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  Timeline of Quebec history (1867 to 1899) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events relating to the province of Quebec, Canada between the enactment of the British North America Act and the end of the 19th century.
55% of Quebecers vote in favour of the new Confederation of Canada while 45% oppose.
1898 - The Parliament of Canada passes the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, 1898 extending the northern boundary of the province of Quebec to the Eastmain River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_Quebec_history_(1867_to_1899)   (709 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Quebec
1833, parish priest of Rivière-Ouelle, consecrated Bishop of Saldes and coadjutor of Quebec (1807), was bishop from 1825 to 1833.
The foundation of the Quebec Sisters of Charity (1849) and of the Good Shepherd (1850), the reorganization of ecclesiastical conferences the publication of a new catechism and the approval of Butler's for English-speaking Catholics are the chief acts of Bishop Turgeon's administration.
On the tercentenary of the foundation of Quebec (1908) a monument was erected to Bishop Laval.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12593c.htm   (4002 words)

  
 Quebec
Four of these-Laval, the University of Montreal, the University of Sherbrooke (1954), and the University of Quebec (1968)-use French, and three-McGill University and Concordia University (1974), in Montreal, and Bishop's University (1843), in Lennoxville-use English.
Quebec is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 24 senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general in council, and by 75 members of the House of Commons, popularly elected to terms of up to five years.
In the elections of 1970 and 1973 the Liberals under Robert Bourassa defeated the Union Nationale and the PQ largely by opposing separatism.
www.angelfire.com /country/t2canada/provinces/Quebec.htm   (3015 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Liberals were in opposition to the ruling Quebec Conservative Party for most of the first 20 years after Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879.
The Liberals won the 1897 election, and held power without interruption for the next 39 years; the Conservatives never held power in Quebec again.
Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Quebec under Premier Jean Charest, a former federal Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and leader.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/liberal_party_of_quebec.html   (1032 words)

  
 Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and the second-largest in population.
Quebec is the only region of North America where French is the language of the majority.
Quebec's goal was to curb the power of the federal government and to make the Quebec government primarily responsible for French Canadians.
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 Parti conservateur du Québec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The provincial Conservative government of Edmund James Flynn lost the 1897 Quebec election.
With the defeats of 1896 and 1897, the Conservatives became a minority party in Quebec at both levels of government.
The UN took power in the 1936 election, and went on to dominate Quebec politics until Duplessis died in 1959.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parti_conservateur_du_Qu%C3%A9bec   (685 words)

  
 Québec Since Confederation
Between 1867 and 1897 Québec had 10 premiers: 8 Conservatives, including P.J.O. (1867-73) and J.A. (1879-82), and 2 Liberals, one of whom was Honoré MERCIER (1887-91).
The nationalists' real political setback, however, the election of a Conservative government to Ottawa in 1911 - and especially the CONSCRIPTION crisis of 1917 - served to highlight the isolation of Québec, which henceforth bound its fortunes to those of the Liberal Party.
In the federal elections of 1993, the Bloc swept the province and won 54 of the 75 seats, becoming the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.
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 QUEBEC HISTORY 1800 - 1899
The number of illegitimate (enfant du Roi) births recorded in Quebec from 1841 to 1850, was 2,567, legitimes are 315,353.
Quebec and the clerical zealots adamantly held to the belief of Papal supremacy in religion and in clerical domination of society.
The bulwark or foundation of the new Quebec French-Roman culture became the distinctiveness of the French language.
www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/french43.htm   (2312 words)

  
 Timeline 1895-1897   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
1897 Jun 7, George Szell, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45), was born in Budapest, Hungary.
1897 Jul 31, The commercial treaty between Britain and the German zollverein (established in 1865) was denounced by Britain and pronounced to end in one year.
1897 Sep 26, Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), the 262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church, was born.
timelines.ws /1895_1897.HTML   (13565 words)

  
 Parliament of Australia:Senate:Publications - Can Responsible Government Surive In Australia?
Two elections were held in 1910, the first to give authority to force through the ‘people’s budget’ (the Lords yielded), and the second to end such struggles between the two houses.
The Quebec government was involved in the constitutional negotiations, for the first time in two years, and accepted the Charlottetown offer, though it insisted on more seats in the House of Commons to compensate for the lost senators.
In the Quebec election in November 1998, although the Parti Qubcois won government, the Liberal Party, which is opposed to secession, won a larger share of the vote.
www.aph.gov.au /SENATE/pubs/hamer/chap02.htm   (16317 words)

