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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1874
The sharps model 1874: the original and the "sharp" Mantana repras.
Canadian Baptist mission work among women in Andhra, India, 1874-1924: Baptist women evolved a role for themselves in an otherwise male-dominated mission enterprise and a patriarchal Telugu society.
Shoestring sharps: the Pedersoli Model 1874 mounted with a Leatherwood6X Scope is second to none in terms of accuracy and performance.
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  canadian federal election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
The most recent instance of this was the 1988 election, which was considered by most parties to be a referendum on free trade with the United States.
Canadian election turn-out is generally higher than that in the United States but lower than in most European nations.
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 Canadian federal election, 1993 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election was called by new Progressive Conservative Party leader Kim Campbell, near the end of her party's five year mandate.
The 1988 election had been almost wholly focused on the issue of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, and similarly the 1993 election was preceded by the agreement on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The election saw three minor parties focused on radical reform to the monetary system: The Canada Party, the Abolitionist Party, and the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada, which was also strongly republican.
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 Encyclopedia: 1874 Canadian election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Canadian federal election of 1874 was held on January 22, 1874.
The Tories were unable to recover from the scandal and lost the election as a result.
For changes between the 1874 and 1878 elections, see By-elections of the 3rd Canadian Parliament.
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 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Sir John A. Macdonald
During the election of 1863, Macdonald reportedly felt nauseous and became sick during a campaign speech.
In the 1874 election, the Conservatives lost to the Liberals, led by Alexander MacKenzie.
Canadian author, professor and historian Charlotte Gray uses her expertise at making history exciting to present an enthusiastic case for Sir John A. Macdonald.
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 Encyclopedia: James Cockburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Canadian Confederation, or the Confederation of Canada, was the process that ultimately brought together a union among the provinces, colonies and territories of British North America to form the Dominion of Canada, a Dominion of the British Empire, which today is a federal nation state simply known as Canada.
The Canadian federal election of 1878 resulted in the end of Canada suffered an economic depression during Mackenzies term, and his party was pounished by the voters for it.
Speakers of the Canadian House of Commons In Canada the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the lower house and is elected by fellow MPs.
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 Canadian_federal_election,_2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000.
The election was regarded as a great success by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal Party, but a failure for every other party.
On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks' pooled election feed from Day's riding.
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Canadian federal election, 1891 The 1891 Canadian election was won by House of Commons.
Canadian federal election, 1940 The 1940 Canadian election was the 19th General Election in Canadian history.
Canadian federal election, 1945 The 1945 Canadian election was the 20th General Election in Canadian history.
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 Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
But his party's defeats in the elections of 1878 and 1882 meant a curb to his ambitions, though he himself was re-elected in Québec-Est, and he took less interest in political debate.
In 1885 his ardour was aroused by the hanging of Louis RIEL and he vigorously defended the cause of the Métis leader and the need to unite the French and English in Canada.
The first, the NAVAL SERVICE ACT, presented in 1910, was to establish a Canadian navy composed of 5 cruisers and 6 destroyers; the navy was to be ready to fight with Great Britain anywhere in the world.
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 Edward Blake biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was re-elected to the Canadian House of Commons but, in 1873, turned down the position of Liberal Party leader due to ill health.
The Liberals won the subsequent 1874 Canadian election, Blake joined the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie serving as Minister of Justice and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
The Liberals were defeated in the 1878 Canadian election and Blake succeeded Mackenzie as party leader in 1880 but failed to defeat Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives in the 1882 or 1887 federal elections.
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 Alexander Mackenzie - Search View - MSN Encarta
In the first election for a dominion Parliament, Mackenzie ran, and was elected to represent Lambton County.
In the election of 1871 the Liberals won a majority in Ontario and Blake became the provincial premier.
The Liberals won the election of 1874 with their promises to give Canada an honest, vigorous, and thrifty government.
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 1874 Canadian election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Canada Election - Women's Election Canadian election news, analysis and organizing by equality seeking women and women's organizations.
Canadian Federal Election Riding-by-Riding Prediction Uses information submitted by political junkies with their ears to the ground to predict the result of the upcoming federal election riding by riding.
CBC News: Canadian Alliance Leadership Race Information and news reports on the Canadian Alliance leadership race which concluded March 8, 2002 with the election of Stephen Harper as leader.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Canadian, the county seat, is eight to ten miles northwest of the center of the county and about 120 miles northeast of Amarillo.
Red Deer Creek is the major tributary of the Canadian in the county; Gageby Creek is the largest county tributary of the Washita.
When Canadian became a railroad division point in 1907, a great deal of railroad construction and employment followed; the situation lasted until 1922, when the division point was moved eastward to Oklahoma.
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 Liberal Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the 29 years after Canadian confederation, the Liberals were consigned to opposition, with the exception of one stint in government.
The 1988 Canadian election was notable for John Turner's strong opposition to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement negotiated by Tory Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
In the June 28th, 2004 federal election, Paul Martin was re-elected as the Prime Minister of Canada, despite fierce competition from Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper.
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 Labour Party
In 1872 Henry Buckingham Witton, a Hamilton carriage-maker, was elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative candidate, as was Alphonse-Télesphore Lépine, a Montréal leader of the KNIGHTS OF LABOR, in 1888.
Puttee is considered the first labour MP because he was elected both in a January by-election as well as the November general election.
