... two official languages. Canada has ten provinces and three territories. Provinces Capitals Alberta Edmonton British Columbia Victoria Manitoba Winnipeg New Brunswick Frederichton Newfoundland St. John Nova Scotia Halifax Ontario Toronto Prince Edward Island Charlottetown Quebec Quebec City Saskatchewan Regina The Canadian territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon Territory. Canada's national capital is Ottawa. Canada's climate is very much influenced by ... ...

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... station and at first thought it was an accident. My dad is a lot different from my grandfather when it comes to the media and growing up. He had it like a prince to what my grandfather had it like. The main medium in the house was television, even though there was two of them in the house and they were both controlled ... ...

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... ). The Ixtoc I oil well in the gulf of Mexico in 1979 (3.3 million barrels). The largest spill in the US (240,000 barrels) was that of the tanker Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska, in march 1989. Within a week, under high winds, this spill had become a 6700-sq.-km., slick that endangered wildlife and fisheries in the entire gulf ... ...

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... two official languages. Canada has ten provinces and three territories. Provinces Capitals Alberta Edmonton British Columbia Victoria Manitoba Winnipeg New Brunswick Frederichton Newfoundland St. John Nova Scotia Halifax Ontario Toronto Prince Edward Island Charlottetown Quebec Quebec City Saskatchewan Regina The Canadian territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon Territory. Canada's national capital is Ottawa. Canada's climate is very much influenced by ... ...

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... States had a trade economy which benefited the Maritime Provinces. Eventually the Maritime Provinces began to agree with the ideas of confederation. This was mainly after the Charlottetown Conference held in Prince Edward Island. One thing that helped the transition of anti-confederates to accept the ideas of confederation was a railway called the "Grand Trunk Railway" which connected Quebec, Ontario, U.S., and the ... ...

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... the "Seven Year War." This was a time when the French began to settle along the St. Lawrence River, in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and on Cape Breton Island and Prince Edward Island. The English, who came to Canada after the French, settled along the east coast in an area called the Thirteen Colonies. The British and the French were at ... ...

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... as Kim Campbell, was the first female Prime Minister of Canada. She was, not only the first female Prime Minister, but also the first female student council president of the Prince of Wales Secondary School as well as the first female freshman president at the University of British Columbia. Kim Campbell set a wide example for many females in the late 1900s ... ...

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... confederation, thus starting the tradition that the head of the British Monarchy would knight Canadian Prime Ministers. Nation building marked Macdonald's first term as Prime Minister, as he added Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to Canada. However, part of the deal which the Macdonald government had made to entice British Columbia to join the union was the ... ...

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... Royal Canadian Mounted Police were severely criticized for not intercepting Dallaire. Chrétien also left his mark as the PM who got a pie in the face. During a visit to Prince Edward Island in August of 2000, Chrétien was greeted with a pie thrown in his face at the hands of Evan Wade Brown, a protester. The twenty-four year old ... ...

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... her to communicate, and Mrs. E. thought that she would have to take responsibility if Eve were ever to become pregnant (Supreme Court records). Mrs. E.'s application to the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island was successful, thus Eve appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada after the court made Eve a ward of the Court pursuant to the Medical Health Act solely to ... ...

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... two official languages. Canada has ten provinces and three territories. Provinces Capitals Alberta Edmonton British Columbia Victoria Manitoba Winnipeg New Brunswick Frederichton Newfoundland St. John Nova Scotia Halifax Ontario Toronto Prince Edward Island Charlottetown Quebec Quebec City Saskatchewan Regina The Canadian territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon Territory. Canada's national capital is Ottawa. Canada's climate is very much influenced by ... ...

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... as the Maritimes and Upper and Lower Canada. Forty thousand immigrants were given land in Nova Scotia (which later became part of New Brunswick), the Island of St. John (later Prince Edward Island), Cape Breton and the Canadas. Each colony was influenced by economic, political, and social. Directly after the war, Privateers came to New England and caused much hardship with ... ...

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... is different, it has large bays, peninsulas, numerous coastal islands and it also has the Arctic Archipelago. On the East coast the largest islands are Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Anticosti and Prince Edward. On the West coast the largest islands are the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Vancouver Island. They are many smaller islands in the Hudson Bay. East Canada consists of ... ...

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... the federal party was decimated, provincial PC parties seemed to hold their own during the federal dark times. Currently, there are Progressive Conservative provincial governments in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island. PEI Conservatives won the most recent election, going from only one seat in the PEI legislature to a majority. The Conservatives in Ontario were also recent winners. Under the ... ...

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