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Project Surname

In 1970, the federal government undertook a program, known as Project Surname, to assign last names to Inuit in northern Canada. These surnames were to replace the personal disc numbers (see Inuit Disc Numbers) that Inuit had been given by the Canadian government in the 1940s. Some Inuit and non-Inuit viewed Project Surname as a more effective and politically correct system of identification. Others saw it as another instrument of paternalism.
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Promyshlennik

A Promyshlennik is a Russian (chiefly Cossack) free-lance exploiter of natural resources, notably furs. Like the coureurs de bois, promyshlenniki had a sure instinct for rivers, forests and terrain.
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Pronghorn

The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a small, very fleet ungulate of the order Artiodactyla. It is the last surviving species of a once abundant and diverse North American family of ruminants, known as Antilocapridae. Although sometimes called pronghorn antelope, it is not a true antelope.
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Propaganda in Canada

Propaganda refers to messaging that aims to spread or “propagate” an ideology or worldview. Psychologists have described propaganda as “manipulative persuasion in the service of an agenda” or communications that “induce the individual to follow non-rational emotional drives.” During the First World War, propaganda was used to recruit soldiers and supporters. The Second World War saw it take a dark turn toward using outright lies to spread hateful ideologies and practices. (See also Fake News a.k.a. Disinformation.) During the Cold War, governments in the West and East used propaganda to try to spread the ideologies of capitalism and democracy, or communism and the Soviet Union. Today, propaganda is most often found on social media; it is used to marshal support for, or opposition to, various political, economic and social movements.
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The Propaganda War in Canada During the American Revolution

American colonists conducted a propaganda campaign in the British colony of Canada prior to and during the American Revolution. Its aim was to persuade French Canada become the 14th colony and join the rebellion against Britain. The propaganda initially took the form of appeals. The core message was that Britain was tyrannizing its colonies and that joining the rebellion would deliver liberty and happiness to French Canadians. American agents and sympathizers in Canada helped spread the message, often adding rumours of British plans to raise taxes or deport French Canadians. The propaganda campaign helped weaken support for British rule prior to the American invasion of 1775, but it lost traction in the face of counterpropaganda by British authorities and growing public hostility to invading American troops, who seized goods and plundered properties.
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Property Law

Property, in the legal sense, can mean real property in the form of land and buildings, or personal, movable property. Property law — whether under the common law in most of Canada, or the Civil Code in Quebec — deals with a wide range of rights and obligations owing to individuals and governments, and has evolved enormously, particularly in fairness to women, since the 19th Century.
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Prorogation in Canada

A prorogation is a suspension of Parliament. All parliamentary activity is stopped, but the government remains in power and is not dissolved. Every session of Parliament begins with a summons and ends with prorogation; both are issued by the governor general (or lieutenant-governor at the provincial level) at the government’s request. Throughout Canadian history, governments have at times used prorogation to their own advantage. The main purpose of prorogation is to wipe clean the Order Paper of old or existing business and to set a new legislative agenda. All unfinished business at the end of a session dies on the Order Paper. There are procedures in place to reinstate previous activities in a new session, which begins with a Speech from the Throne.
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Prospecting

The first organized mineral exploration by Europeans in what is now Canada was led by Martin FROBISHER in his 3 expeditions to Baffin Island (1576, 1577 and 1578).
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Sex Work (Prostitution) in Canada

Sex work (referred to in legal terms as prostitution) is the exchange of sexual services for money or other needs, such as food or shelter. Sex work itself has never been a crime in Canada. But communicating and other activities relating to the exchange have been prohibited. Street-based sex work is the most visible form and receives the most attention. But it represents only a small proportion of the sex industry, which also includes brothels, escort services and strip clubs. There is an ongoing political and social debate about how and whether to decriminalize parts of the trade.
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Protectionism

Protectionism refers to government policies that shield domestic production (and producers) from foreign competition.
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Protestantism

When a carefully engineered Catholic majority voted down certain reforms at the Diet of Speyer in Germany in 1529, the defeated minority earned the name "Protestant," derived from the Latin phrase meaning "to testify in favour of something.
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Provigo

Provigo Inc. is a grocery wholesaler and retailer. Formed in a merger of three of Quebec’s major food wholesalers in 1969, its operations later spread into Ontario, Western Canada and the United States. Its most prominent retail banners included Provigo, Loeb and Maxi supermarkets and Provi-soir convenience stores. The company was purchased by Loblaw in 1998, who retained the Provigo brand for its Quebec supermarkets.
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Province House - Halifax

Province House, Halifax, built between 1811 and 1818 to house Parliament, the courts and the public service of Nova Scotia.
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Province House, Charlottetown

Province House in Charlottetown is the home of Prince Edward Island's Legislative Assembly.
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Province of Canada (1841-67)

In 1841, Britain united the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This was in response to the violent rebellions of 1837–38. The Durham Report (1839) recommended the guidelines to create the new colony with the Act of Union. The Province of Canada was made up of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada) and Canada East (formerly Lower Canada). The two regions were governed jointly until the Province was dissolved to make way for Confederation in 1867. Canada West then became Ontario and Canada East became Quebec. The Province of Canada was a 26-year experiment in anglophone-francophone political cooperation. During this time, responsible government came to British North America and expanded trade and commerce brought wealth to the region. Leaders such as Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown emerged and Confederation was born.This article is a full-length entry about the Province of Canada. For a plain-language summary, please see Province of Canada (Plain-Language Summary).
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