holiday is New Years day. It is celebrated on January 1st each year. It is a statutory holiday in all Canadian provinces and territories. Many people start January 1 at parties to welcome the New Year on the evening of December 31. However‚ in some people rural areas‚ particularly in the province of Quebec‚ spend the night ice fishing with groups of friends. January 1 is a statutory holiday in all Canadian provinces and territories and if this date falls on a Saturday or Sunday‚ the statutory holiday moves
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The Canadian Identity “To achieve an identity you must stop working on whatever you are working on‚ and concentrate on who you are” A society’s location in space may inspire its sense of character and identity. To be located in a strange and new land may imply to become more fully alive of the responsibilities one has as the representative of a special and chosen
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Canada has an extremley large geography which plays a tremendous role on many factors that affect Canadians. These factors both help and hinder Canada economically‚ socially and politically. The geography of Canada has also caused regions to form. For the most part‚ these regions exist due to physical that are present in Canada’s landscape. Canada’s geography has also had a large impact on the influences that affect settlers. Canada’s relatively low popuation in comparison to the large land
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The Advancement of Women’s Relations with the Canadian Government The Canadian government has been building better relations with Canadian women. Over the last century‚ women did not have the right to vote‚ let alone be considered a person in Canada. Women were unable to articulate their ideas fluently in Canada. Males were portrayed as more superior over women‚ which resulted in an insufferable relationship between women and the Canadian government. During the First World War‚ women were given
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as it does not represent what was once intended. Also‚ there are other concerns that support the removal of the statue‚ with the restoration price being one of them. As well‚ modern thinking about Louis Riel and his intents no longer reflects the Canadian identity. The statue of Private Watson does not belong at city hall because it no longer represents its original intent. The statue has become meaningless over time. Its meaning was only relative for the first thirty years that it stood there
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In the 1800’s the Canadian government became responsible for the education of First Nation children because of various treaties and other laws. Because of this the education of Status Indians (Metis and Inuit were put into the system later) fell under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Federal Government. During 1830’s-1900’s the Canadian government and various Christian churches created the Indian Residential School System (IRS). The IRS was a compulsory education system created to assimilate First
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done in order to fit them into their ideal perception of what it was to be Canadian. With the help of the church the Canadian government implemented the residential school system‚ which was devoted to providing a disciplined based ideal that promoted rejection of the aboriginal culture in favor of the dominant white population. The residential system would eventually become an official Canadian policy for the education of Indian. Even though there are those that state that the government was just looking
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Overview of Research For over a century‚ residential schools played a major role in assimilating First Nations into what Europeans consider a "dominant society." (Keeshig-Tobias‚ 2003) As part of the British North America and Indian Acts in 1867 and 1876‚ respectively‚ the Canadian government felt it was integral for First Nations to improve their lives by educating them in what they felt were culturally acceptable. Many First Nations children lose their sense of identity‚ initially by having their physical
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The Canadian economy is one that is mostly dominated by the service industry. This industry employs approximately one-third of the work force. Its primary sector is the logging and petroleum manufacturing industries. During the past 100 years‚ the growth of the manufacturing‚ mining‚ and service sectors has transformed the nation into a more industrial and urban economy‚ when it used to be more rural. Alberta‚ Canada has large oil and gas resources‚ giving it the world’s second-largest oil reserves
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In Canada we have a very diverse and unique geography that has molded the way Canadians live‚ act and get by day to day. I believe that despite the fact that all the regions of Canada diversely different creating the argument that we have no actual national identity because of some provinces that feel they should be independent and become their own countries‚ though there are many there are many people who would want provinces like Quebec to be their own country i believe Canada wouldn’t be its own
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