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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Melville, Saskatchewan
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Melville is a small Canadian city in the east-central portion of Saskatchewan. The city is 145 kilometres north east of the capital of Regina and 45 kilometres south west of Yorkton. Melville is bordered by the municipalities of Cana No.214. The population at the 2016 census was 4,562, making it Saskatchewans smallest city, according to Whats in a Name. The Story Behind Saskatchewan Places and Names by E. T. Hays was on board the RMS Titanic when it sank, Pearl Park was the areas first post office established in 1905 near the Pearl Creek, a tributary of the QuAppelle River. Melville was declared a city by the province in 1960, under Saskatchewan law, a town must have a sustained population of more than 5,000 to apply for and maintain a city charter. Melville is an exception to this rule, as it has retained its charter despite dropping below the 5000 threshold. The mayor of Melville is Dr. Walter Streelasky, provincially, Melville is within the constituency of Melville-Saltcoats. It is currently represented by Saskatchewan Party MLA Warren Kaeding, Melville is represented in the Canadian House of Commons by the MP of the Yorkton—Melville riding, currently Cathay Wagantall of the Conservative Party of Canada. Melvilles namesake was the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, today, the transcontinental Canadian train, operated by national passenger rail carrier Via Rail, serves the Melville railway station three times per week. In 2002 the St. Peters Hospital was constructed, St. Peters was founded in 1940 as a municipal hospital by the Sisters of St. Martha, based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Next to St. Peters is the St. Paul Lutheran Home, the Melville Railway Museum is a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The Melville Heritage Museum is in the original Luther College building, the Luther Academy moved to Regina in 1926. After a stint as St. Pauls Home for the Aged and Orphans, melvilles connections by road to other communities include Saskatchewan Highways 10,15 and 47. The closest major centre to Melville is the city of Yorkton,43 kilometres to the northeast, Melville Municipal Airport is located 1.5 NM east of the city. The Melville Comprehensive School, a part of the Good Spirit School Division provides secondary education, parkland Regional College provides post secondary technical training and operates a branch school out of the Melville Comprehensive High School building. Melville is home to the Melville Millionaires of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, in 2011 the Melville Communiplex opened. The federal and provincial governments covered $20 million of the costs of the $24.5 million facility
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Saskatchewan
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Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in west-central Canada, the only province without natural borders. It has an area of 651,900 square kilometres, nearly 10 percent of which is water, composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs. As of December 2013, Saskatchewans population was estimated at 1,114,170, residents primarily live in the southern prairie half of the province, while the northern boreal half is mostly forested and sparsely populated. Of the total population, roughly half live in the provinces largest city, Saskatoon, or the provincial capital, other notable cities include Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, North Battleford, and the border city Lloydminster. Saskatchewan is a province with large distances to moderating bodies of waters. As a result, its climate is continental, rendering severe winters throughout the province. Southern areas have very warm or hot summers, Midale and Yellow Grass near the U. S. border are tied for the highest ever recorded temperatures in Canada with 45 °C observed at both locations on July 5,1937. In winter, temperatures below −45 °C are possible even in the south during extreme cold snaps, Saskatchewan has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups, and first explored by Europeans in 1690 and settled in 1774. It became a province in 1905, carved out from the vast North-West Territories, in the early 20th century the province became known as a stronghold for Canadian social democracy, North Americas first social-democratic government was elected in 1944. The provinces economy is based on agriculture, mining, and energy, Saskatchewans current premier is Brad Wall and its lieutenant-governor is Vaughn Solomon Schofield. In 1992, the federal and provincial governments signed a land claim agreement with First Nations in Saskatchewan. The First Nations received compensation and were permitted to buy land on the market for the tribes, they have acquired about 3,079 square kilometres. Some First Nations have used their settlement to invest in urban areas and its name derived from the Saskatchewan River. The river was known as kisiskāciwani-sīpiy in the Cree language, as Saskatchewans borders largely follow the geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude, the province is roughly a quadrilateral, or a shape with four sides. However the 49th parallel boundary and the 60th northern border appear curved on globes, additionally, the eastern boundary of the province is partially crooked rather than following a line of longitude, as correction lines were devised by surveyors prior to the homestead program. S. States of Montana and North Dakota, Saskatchewan has the distinction of being the only Canadian province for which no borders correspond to physical geographic features. Along with Alberta, Saskatchewan is one of only two land-locked provinces, the overwhelming majority of Saskatchewans population is located in the southern third of the province, south of the 53rd parallel. Saskatchewan contains two natural regions, the Canadian Shield in the north and the Interior Plains in the south
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Western Canada
