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| 1940, March 26 |
| | | The Liberal Party won a decided victory in the Canadian elections. | 1 |
| | | 1941, Dec. 8 |
| | | CANADA DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN. The government soon relocated Japanese Canadians to the interior of British Columbia. | 2 |
| | | 1942, Nov. 8 |
| | | Canada severed relations with the French Vichy regime on the grounds that there no longer existed in France any government with effective independent existence. | 3 |
| | | 1945, June 11 |
| | | National elections held a majority for Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberal Party, thus endorsing the government's conduct of the war. The Progressive Conservatives came out second, and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Socialist) third. (See Canada, 1946–2000) | 4 |
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edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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