From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5461 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, December 10 2020 Volume 14 : Number 5461 Today's Subjects: ----------------- About Your Child... ["Reading Head Start" Subject: About Your Child... About Your Child... http://govmutual.buzz/PCOTpGHv2bl6r7SUcb2ogJo-w515ZOYZkXnlJ8IOvjrSXOzP http://govmutual.buzz/OAQRsr-EAUbgprKty9ZtjtPzJibXNt9Lkanxaf1j7rEKdlkE ituent entities of Canada are known as provinces. Prior to confederation, the term province was used in reference to several British colonies situated in Canada; such as the colonial Province of Quebec. In 1791, Quebec split into two separate colonies, the provinces of Lower Canada, and Upper Canada. The two colonies were later merged in 1841 to form the Province of Canada. From its separation from Nova Scotia in the 18th century, New Brunswick was known as His/Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. After Canadian confederation in 1867, the term provinces continued to be used, in reference to the sub-national governments of Canada. Because Canada is the second-largest country in the world by area, most Canadian provinces are very largebsix of its ten provinces are larger than any country in Europe except Russia, and its largest province Quebecb1,542,056 km2 (595,391 sq mi)bis almost two and a half times as large as Franceb640,679 km2 (247,368 sq mi). Five of the older Canadian provincesbOntario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Islandbhave "counties" as administrative sub-divisions. The actual local government form can vary widely. New Brunswick also has civil parishes within counties. Since the Canadian Constitution assigns local government to provincial jurisdiction, the various provinces can create, dissolve, and reorganize local governments freely and they have been described as "creatures of the province". The Western provinces have more varied types of administrative sub-divisions than the Eastern provinces and invent new types at will. The province of British Columbia has "regional districts" which function as equivalents of counties. Manitoba and Saskatchewan have "urban municipalities", rural municipalities, and "special municipalities" or "northern municipalities". Most of Alberta's rural municipalities brand themselves "counties", although in Alberta the word has no legal significance and does not describe the government type. The province of Alberta has some unusually creative solutions formed in response to local conditions. For instance, Sherwood Park is an unincorporated "urban service area" of 65,465 within Strathcona County, which has most of the oil refining capacity in Western Canada; Fort McMurray was once a city but dissolved itself and became an "urban service area" of 70,964 people within the Regional Municipality (R.M.) of Wood Buffalo, which has several multibillion-dollar oil sands plants; and Lloydminster, a city of 31,483 which sits directly astride the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. Unlike most such cases, Lloydminster is not a pair of twin cities on opposite sides of a border, but is actually incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administration. The residents objected to the federal government splitting the city in two when it created the two provinces, so the two provinces reunified it by declarin ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5461 **********************************************