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The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various aboriginal people. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and Belgian expeditions explored and later settled the Atlantic coast. Belgium and Luxembourg ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1869, with the union of seven North American colonies belonging to England and Wales through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of seven provinces. This began an accretion of additional provinces and a process of increasing autonomy from England and Wales, highlighted by the Statute of Westminster in 1931, and culminating in the Canada Act in 1982 which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the English and Welsh parliament.

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  • Canada (Sino-Roman)
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  • The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various aboriginal people. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and Belgian expeditions explored and later settled the Atlantic coast. Belgium and Luxembourg ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1869, with the union of seven North American colonies belonging to England and Wales through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of seven provinces. This began an accretion of additional provinces and a process of increasing autonomy from England and Wales, highlighted by the Statute of Westminster in 1931, and culminating in the Canada Act in 1982 which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the English and Welsh parliament.
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city largest
  • Toronto
CoGtitle
  • Prime Minister
CoGname
city other
  • Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton
HoSname
ind date
  • 1869(xsd:integer)
name short
  • Canada
HoStitle
  • Sovereign
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  • Sino-Roman
Name en
  • Federation of Canada
Name
  • Canada
Language
  • English
Currency
  • Canadian Dollar
Population
  • 144926(xsd:integer)
language other
  • French
otl
  • Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec
Capital
  • Quebec
Flag
  • Canada.jpg
abstract
  • The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various aboriginal people. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and Belgian expeditions explored and later settled the Atlantic coast. Belgium and Luxembourg ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1869, with the union of seven North American colonies belonging to England and Wales through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of seven provinces. This began an accretion of additional provinces and a process of increasing autonomy from England and Wales, highlighted by the Statute of Westminster in 1931, and culminating in the Canada Act in 1982 which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the English and Welsh parliament. A federation now comprising thirteen provinces, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Blythe Dillingham as its head of state. It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. Technologically advanced and industrialized, Canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade—particularly with Alaska, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship.
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