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PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
Miss Canada is a beauty pageant for young women in Canada. It was founded in Hamilton in 1946. No title was awarded from 1993 through 2008. The trademark was purchased in 2009 by a Québec organization who produces the pageant under the name to this day. According to the new Miss Canada and Miss Teen Canada web site, the title was re ...
An enlargeable map of Canada, showing its ten provinces and three territories. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Canada: Canada ( / ˈkænədə /) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean ...
Miss Dominion of Canada. Miss Dominion of Canada was a beauty pageant held in Niagara Falls, Ontario for many years, primarily in the Sheraton Brock Hotel, on July 1, Canada's Dominion Day (now known as "Canada Day"), beginning in 1959. Sandra Campbell of Leamington, Ontario, representing Canada at the Miss Universe Pageant.
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
5,599,077 km 2 (2,161,816 sq mi) Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic ...
Miss Washington. The Miss Washington competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Washington in the Miss America pageant. Vanessa Munson of Clark County was crowned Miss Washington 2023 on July 1, 2023, at Capital High School Performing Arts Center in Olympia, WA. She will compete for the title of Miss America ...
Brussels (Canadian Joint Delegation to the North Atlantic Council) Organization of American States. Washington, D.C. (Permanent Mission) [10] Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Vienna (Canadian Delegation) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Paris (Permanent Delegation) United Nations.