Canadian Forces - Canadian Forces Call for merge with Military of Canada. See talk. Canadian Forces (CF) refers to the combined branches of the military forces serving under Canada's Department of National Defence. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Mission 2 Force structure 2.1 CF Land Force Command 2.2 CF Maritime Command 2.3 CF Air Command 2.4 JTF2 2.5 RCMP 2.6 Canadian Rangers 3 History 4 Other Topics Mission Canada's armed forces are charged to provide a multipurpose, combat-capable military service that is ready and able to: protect Canada effectively from a direct military threat; respond to terrorist activities help Canadians during times of domestic crises caused by environmental or other disasters; assist government agencies to handle civil emergencies, protect Canada's fisheries, interdict illegal drugs; provide search & rescue services.
Canadian Special Forces - Canadian Special Forces Special Forces duties in Canada are shared between three Parachute companies attached to light infantry battalions in the regiments of the regular force, plus an elite counter-terrorism unit known as JTF2 (Joint Task Force 2.) The lineage of today's special forces is detailed below: JTF2 (1993 - present) Canadian Airborne Regiment (1968-1992) 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (1942-1945) 1st Special Service Forces (1942-1944) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Joint Task Force-2 2 The Canadian Airborne Regiment 3 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 4 1st Special Service Force Joint Task Force-2 Until 1993, counter-terrorism in Canada was the responsibility of the Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although the 49-man unit was never deployed, its leadership believed that its mission ran.
Canadian dollar - Canadian dollar The Canadian dollar (CAD) is the unit of currency of Canada. It is divided into 100 cents. The dollar has been used for most of Canada's history. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Canadian Currency 3 Canadian currency rumours 4 Value 5 External Links History Canada decided to use the dollar instead of a pound sterling system because of the ubiquity of Spanish dollars in North America in the 18th and early 19th century and because of the standardization of the American dollar. The Canadas, in particular, favoured the dollar - the Montreal Bank issued bank notes in dollars in 1817 - whereas the Atlantic colonies, with stronger ties to Great Britain and weaker ones to the US, preferred the l.s.d. system. The.
Canadian Navy - Canadian Navy The Canadian Navy is the navy of Canada, known as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) until 1968, when the different branches were merged into the Canadian Forces. The organization is now officially known as the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, but still commonly refers to itself as the "Navy". As of 2003, the Maritime Command operates a fleet of about 30 surface ships (2 replenishment ships, 4 Iroquois (DDH-280) class destroyers, 12 City class frigates and smaller vessels), four Victoria class submarines, and a number of aircraft. The two main naval bases are in Halifax on the Atlantic coast, and Esquimault, on the Pacific. During the early years of the twentieth-century, there was growing discussion within the British Empire as to the role the Dominions.
Canadian 1st Army - Canadian 1st Army The Canadian Army had completed its expansion by 1942. Only a few units were raised during 1943-44 to complete various establishements. In Holland, a new regiment was raised in 1944 to provide protection of Canadian infantry in battle. These units are listed below: 1st Canadian Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment - Raised 24 October 1944 in Holland 11th Light AA Regiment, RCA (4th, 53rd, 62nd Lt AA Btys) - Raised 6 March 1943 in the UK as Army Troops 29th AA Regiment, RCA (9th, 11th, 22nd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 44th, 62nd AA Btys) - Mobilized 29 March 1943 at Prince Rupert Defences, BC 30th AA Regiment, RCA (33rd, 36th, 39th, 59th AA Batteries) - Mobilized 29 March 1943 at Port Alberni, BC 28th Field.
Khaled Mashal - 25, 1997 Mashal was the target of an assassination attempt carried out by the Israeli Mossad under the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Security Cabinet. Ten Mossad agents carrying Canadian passports entered Jordan, where Mashal was living, and injected him with a toxic substance. At the time of the assassination attempt Mashal was considered Hamas' Jordanian branch chief. Jordanian authorities discovered the assassination attempt and arrested two Mossad agents who had engaged in the attempt. Jordan's King Abdullah then demanded that Benjamin Netanyahu turn over the poison antitode, and at first Netanyahu refused. As the incident began to grow in political significance, however, American President Bill Clinton intervened and forced Netanyahu to turn over the antidote. The incident would lead Clinton to say of Netanyahu that he "cannot.
Kingston, Ontario - along the three major east-west transporation routes in Central Canada: the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Ontario Highway 401 (the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, which turns into Quebec Autoroute 20), and the Canadian National Railroad main line. Kingston also lies at the south end of the Rideau Canal, originally built to connect Lake Ontario with the Ottawa River to provide a safe transportation route far from the American border. Kingston's airport, Norman Rogers Airport (CYGK), has regularly-scheduled air service to Toronto. The European settlement of a traditional Mississauga First Nation site began in 1673 by France with the etablishment of Fort Frontenac, and was captured by the British at the end of the Seven Years' War. A receiving centre for fleeing refugees from the American Revolution, it became the primary community of south-eastern Upper Canada..
January 22 - 4 Holidays and observances Events 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England. 1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast. 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand. 1863 - The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithunania and Belorussia. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre British troops at Isandhlwana. 1889 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation. 1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. 1905 - 'Bloody Sunday' in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls.
January 2003 - States Department of Homeland Security which is scheduled to begin operation on January 24.[1] (RealAudio stream) A 1.3-mile tunnel, representing the latest major piece of Boston, Massachusetts' Big Dig, opened, connecting the Massachusetts Turnpike to Logan International Airport. The tunnel will reduce the trip from downtown Boston from 45 minutes in traffic to 8 minutes. The next phase, taking the elevated Interstate 93 and putting it underground, should be finished by early 2004. Gertrude Janeway, the last widow of a Union veteran from the American Civil War, died at the age of 93, in Blaine, Tennessee. Gertrude married John Janeway in 1927, when she was 18 and he was 81. He died in 1937. Still alive is Confederate widow Alberta Martin, of Elba, Alabama. January 16, 2003 US Senator Russ Feingold.
