Outline of Canada

Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled the Atlantic coast.

In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces.

[2][3][4] This began an accretion of additional provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom, highlighted by the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and culminating in the Canada Act in 1982 which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament.

Canada is a federation that is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with King Charles III as its head of state.

Unlike the provinces, the territories of Canada have no inherent jurisdiction and only have those powers delegated to them by the federal government.