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The capital cities of the four western provinces, from West to East, are, Victoria, Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg. Except for Winnipeg, which is the largest city in Manitoba, Manitoba established as a province of Canada in 1870, following the enacting of the Manitoba Act. Saskatchewan, Established as province in 1905, with the implementation of the Saskatchewan Act, Alberta, In 1905, the same year as Saskatchewan, Alberta also was established as province. Just like Saskatchewan had the Saskatchewan Act, Alberta had the Alberta Act and this represents 31. 5% of Canadas population. While Vancouver serves as the largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, the following is a list of these areas and their populations as of 2011. Western Canada consists of the four westernmost provinces, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan. It covers 2.9 million square kilometres – almost 29% of Canada’s land area, British Columbia adjoins the Pacific Ocean to the west, while Manitoba has a coastline on Hudson Bay in its northeast of the province. Both Alberta and Saskatchewan are landlocked between British Columbia and Manitoba, the Canadian Prairies are part of a vast sedimentary plain covering much of Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and southwestern Manitoba. The prairies form a significant portion of the area of Western Canada. The plains generally describes the expanses of flat, arable agricultural land which sustain extensive grain farming operations in the southern part of the provinces. Despite this, some such as the Cypress Hills and Alberta Badlands are quite hilly. In Alberta and British Columbia, the Canadian Cordillera is bounded by the Rocky Mountains to the east, the Canadian Rockies are part of a major continental divide that extends north and south through western North America and western South America. The continental divide also defines much of the border between Alberta and British Columbia, the Columbia and the Fraser Rivers have their headwaters in the Canadian Rockies and are the second- and third-largest rivers, respectively, to drain to the west coast of North America. To the west of their headwaters, across the Rocky Mountain Trench, is a belt of mountains. The coast of British Columbia enjoys an oceanic climate because of the influence of the Pacific Ocean. Winters are typically wet and summers relatively dry and these areas enjoy the mildest winter weather in all of Canada, as temperatures rarely fall much below the freezing mark. The mountainous Interior of the province is drier and has colder winters, Alberta has a dry continental climate with warm summers and cold winters. The province is open to cold Arctic weather systems from the north, winters are generally quite cold, though some areas can experience a phenomenon known as the chinook wind, wherein warm winds raise the winter temperatures temporarily
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Allan Cup
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The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men’s ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montague Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, the current champions are the Bentley Generals of Alberta, who captured the 2016 Allan Cup in Steinbach, Manitoba. In 1908, a split occurred in the competition of ice hockey in Canada, the top amateur teams left the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, which allowed professionals, to form the new Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union, a purely amateur league. The trustees of the Stanley Cup decided that the Cup would be awarded to the professional ice champion, the Allan Cup was donated in early 1909 by Montreal businessman and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association president Sir H. Montagu Allan to be presented to the amateur champions of Canada. It was to be ruled like the Stanley Cup had, passed by champion to champion by league championship or challenge. Three trustees were named to administer the trophy, Sir Edward Clouston, President of the Bank of Montreal, Dr. H. B. Yates of McGill University, and Graham Drinkwater, four-time Stanley Cup champion. The trophy was presented to the Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, members of the IPAHU. The first IPAHU champion, and by extension, first winner of the Cup was the Ottawa Cliffsides hockey club, after the season, the Cliffsides were defeated in the first-ever challenge by the Queen’s University hockey club of Kingston, Ontario. In the early years, trustees of the Cup quickly came to appreciate the difficulties of organizing a competition in so large a country. In 1914, at the suggestion of one of the trustees, Claude Robinson, one of the CAHAs first decisions, in 1915, was to replace the challenge system with a series of national playoffs. Starting in 1920, the Allan Cup champion team would represent Canada in amateur play at the Olympics and this was discontinued in the 1960s with the introduction of the Canadian national team. In 1928 the trustees turned over responsibility for the Cup to the CAHA, by 1951, many senior teams had become semi-professional or professional. In 1951, the CAHA set up a league of competition from the semi-pro. The leagues would no longer compete for the Allan Cup, the Allan Cup would be competed for on a more purely amateur basis from teams in smaller centres of Canada. The major league concept broke up by 1953, and the Alexander Cup competition was retired after 1954, since 1984 the Allan Cup has been competed for by teams in the Senior AAA category. Although interest in ice hockey has diminished over its history. The Cup championship is determined in a tournament held in the city or town of a host team. The Cup has been won by teams from every province and from the Yukon, the city with the most Allan Cup championships is Thunder Bay with 10, including four won as Port Arthur before the citys amalgamation
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Melville Millionaires
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The Melville Millionaires are a Junior A ice hockey team based in Melville, Saskatchewan. They are members of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and they play their home games in the Horizon Credit Union Centre which has a seating capacity of 2,100. The Melville Millionaires and the Yorkton Terriers are archrivals, the team colours are blue and white. Games are broadcast on radio station CJGX AM940, the Millionaires also fielded a senior hockey team in the 1910s, which won the 1915 Allan Cup. The team subsequently won two challenges but lost the challenge of the season to the Winnipeg Monarchs. Future National Hockey League all-star Ron Hextall was a member of the Millionaires during the 1980–81 season, on February 27,1981, Hextall faced 105 shots against the five-time league champion Prince Albert Raiders in a 21–2 loss. The game reporter said Hextall was Brilliant, through his 84-save effort, claiming the score could have gone up to 34 or 35. Notre Dame Hounds and Yorkton Terriers Notre Dame Hounds defeated Melville Millionaires 4-games-to-none 2007 Lost Final First in round robin vs, list of ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan Melville Millionaires home page
