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Like America/Halifax, except DST time change happened at 12:01 am rather than 2:00 am prior to 2007. 10432327 on OpenStreetMap: CA +5320−06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic - Labrador (most areas) −04:00: −03:00: Like America/Halifax, except DST time change happened at 12:01 am rather than 2:00 am from 1987–2011.
In the regions of Canada that use daylight saving time, it begins on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m. and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. As a result, daylight saving time lasts in Canada for a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65 percent of the entire year.
The Jumbo Jet age arrived in Calgary with the newly introduced Boeing 747 landing for the first time in 1973, with Wardair providing non-stop bi-weekly charter service from Calgary to London. [33] Air Canada was not far behind, and began non-stop service to London using the 747 starting on 27 June 1974. [ 34 ]
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan is geographically in the Mountain Time Zone (GMT−07:00). However, most of the province observes GMT−06:00 year-round. As a result, it is on daylight saving time (DST) year-round, as clocks are not turned back an hour in autumn when most jurisdictions return to standard time.
Calgary was ranked first among the three cities in Canada that saw their population grow by more than 100,000 people between 2011 and 2016. During this time, Calgary saw a population growth of 142,387 people, followed by Edmonton at 120,345 people and Toronto at 116,511 people. [193]
The term "Greater Toronto" was first used in writing as early as the 1900s although at the time, the term referred only to the old city of Toronto and to its immediate townships and villages, which became Metropolitan Toronto in 1954 and became the current city of Toronto in 1998. [7]
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The Canadian currently takes 94 hours 15 minutes westbound [13] vs. 95 hours 29 minutes eastbound. [14] This is 13h50m vs. 12h19m slower than the SSContinental's 80h25m vs. 83h10m [15] and 13h5m vs. 12h24m slower than the Dominion's 81h10m vs. 83h5m [16] schedules from 1952. The difference is entirely due to CN freight traffic being prioritized ...