English > Canada: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada. |
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| Category of | Department of Justice Canada, DoJC | An agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government |
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| Instance of | North American country, North American nation | Any country on the North American continent |
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| Member of | British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations | An association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown |
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| British Empire | A former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO | An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
| Members | Canadian | A native or inhabitant of Canada |
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| Part of | North America | A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama |
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| Parts | Alberta | One of the three prairie provinces in western Canada |
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| Arctic Archipelago | All the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle |
| Baffin Island | The 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada |
| British Columbia | A province in western Canada |
| Columbia, Columbia River | A North American river |
| Great Lakes | A group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America |
| Hudson Bay | An inland sea in northern Canada |
| Labrador-Ungava Peninsula, Labrador Peninsula | A peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea |
| Laurentian Plateau, Laurentian Highlands, Canadian Shield | A large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada |
| Mackenzie, Mackenzie River | A Canadian river |
| Manitoba | One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada |
| Maritime Provinces, Maritimes, Canadian Maritime Provinces | The collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | A Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea |
| Niagara, Niagara River | A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario |
| Northwest Territories | A large territory in northwestern Canada |
| Nunavut | An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit |
| Ontario | A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada |
| Outaouais, Ottawa, Ottawa river | A river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal |
| Quebec | The largest province of Canada |
| Saint Lawrence, Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River | A North American river |
| Saskatchewan | One of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada |
| Yukon, Yukon Territory | A territory in northwestern Canada |
| Yukon, Yukon River | A North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea |
| Region of | Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS | Canada's main foreign / foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government |
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| Communications Security Establishment, CSE | Canadian agency that gathers communications intelligence and assist law enforcement and security agencies |
| Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC | An agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies |
| Dominion Day, July 1 | A legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867 |
| Metis | A person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry |
| Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Poppy Day | The Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated |
| Security Intelligence Review Committee, SIRC | An agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies |
| Toronto | The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada) |
| chequing account | a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand |
| dogsled, dog sled, dog sleigh | A sled pulled by dogs |
| pogy, pogey | money received from the state |
| returning officer | The official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results |
| Adjectives | Canadian | of or relating to Canada or its people |
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