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  British Columbia - Search View - MSN Encarta
British Columbia, Pacific Coast province in western Canada, bounded on the north by Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories; on the east by Alberta; on the south by the states of Montana, Idaho, and Washington; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.
British Columbia is represented by 36 members in the Canadian House of Commons and by six senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general, in the upper house, or Senate of the federal government.
British Columbia’s economy was largely based on the exploitation of natural resources through mining, lumbering, and fisheries, which produced a range of goods for export.
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 Madagascar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Merina nationalism developed early in the 20th cent., and in 1916 (during World War I) a Merina secret society was suppressed by the French after a plot against the colonialists was discovered.
In a free presidential election held in 1993, Zafy overwhelmingly defeated Ratsiraka.
In elections later that year, Ratsiraka came back to defeat Zafy, promising a program of humanistic and ecological development; he also announced plans for a referendum to revise the constitution.
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 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit
The Elections Canada definition of this term is almost poetic: "The place of ordinary residence of a person is the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to which the person intends to return when away from it.
Elections Canada used to need that much time to prepare the voters' list because it was sending teams of enumerators to every home in Canada to update information from the previous general election.
Victories were granted to Édouard Guilbault (Cons.) during the 1887 general election in the riding of Joliette, Que.; Nicholas Flood Davin (Cons.) during the 1896 general election in the riding of Assiniboia West, NWT; and Paul Martineau (P.C.) during the 1963 general election in the riding of Pontiac-Temiscamingue, Que.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/faqs.html   (6671 words)

  
 A RECONSIDERATION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Hard on the heels of the British departure from gold, in October 1931, the Federal Reserve raised the rediscount rate in two steps from 1_ to 3_ percent dragging the economy deeper into the mire of deflation and depression and aggravating the banking crisis.
In the election campaign of 1980, Kemp was a candidate for the presidency but bowed out after Ronald W. Reagan agreed to incorporate the Kemp-Roth bill in his agenda for the economy.
Inflation was the initial result but a learning mechanism educated a generation of monetary officials on the advantages of stability and by the end of the century fiscal prudence and inflation control had again become the watchword in all the rich and many of the poor countries.
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 Wilson, Harold. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Nonetheless, in the general election of Feb., 1974, held at a time of severe economic crisis, Labour was returned to power, and Wilson again became prime minister.
Despite the fact that he headed a minority government (and was therefore very vulnerable to defeat in Parliament), Wilson announced his intention of implementing the controversial policies of renegotiation of the terms of Britain’s membership in the EC and nationalization.
It was also obliged to mediate between Greece and Turkey in the tense crisis created by the overthrow of Archbishop Makarios III in Cyprus and the subsequent Turkish invasion of that island in July, 1974.
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 Coming to terms with Juan Perón is necessary for two reasons
General discontent provoked the dominant landed and banking sectors to back a military coup against Yrigoyen and on September 6, 1930 General José Felix Uriburu came to power.
Symptomatic of this failure of nerve was the 1933 Roca-Runciman Treaty which granted the British government import licenses for 85 percent of Argentine beef exports, while Argentina retained only 15 percent.
The nationalism of the FORJA was predicated on a "revisionist" interpretation of Argentine history, one that saw the Europeanizing influence of Buenos Aires as an obstacle to future national development.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/argentina3.htm   (3172 words)

