... , when the British North American Act took effect. It comprised of four provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec. Provision were made for the subsequent inclusion of British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. Gradually, as a consequence of settlement and economic growth, the federation was completed. A new province of Manitoba was created in the former Hudson's Bay Company lands around ... the Red River in 1870. British Columbia entered the union in 1871 after being promised a transcontinental railroad. Prince Edward Island agreed to join in 1873. In 1905 ...

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... means that every province or region would be equally represented in the Senate regardless of its population. The need for equal representation arises when provinces like Ontario are compared to Prince Edward Island, Since Ontario's population is so huge compared to many other provinces, it along with Quebec could automatically become the majority in the Commons when their interests were similar ... . The comparison between Ontario and Prince Edward Island might be a bit extreme, but what it really equates to is that Alberta and other provinces cannot have the same powers as Ontario and Q...

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... would result in the creation of employment through railways and coalmines along with many other endless possibilities. This was the reason some people were convinced on the idea of confederation. Prince Edward Island was extremely uninterested in confederacy. Goldwin Smith remarked, "Most Islanders had never been away from the Island in their lives (at least according to George Brown) and they ... a very efficient and reliable source of transportation. They were offered a railroad from the federal government if they joined Confederation. This was an opportunity they couldn't resist. Som...

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... the most popular provinces in terms of attracting tourists would be the 4 provinces located on the Atlantic Coast. This area consists of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. All of these provinces are ideal for the nature loving tourist and all of these provinces are less populated than the bigger provinces such as Quebec, Ontario, and ... ...

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... this event because this was considered the biggest real estate deal in history. Although British North America wasn't wholly in the union Macdonald aspired to acquire the colonies outside, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia. As a result of this large span of time in History Canada became a Confederation through long battles of politics, economics, and various treaties and Acts. The ... ...

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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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... 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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... over Quebec because of fishing industry, large tracts of valuable land and potential trade with West Indies. This migration had doubled the population of Nova Scotia. Others went to Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and the Bay of Fundy. New settlers began to clear new farmland and were responsible for founding a new colony of New Brunswick, contributing to Canadian economy. However not ... ...

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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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... .ca/ccskeywords/meech_lake.html Harris., R.C. Historical Atlas of Canada 1987-1993 vol 3, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1991. Jonas., E. Annotates Bibliography of Works of Nationalism-A Regional Selection, Universtity of Prince Edward, Charlottown, 1989. Meech Lake Accord, 1984-2001 Ottawa Researchers & Northern Blue Publishing accessed 13th September 2003 http://207.61.100.164/candiscover/cantext/constitu/1987meec.html MLA, accessed 12th ... ...

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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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... who were to attend a meeting at Charlottetown with the heads of the Maritime Provinces. The purpose of the conference was to discuss a legislative union of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Alexander Galt was faced with the task of persuading the conference members as to how prospective a federation would benefit them financially. At the following conference in Quebec, the ... ...

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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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