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	Alberta general election, 1905 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alberta general election of 1905 was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada.
		The Alberta Liberal Party of Alexander C. Rutherford won twenty three of the twenty five seats in the new legislature, defeating the Conservative Party, which was led by a young lawyer, Richard Bennett, who later served as Prime Minister of Canada.
		The election in 1905 was a bitter one, especially in Calgary and Southern Alberta where the Liberals were accused of vote tampering and interfering with Conservative voters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_general_election,_1905 (264 words)

	New Democratic Party - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's leadership elections as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		Over three election cycles, under the leadership of Audrey McLaughlin (1989-1995) — the first woman to be leader of a national political party in Parliament — in the first, and Alexa McDonough (1995-2003) over the next two, the party underwent a marked decline in popularity, a modest resurgence, and a slight further decline.
		Layton, a former Toronto city councillor, was elected at the party's leadership election in Toronto on January 25, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/NDP (1990 words)

	Maple Leaf Web -- Alberta Party Parties
		Alberta’s inception as a province in 1905 heralded the birth of the Conservative Party of Alberta.
		A surprise by-election victory for Elmer Roper in Edmonton in 1942 gave the CCF their first seat; they followed that with a few seats over the next several elections.
		Following the election disaster, Martin resigned and was replaced in 1994 by leader Ross Harvey, a former researcher for the provincial party, and the first (and only) New Democrat ever elected to represent Alberta in the House of Commons (Edmonton East in 1988).
	www.mapleleafweb.com /election/alberta/albertaparties.htm (1652 words)

	Settlement of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren at Gnadenau, Marion County, by Alberta Pantle, Kansas Historical ...
		General von Todtleben was sent as a special emissary of the Czar to meet with the various congregations.
		Their bread is generally baked in large bread pans placed upon iron stools in the front of the large oven after the fire has gone out, something after the manner of our bakers.
		At an election in Risley township on December 16, 1878, the.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1945/45_5_pantle.htm (12163 words)

	Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
		Generally, scientific method involves the steps of gathering of data, by observation and research, formulation of hypotheses, testing by experiment, replication of tests to ensure consistent results, and avoidance of personal bias and pre-judgement.
		A general term for political doctrines that claim an important role for the state and the community in the shaping and directing a society's economic and social life.
		Societies are generally identified as existing at the level of nation states, but there can be regional and cultural communities within nation states that possess much of the cultural distinctiveness and relative self-sufficiency of societies.
	bitbucket.icaap.org /dict.pl?alpha=S (9169 words)

	1997: Debate fireworks - Electing Dynasties: Alberta Campaigns 1935 to 2001 - CBC Archives
		Alberta's tremendously popular Premier Ralph Klein is, for a change, on the defensive.
		The biggest election issue — and a prime target for the cuts — was health care.
		Pam Barrett, the NDP leader, also won but stunned Alberta by resigning in 2000, saying she re-evaluated her life after a near-death experience caused by anasthesia in a dentist's chair.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1472-9847/politics_economy/alberta_elections/clip7 (788 words)

	EPL.ca: Biographies of Mayors and Councillors - D
		Born in Vegreville, Alberta, June 28, 1940 to parents of Ukrainian descent.
		His father, John Decore, was a high school teacher before becoming a lawyer and in 1949 Liberal MP for Vegreville, then chief judge of the federal District Court of Alberta and in 1979 appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench.
		Graduated from University of Alberta in 1961 with B.A. in history and political economy, and in 1964 with LL.B. Lawyer since 1965.
	www.epl.ca /Elections/Results/EPLBiographies/D.cfm (1336 words)

	Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Biographies
		Sat for Mid Londonderry from the general election of 1945 until the general election of 1953, and for the Foyle Division of Londonderry from the general election of 1953 until the general election of 1969 when he was defeated.
		Sat for Belfast, Dock from the general election of 1933 until the general election of 1938, when he was defeated, and for Belfast, Willowfield from the byelection of 3rd December 1941 until his death in April 1957.
		Sat for Belfast, Oldpark from the general election of 1949 until the general election of 1958 when he was defeated, and for Belfast, Clifton from the byelection of 28th May 1959 until the general election of 1969 when he was defeated.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /stormont/biographies.html (17793 words)

	Alberta general election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alberta general election of 2004 was the twenty-sixth general election for the province of Alberta, Canada.
		This election was held in conjunction with the Alberta Senate nominee election, 2004.
		The 2001 election was generally regarded to be as a disaster for the Liberals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_general_election,_2004 (1992 words)