  
 Canadian Confederation: The British North America Act, 1867
In the general Census of the Population of Canada which is hereby required to be taken in the Year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and in every Tenth Year thereafter, the respective Populations of the Four Provinces shall be distinguished.
The provisions of this Act referring to the Governor General in Council shall be construed as referring to the Governor General acting by and with the Advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
British Columbia was admitted into the Union pursuant to section 146 of the Constitution Act, 1867, by the British Columbia Terms of Union, being Order in Council of May 16, 1871, effective July 20, 1871.
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 Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
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.
British Columbia is the first jurisdiction in North America to offer fully automated Internet voter registration.
British Columbia voters vote on two separate ballots at the May 17, 2005 election; one to choose their elected representatives in the Legislature, the other to decide whether or not the province should adopt the BC-STV electoral system as recommended by the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
www.elections.bc.ca /general/history.html   (1531 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Eamon De Valera (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
In 1921 the British government opened the negotiations that led to the establishment of the Irish Free State.
In the general election of 1932 his party gained control of the DAil, and De Valera became head of the government.
Fianna FAil was defeated in the election of 1948, but De Valera returned as prime minister with independent support (1951–54) and with an absolute party majority (1957–59).
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 British Parliamentary Papers Research Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
General alphabetical index to the bills, reports, estimates, accounts and papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, and to the papers presented by command.
General index to the reports from Committees of the House of Commons 1715-1801 printed but not inserted in the Journal of the House 1803; with a new introduction by John Brooke.
General index to the first and second series of Hansard's parliamentary debates forming a digest of the recorded proceedings of Parliament from 1803-1830...1834.
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 Yale and the Vietnam War
A generation later, on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II, faculty, students, and alumni were as divided on the issue of isolation or intervention as were the American people and Congress.
Lynd was described by one senior historian at Columbia, where he earned his Ph.D., as "Just about the best student I have ever run across."7 Yale first offered him a job in 1962, but Lynd declined in order to teach at Spelman College, a fl woman's college in Atlanta.
Only then did the course of study committee begin a serious review of ROM "The issue of credit for ROTC courses," said committee chairman William Kessen, "is an academic curricular matter with no implications for national policy."53 The purely academic goal was to identify and remove credit from "how-to" courses, such as photography for beginners.
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 The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population.
The Union of South Africa was formed from the British colonies of the Natal and the Cape Colony, together with the subjugated Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe.
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 thetyee.ca Vancouver Island South: Carole James Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In that election Esquimalt chose a New Democrat (Jim Gorst); Saanich and the Islands elected a Conservative (Hugh Curtis); Oak Bay re-elected its MLA (Scott Wallace), formerly was a Socred but who had converted to the Conservatives, and two-member Victoria returned a Liberal (David Anderson) and a Socred (Newell Morrison).
Four years later, in the 1983 general election, four of the five incumbents were re-elected.
The 1991 general election, won by Mike Harcourt’s NDP, saw the Socreds disappear from the region.
thetyee.ca /Election/Battleground/2005/04/17/VancouverIslandSouth   (729 words)

  
 Columbiana’s News Stories: Weeks October 26 - Nov 15, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But the paradox of this election is that it was won not on the basis of the issues at stake or the actual conditions of our life, but on matters of good and evil.
The two great failures of this election were the failure of democracy as a concept in the public mind, and the failure of Christianity as a religion.
The 144-page report, which is due to be officially released a week after Tuesday's elections, says the accelerated warming of the globe -- which it blames mostly on the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by the industrial age -- is transforming the Arctic region dramatically.
www.columbiana.org /news_oct26-nov1a_2004.htm   (12733 words)

  
 Native American Rehabilitation
In the recent election of council members, three of the members elected were females and two of these were elected officers.
Unemployment on the reservation generally runs among the highest in the state of Montana, particularly among the tribal population.
It is bounded on the east and south by the Columbia River, on the west by the Okanogan River, and on the north by the line between township 34 and 35 north of the Willamette Meridian baseline.
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 thetyee.ca The Okanagan, a Liberal Stronghold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He governed British Columbia for 20 years before his administration was defeated by the New Democratic Party, and soon thereafter resigned both his seat and the party leadership.
He was succeeded in both by Bill, his younger son, who restored the Socreds to government in 1975 and served as premier until his retirement in 1986.
Dual-member seats were eliminated from the electoral map by redistribution prior to the 1991 general election, and five new single-member seats appeared in the Okanagan.
thetyee.ca /Election/Battleground/2005/04/04/Okanagan   (687 words)

  
 Masonic British Columbia Premiers
British Columbia has had thirty-three Premiers since joining Confederation in 1871 — thirteen of them were freemasons.
Resigned after vote of non-confidence (lost legislative support in fall 1875 election).
Resigned after party defeat in September 1916 election but waited until November because of delay in counting soldiers' votes.
freemasonry.bcy.ca /history/bc_premiers.html   (136 words)

