Canadian Confederation was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada,Nova Scotia,and New Brunswick—were united into one federation called the Dominion of Canada,on July 1,1867. Upon Confederation,Canada consisted of four provinces:Ontario and Quebec,which had been split out from the Province of Canada,and the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Over the years since Confederation,Canada has seen numerous territorial changes and expansions,resulting in the current number of ten provinces and three territories.
John George Lambton,1st Earl of Durham,,also known as "Radical Jack" and commonly referred to in Canadian history texts simply as Lord Durham,was a British Whig statesman,colonial administrator,Governor General and high commissioner of British North America. A leading reformer,Durham played a major role in the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832. He later served as ambassador to Russia. He was a founding member and chairman of the New Zealand Company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand. George Woodcock says that he was,"Proud,wayward,immensely rich,with romantic good looks and an explosive temper." He was one of those "natural rebels who turn their rebellious energies to constructive purposes. Both at home and abroad he became a powerful exponent of the early nineteenth-century liberal spirit."
David Jay Bercuson is a Canadian labour,military,and political historian.
The Report on the Affairs of British North America,(1839) commonly known as the Durham Report or Lord Durham's Report,is an important document in the history of Quebec,Ontario,Canada and the British Empire.
Ron Burnett is an author,professor and the President Emeritus and Research Director for the new Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Mary Alice "Peggy" Butts was a Canadian politician who represented Nova Scotia in the Senate from 1997 to 1999.
Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian poet,biographer,and anthologist. She is also a professor emerita at University of Toronto.
James Russell Mallory was a Canadian academic and constitutional expert.
Victoria Michelle Kaspi is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.
Alan Bernstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and President Emeritus of CIFAR,where he served as President and CEO from 2012 to 2022. A Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,he is also a Fellow and Member of the Standing Committee for Science Planning at the International Science Council (2022-2025). Bernstein is recognized as a leader in health research,science policy,mentorship and organizational leadership.
Janet Yale is a Canadian telecommunications lawyer and association executive. She became president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Society in June 2012. She is also on the board of directors of CARE Canada.
Lorraine Code is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her principal area of research is feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge.
Margaret Lock is a distinguished Canadian medical anthropologist,known for her publications in connection with an anthropology of the body and embodiment,comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge and practice,and the global impact of emerging biomedical technologies.
Christine Ross is a Canadian scholar specializing on contemporary media arts,in particular:the relationship between media,aesthetics and subjectivity;visuality;spectatorship and interactivity studies;augmented reality;and reconfigurations of time and temporality in recent media arts.
Janet McLachlan is a Canadian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won a bronze medal at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham,and gold at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel was a British-born Canadian architect,city planner,and educator who worked mostly in Montreal and Toronto. She is known for her Modernist designs,as well as for planning Expo 67 and spearheading the preservation of Old Montreal. Lemco van Ginkel was the first woman to head a faculty of architecture in Canada and be elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was also the first woman to be awarded a fellowship by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and in 2020,was awarded their highest honour,the RAIC Gold Medal.
Rosa del Carmen Bruno-Jofré (1946) is a historian. She is a professor and former Dean of Education at Queen's University. In 2019,Bruno-Jofréwas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Ann Saddlemyer,is a Canadian academic,author,and expert in the history of Canadian theatre and Anglo-Irish literature.
Adrian Foster is a Canadian politician who serves as the current mayor of Clarington. As mayor,he also sits on Durham Regional Council.
Section 3 of the Constitution Act,1867 is a provision of the Constitution of Canada relating to the union of the original three provinces into Canada. Under the authority of this section,Queen Victoria issued the Proclamation of the Constitution Act,1867,which brought the Act into force on July 1,1867,creating Canada.
