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96 matches to Canadian Pacific Railway
Papineau, Louis. 1786-1871. French-Canadian nationalist. Led 1837 revolt vs Britain in Lower Canada.
Passchendaele, Battle. 1917 Limit of British/Canadian advance WWI, Ypres. 300,000 casualties. 1918 Germans first use of mustard gas.
Pearson, Lester. 1897-1972. Canadian Prime Minister 1963-8. UN mediator in Palestine 1948, Suez 1956.
Penfield, Wilder. 1891-1976. Canadian brain surgeon: Cerebral Cortex of Man.
Pickford, Mary. 1893-1979. Canadian/US silent film actress.
Pratt, E.J. 1883-1964. Canadian Nationalist poet. Brébeuf and his Brethren 1940.
Progressive Conservative. 1854-. (Named 1942) Major Canadian political party. Bennet. Diefenbaker.
Quebec Act. 1774. Britain creates permanent government for Canada. Tolerance for French Canadians a cause of American Revolution. Intolerable Acts.
Railways. 1795 England(horse-drawn). 1827 First US charter. 1827 Europe (St. Etienne-Andrézieux). 1869 US Central/Union Pacific. 1887 Canadian Pacific 1905 Trans-Siberian.
RCMP. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 1873 Formed as NW Mounted Rifles. 1920 =RCMP.
Richler, Mordecai. 1931-2001. Canadian novelist of human dilemmas. Duddy Kravitz 1959.
Roberts, Charles. 1860-1943. Poet, “Father of Canadian literature”. Songs of the Common Day 1893.
Rowell-Sirois Report. 1935-40. Recommended Federalism over Canadian provincial power.
Sennett, Mack. 1880-1960. Canadian/US film maker. Keystone Cops.
Service, Robert. 1874-1958. Canadian poet. Shooting of Dan McGraw.
St Laurent, Louis. 1882-1973 Canadian Liberal Prime Minister 1948-57. St Lawrence Seaway. Old Age Security.
Thomson, Tom. 1877-1917. Canadian landscape painter. Influenced Group of Seven.
Trudeau, Pierre. 1919-2000. Canadian Liberal Prime Minister 1969~84. Constitution Act 1982; Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Vimy Ridge. 1917. WWI battle. Key position taken by Canadians despite high casualties.
ANZUS, Pact. 1951. Australia, NZ, US mutual defence in Pacific.
Balboa, Vasco de. 1475-1519. Spanish. Crossed Panama to Pacific 1513. Beheaded.
Chile. Inca/Araucanian. 1520 Magellan discovers. 1540 Spain. 1818 Independent. 1884 +War of Pacific. O’Higgins. Pinochet.
Clark, William. 1770-1838. US explorer of Pacific NW with Lewis.
Clay, Henry. 1777-1852. “Great Pacificator”. US statesman. Missouri Compromise.
Crédit Mobilier of America. 1865-72. Scandal involving illegal profits, graft in Union Pacific Railroad construction.