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	Canada - MSN Encarta
		They crossed the Atlantic on steamships run by the Canadian Pacific and often headed west on immigrant trains to settle on the vast tracts of farmland that the Canadian Pacific had been granted by the government.
		Canadian soldiers achieved notable victories, particularly at Vimy Ridge in the spring of 1917.
		Meanwhile the Canadian Corps, commanded by Canadian general Arthur Currie, helped spearhead the final advances of Britain and its allies before an armistice ended the war in November 1918.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563379_26/Canada.html (2013 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1963 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Canadian federal election of 1963 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
		Despite winning 41% of the vote, which is usually sufficient for ensuring the election of a majority government, the Liberals fell seven seats short of their target.
		They were again disappointed by the failure of their new partnership with the labour movement to produce an electoral breakthrough, particularly in the province of Ontario, which has the largest population and the largest number of seats in the House of Commons.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Canadian_federal_election,_1963 (582 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1940 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history.
		It was held March 26, 1940 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
		The election was overshadowed by the Second World War, which caused many Canadians to rally around the government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1940 (391 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1988 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
		It was an election largely fought on a single issue: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
		The election was the last for Canada's Social Credit movement: the party won no seats, and insignificant portion of the popular vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_Canadian_election (438 words)

	Canadian federal election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000.
		The election was regarded as a great success by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal Party, but a failure for every other party.
		On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks' pooled election feed from Day's riding.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Canadian_federal_election,_2000 (751 words)

	canadian federal election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
		By-elections can be held between general elections when seats become vacant.
		Canadian election turn-out is generally higher than that in the United States but lower than in most European nations.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Canadian_federal_election (916 words)

	Canadian social credit movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1970 provincial election, the Liberals took 72 seats, followed by the Union Nationale with 17, and Ralliement créditiste du Québec with 12.
		The party was riven by internal dissent for the remainder of its history, capturing two seats in the 1973 election, and only one in the 1976 election, the last time a créditiste was elected to the Quebec National Assembly.
		The Canadian Action Party has monetary reform policies in its platform, but is not considered to be a social credit party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_social_credit_movement (1370 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Labour candidate in 1923 in the riding of Winnipeg North but was defeated.
		He was elected in the 1925 Canadian election and joined J.S. Woodsworth as the sole Labour MPs in Parliament.
		He was defeated in the 1940 Canadian election due to a strong candidacy in Winnipeg North by the Communist Party's candidate.
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=A._A._Heaps (216 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1957 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 1957 Canadian election was held June 10, 1957.
		This election brought to an end twenty-two years of Liberal rule in a surprise victory by the Progressive Conservatives under John Diefenbaker.
		This was the first Canadian election to be televised, and while only a minority of Canadians owned a television, most got some opportunity to see the candidates they were voting for.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/c/ca/canadian_federal_election__1957.html (670 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1867 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Canadian federal election of 1867, held on September 20th, was the first election for the new nation of Canada.
		As it was, Brown ran concurrently for seats in the Ontario legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and hoped to become Premier of Ontario.
		Elections held in the previous year in the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia focussed on the issue of whether or not to form a confederation.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Canadian_federal_election,_1867 (476 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1965 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the Canadian federal election of 1965, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
		This was the first election for the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical party led by Cornelius the First.
		Cornelius, a resident of the Granby zoo, did not seek election because Canadian election law does not permit rhinoceroses or other zoo animals to seek election.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Canadian_federal_election,_1965 (874 words)

	The Canadian Encyclopedia
		In the 1930 election, Bennettâs Conservatives emerged as the surprising victor.
		Bennett maintained the âself-made manâs attitude to social distress: self-help was better than public assistance.â He soon became the target of intense dislike by Canadians who needed tangible help, not sermons, to cope with their hardship.
		In 1942 the CCF won the York South by-election and in 1943 held enough seats to form the Opposition in Ontario.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A258 (749 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles / Latin America
		Canadian Dimension Magazine, May/June 2006 Issue “All other sources of labour having been exhausted, the migrants were the last resource.” So reads the text accompanying the 1940-41 Migration series of paintings by Jacob Lawrence on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
		Special to Canadian Dimension March 1, 2006 Introduction Several years ago I asked an editor of a leading US business journal (Forbes) about a Mexican President (Echevarria) who was speaking at a Leftist conference commemorating Chilean President Allende.
		Canadian Dimension Magazine, March/April 2006 Issue In the faculty dining room at the California State University where I teach, a Mexican-American woman places the thin slice of turkey on the bread to make my sandwich.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/category/latin-america/page/2 (691 words)

	Liberal-Progressive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the 1926 Canadian election, a total of 11 candidates ran as Liberal Progressive: eight in Manitoba (the entire Progressive contingent who had decided to nominate joint candidates with the Liberals), all of whom were elected, and three unsuccessful candidates in Ontario.
		In the 1940 Canadian election, two Liberal Progressives ran in Manitoba, of whom one was elected.
		He was defeated in the 1957 Canadian election, the first in which he ran as a Liberal.
	www.infothis.com /find/Liberal-Progressive (778 words)

	New Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		At the 7 March, 2004 Greek elections, ND returned to office under the leadership of Costas Caramanlis, nephew of the party's founder.
		It is higly disputable, however, that ND had such an influence to the electorate; it was considered as a "Caramanlis or tanks" dilemma, with the latter referring to the military, which still held a political influence.
		In January 2004 Simitis resigned and announced elections for March 7, at which Caramanlis faced the new PASOK leader, George Papandreou.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/New_Democracy (509 words)

