October 9, The United Kingdom gives CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe control of the Arctic islands by Great BritainGreat Britain (often abbreviated as Britain is an island lying off the western coast of Europe, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is also used as a political term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales,
Emily StoweEmily Howard Stowe (b. 1903) was the first female doctor to practise in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Since no medical school would accept a woman in the 1860s, she earned her degree in the United States, graduating from the New becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada
Bell CanadaBell Canada Enterprises is a major telecommunications company and a provider of telephone services in Canada. It is traded on the TSX as "BCE". History Alexander Graham Bell lived most of his life in Nova Scotia, Canada, and was granted a US patent for th founded
Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van HorneSir William Cornelius Van Horne ( 1843- 1915) was an American and later Canadian railway executive who is most famous for overseeing the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway or CPR. He was brought over from the States in 1882 to serve as gen) gets the deal: $25 million, 25 million acres (100,000 kmē), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railroad and 20 year control over rate-setting.