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Year Date Event Ref. 2001: 7 October Canada joins the War in Afghanistan [136] [137] 2003: 7 December The Canadian Alliance and PC Party merged into the Conservative Party of Canada. 2005: 20 July: The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage throughout Canada. [138] 2008: 1 June
3.1 Full date unknown. 4 Deaths. ... Events from the year 1840 in Canada. Incumbents. Monarch: Victoria [1] Federal government. Parliament of Lower Canada: 15th;
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...
Date Event Change July 1, 1867 The Dominion of Canada was formed by the United Kingdom from three provinces of British North America: [8] [a] The Province of Canada, which was split at the Ottawa River into the provinces of Ontario to the west, and Quebec to the east [b] New Brunswick [c] Nova Scotia [d] The capital was established at Ottawa.
The British North America Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 35), [1] also known as the Act of Union 1840, (French: Acte d’Union) was approved by Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, in Montreal. [2] It abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to ...
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.
[78] The act replaced the Act of Union 1840, which had unified Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the united Province of Canada; separate provinces were established under their current names of Ontario and Quebec, respectively. July 1 is now celebrated as Canada Day, the country's official national day.
The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837–1838.