Although the TLC failed to back the CCF in the 1930s, the Canadian Congress of Labour endorsed the CCF in 1943 as the political arm of labour, and the CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS later supported the establishment of the NDP.
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 Civilization.ca - History of the Vote - Chronicle, A spotlight on 1920-1997
Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly [of a province or territory] and to be qualified for membership therein.
Then, during the 1988 federal election, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled that the judiciary should not be determining which prisoners should or should not be disenfranchised; this was a matter for legislators, not judges.
For example, the 3.2 million Canadians who move every year (about 16 per cent of the electorate) will have their new address added to the register of electors automatically when they submit a change of address for their driver’s licence.
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 Arthur Meighen Summary
Arthur Meighen (1874-1960) was a Canadian lawyer and prime minister.
Among Canadian political leaders of the day, he was without superior as a parliamentary debater and public speaker; his oratorical skills were frequently employed in defense of the protective tariff and the maintenance of close ties with Britain.
He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1908, defeating incumbent John Crawford in the Manitoba riding of Portage la Prairie.
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 Historical Voter Turnout in Canadian Federal Elections - 1867-2004
However, it is important to note the fluctuations of the numbers and percentage of registered voters as a percentage of the whole Canadian population (as measured at the census prior to the election).
For example, the portion of Canadians under 15 years of age has dropped from 32.5% in 1941 to 19.1% in 2001; this figure is calculated from Census data available at Stats Canada.
With this change in demographics in mind, one actually should have seen an increase in the percentage of Canada's total population who vote in an election as the Canadian population aged.
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 Timeline 1871-1874   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1874 Apr 24-26, The 2-story mansion leased by Thomas Clarke on the southwest corner of 16th and Castro in Oakland, Ca., was reported to be haunted.
1874 Jul 26, Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, was born in Vishny-Volotchok, Russia.
1874 Nov 29, Antonio Egas Moniz, lobotomist (Nobel 1949), was born in Portugal.
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 Canadian_federal_election,_1997
The Canadian federal election of 1997 was held on June 2, 1997, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
Chretien's decision to hold an early election (one of the shorter mandates when a majority government called an election) did not help, while Manitoba was still recovering from a devestating Red River Flood earlier in the year.
Commentators on election night even predicting a minority government, although the Liberals were secure in forming the next administration due to a divided opposition.
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 Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
Canadian citizenship recognized as qualification in addition to being a British subject (SBC 1947 c.47).
Voters in the general election approve a referendum providing a mechanism to recall sitting Members and to bring citizen initiatives before the Legislature or to province-wide referendum.
Elections Amendment Act (SBC 1992 c.72) lowers the voting age to 18 from 19 and eases restrictions on voting day registration.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
He therefore stood as an anti-confederation candidate in the provincial election of September 1867 and he won in Digby County.
These developments were important in the early history of the Canadian army, but neither had been the minister’s idea.
Having lost the by-election which followed, he did not contest the 1878 general election and returned to his business interests.
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 Canadian Expatriates: The Expat Blog: March 2005
Canadian Expatriates, its contributors, and readers have been invited by Foreign Affairs Canada to participate in a series of eDiscussions.
Canadians, or at least liquored up Canadians who are caught driving, are certainly getting more and more creative in trying to beat the rap.
The Canadian women are still in the game, winning their third consecutive draw at the World Curling Championships in Scotland.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Canadian River, fed by several small creeks, angles across the county from southwest to northeast; in the southwest it is dammed to form Lake Meredith.
In the spring of 1874, despite increased threats from disgruntled Indians, merchants and buffalo hunters from Dodge City established a trading post about a mile and a half north of the original ruins.
Elections were held on April 25, and on May 13 the county was officially organized with the riverside town of Plemons as its seat of government.
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 Canadian federal election, 1874 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1874 was held on January 22, 1874, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
The election was the first to use secret ballots in Canada.
Liberal-Conservatives sat with the Consevative caucus in the House of Commons.
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 Bermuda and Canada
Canadian visitors to Bermuda on vacation seem to like going from a hundreds or thousands of times bigger province but with a hugely smaller population density per square mile to a tiny (21 square miles) island with hundreds or thousands more people per square mile.
It was on one of the Canadian National Steamships' 'Ladyboats' much loved in Bermuda that the Duke of Windsor and his wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, sailed in 1940 from Bermuda to Nassau, Bahamas, where the Duke became the wartime Governor of the Bahamas.
The leading Canadian organization which owns a number of the watercolors she painted while she was in Bermuda (and lent them to Bermuda for a 1999 exhibition) is the National Gallery of Canada.
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 Canadian_federal_election,_1896   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Canadian federal election of 1896 was held on July 11, 1896 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
As a result of the election, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, formed a majority government.
In the 1896 election, the Conservative Party was led by Sir Charles Tupper, a Father of Confederation and former Premier of Nova Scotia.
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 The Scot in British North America - Chapter VI The Influx of Settlement
When the Government resolved on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was foreseen that unless steps were taken to conciliate the Indians, and afford them reasonable compensation for their land, serious troubles were likely to arise.
The intervening three hundred and eighty miles comprises a line of water communication through a maze of lakes and rivers, the navigable portions of the route being frequently separated by rocky ridges or necks of land, across which canoes or other vessels have to be portaged.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Manitoba Legislature in the constituency of St. Andrew’s at the general election of 1870 and was nominated to the Legislative Council when that body was instituted.
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