	Alberta Wheat Pool
		The per acre average wheat yield in Alberta in 1915 was 31 bushels an acre.
		The United Farmers of Alberta was at their peak of power and prestige in the 1920s.
		Premier Brownlee of Alberta suggested that the final payment of $2.7 million, due to members on the sale of the 1928 crop should not be paid out but applied against the overpayment.
	www.smokylake.com /history/politics/wheatpool.htm (6983 words)

	Social Credit Party - The Women of Aspenland
		William Aberhart, a high school principal and radio evangelist, was influenced by this theory and began introducing it in his radio program, "Back to the Bible Hour." He formed a Social Credit League and wrote a pamphlet on Douglas economics, which came under much criticism for not fully understanding Social Credit theory.
		In 1971, it lost the election to the Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed ending a 36-year stay in government.
		Alberta: Home, Home on the Plains - an introduction to the early settlement history of the province.
	www.albertasource.ca /aspenland/eng/society/activism_politics_socred.html (1235 words)

	CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Voter Resources
		The highest voter turnout was 81.8 per cent in the general election of 1935.
		The lowest voter turnout was 47.25 per cent in the general election of 1986.
		Throughout the election campaign we’ll be highlighting letters from people about the candidates, issues and coverage.
	www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/features/alberta_numbers.html (139 words)

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		Edmonton, Alberta was then a major railroad construction center and in the winter of 1913- 14, thousands of workers from all over Canada and the US were stranded there without jobs or funds.
		The Winnipeg AWO folded in 1926, as did the Alberta Coal Miners IU branch, but a new General Recruiting Union branch was formed in Port Arthur, in addition to the lumberworkers for a total of 4,600 members in Canada.
		In 1949 the IWW was placed on the Attorney General's list, which came replete with mailing curtailments, refusal to members of government jobs, loans or housing, and FBI harassment of individual members, especially at their place of employment.
	www.spunk.org /texts/groups/iww/sp000476.txt (5866 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		While he believes much of it is a passing fad, he is concerned at the potential damage to the democratic institutions of free speech and free elections.
		At a cost of $1 million, she was forced to cancel a five-week, 20-city tour of America and a whole generation of her most loyal fans never heard her sing live.
		That is why they want their own state after the election - a place where they could enjoy self-determination and where their language and culture would be paramount.
	www.nfbnet.org /files/general_info/BRLAPR94 (13949 words)

	LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Socialized Medicine Began In Alberta
		They had a view of civil society that was based on social need, as a meritocratic order they used their status in society to promote social medicine for the province and the country.
		The Grand Lodge of Alberta, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons was constituted and consecrated on the 12th of October 1905 and was confirmed under an Act of the Province of Alberta passed in the Legislative Assembly in 1908.
		When Alberta first became a province, the British/American medical interests founded the University of Alberta and the College of Physians and Surgeons, making their establishment the first acts of the provincial legislature.
	plawiuk.blogspot.com /2005/11/socialized-medicine-began-in-alberta.html (8157 words)

	List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
		Between 1902 and 1978, candidates for election ran as independents.
		From 1898 to 1909, there were some appointed members in the council that now is known as a legislative assembly.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_political_parties_in_Canada (886 words)

	ARL - Articles
		Alberta has a chance to lead Canada toward the kind of regulated private pension alternatives that are proving so superior in countries such as Chile.
		The royalties Alberta received from the oil and gas industry -- which includes natural gas, crude oil, synthetic crude and bitumen -- for the fiscal year of 2004-2005 was $8.4 billion.
		Alberta taxpayers have paid $400 million to prop up the beef industry after an animal with mad cow disease was discovered in the province last May 20.
	www.albertaresidentsleague.com /articles.htm (10300 words)

	Medicine Hat Alberta -- Recommendations and Resources
		The general information about Alberta should be removed or moved to Alberta (if something is missing there).
		Under the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution of 2004, the constituency covers the portion of Medicine Hat south of the South Saskatchewan River, the Trans-Canada Highway and Carry Drive.
		He is not seeking re-election in the district in the 26th Alberta general election.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/96/medicine-hat-alberta.html (757 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General George McClellan - Oct. 25th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Chandler then said: "General McClellan, if I understand you correctly, before you strike at the rebels you want to be sure of plenty of room so that you can run in case they strike back." Wade added "Or in case you get scared".
		Major General John Pope, the commander of the new Army of Virginia, was instructed to move east to Blue Ridge Mountains towards Charlottesville.
		The saddle was generally used with a Model 1859 Dragoon saddle blanket, blue and bordered with an orange stripe (the Dragoon branch of service cover), rather than with the more ornate shrabraques or saddle coverings.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1007768/posts (7893 words)