  
 Caomhánach - Time Line
The colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia are united.
British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada, on the condition that a transcontinental railway is built.
In revenge 12 people are killed during a football match at Croke park when a British machine gun and rifles open fire into the crowd.
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 CanadaInfoLink is everything you wanted to know about Canada and canadian information about provinces, provincial ...
Gordon Campbell was sworn in as British ColumbiaÕs 34th Premier on June 5, 2001.
He was elected to the B.C. Legislature in 1994 in a by-election to represent the riding of VancouverÐQuilchena and was re-elected in 1996 and 2001 for VancouverÐPoint Grey.
Premiers of the province of British Columbia since 1871, the year British Columbia joined the Confederation of Canada.
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 50 - Armchair General Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
General Burgoyne believed he and his troops could then take control of the Hudson River and isolate New England from the other colonies, freeing British General William Howe to attack Philadelphia.
General Burgoyne’s plan went into effect during the summer of 1777 and was initially a success—the British captured Fort Ticonderoga on June 2, 1777.
General Washington, who was under British attack in nearby New Jersey, believed that a successful assault on Fort Independence would force the British to divert troops from New Jersey to defend the outpost, located just outside British-controlled Manhattan between the Post Roads to Boston and Albany.
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 NW BIBLIOGRAPHY-BRITISH NORTH AMERICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Neunherz, Richard E. "'Hemmed In': Reactions in British Columbia to the Purchase of Russian America." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 80 (1989): 101-111.
Sage, Walter N. "The Birth of British Columbia." The Beaver Spring (1958): 4-11.
Judson, Katharine B. "The British Side of the Restoration of Fort Astoria." The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society XX (1919): 243-260.
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 Grays Harbor County Courthouse: A Crown for "The Maid of Wynooche"
Rather, it was "a quiet, orderly election in which nearly every voter in the county participated and cast his ballot for the place of his choice without fear or hindrance." Better still, Montesano had racked up an impressive victory.
Despite being passed by both houses and signed by the governor, the bill creating the new county was rejected by the attorney general who ruled that the bill must be accompanied by a petition signed by at least three quarters of the voters.
When a number of "Wobblies," radical labor unionists, were arrested in 1916 after the Centralia Massacre, they were brought to Montesano where it was hoped they would receive a fair trial.
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 Canada: Our Oldest Good Neighbor: Is There a Deep Split between French and English Canada?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After the British conquest of this French colony in 1760, a quarter of a century elapsed before any real English-speaking population settled on the soil of old Canada (Quebec and Ontario).
Britain did not abandon it until 1916, in the midst of World War I, and Canada was the only British dominion to follow suit.
There was a general election on the issue: English Canada imposed its will on French Canada—contrary to assurances given when the Dominion was formed that the French Canadians could trust the English-speaking and Protestant majority never to run a steam roller over them.
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 59 - Armchair General Forums
1951 General MacArthur dismissed from command: Douglas MacArthur losses his command in Korea for the perception in Washington that he was too intemperate and likely to escalate the war.
Charged with ruthless killing, Forrest argued that the soldiers had been killed trying to escape; however, racial animosity on the part of his troops was undoubtedly a factor.
The Confederate soldiers in Charleston, South Carolina, under the command of General Pierre G.T. Beauregard turn their guns on Fort Sumter, lying at the mouth of Charleston harbor.
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 British North America Act, 1867
In the case of Quebec each of the Twenty-four Senators representing that Province shall be appointed for One of the Twenty-four Electoral Divisions of Lower Canada specified in Schedule A. to Chapter One of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada.
Unless and Until the Executive Government of any Province otherwise directs with respect to that Province, the Seats of Government of the Provinces shall be as follows, namely,--of Ontario, the City of Toronto; of Quebec, the City of Quebec; of Nova Scotia, the City of Halifax; and of New Brunswick, the City of Fredericton.
The Salaries, Allowances, and Pensions of the Judges of the Superior, District, and County Courts (except the Courts of Probate in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), and of the Admiralty Courts in Cases where the Judges thereof are being paid by Salary, shall be fixed and provided by the Parliament of Canada.
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 Harold Wilson — FactMonster.com
Jenkins of Hillhead, Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron - Jenkins of Hillhead, Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron, 1920–2003, British politician, b.
Callaghan of Cardiff, Leonard James Callaghan, Baron - Callaghan of Cardiff, Leonard James Callaghan, Baron, 1912–2005, British statesman.
Anthony Wedgwood Benn - Benn, Anthony Wedgwood (Tony Benn), 1925–, British politician, b.
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 LLMC - Collection Description - British Canada
Canada Collection contains legal titles generated in or for the British colonies which became part of modern Canada.
Parting from LLMC practice with most other jurisdictions covered in the Common Law Abroad project, due to the high interest in Canada within the LLMC community, this collection also includes many titles published post-independence.
For the bibliographic list of all the titles for this collection, follow this link to the Content Status Table: http://www.llmc.com/content_staus_table.htm.
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 AllRefer.com - Harold Wilson (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Harold Wilson (James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx), 1916–95, British statesman.
Another divisive issue arose with the party's espousal (1973) of wide-scale nationalization.
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