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First Direct took its first call on 12:01 am on 1 October 1989; more than 1,000 calls were taken within the first twenty four hours. The launch of First Direct in 1989 was advertised twofold. Firstly, there was an advert for Audi which was interrupted by a broadcast purportedly back in time from 2010, celebrating the 21st anniversary of the ...
It was first launched in the USA [179] in November 2005 and is based on HSBC's 'First Direct' subsidiary in Britain which was launched in the 1980s. The service is now also available in Taiwan, [180] South Korea, [181] Australia, France. [182] Poland is launching business direct in September 2009. In the US, HSBC Direct is now part of HSBC ...
The first powered heavier-than-air flight in Canada occurred on Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, when John Alexander Douglas McCurdy piloted the AEA Silver Dart over a flight of less than 1 kilometer. [82] 1910: 4 May: Royal Canadian Navy is established. [83] 1914: 4 August: Great Britain declares war on Germany, bringing Canada into the ...
Stanley E. Hubbard founded United States Satellite Broadcasting (USSB) [13] and was a leading proponent for the development of direct-broadcast satellite service in the United States. [14] HHMI and other companies believed in the early 1990s that technology would soon make digital satellite television affordable. [15]
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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 ...
ING's history in Canada dates back to 1997 when it founded ING Direct Canada, the first ING Direct operation in the world. [68] By July 2011, ING Direct Canada had ...
The completion of the first direct rail link to eastern Canada in 1881 allowed for mass immigration to the city. The first locomotive in Winnipeg, the Countess of Dufferin, arrived in Winnipeg via steamboat in 1877, and a railway connection to St. Paul began the following year, via the Pembina Branch.