Sir Allan MacNab, a Canadian political leader that lived from
1798 to 1862, was Premier of the province of Canada before Canadian
Confederation.
Ellen Fairclough, who was the first female member of the Canadian
Cabinet, was born in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1995, she published her memoirs Saturday’s
Child: Memoirs of Canada’s First Female Cabinet Minister.
Tommy Douglas, the Scottish-born Canadian democratic socialist politician and Baptist
minister, was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member
of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party. Douglas’s number one
concern was the creation of Medicare.
Douglas is the person who has been widely hailed
as the “Father of
Medicare” and for taking his cause to the federal stage.
Susan Aglukark, who is a major recording star in Canada, is
an Inuk musician who blends Inuit folk
music traditions with country and pop song writing. “This Child”, one of
her albums, which was released in
1995, became her breakthrough album. “O Siem”, which was the first single from that album,
went to number one on the Canadian adult contemporary and country chart that
year which would make Aglukark the first Inuk
performer to have a top 40 hit.
Rick Mercer, the Canadian comedian, first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one man show “Show Me the
Button, I’ll Push it” in Ottawa. He is one of the comedians who have been known as a political satirist.
One of Mercer’s series “Made in Canada”, which ran for five seasons on CBC Television from 1998 / 2003, was a
fast-paced situation comedy, which self-referentially satirized the Canadian TV production industry.
The Avro Arrow, an advanced, twin-engined, all-weather
interceptor jet aircraft, was developed by A.V.Roe of Canada from 1949
until the government’s controversial cancellation of the project in 1959.
Dominion Day, which is the name of the holiday commemorating the formation of Canada as a
Dominion on 1 July 1867, was renamed to Canada Day by Act of Parliament on
27 October 1982.
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The Hudson’s Bay Company, the oldest commercial corporation in North
America, has been a trading business for much of its existence. HBC, which is the abbreviation for Hudson’s Bay
Company, owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada and the United
States including: Hudson’s Bay, Zellers, Home Outfitters, and Lord & Taylor.
The company’s head office is in the Simpson Tower in Toronto, Ontario.
The United Empire Loyalists, an honorific given after the fact to those
American Loyalists who resettled in
British North America as an act of loyalty to King George III, is a
movement rejecting the Republican ideals of the American Revolution.
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