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Well, technically, the Queen of the UK isn’t the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces; only the Queen of Canada is. The Crowns are separate, even though they are vested in the same person. (More trivia I picked up on the SDMB.)
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The Crowns are separate, but Her Majesty’s title in Canada is established by the Royal Styles and Titles Act :
So referring to her as the Queen of the United Kingdom and Canada is a proper description.
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Missed on … Maine not being among the original colonies…
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That one is tricky. I got it, but I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t done some research into American legal history a year or so ago. Heck, my wife (US born and educated, including all necessary classes in US history) didn’t know that one.
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The Crowns are separate, but Her Majesty’s title in Canada is established by the Royal Styles and Titles Act :
So referring to her as the Queen of the United Kingdom and Canada is a proper description.
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Well, yes, that that’s just listing several of the different realms under her personal union. It doesn’t change the fact that when she does something official in Canada as Queen of Canada, she’s doing it as Queen of Canada, not Queen of a different realm. ISTR that when she and the President of the USA opened the St. Lawrence Seaway, she acted as Queen of Canada, not Queen of the UK.
I got 100%. I’m glad to see I’m not alone in this distinction.
Incidentally, present-day Maine was included in the lands of the Thirteen Original Colonies – the state was broken off of Massachusetts in 1820 as a result of the Missouri Compromise.
100% on the questions I actually bothered to answer. I somehow managed to completely skip over question 17. Interestingly enough, it’s the only one I may have ultimately guessed at. So, let’s go with 95%, which is what I technically earned.