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  2. List of Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies

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    Referring to the British sector of the Columbia District, after the Columbia River, ultimately after the Columbia Rediviva, a reference to Christopher Columbus [4] [5] Manitoba: Cree, Ojibwe. or Assiniboine: manitou-wapow, manidoobaa, or minnetoba "Straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit" or "Lake of the Prairie", after Lake Manitoba [6] [7] New ...

  3. Western Canada - Wikipedia

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    Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West, or Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely (from west to east) British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. [3]

  4. COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country - Wikipedia

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    For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022 ...

  5. COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec was part of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Until 2021, Quebec had reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Canada , eventually overtaken by the neighbouring province of Ontario .

  6. List of deaths due to COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable people reported as having died either from coronavirus disease 2019 or post COVID-19 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic.

  7. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan - Wikipedia

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    In all 149 people died with COVID-19 in January, including 7 people under the age of 50. At the time, that number represented 49% of all reported deaths from the pandemic. [ 163 ] Before the mid-point of the month, the weekly average for new daily confirmed cases had surpassed 300, and on January 11, 197 people hospitalized with COVID-19. [ 164 ]

  8. COVID-19 pandemic in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 . It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in Ontario , Quebec , British Columbia and Alberta .

  9. 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic - Wikipedia

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    Two-thirds of British Columbia natives died—around 20,000 people. [1] The death rate was highest in southeast Alaska and Haida Gwaii —over 70% among the Haida and 60% among the Tlingit . Almost all native nations along the coast, and many in the interior, were devastated, with a death rate of over 50% for the entire coast from Puget Sound ...