James Fitzgibbon - FitzGibbon (1780 - December 10 1863) Canadian War of 1812 hero James Fitzgibbon was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1780. He enlisted in the British Army at age 15 as a private soldier. He came to Canada in 1802 by which time he was a sergeant in the 49th Regiment of Foot. In 1806 his commanding officer Isaac Brock made him an officer. This was extremely unusually at the time as most officer's commissions were bought. In 1809 he was promoted to lieutenant. FitzGibbon fought at the Battle of Stoney Creek in July 1813. Three weeks later he was leading 50 soldiers in guerilla-style raids on a large American force that had captured Fort George on the Niagara Peninsula. It was he who was warned by Laura Secord on July 22.
Victoria, British Columbia - Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is a Canadian city, and the provincial capital of British Columbia. It is near the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island, overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Greater Victoria has a population of approximately 326,000. It is the largest city on the island. The chief industry is tourism. The township of Esquimalt, which forms part of greater Victoria, is the base for the Pacific Fleet of the Canadian Forces. Founded in 1843 as Fort Camosun, a Hudson's Bay Company post, the city was later called Fort Victoria. When Vancouver Island became a crown colony, a town was laid out on the site and made the capital of the colony. With the discovery of gold on the British Columbia mainland in 1858, Victoria became the port, supply.
Vietnam veteran - including North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Canada, Australia, the USA, the USSR, China, Laos, Cambodia and others. Canadian Vietnam veterans More than 30,000 Canadians were serving in the U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam era. Fred Graffen, military historian with the Canadian War Museum, estimates in Vietnam Magazine ("Perspectives") that approximately 12,000 of these men actually served in Vietnam itself. The numbers of draft U.S. draft dodgers and deserters that fled to Canada is estimated to be between 30,000 and 60,000 by most authorities. U.S. Vietnam veterans There are persistent stereotypes about Vietnam veterans as psychologically devastated, bitter, homeless, drug-addicted people who had a hard time readjusting to society, primarily due to the uniquely divisive nature of the Vietnam War in the context of U.S. History. However this image has been battled.
Yakin - Italy. After the war he returned to Jerusalem and became a member of the Haganah Underground Movement. At the same time, he started his artistic training at the Bezalel Academy, where he studied especially with Jacob Steinhardt and Mordecai Ardon. With Israel's Declaration of Independence, he became a member of the new Israeli Armed Forces. He resumed his studies in 1950, and he had his first exhibition in 1953. In 1957 he married Hannah, an artist who had recently emmigrated from the Netherlands. From that time on the couple divided their time between raising their eight children, teaching art in Jerusalem, and exhibiting extensively in Israel, Europe and the United States. In 1961 Abraham Yakin won the international Adolphe Neuman Prize in Paris. Works by the Yakins are in the Israel.
John Graves Simcoe - 1200km. Although military in nature, these roads were more influential in trade and settlement, opening wide areas of southern Ontario to easy travel and dramatically increasing settlement rates. Simcoe's most notable achievement was the limitation of slavery. Initially, Simcoe proposed the outright abolition of slavery, but the Legislative Assembly opposed this because many Loyalists brought slaves with them to Upper Canada after the American Revolution. As a compromise, Simcoe passed legislation that allowed for gradual abolition: slaves already in the province would remain enslaved until death, no new slaves could be brought into Upper Canada, and children born to female slaves would be freed at age 25. This effectively ended all slavery in 1810. The act remained in force until 1833 when the Emancipation Act abolished slavery in all British holdings..
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough - was promoted major-general in July 1685 and appointed head of the loyalist troops, then quickly subordinated to the Earl of Feversham. It is believed that this lack of confidence was what eventually turned Churchill from loyalty to the Stuart kings. Churchill nevertheless distinguished himself during the fighting, and became an important figure in the army. In 1688, William of Orange invaded England with the support of most of the nobility, as James II was a Catholic and appeared to be on the road to introducing absolutist rule into his kingdom. James promoted Churchill to lieutenant-general in November and ordered him to engage and defeat the invaders; instead he deserted to the Orange cause, which caused most of the army to come with him and put James into a very difficult position..
July 25 - Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 1261 - Constantinople is captured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, allowing the re-creation of the Byzantine Empire. 1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1722 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border. 1758 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. *1759 - French and Indian War: In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. 1799 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements.
June 10 - United States 1829 - First boat race between Oxford and Cambridge 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico. 1854 - The first class graduates from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland 1857 - Canadian Assembly passes bill adopting decimal currency 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded, in New York City 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom German forces, under General Rommel, reach the English Channel Canada declares war on Italy Norway Surrender to Germans 1947 - Saab produces its first automobile 1956 - 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden 1967 - The Six-Day War ends 1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from prison 1980.
June 21 - slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. 1749 - Halifax Nova Scotia founded. 1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States. 1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of impending American attack at Queenston Ontario. 1887 - Queen Victoria's golden jubilee 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. 1919 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnepeg General.
June 5 - coast of Cuba 1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage 1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter. 1849 - Signing of the Danish constitution 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont 1895 - Nicholas Flood Davin's motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canadian House of Commons. 1900 - Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa 1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band 1916 - Louis Brandeis becomes Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States 1940 - Canadian Cabinet declares Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal and jails leaders. 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of.
July 7 - beginning the United States annexation of California. 1898 - The United States annexes Hawaii. 1917 - Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the tsar. 1930 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started. 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade China. 1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by the Nazis. 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized. 1954 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record. 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. 1969 - French is made equal to English throughout the.
