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  Provinces and territories of Canada information - Search.com
The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that a province receives powers directly from the Constitution Act, 1867, giving them greater competences and rights than a territory, which is delegated powers by the federal government.
The provincial political climate of Quebec is quite different: the main split is between sovereigntism (of which separatism is generally held to be one strain), represented by the Parti Québécois, and federalism, represented primarily by the Parti Libéral du Québec.
List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
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List of Canadian Ministers of Manpower and Immigration
List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
List of Chancellors of the University of Mississippi
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 Category:Lists of current office-holders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are lists of current office-holders, ordered by country or subnational entity and office.
List of Anglican diocesan bishops in Britain and Ireland
List of Heads of state by diplomatic precedence
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 Lieutenant governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In Australia, the Lieutenant Governor is the subordinate of the Governor of a state, who serves as Administrator, or acting Governor, in case of illness or disability of the Governor.
Lieutenant Governors are nominally appointed by the Governor General but in practice are chosen by the Prime Minister of Canada usually in consultation with that province's respective premier.
In the Isle of Man, the Lieutenant Governor was until 1980 the presiding officer of the Legislative Council and of Tynwald Court (the Legislative Council and the House of Keys in joint session), but both roles have been transferred to the President of Tynwald.
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 Provinces and territories of Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that a province receives powers directly from the Constitution Act, 1867, giving them greater competences and rights than a territory, which is delegated powers by the federal government.
The Queen's representative to each province is the Lieutenant-Governor (or Lieutenant Governor); each of the territories has an analogous Commissioner.
List of Canadian provinces and territories by area
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 List of current Canadian premiers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This is a table of the current premiers of Canada's ten provinces and three territories.
The current party composition of the 13 premiers are:
Premiers, List of current Canadian Category:Lists of current office-holders
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 Royal Canadian Mounted Police peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
On February 1, 1920, the RNWMP was merged with the Dominion Police and was renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, with responsibility for federal law enforcement in all provinces and territories.
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, as Monarchy in Canada, is the Honorary Commissioner of the RCMP.
Canadians also poke fun at the RCMP with Dave Broadfoot and his faithful dog Cuddles in various sketches produced by the Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe.
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Essex South was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1968.
Canadian citizenship was first distinguished from British in 1947; judicial appeals to the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ended in 1949.
To the north of this region is the broad Canadian Shield, an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age, thinly soiled, rich in minerals, and dotted with lakes and rivers—over 60% of the world's lakes are in Canada.
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 Canadian Arctic peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Also referred to as the Canadian North or (locally) as the North, a political definition for the region consists of Provinces and territories of Canada : Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut (which includes all islands in Hudson Bay).
An alternate definition based on physiogeography is that portion of the country north of the tree line (a definition that includes Canada's geographical centre): covering most of Nunavut, and the northerly parts of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Labrador.
Similarly, the disputed Hans Island (with Denmark), in the Nares Strait west of Greenland, may be a flashpoint for challenges to overall Canadian sovereignty in The North.
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 Educational Resources
The Parliament of Canada provides an up-to-date list detailing the names, addresses, and websites of the current Lieutenant Governors and Commissioners.
Website developed by the Archives of Ontario to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
In preparation of the 2005 Royal Visit by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, the province published a brochure full of information to be used by teachers and students.
www.monarchist.ca /new/provincial_resources.html   (201 words)

  
 Home > Los Altos Hills, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are the original provinces, formed when British North American colonies federated on July 1, 1867 and by stages began accruing the indicia of sovereignty from Great Britain.
The Queen\'s representative to each province is the Lieutenant-Governor; each of the territories has an analogous Commissioner.
In contrast to United States territories such as the Virgin Islands, Canadian territories are each entitled to elect one full voting representative to the Canadian House of Commons.
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Saskatchewan has the same form of government as the other Canadian provinces with a premier, legislature, and lieutenant-governor, who is the representative of the Crown.
The current premier of Saskatchewan is New Democrat Lorne Calvert, whose government was re-elected in the 2003 election with a slim majority -- the NDP won 30 seats in the 58-seat Legislative Assembly, while the Saskatchewan Party won the remaining 28 seats.
An ongoing debate in Canadian academic circles revolves around whether the extension of the franchise to First Nations (as Indians are now called) inadvertently "regularized" their status from member of nations that had signed nation-to-nation treaties with the Crown into merely another Canadian ethnic group.
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 Provinces and territories of Canada
Canada's ten provinces are listed here with their capitals, and the dates that they joined Confederation and current populations:
Many islands in Hudson Bay and in the Arctic Ocean are part of these northern territories, listed here with their capitals and the date they joined the Confederation.
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 Links for New Brunswick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
List of entities that have issued postage stamps
List of highest points of Canadian provinces and territories
List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada
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 Provinces and territories of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta were all created later out of land that was already part of Canada's Northwest Territories.
They include all of mainland Canada north of latitude 60° north and west of Hudson Bay, as well as essentially all islands north of the Canadian mainland (from those in James Bay to the Arctic Archipelago) that are not politically part of Greenland.
They are often referred to as a single region, the north, for organizational purposes.
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 Provinces and territories of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
They receive "transfer payments" from the federal government to pay for these, as well as exacting their own taxes.
This table follows Canadian custom by listing the provinces in geographical rather than alphabetical order.
They are often referred to as a single region for organizational purposes.
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 Bilderberg Conference 2005, 5-8 May, Rottach-Egern, Munich, Germany - and this year's Bilderberg news
Another former commissioner mentioned that the best time to ask for cash is once the conflict subsided and the world is subjected to brutal images of destruction.
One American insider stated that currently the world uses between four and six barrels of oil for every new barrel it finds and that the prospects for a short term break through are slim, at best.
Dunn and Bradstreet lists the supposedly nonprofit foundation as a "management trust," designed for "purposes other than education, religion, charity or research." The group's spokesman says this designation was a "mistake," and anyway, the institute is hastily being "re-launched" with a "new focus" on its religious mission.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Essex North was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1883 to 1925.
Also, the magnetic North Pole lies within Canadian boundaries (although is moving towards Siberia).
Essex East was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968.
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 Grand Banks Trawlers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The cold Labrador Current mixes with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream here.
The area also supports large colonies of sea birds such as Northern Gannets, shearwaters and sea ducks and various sea mammals such as seals, dolphins and whales.
In addition to the effects on nutrients, the mixing of the cold and warm currents often causes fog in the area.
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 Site Map of Knight's Canadian Info Collection - All About Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Knight's Canadian Info Collection is committed to providing our visitors with a web site that respects their privacy.
All of the data in Knight's Canadian Info Collection website are free to use for personal research, school projects, education, or just to help you learn something new about our great country, Canada.
Knight's Canadian Info Collection website is a Personal Home Page and is intended solely for the entertainment, information and education of its viewers and visitors.
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 Canada encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Canada politics and officials, Canadian History. Travel to Canada
Canada encyclopedia : Cultural Information, Maps, Canada politics and officials, Canadian History.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 Senators and Members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Biographical note on the current Speaker of the House of Commons
Current Senators and their biographies, 38th Parliament (Senate list)
List of Members of the Cabinet and Ministry, 38th Parliament (House of Commons List)
www.parl.gc.ca /common/SenatorsMembers_index.asp?Language=E   (1630 words)

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