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	* '''[[Canada (CITV)\|CITV]]''' in 1996		* '''[[Canada (CITV)\|CITV]]''' in 1996
		+	*It then aired on a [[TV Movie in Canada\|regional basis]] also in 1996 and 1997

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−	Of course, for many Canadians, another primary source of '''Doctor Who''' were PBS broadcasts from the [[United States\|US states]] that bordered with Canada. For instance, WTVS in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]] could be viewed in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and many parts of southern Ontario; and [[KSPS]] in [[Spokane]], [[Washington]], was available in southern British Columbia and Alberta. The many PBS stations operating out of the northern regions of [[New York]] state were also available in southern Ontario and Quebec.	+	Of course, for many Canadians, another primary source of '''Doctor Who''' were PBS broadcasts from the [[United States\|US states]] that bordered with Canada. For instance, WTVS in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]] could be viewed in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and many parts of southern Ontario; and [[KSPS]] in [[Spokane]], [[Washington]], was available in southern British Columbia and Alberta. The many PBS stations operating out of the northern regions of [[New York]] state were also available in southern Ontario and Quebec, while the [[Maine Public Broadcasting Network]] could be received in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

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 Other references to Canada include:
+*In [[The Tenth Planet]] Ben calls Polly "Nanook of the North" (after the 1922 US film about Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic)
 * Two of the Moonbase technicians - P Baker No 1 and E Braun No 12 – are Canadian ([[The Moonbase]])
 * Mention is made of the wheat plains of Canada in [[The Enemy of the World]]

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 |[[File:CanadaDaleks66.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Sault Star Ontario, 1 September 1966]]|[[File:CANADA MOVIE.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1969]]
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-The films also screened several times on television - see the sections on [[Canada CKVU|CKVU]], [[Canada YTV|YTV]] and [[Canada Space|SPACE]].
+The second film did not get released at all in North America. But both films screened several times on Canadian television - see the sections on [[Canada CKVU|CKVU]], [[Canada YTV|YTV]] and [[Canada Space|SPACE]].

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 ==DALEK MOVIES==
 ===[[Peter Cushing|PETER CUSHING]] Movies===
-[[File:CANADA MOVIE.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1969]]
+The first Aaru movie played in theatres across Canada. The initial release dates are not known, but the earliest newspapers listings we can find are from Ontario in '''late July 1966'''. The film was being shown in Edmonton theatres by '''October 1966'''.  It was still being played in provincial theatres three years later - usually in a double bill - such as at the Chateau in Pine Falls, Manitoba in '''April 1969'''.
-The first Aaru movie played in theatres across Canada. The initial release dates are not known, but the film was played in provincial theatres in the late 1960s. In '''April 1969''' the film played at the Chateau in Pine Falls, Manitoba.
+{{image table
+|[[File:CanadaDaleks66.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Sault Star Ontario, 1 September 1966]]|[[File:CANADA MOVIE.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1969]]
 The films also screened several times on television - see the sections on [[Canada CKVU|CKVU]], [[Canada YTV|YTV]] and [[Canada Space|SPACE]].

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 [[File:CanadaJigsawSontarans.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Waddingtons Canadian jigsaw of Andrew Skilleter's Sontaran poster print]]
-There are only a few known examples of exclusively Canadian items of merchandise. In 1984, Waddingtons Games Canada released four 500-piece '''Doctor Who''' jigsaw puzzles; these featured artwork of Omega, Davros and the Daleks, Sontarans, and K9 taken from Andrew Skilleter's Profile Prints series.
+There are only a few known examples of items of merchandise that are exclusive to Canada. In 1984, Waddingtons Games Canada released four 500-piece '''Doctor Who''' jigsaw puzzles; these featured artwork of Omega, Davros and the Daleks, Sontarans, and K9 taken from Andrew Skilleter's Profile Prints series.
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 * Ottawa is mentioned in [[The Claws of Axos]]
 * New Montreal is mentioned in [[Frontier in Space]]
-* Vancouver is a destination listed on the flight 'Arrivals and Departures' board at Schiphol Airport in [[Arc of Infinity]]
+*A flight coming in from Vancouver is listed on the 'Arrivals' board at Schiphol Airport in [[Arc of Infinity]]
 * One of the sacred books of Marb Station is ''UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose'' by HM Stationery Office ([[The Trial of a Time Lord]])

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-==Novelisations==
+==Books and Novelisations==
 For many years the Target novelisations were readily available in Canada – the back covers of most but not all of the books bear a price in Canadian dollars. (From 1983 to 1989, '''CANCOAST BOOKS''' in Toronto, Ontario, is identified as the distributor.) New books published in 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1992 do not have Canadian prices (*).
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 * '''1977''': none
 * '''1978''': $1.50
-* '''1979''': $1.50; $1.75; $1.95
+* '''1979''': $1.50; $1.75; $1.90; $1.95; $2.50
 * '''1980''': $1.95; $2.25; $2.50
 * '''1981''': none

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−	We are grateful to Enlightenment, Michael J Doran, Ed Conroy, Alex Frazer-Harrison, Graeme Burk, Doug Orlowski and especially Randy K Howell, for research material and general information about Canadian broadcasts.	+	We are grateful to Enlightenment, Michael J Doran, Ed Conroy, Alex Frazer-Harrison, Graeme Burk, Doug Orlowski and especially Randy K Howell and Hugh Pearson, for research material and general information about Canadian broadcasts.

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	==Canadian Merchandise==		==Canadian Merchandise==
		+	[[File:CanadaJigsawSontarans.jpg\|right\|thumb\|250px\|Waddingtons Canadian jigsaw of Andrew Skilleter's Sontaran poster print]]

−	There are only a few known examples of exclusively Canadian items of merchandise. In 1984, Waddingtons Games Canada released four '''Doctor Who''' jigsaw puzzles; these featured artwork of Omega, Davros and the Daleks, Sontarans, and K9 taken from Andrew Skilleter's Profile Prints series.	+	There are only a few known examples of exclusively Canadian items of merchandise. In 1984, Waddingtons Games Canada released four 500-piece '''Doctor Who''' jigsaw puzzles; these featured artwork of Omega, Davros and the Daleks, Sontarans, and K9 taken from Andrew Skilleter's Profile Prints series.