You usually take a harder courseload and more advanced classes. It's something you decide to go into when you're applying, but I think you can change into it once already admitted. I don't know much about it other than that because they don't really have 'honours engineering'.

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University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11

I'm going to honours electrical engineering...xP
It depends on the program and the school, I guess.
For honours, we replace certain regular classes with honours classes, which involve a bit more material and we go more in-depth (such as honours advanced cal instead of just advanced cal).
We also have something special to do with a few thesis classes, but I don't know too much about those yet.

The definition of Honours varies. If you've got a choice between Honours and not, Honours is generally the one better suited to going on to graduate study. Some fields do not typically have degrees labelled Honours (e.g. Engineering).

At Acadia, it meant a minimum GPA of 3.0 instead of 2.0, no core course below a B- (instead of C-), doing some extra upper year courses that weren't required of others (both specific courses and a larger number of 3rd/4th year in program electives instead of general electives), and doing an Honours thesis worth 6 credits (the thesis *might* vary a bit with different programs, some might do something a bit different). There aren't really any 3 year programs at Acadia, and I believe that this description more or less applies to other schools in NS at least.

At schools in Ontario, it often is just to distinguish from a 3 year program that in some cases no longer or never existed. In other cases there might be some requirements along the lines of the above - more upper level courses in particular. I understand from my cousin, for example, that her Waterloo CS degree is Honours CS but there is no such thing as not Honours CS.

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Remember that it often takes just as long to do a search or two on Google to try and find the answer to your question as it takes to type it in a post here, let alone the time waiting for a reply.
If your question is "What mark does it take to get into University X", or "What are the requirements to get into University X", it's on their website and/or electronicinfo.ca (for Ontario schools). Particularly for Ontario schools, those ranges are a pretty good picture of what kind of mark will get you into the program, and if you're more than a couple percent higher it's practically guaranteed unless it requires a supplementary form.

I assume that's backwards ;)

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Remember that it often takes just as long to do a search or two on Google to try and find the answer to your question as it takes to type it in a post here, let alone the time waiting for a reply.
If your question is "What mark does it take to get into University X", or "What are the requirements to get into University X", it's on their website and/or electronicinfo.ca (for Ontario schools). Particularly for Ontario schools, those ranges are a pretty good picture of what kind of mark will get you into the program, and if you're more than a couple percent higher it's practically guaranteed unless it requires a supplementary form.

I know some US schools work on a "Quarter" system rather than a semester system. That way they'd divide the year into 4 3 month parts rather than 3 4 month parts.

If you had 4 courses per quarter for 3 quarters in a year, that would actually work out to more courses in a year, although presumably they'd each cover a bit less. But I don't know a whole lot about quarter systems other than that they exist.

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Remember that it often takes just as long to do a search or two on Google to try and find the answer to your question as it takes to type it in a post here, let alone the time waiting for a reply.
If your question is "What mark does it take to get into University X", or "What are the requirements to get into University X", it's on their website and/or electronicinfo.ca (for Ontario schools). Particularly for Ontario schools, those ranges are a pretty good picture of what kind of mark will get you into the program, and if you're more than a couple percent higher it's practically guaranteed unless it requires a supplementary form.

I used to think that people declare "honours" in their degrees after graduation based on their GPA and course-load. But, I never realized you could start an honours program first-year.