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- (from the article "canoe") There are two main forms of the canoe. The modern recreational or sport Canadian canoe is open from end to end; it is propelled with a paddle having a single blade. The kayak has a covered deck with a well, ...
- Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- (from the article "commerce, chamber of") ...in expanding home and overseas trade. The first was established in Halifax in 1750, and the next in Montreal in 1822. Coordination is provided by seven provincial offices. The national body is the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, with headquarters in ...
- Canadian Confederation
- (from the article "Canada Act") ...by the British Parliament on March 25, 1982, and proclaimed by Queen Elizabeth II on April 17, 1982, making Canada wholly independent. The document contains the original statute that established the Canadian Confederation in 1867 (the British North America Act), ...
- Canadian Congress of Labour
- (from the article "organized labour") ...next year these CIO unions joined the remnants of the All-Canadian Congress of Labour, which had formed in 1927 on the dual principles of industrial unionism and Canadian nationalism, to create the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) in affiliation with ...
- Canadian Conservation Institute
- (from the article "museum, operation of") ...work, providing advanced scientific equipment for the analysis, dating, and identification of materials. Some museums are served by independent conservation laboratories, an example of which is the Canadian Conservation Institute, in Ottawa, which uses a fleet of mobile laboratories to ...
- Canadian Corps
- (from the article "Canada") ...where German forces first used poison gas as a weapon. As more volunteers came forward, Borden increased the authorized force levels. By the spring of 1917, four Canadian divisions, constituting the Canadian Corps, were in the field, with a fifth ...
- Canadian deuterium-uranium reactor
- (from the article "nuclear reactor") Canada focused its developmental efforts on reactors that would utilize abundant domestic natural uranium as fuel without having to resort to enrichment services that could be supplied only by other countries. The result of this policy was CANDU-the line of ...
- Canadian Federal Election of 2008
- On October 14, 2008, Canadians voted to return Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party to power, though again without a parliamentary majority. The Conservatives captured 143 seats (a gain of 19) while tallying more than 37 percent of ...
- Canadian Federation of Camping and Caravanning
- (from the article "camping") ...to local clubs, but there are two large-scale national organizations in the United States (National Campers and Hikers Association and North American Family Campers Association) and one in Canada (Canadian Federation of Camping and Caravanning).
- Canadian Film Development Corporation
- (from the article "Canada") ...winning both awards from film festivals around the world a reputation for the country as a leading international centre of documentary filmmaking. In 1967 the federal government established the Canadian Film Development Corporation to foster and promote a feature-film industry ...
- Canadian Football Council
- (from the article "football, gridiron") ...requirement for players and limiting "imports" to five. The limit was raised from five to seven in 1950, then to eight in 1952, nine in 1954, and eventually 16. The top clubs formed their own Canadian Football Council (CFC) in ...
- Canadian Football League
- major Canadian professional gridiron football organization, formed in 1956 as the Canadian Football Council, created by the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) and the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU). Though the IRFU still referred to their sport as rugby football, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Canadian French
- (from the article "Romance languages") Outside France, the French of Canada, originally probably of northwestern dialect type, has developed the most individual features. Although 18th-century Canadian French was regarded as exceptionally "pure" by metropolitan commentators, it began to diverge from Parisian French after 1760 as ...
- Canadian goldenrod
- (from the article "goldenrod") Some species are clump plants with many stems; others have only one stem and few branches. Canadian goldenrod (S. canadensis) has hairy, toothed, lance-shaped leaves and hairy stems; it is sometimes cultivated as a garden ornamental. Solidago virgaurea of Europe, ...
- Canadian high
- large atmospheric high-pressure centre produced by the low temperatures over northern Canada. Its cold, dense air does not extend above 3 km (2 miles). The high's location east of the Canadian Rockies shelters it from the relatively warm Pacific Ocean ...
- Canadian Highway Act
- (from the article "roads and highways") The Canadian Highway Act of 1919 provided for a system of 40,000 kilometres (25,000 miles) of highways and provided for a federal allotment for construction not to exceed 40 percent of the cost. By the end of the century, more ...
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- major commercial banking company operating in Canada and other countries. Headquarters are in Toronto.
- Canadian Kennel Club
- (from the article "dog") ...A purebred dog is considered to be one whose genealogy is traceable for three generations within the same breed. National registries, such as the American Kennel Club (AKC) in the United States, the Canadian Kennel Club, the Kennel Club of ...
