October 29 - Federal election: Arthur Meighen's Conservatives win a plurality (116 seats), defeating Mackenzie King's Liberals (99 seats). However, King does not resign as prime minister; he will try to govern with a minority government with the support of smaller parties and independent MPs (30 seats)
The Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, later the Royal Canadian Legion, is formed by the amalgamation of several veterans' organizations, such as the Great War Veterans Association.
Canada's most famous charter company is Hudson's Bay Company, which in 1670 was given a monopoly on the fur trade in the vast area making up the watershed of the Hudson's Bay.
In Canada, where education is controlled by each province (and not the federal government) denominational schools have existed in a variety of forms in almost all provinces.
A treaty between Canada and the U.S. Following the American Revolution in 1783, Aboriginals in the newly created United States began to be pushed further west by white settlement, despite the fact that the Royal Proclamation of 1763 created a specific Indian Territory.
Canada was a major front in the War of 1812 between the United States and British Empire and its successful defence had important long-term effects on Canada, including the building of a sense of unity and nationalism among British North Americans.
Canada joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990 and hosted the OAS General Assembly in Windsor in June 2000, and the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001.
Canada's two official languages, English and French, are the mother tongues of 59.7% and 23.2% of the population, respectively.
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