in clean technologies so that they could receive carbon-credits for their emissions of the greenhouse gases (GHG).
		Although there is a constitutional provision to call a parliament session before six months, the political parties are not certain whether the council of ministers would support this move at such a time when there is not the House of Representatives(HoR).
	www.kantipuronline.com /archive/kpost/2002-10-30/kp_frontpg.htm (4489 words)

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