  
 How Others Have Viewed French Canadians and Quebec - Documents - Quebec History
A joint pastoral of the episcopate of Quebec declared in 1875: " The Church is not only independent of civil society but is superior to it by her comprehensiveness and by her end.
So extravagantly did they carry their claims that in 1897 they were censured by Rome for excessive and unwise interference in politics.
Education of the young remains under clerical direction, Quebec being the only province where this is the case; registration of births and deaths is still the task of Church officials; marriage is solely an ecclesiastical rite, and finally through the confessional the priest still exercises a profound influence on individual conduct.
www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/docs/views/brady04.htm   (4192 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Quebec referendum law to be modified: Landry
Quebec's current law says a referendum can't be held at the same time as an election.
That idea is popular with many grassroots members of the PQ who see it as an opportunity to unite Quebecers against the federal government.
Quebec has had two sovereignty referendums, one in 1980 and a narrow federalist victory in 1995.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024896044871_20305244   (440 words)

  
 History of the Quebec nationalist movement
Canada, renamed "The Province of Quebec", becomes the 15th British colony in America.
It was the answer to the Quebec Mercury, a newspaper founded by British Tories.
1897: Félix Gabriel-Marchand, Liberal Prime Minister, adopts a law creating a secular department of education, however the Legislative Counsil blocks it.
english.republiquelibre.org /history-of-our-movements.html   (2222 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
His position as a councillor gave him an entrée to the Quebec community and led to a close friendship with Hector-Louis Langevin*, the member for Dorchester in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada since 1858 and mayor of Quebec from 1858 to 1861.
In retrospect, a closer examination of the documents shows that McGreevy and other Quebec contractors enjoyed the patronage of two assembly members, Joseph-Édouard Cauchon* and Langevin, and did not hesitate to have anyone who opposed their plans pushed aside, as witness the dismissal of architect Charles Baillairgé* from the Department of Public Works in 1865.
The affair was similar to that of the parliament buildings: the Quebec Conservative party was believed to have used to its own advantage, through the contractors’ financing of party activities and support of its newspapers, sums of money earmarked for the construction of the railway.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40397   (3748 words)

  
 Parti libéral du Québec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the Québec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
It remains, however, a socially liberal party, which is in line with the Quebec mainstream.
Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Québec under Premier Jean Charest.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party   (1181 words)

  
 Department of Justice - Out of the Shadows: The Civil Law Tradition in the Department of Justice Canada, 1868-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At that time, his duties involved dealing with cases that came from Quebec or required a knowledge of civil law or the French language, and directing the employees of the Department to whom these cases were assigned.
Roméo Gibeault was born on June 15, 1895 in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, the son of Alfred Gibeault and Marie-Louise Beaulieu.
Henriette Bourque was finally called to the Quebec Bar, but that did nothing to change the attitude of the people she worked with at the Department of Justice.
canada.justice.gc.ca /en/dept/pub/ombre/longRoad3.html   (3390 words)

  
 1897 History of Tioga County PA
Judge Bailey is recognized in his State as a lawyer of solid legal attainments and unquestioned integrity, and he has won a high reputation for the impartiality and fairness of his decisions.
LEON O. BAILEY was born in Charleston township, Tioga county, June 21, 1857, and was educated in the public schools of Wellsboro and at Cornell University.
She is a deputy state organizer of the Ladies of the Maccabees, holds the office of sergeant in the Great Hive of the State, and to her efforts has been largely due the rapid growth of that order in
www.rootsweb.com /~srgp/1897/ch59a.htm   (22795 words)

  
 Parti libéral du Canada (Québec)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After he lost his seat in the 1911 election, King worked as a labour consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States.
Although the Liberals lost the 1930 election, it was to their benefit in the long run.
Perhaps the most significant indication of King's success as prime minister is the fact that upon his retirement in 1948, his successor, Louis St-Laurent, won an election the following year and kept the Liberals in power for another eight years.
www.qc.liberal.ca /en/histoire/pml07.aspx   (1117 words)

  
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Merritt was C/O of the South Saskatchewan Regiment; despite serious wounds he kept leading his men across the Scie River before being taken prisoner; 81 men in the South Sasks were killed; awarded the VC for showing 'reckless bravery'.
Shields was a popular Irish tenor in Canada during the 1930's; from 1937 to 1941 worked with the Eddie Duchin and Morton Gould orchestras, in 1939 had his own weekly program on NBC, Enna-Jettick Melodies; regular performer on CBC from 1948 until his retirement in 1964.
Montreal Quebec - Composer Achille Fourier dies at age 75; in 1885, he was the first Canadian to attend regular composition classes at the Paris Conservatory.
www1.sympatico.ca /news/otd/otd.98.08.19.html   (1441 words)