	SEC Form Types and Definitions
		Notification of election to be subject to Sections 55 through 65 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 filed pursuant to Section 54(a) of the Act.
		Notification of withdrawal of election to be subject to Sections 55 through 65 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 pursuant to Section 54[c] of the Act.
		This schedule may be used by a Canadian foreign private issuer that makes an issuer tender offer for its equity shares (provided that U.S. holders hold less than 40 percent of the class of shares subject to the offer).
	www.gsionline.com /support/formtypes.html (8188 words)

	Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
		Canadian citizenship recognized as qualification in addition to being a British subject (SBC 1947 c.47).
		Voters in the general election approve a referendum providing a mechanism to recall sitting Members and to bring citizen initiatives before the Legislature or to province-wide referendum.
		Elections Amendment Act (SBC 1992 c.72) lowers the voting age to 18 from 19 and eases restrictions on voting day registration.
	www.elections.bc.ca /general/history.html (1531 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Canadian River, fed by several small creeks, angles across the county from southwest to northeast; in the southwest it is dammed to form Lake Meredith.
		Elections were held on April 25, and on May 13 the county was officially organized with the riverside town of Plemons as its seat of government.
		Borger (2000 population, 14,302) remains the county's largest town and chief commercial and cultural center, and Stinnett (1,936) is the county seat.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/HH/hch23.html (1931 words)

	CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION, 1940 FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was held March_26, 1940 to elect members of the Canadian_House_of_Commons.
		The election was overshadowed by the Second_World_War, which caused many Canadians to rally around the government.
		In response to this, the Conservative Party of Robert_Manion ran on a platform advocating the creation of an all-party national_unity_government and ran under the name "National Government" in this election.
	www.bellabuds.com /Canadian_federal_election,_1940 (287 words)

	Elections Canada On-Line \| Past Elections
		In the case of an election by acclamation, for instance, the number of registered electors on the lists for that electoral district was included in the total number of registered electors for some elections, but not for others.
		Voter turnout figures have been corrected where appropriate: to estimate turnout in these cases, the total number of votes cast in a plural-member electoral district was divided by the number of members elected from that district (see Scarrow 1962).
		This percentage rises to 70.9 when the number of electors on the lists is adjusted to account for electors who had moved or died between the enumeration for the 1992 referendum and the election of 1993, for which a separate enumeration was not carried out except in Quebec, as the 1992 electoral lists were reused.
	www.elections.ca /content.asp?section=pas&document=turnout&lang=e&textonly=false (368 words)

	Civil Disobedience in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Today, in fact, Canadian gun owners are going considerably further than the quiet decision their ancestors made to ignore the 1940 law.
		Indeed, polling research of Canadian gun-control supporters shows them to be almost perfectly ignorant of Canada's already-strict gun-control laws; their main motive for wanting more gun control is not the expectation that people will be safer, but their desire to express their antipathy for "macho" values.
		The mean-spirited intolerance that animates Canada's anti-gun-owner laws is helping many Canadians understand something that some of their British ancestors figured out back in 1215 with King John and the Magna Carta: There comes a time when a man who loves his country must tell his government, "Stop.
	www.davekopel.com /NRO/2000/Civil-Disobedience-in-Canada.htm (1012 words)

	Council-Manager Charters (Adoptions)
		Municipal reform ideas which were prevalent at the time included: nonpartisan and at-large elections, the small council and short ballot, lengthened terms for councilors, and a single professional manager who was chosen by and served at the pleasure of the council (Willoughby, 1969, pp.
		Innovative provisions establishing a proportional representation system of election and providing for the initiative, the referendum and the recall were included.
		It seemed the part of wisdom to disturb the administrative organization of the city to the smallest extent possible as the citizens are accustomed to its mode of functioning, and the limits of the several departments are now determined with some precision by our customs and habits of thought.
	www.memun.org /public/publications/TownManPlan/council-mgr_chart.htm (1506 words)

	Past Canadian Elections - Historical Results & Analysis
		Examine the detailed results of the 2004, 2000 and 1997 elections, which are available with the results broken down by province as well.
		Compare the summary results of 37 general elections held between 1867 to 2006 with each party's share of the votes and seats, as well as the number of candidates and overall voter turnout.
		For a background to the 2006 election you can view and the standings of the political parties in Parliament at the time it was dissolved in late November 2005.
	www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/past_elections.html (376 words)

	Timeline 1940
		1940 Feb 3, Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback, was born.
		1940 Feb 8, Ted Koppel, television journalist, was born.
		1940 Feb 28, Mario Andretti, race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500), was born.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1940.HTML (11772 words)

	October 2004
		John Kerry's battle to become United States President is comparable to a Canadian election held even before Kerry served his four month long tour of duty in Vietnam.
		By 1940, he was in law school at the University of Montreal.
		It is easier to explain a number of Canadian elitist contortions concerning the current war against the Jihadists when they are viewed in the context of a Canada shaped by a political leader who succeeded by completely obscuring the issue of his very loyalty to the Allied cause.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/bstagg/call1004.htm (769 words)

	Conservative Party of Canada (historical) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Free trade was the major issue of the 1911 Canadian election1911 election that swept Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals from power and put Robert Borden at the head of a new Tory administration which emphasised a revitalised National Policy/ and links to Britain.
		The Liberals were reduced to a minority government in the 1925 Canadian election1925 election the Conservatives managed to win a plurality of seats in the Canadian House of CommonsHouse of Commons but King was able to stay in power with the support of the Progressives and form a minority government.
		The ''King-Byng Affair'' inflamed Canadian nationalist sentiment since it was felt the Governor General, a British government appointee, had overstepped his bounds and that this was a sign of excessive British influence in Canadian politics.
	www.infothis.com /find/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(historical) (1513 words)

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