Oath of Citizenship (Canada)
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The Oath of Citizenship, or Citizenship Oath, is a statement recited and signed by those who apply to become citizens of Canada. Administered at a ceremony presided over by a designated official, the
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first person to take the Oath of Citizenship, from Chief Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret, in the Supreme Court, 3 January 1947
A citizenship judge presides over a citizenship ceremony in Toronto, with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, the Canadian flag, and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer positioned behind them
Participants of the citizenship ceremony raise their right hand for the Oath of Citizenship
The style and title of the Canadian sovereign is the formal mode of address of the monarch of Canada. The form is based on those that were inherited from the United Kingdom and France, used in the col
Charles III is typically referred to as King of Canada (French: Roi du Canada), while in Canada or when acting as Canada's head of state
Elizabeth II, the first Canadian monarch to be titled Queen of Canada (r. 1952–2022)
The royal proclamation of the National Flag, issued in 1965, with the full title of Queen Elizabeth II, in both French and English at top
Queen Elizabeth II visiting with the Coast Salish peoples at Nanaimo, British Columbia, July 1959