Canada

Canada was a human nation located in North America on Earth in the Sol System. It shared borders with the United States.

Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what became Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763.

In the War of 1812, British forces used Canada as a base for an attempted invasion of the United States.

In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom.

Canada sent a large number of troops and military forces to fight as part of the British Empire and its allies in the Great War, between 1914 and 1916. Many Canadian-flagged ships were sunk by German and German-allied submarines while crossing the Atlantic to the British Isles to deliver personnel and war materiel to the Allies during the war. Despite its military involvement on the Allied side, Canada was not targeted by the German Empire or its allies in the orbital strikes which ended the conflict.

Following its defeat in the Indian War of Independence, and with much of its empire having collapsed since the end of the Great War, Great Britain reorganised what was left of its empire into the Commonwealth of Nations in 1939, in which Canada was a founding member. Although Canada still maintained a constitutional monarchy, with King Henry IX as its head of state, the 1939 Statute of Westminster removed the ability of the Parliament of Great Britain to pass legislation in the country. All member states of the Commonwealth were declared to be "free and equal" as a result of the London Declaration the same year. Member states of the Commonwealth also became part of a monetary union using a single currency (the Commonwealth pound) and an internal common market with a standardised system of laws applying in all of its member states. The Commonwealth pound therefore replaced the Canadian dollar as Canada's currency. The Commonwealth of Nations became a model for future supranational organisations, such as the European Union and the Organisation of African Unity.

In 1968, the supranational political and economic structures of the European Union and the Commonwealth of Nations were combined to form the United Commonwealth. The Commonwealth pound was replaced as the currency used in Canada by the newly-established currency of the United Commonwealth, the Commonwealth credit.

The government of the United Commonwealth federalised in 1988. The Canadian government was therefore effectively absorbed into the United Commonwealth Government in 1988, and Canada is largely regarded to have ceased to exist as a separate nation-state on that date.