Canada is a country in the northern part of North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament.
Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government. The country is a Commonwealth realm and is officially bilingual at the federal level.
Provinces
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
See also
- North West Territories
- Nunavut
- Vancouver Island
- Yukon
Articles
Blogs
- Canadian Philately
- Canadian Stamps and Postal History
- Postage Stamp Guide
- Postal History Corner
- Postal History Society of Canada
- Re-Entries
- Stamps and Canada
- WGB’s Web Space
- Canada – BNA Postal History Group
- Canada Post
- Canada Stamp Collectors and Dealers
- Canadian Philatelic Society of GB Discussion Group
- Canadian Philately & Canada Stamps Collecting
- Canadian Philately & Canada Stamp Collecting
- Canadian Philately Mostly Pre 1900
- Canadian Postage Stamps
- Canadian Stamps and Postal History
- Canadian Stamp Dealers’ Association
- Canadian Stamp News
- Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs
- Philatélie Canadienne & Collection de Timbres
- Royal Philatelic Society of Canada
Podcasts
Websites
- Canada Post
- Canadian Aerophilatelic Society
- Canadian Philatelic Society of Great Britain
- Canadian Stamp Dealers Association
- North West Federation of Stamp Clubs
- Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada
- Postal History Society of Canada
- Royal Philatelic Society of Canada
- Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Centre
Wikipedia
YouTube
- American Topical Association: Canadian Medical Groundbreakers
- British Empire Study Group: 10c Small Queens and 17c First Cents Issue of Canada
- Feature Philately
- HRT3 Stamp Chats: Oh! Canada
- Ken’s Stamp Collection: Identifying Canadian King George V Stamps
- NTSC Presents: The Maple Leaf Issue of Canada (1897-1898)
- Ourdadsstamps: The Stamps of Canada
- Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada
- Philatelic Traders’ Society: Canada’s Maple Leaf Issue (1897-1898)
- Royal Philatelic Society of Canada
- StampCat Stamps
- Stamp Sleuth
Missing are the Province of Quebec (one of the Canada 2 founding nations) and the western provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta as well as the 3 Territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
All added – although I couldn’t find anything online presence for some of the territories.