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On March 23, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin met President George W. Bush in Crawford and Waco, Texas.
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Photo: Series: Photographs Related to the George W. Bush Administration, 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009 Collection: Records of the White House Photo Office (George W. Bush Administration), 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009 · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On a working visit on September 9, 2002, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien discussed the Iraq crisis with President George W. Bush in Detroit, Michigan.
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Photo: Not identified. Part of White House Photo Essay. · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From April 23 to 25, 1999, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien attended NATO’s 50th Anniversary Summit in the United States.
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Photo: DoD photo by R. D. Ward · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On November 19 and 20, 1993, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien attended the APEC meeting in Seattle.
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Photo: Ralph Alswang · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On October 7, 1992, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attended the initialling of the North American Free Trade Agreement in San Antonio, Texas.
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Photo: David Valdez · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney made an official visit to the United States from March 17 to 20, 1986.
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Photo: White House Television Office (Reagan Administration) · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From May 28 to 31, 1983, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau attended the Economic Summit Meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Photo: President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Photographic Office. 1981-1989 · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau made an official visit to the United States on March 24 and 25, 1969.
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Photo: United Press International · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On September 16, 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson made ceremonial visits to Great Falls, Montana, and Blaine, Washington.
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Photo: Unknown / Canada Dept. of Transport · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On a visit to the United States on January 16 and 17, 1961, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker signed the Treaty on Cooperative Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin.
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Photo: White House Photo Office · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From November 10 to 15, 1945, Prime Minister Mackenzie King took part in informal discussions in the United States on the international control of atomic energy.
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Photo: Attributed to Harris & Ewing · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
In 1945, Prime Minister Mackenzie King led the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, which ran from April 25 to June 26.
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Photo: Nicholas Morant / National Film Board of Canada. Phototheque / Library and Archives Canada / C-022717 · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s guest from March 5 to 11, 1937. He then continued his U.S. visit in Virginia Beach, departing the United States on March 20.
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Photo: Harris & Ewing, photographer · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From April 24 to 28, 1933, Prime Minister R.B. Bennett visited the United States for multilateral economic talks held before the World Monetary and Economic Conference.
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Photo: Harris & Ewing · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
In September 1931, coal miners in Bienfait, Saskatchewan, went on a 30-day strike when mine owners refused to recognize their union. A motor cavalcade of strikers and supporters turned deadly in Estevan when police shot and killed three miners and injured 23 others; known as Black Tuesday, it remains a tragic legacy of the Depression.
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · Photo licence: CC BY 4.0 · Credit & context
When Saskatchewan’s Medical Care Insurance Act took effect on 1 July 1962, most of the province’s doctors went on strike for 23 days. Perhaps the most significant Canadian doctors’ strike of the 20th century, it exemplified conflicts in the development of medicare between state intervention and physicians’ independence, and between doctors as entrepreneurs and patients’ right to care regardless of income.
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · Photo licence: CC BY 4.0 · Credit & context
On 23 February 1909, more than 100 people watched the Silver Dart lift off the ice of Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia, and fly 800 metres: the first successful powered flight in Canada. Piloted by J. A. D. McCurdy, the biplane was built by the Aerial Experiment Association, founded by Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell (see CA-K154).
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Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
In October 1825, the Miramichi Fire burned an estimated 15,500 km² of northeastern New Brunswick, killing hundreds of people, leaving thousands homeless and affecting both settlers and Mi’kmaq. About £50,000 was raised for relief, thought to be the largest disaster relief effort in pre-Confederation Canadian history.
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Photo: Gabriel Picard · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Quong Wing challenged his conviction under Saskatchewan’s 1912 Act to Prevent the Employment of Female Labour in Certain Capacities, which barred him from employing women identified as “white” at his Moose Jaw restaurant. The courts upheld the Act, revealing the judicial system’s limits in the face of institutional racism, but the case exemplified Chinese Canadians’ efforts to fight discrimination in court.
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Photo: Photojw · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Emancipation Day celebrations mark 1 August 1834, when British legislation abolishing slavery took effect in what is now Canada. Nineteenth-century celebrations in what are now Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia became an annual tradition that strengthened Black communities and supported the struggle for equality.
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Photo: Spudgun67 · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
In 1942, German submarines U-513 and U-518 made two deadly torpedo attacks on Bell Island, Newfoundland, a vital iron-ore mining and shipping centre. The attacks damaged the Scotia pier, sank four ships and killed Allied sailors, bringing the war home to Newfoundlanders.
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Photo: The Tedster · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
In Klippert v. the Queen (1967), Everett Klippert appealed his indefinite imprisonment as a dangerous sexual offender for gross indecency, under a Criminal Code that made sex between men illegal. The Supreme Court ruled against him, but the case exposed legal discrimination against gay men and contributed to the partial decriminalization of same-gender sexual acts in 1969.
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Photo: Wladyslaw · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Between October 1944 and May 1945, the Canadian military opened the Scheldt estuary and the port of Antwerp to Allied supplies, cleared much of the Netherlands of the enemy and fed a starving Dutch population. On 5 May 1945 in Wageningen, German forces surrendered to Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
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Photo: Brbbl · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
The Spanish flu pandemic killed more than 50 million people worldwide, including nearly 50,000 Canadians, between 1918 and 1920. The first civilian cases in Canada were reported in Victoriaville, Quebec, in autumn 1918, and the pandemic led to the creation of the federal Department of Health in 1919.
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Photo: Société d'histoire de Victoriaville · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context