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Canada
under George V – King: 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
1916 Silver 10 Cents 17.8mm (2.29 grams) 0.925 Silver (0.0687 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM #23
GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: REX ET IND:IMP:, Crowned bust of George V left,
wearing royal vestments.
10 CENTS CANADA 1916 within wreath; crown above.
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George
V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was
King of the United Kingdom
and the
British Dominions
, and
Emperor of India
, from 6 May 1910 until his
death in 1936.
He was the second son of
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
(later King
Edward VII), and the grandson of the reigning British monarch,
Queen Victoria
. From the time of his birth, he
was third in the
line of succession
behind his father and his
elder brother,
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
.
From 1877 to 1891, George served in the
Royal Navy
, until the unexpected death of his
elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the
death of his grandmother in 1901, George’s father became
King-Emperor
of the
British Empire
, and George was created
Prince of Wales
. He succeeded his father in
1910. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own
Delhi Durbar
.
His reign saw the rise of
socialism
,
communism
,
fascism
,
Irish republicanism
, and the
Indian independence movement
, all of which
radically changed the political landscape. The
Parliament Act 1911
established the supremacy
of the elected
British House of Commons
over the unelected
House of Lords
. As a result of the
First World War
(1914–18) the empires of his
first cousins
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
and
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
fell while the
British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became
the first monarch of the
House of Windsor
, which he renamed from the
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
as a result of
anti-German public sentiment. In 1924 he appointed the first
Labour
ministry
and in 1931 the
Statute of Westminster
recognised the dominions
of the Empire as separate, independent states within the
Commonwealth of Nations
. He was plagued by
illness throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his
eldest son,
Edward VIII
.
Canada
is a country, consisting of
ten provinces and t
 hree
territories, in the northern part of the continent of North America.
It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean,
covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles) in total,
making it the world’s
second-largest country by total area
and the
fourth-largest country by land area
. Canada’s
common border with the United States
forms the
world’s longest land border. Canada is sparsely populated overall, the majority
of its land territory being dominated by
forest
and
tundra
as well as the mountain range of the
Rocky Mountains
; about four-fifths of the
population live near to the southern border. The majority of Canada has a cold
or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer.
The land now called Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various
Aboriginal peoples
. Beginning in the late 15th
century,
British
and
French colonies
were established on the
region’s Atlantic coast. As a consequence of
various conflicts
, the United Kingdom gained
and lost North American territories until left, in the late 18th century, with
what mostly comprises Canada today. Pursuant to the
British North America Act
, on July 1, 1867,
three colonies
joined
to form the autonomous
federal Dominion
of Canada. This began an
accretion
of provinces and territories to the
new self-governing
Dominion
. In 1931, Britain granted Canada near
total independence with the
Statute of Westminster 1931
and full
sovereignty was attained when the
Canada Act 1982
severed the vestiges of legal
dependence on the
British parliament
.
Canada is a
federal
parliamentary democracy
and a
constitutional monarchy
, Queen
Elizabeth II
being the current head of state.
The country is
officially bilingual
at the federal level. It
is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and
multicultural
nations, the product of
large-scale immigration from many countries, with a population of approximately
35 million as of 2015. Its advanced economy is
the eleventh largest in the world
, relying
chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international
trade networks. Canada’s
long and complex relationship
with the United
States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture.
Canada is a
developed country
and one of the wealthiest in
the world, with the
tenth highest
nominal per capita income
globally, and the
eighth highest
ranking in the
Human Development Index
. It
ranks among the highest
in international
measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life,
economic freedom, and education. Canada is a
Commonwealth Realm
member of the
Commonwealth of Nations
, a member of the
Francophonie
, and part of several major
international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the
G8
, the
Group of Ten
, the
G20
, the
North American Free Trade Agreement
and the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
forum.
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