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Re: Canadian provinces & territories
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca
Date: 
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:21:16 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, mlegault@nortelnetworks.com (Martin Legault)
> writes:
> > In lugnet.announce, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > 60 new local newsgroups have just been created:  12 at province level in
> > > Canada and 48* at the state level in the U.S.
> > 
> > 12 province ??
> > 
> > At my knowledge there is only 10 province and 3 territorys.
> 
> Oops, sorry!  I meant "12 administrative divisions" or whatever the generic
> term is.  (What is the difference between a province and a territory?)

Apology accepted

A province gouvernement have a lot more "power" or "right" than a territory
(principaly TAXE :-(, have the right on natural ressource, greater autonomie
while a territory is dependant on the federal gouvernement for most of its
budget (kind of a state and district difference)) and Nunavut is in beetwen

> > Yes 3. April first
> > was the day of the creation of the "Nunavut". NWT had been split in 2 west
> > part keep NWT name and the easter portion took the Nunavut name. except for
> > the name the Nunavut have more power than a regular territory but lest than
> > a province.
> 
> Here's the actual list:
> 
>   http://www.lugnet.com/loc/ca/
> 
> How should it be amended?


look fine for me... except for  loc/ca/nunavut


> Does Nunavut have an official mailcode?  (AB=Alberta, SK=Saskatchewan, etc.)


probably, but I have no idea (maybe Canada Post web site?)
> 
> > Don't know if there will be lot of AFOL from there but the
> > school are well equip in computers
> 
> All FOL in general are more imporant that AFOL.  :)

You're right but TRU must be very rare over there
> 
> --Todd

Martin



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(...) Oops, sorry! I meant "12 administrative divisions" or whatever the generic term is. (What is the difference between a province and a territory?) (...) Here's the actual list: (URL) should it be amended? Does Nunavut have an official mailcode? (...) (27 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)

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