- Canadian Labour Congress
- nationwide association of labour unions in Canada, comprising both wholly Canadian "national" unions and "international" unions that are Canadian branches of unions based in the United States. The CLC was formed in 1956 through the merger of the Trades and ... [3 Related Articles]
- Canadian literature
- the body of written works produced by Canadians. Reflecting the country's dual origin and its official bilingualism, the literature of Canada can be split into two major divisions: English and French. This article provides a brief historical account of each ... [16 Related Articles]
- Canadian National Exhibition
- (from the article "Toronto") In 1967 the Metropolitan Toronto Corporation assumed responsibility for the Canadian National Exhibition-reputed to be the world's largest annual exhibition-which was first launched in 1879 as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition. An international air show; agricultural, animal, and flower displays; theatrical ...
- Canadian National Railway Company
- corporation created by the Canadian government in 1918 to operate a number of nationalized railroads (including the old Grand Trunk lines, the Intercolonial Railway, the National Transcontinental Railway, and the Canadian Northern Railway) as one of Canada's two transcontinental railroad ... [5 Related Articles]
- Canadian Northern Railway
- (from the article "Canada") ...transcontinental railways in a country that was yet little more than a narrow corridor from east to west, two Canadian private entrepreneurs, William Mackenzie and Donald Mann, built or bought the Canadian Northern bit by bit with lavish subsidies from ...
- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
- privately owned company that operates one of Canada's two transcontinental railroad systems. The company was established to complete a transcontinental railroad that the government had begun under the agreement by which British Columbia entered the confederation in 1871. The main ... [6 Related Articles]
- Canadian Press
- (from the article "news agency") ...foreign news. Germany since 1949 has built Deutsche-Presse Agentur into one of the more important news agencies in Europe, including extensive exchange with other national services. In Canada the Canadian Press is a cooperative news agency with headquarters in Toronto. ...
- Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
- (from the article "Canada") Canadian broadcasting is regulated by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, which was established in 1968. It authorizes the establishment of networks and private stations and specifies how much of the broadcast content must be Canadian in origin. The CBC, ...
- Canadian Red Ensign
- (from the article "Canada, flag of") ...four original provinces-Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. In 1892 this shield became a badge on the British Red Ensign, which served as a special civil ensign (later called the Canadian Red Ensign) for Canadian vessels. On land, that ...
- Canadian River
- river that rises in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., and flows southward across the Las Vegas Plains, cutting a gorge nearly 1,500 feet (450 m) deep in the Canadian escarpment before turning eastward. It continues through ... [1 Related Articles]
- Canadian Rockies
- segment of the Rocky Mountains, extending southeastward for about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from northern British Columbia, Canada, and forming nearly half the 900-mile (1,500-kilometre) border between the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The Mackenzie and Selwyn mountains farther ... [3 Related Articles]
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- (from the article "Canada") ...law and order in their communities. Most large municipalities maintain their own forces, but others engage the provincial police or the RCMP, under contract, to attend to police matters. In 1984 the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was created to ...
- Canadian Shield
- one of the world's largest geologic continental shields, centred on Hudson Bay and extending for 8,000,000 square km (3,000,000 square miles) over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada from the Great Lakes to the Canadian Arctic and into Greenland, with small ... [21 Related Articles]
- Canadian thistle
- (from the article "thistle") ...which have dense heads of small, usually pink or purple flowers. Plants of the genus Carduus, sometimes called plumeless thistles, have spiny stems and flower heads without ray flowers. Canadian thistle (Cirsium arvense) is a troublesome weed in agricultural areas ...
- Canadian waterweed
- (from the article "Elodea") ...and oxygen production during photosynthesis. They are also important occasionally outside their natural range (North America) as an obstacle to lake navigation. In Europe, for example, the Canadian waterweed (Elodea canadensis) exists as an escaped population of female plants only, ...
- Canadian whisky
- (from the article "whiskey") The Canadian whisky industry began in the early 19th century. Canadian whiskys are light in body and flavour and are always blends of both highly flavoured and neutral grain whiskys. They are made from mashes composed of combinations of corn, ...