  
 LLMC - Common Law Abroad sect. 2
The Act, which received the Royal Assent on 22 June, 1763, was the cause of continuous grievance in the province, not alleviated until 1791, when the province was split into Lower and Upper Canada, and the inhabitants of the latter were restored to their common law heritage.
17}; the King’s proclamation relative to Quebec of Oct. 7, 1763 {pp.
protests, rules and regulations of the Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec, with an index; (and) Decisions of the speakers, judgments, rules and regulations of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, with an index; 1868–1885: by Faucher de Saint-Maurice, (3)+783+(4)p, Montreal, imp.
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 Hansard -- Thursday, April 30, 1981 -- Afternoon Sitting
One of the things that I found during the last election was that many of the people who had been enumerated federally felt they were on the provincial list, and then when they got to the polls on election day they found out that they were disfranchised.
In the last Quebec election, I noted a couple of things I would like to bring to the minister's consideration for a reaction.
In Quebec, their ballots can be marked with an X, a tick, or a line through the circle opposite a candidate's name.
www.legis.gov.bc.ca /Hansard/32nd3rd/32p_03s_810430p.htm   (20384 words)

  
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Quebec Quebec - Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 calls Quebec election for Oct. 25, asks for 'a vote for autonomy against conscription'.
Montreal Quebec - Richard Jackson 1777-1845 appointed administrator of Province of Canada, serves until Jan. 12, 1842 as Commander-in-Chief of British North America.
Quebec Quebec - Building of Notre-Dame church in Quebec.
www1.sympatico.ca /news/otd/otd.98.09.24.html   (1193 words)

  
 Parti libéral du Canada (Québec)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yet he never lost the easy-going, friendly aspect of a rural Ontario boy; indeed, it was exactly this manner that won him the trust of so many nations and led him to win one of the world's highest honours.
Lester Bowles Pearson was born in Newton Brook, Ontario in 1897.
Pearson was elected Liberal leader and served in the Opposition during the Diefenbaker years.
www.qc.liberal.ca /en/histoire/pml05.aspx   (1216 words)

  
 Brooklyn Eagle 1897 People
The town voted in favor of a druggist and hotel license at the recent election.
John M. is to have a new house erected on Hill St., Southampton on the site of the dwelling that burned down last year.
Goodrich and Judge Pratt, have been salmon fishing on the Bonaventure River, Quebec.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /LI/About.Long.Islanders.html   (6824 words)

  
 Le Quebec
To boot, they are now nothing more than a minority in an officially "bilingual" country, where in fact, practice imposes English.
The Rouges' program is not very well defined, but it is not without similarity to the project of sovereignty-association that will be discussed 90 years later.
We know today that the election was stolen in many ridings.
www.republiquelibre.org /cousture/QUEB2.HTM   (2674 words)

  
 NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The election law of New York provides explicitly for the filling of vacancies on the -tickets whether caused by declination or otherwise.
Moore under four signature the election of Mr.
Edward Talccrtt who Js one of th' heaviest stock exchange betters and has laid wagers amounting to about KO.OOO on the election said today that lie had communicated with the men wtoose money he holds with the purpose of bringing them together to effect a set tlemont of bets.
www.newspaperarchive.com /newspapers2/na0013/703654/8276560.html   (4028 words)

  
 Periodbot output starting #22473137
It was a small glimmer of hope for Quebec to gain more independence but still remain a part of Canada.
It was a chance to improve relations between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
Soon, in the 1994 Quebec election, premier Jacques Parizeau was elected on the bases that he would conduct a referendum on the subject of Quebec Soverignty.23 He kept his promise and the referndum was taken in 1995, independence was defeated by a margin of only 0.6%.
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 Transcript / Transcription - Gatineau, Quebec - 2004-06-08
Transcript / Transcription - Gatineau, Quebec - 2004-06-08
1897 That's fine, if you think that is all our concern is.
MILES: There is no questions that the regulations and the Commission has control over all of these aspects.
www.crtc.gc.ca /eng/transcripts/2004/tb0608.htm   (18639 words)

  
 Map Of Canada 1897   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Rand McNally 1897 Antique Map of British America (Canada) -...
Air Canada #1897 (ACA1897) Flight Tracker (en route flights, arrivals, departures, history) with maps...
The Windsor Magazine Vol VI June 1897 To November 1897[ 6 PAGE ARTICLE...
www.ciqc.com /map-of-canada-1897.html   (241 words)

  
 EJ Phillips 1830-1904 Philadelphia letters 1887-1897
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I dare say he told me when and where he joined the order, for we often talked about the funny devices of the curious to find out the "secrets" but so many years have passed that I cannot recall it.
I think though it was in Quebec he was initiated.
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 The Political Graveyard: Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online), which has collected millions of interment records from thousands of cemeteries.
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
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