	University of Alberta Archives: AASUA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In 1945 the Association of Teaching Staff of the University of Alberta was established, with the Faculty Relations Council remaining as its executive.
		In 1950 the ATSUA approved a new constitution, by which it initiated the election of the executive and discontinued the Faculty Relations Council.
		The AASUA’s aim is to represent academic staff at the University of Alberta through collective bargaining, grievance representation, and expression of opinion.
	www.ualberta.ca /ARCHIVES/guide/7ORGAN/167.htm (283 words)

	SSC Society Newsletter - April 2002 : SSCS Members Honored as 2002 IEEE Fellows
		It is a recognition conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE designated fields, who has made important individual contributions to one or more of these fields.
		Haslett is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, the Canadian Astronomical Society, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the American Society for Engineering Education.
		He served as guest editor-in-chief twice for special issues on analog LSI technology of the IEICE Transactions on Electronics in 1992 and 1997, vice-program Chair for the International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM) in 1999 and 2000, and was co-Chair of the Low-Power Electronics Workshop in 1995.
	www.ieee.org /organizations/pubs/newsletters/sscs/apr02/fellows.html (1770 words)

	Grimshaw, Alberta
		The United Farmers of Alberta moved their hall from the corner two miles south of Grimshaw to town.
		The latter event, without fate or fanfare, was really the beginning of the growth of Grimshaw, for the employment generated by the transportation industry, and later the construction industry, would eventually differentiate Grimshaw from other North Peace centers.
		The prosperity and sure growth of this town is assured by the importance of Grimshaw as a distibution point for the Northwest of Alberta.
	www.grimshaworigin.org /WebPages/GrimAlbert.htm (4610 words)

	Once Upon a Time in the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In March 1940 Finland was required to cede only 10 per cent of its territory and 20 per cent of its industrial capacity to the Soviet Union.
		The chair of the Karelo-Finnish Supreme Soviet between 1940 and 1956 was Finnish communist Kuusinen.
		In spite of the general knowledge of the KKE’s leadership in the insurgency, the party was not outlawed until 1949.
	www.russiastory.com (12187 words)

	F.C. Marshall Fonds - UARC 2001.054
		Marshall later ran as a candidate in three Alberta provincial by-elections and in July 1987 he ran as an independent candidate in the federal by-election in the Yukon.
		He was an avid reader, had a life-long love of music and of the outdoors, exploring much of Alberta as a skier, a hiker and a canoeist.
		The fonds also includes correspondence, publicity materials and election strategies from several of Dr. Marshall’s campaign bids during provincial and federal elections, information collected by Dr. Marshall pertaining to various political issues, and ephemera such as the Western Independence flag, buttons, stickers, letterhead and stamps.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/UARC/fcMarshall.html (684 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		The riding of Medicine Hat is in Alberta's southeast corner, bordered on the south by the U.S. and on the east by Saskatchewan.
		He was general manager of Q13 Radio, in Brooks, Alta., and director of the Alberta Association of Broadcasters.
		Party: Member of the Reform party since 1988; was a member of the 1990 task force on the reform of provincial politics in Alberta; past director of the local riding association.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/262 (747 words)

	TIME.com: Wipe-Out -- Oct. 30, 1978 -- Page 1
		In a record-breaking 15 by-elections across the country—"mini-elections" in which nearly 1 million voters were involved—Trudeau's Liberals suffered a brutal whipping.
		Trudeau's party was completely wiped out in seven by-elections in English-speaking Ontario, where the next general election must be won.
		Inflation is running at a rate of 8.6% annually; unemployment, at 8.5%, is at the highest level since 1940; and the value of the Canadian dollar has plummeted from $1.03 U.S. to a spindly 840 in the past 23 months.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,912218,00.html (665 words)

	Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Papers (Library of Congress)
		Although the main focus of Part I is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the records are dominated by the personality and activities of the organization's founder, A. Philip Randolph.
		Included also is material exchanged between the local unions and the brotherhood's headquarters, as well as files relating to biennial conventions, financial matters, and the ladies auxiliary.
		The records in Part II generally cover the same time period and supplement the correspondence and files of Part I. Although A. Philip Randolph remains the dominant individual in the collection, files of other brotherhood officers are included in most of the series.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/brother.html (1763 words)

	Emma Goldman: Chronology 1920 - 1940
		On Jan. 19 the deportees are met at the Russo-Finnish border by Russian representatives and received warmly at a mass meeting of soldiers and peasants in Belo-Ostrov.
		The British general strike is called off by the Trades Union Congress after nine days, though the coal miners remain out through the summer.
		FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover writes to the attorney general asserting that Goldman violated the agreement on which she entered the country, thus jeopardizing her chances of return.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /Goldman/Guide/chronology2040.html (15006 words)

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