- Canadian wild ginger
- (from the article "wild ginger") Canadian wild ginger, or snakeroot (A. canadense), grows about 15 to 30 cm (6 to 12 inches) tall in shady woods in eastern North America. It usually bears two heart-shaped, downy leaves and a single inconspicuous cup-shaped flower. The flower ...
- Canadian Zone
- (from the article "New Mexico") ...higher elevations, better stands are a result of more abundant rainfall. The Transition Zone, covering some 19,000 square miles (49,000 square km), is identified chiefly by the ponderosa pine. The Canadian Zone, covering 4,000 square miles (10,000 square km) at ...
- Canadian-American Challenge Cup
- trophy of a series of automobile races that took place annually from 1966 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1986. It was sponsored jointly by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and the Canadian Automobile Sports Committee (CASC). Entries ...
- canahua
- (from the article "South America") ...of Asia. The potato, which originated in the high Andes, became a dietary staple of many European nations. Several other plants were domesticated in South American environments, such as quinoa and canahua, both small grains used as cereals, and tuberoses ...
- Canaima, Parque Nacional
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...one of the richest collections of plant and animal life in the Amazon basin, including more than 1,000 species of birds. Venezuela's effort to protect habitats led to the establishment (1962) of Canaima National Park in the Guiana Highlands, which ...
- Canak incident
- (from the article "Churchill, Sir Winston") In the autumn of 1922 the insurgent Turks appeared to be moving toward a forcible reoccupation of the Dardanelles neutral zone, which was protected by a small British force at Chanak (now Canakkale). Churchill was foremost in urging a firm ...
- Canak, Treaty of
- (Jan. 5, 1809), pact signed between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain at Canak (now Canakkale, Tur.) that affirmed the principle that no warships of any power should enter the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. The treaty anticipated ... [1 Related Articles]
- Canakkale
- city, northwestern Turkey, at the mouth of Koca River (the ancient Rhodius River), on the Asian side of the Dardanelles. Originally a 15th-century Ottoman fortress called Kale-i Sultaniye, it had by the 18th century developed a reputation for its pottery, ...
- Canal Colony
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...Later, large areas of uncultivated land in the Indus River plain of the southern Punjab were irrigated by canals and populated by colonists drawn from other parts of the province. Referred to as the Canal Colony, that area now forms ...
- Canal du Centre
- (from the article "Gauthey, Emiland-Marie") French engineer, best known for his construction of the Charolais Canal, or Canal du Centre, which united the Loire and Saone rivers in France, thus providing a water route from the Loire to the Rhone River.expansion of French canal system
- Canal du Nord
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...32 wheels run on four rails, and two sets of 14 cables connect the tanks to the two concrete counterweights. Improvements have been made to routes connecting the Seine with the north and east. The Canal du Nord was completed ...
- Canal Lateral a la Garonne
- (from the article "Midi Canal") ...in 1808, the Midi Canal was isolated from the rest of France's canal system. Between 1850 and 1856, the western end of the canal was extended by 193 km (120 miles) with the building of the Canal Lateral a la ...
- Canal Messier
- (from the article "fjord") ...arm of the sea, commonly extending far inland, that results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. Many fjords are astonishingly deep; Sogn Fjord in Norway is 1,308 m (4,290 feet) deep, and Canal Messier in Chile is 1,270 m ...
- Canal Plus Netherlands
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") Canal Plus Netherlands, which offered digital pay-TV via satellite, cable, and digital video broadcasting, was bought from Vivendi by Dutch firms Greenfield Capital Partners and Airbridge Investments. Britain's biggest commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster ITV PLC became the majority shareholder of ...
- canal ray
- (from the article "Goldstein, Eugen") ...1881. His career was spent at the Potsdam Observatory. He was primarily interested in electrical discharges in moderate to high vacuums. In 1886 he discovered what he termed Kanalstrahlen, or canal rays, also called positive rays; these are positively charged ...
- Canal Zone
- historic administrative entity in Panama over which the United States exercised jurisdictional rights from 1903 to 1979. It was a strip of land 10 miles (16 km) wide along the Panama Canal, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... [3 Related Articles]
- Canal Zone Library and Museum
- (from the article "Balboa Heights") ...overlooking Balboa city. It is the administrative headquarters for the Panama Canal Company, and the Transisthmian Railway. Murals in the administration building depict the canal's construction. The Canal Zone Library and Museum (founded 1914) in Balboa Heights exhibits relics and ...
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