List of post-nominal letters: Encyclopedia II - List of post-nominal letters - Canada

List of post-nominal letters - Canada

[1] Currently there are no living Canadians permitted to utilize the postnominal letters "V.C.". Since its creation in 1993 the Canadian Victoria Cross has yet to be issued and Canada's last living recipient of the Imperial Victoria Cross, Smokey Smith, died in 2005.

[2] French Canadian Privy Councilor's utilize the postnominal letters "C.P." rather than the anglophone "P.C.". There are several other cases of this in Canada such as French Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada use the letters "MSRC" instead of "FRSC". In practice, these postnominals are not usually translated from one language to another. A Privy Councilor is also entitled to be styled "The Honourable" or "L'honourable" for life. The postnominal letters are nessessary to to denote that someone is a privy councilor because in Canada holding a certain office can also allow the use of "The Honourable" title.

[3] UE is the only Hereditary title in Canada. It is based on Lord Dorchester's Order in Council in 1789 which was ment to differentiate loyalists from later settlers. Entitled to use these letters are decendents of :

• Either male or female, as of 19 April 1775, a resident of the American colonies, and joined the Royal Standard prior to the Treaty of Separation of 1783, or otherwise demonstrated loyalty to the Crown, and settled in territory remaining under the rule of the Crown; or
• a soldier who served in an American Loyalist Regiment and was disbanded in Canada; or
• a member of the Six Nations of either the Grand River or the Bay of Quinte Reserve who is descended from one whose migration was similar to that of other Loyalists.

Although there are thousands of individuals entitled to use these letters, the practice is mostly limited to geneologists and canadian monarchists.

[4] "Member of Parliament" is used in Canada and other Commonwealth nations to describe members of the lower house of Parliament only. In Canada, members of the House of Commons are described Members of Parliament, but members of the Senate are not.

[5] In Canada, members of legislative assemblies are called MLAs in all provinces and territories except:

• Ontario, where they have been called Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) since 1938,
• Quebec, where they are called Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), and
• Newfoundland and Labrador, where they are called Members of the House of Assembly (MHAs).

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Canada", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki