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 canadian federal election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
By-elections can be held between general elections when seats become vacant.
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, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
On election day, polling times were arranged to allow results from most provinces to be announced more or less simultaneously, with the exception of Atlantic Canada, whose results were known before the close of polling in other provinces.
Although on the eve of the election the party was polling slightly ahead of the Liberals everywhere west of Quebec, it had dropped in support, polling behind or an par with Liberals everywhere except Alberta and British Columbia, where it held onto its traditional support.
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 Canadian federal election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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, 1993 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1993 was held on October 25th, 1993 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
She had replaced Brian Mulroney, who was considered one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers in Canadian history because of his failed constitutional reforms and the poor state of the Canadian economy.
While she was expected to lose the election, she was forced to call one as the Tories' five-year mandate had almost expired.
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 Encyclopedia: Donald Alexander Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In Manitoba's first general election, held on December 27, 1870, Smith was elected to the provincial legislature for the riding of Winnipeg and St. John, defeating long-time HBC nemesis John Christian Schultz by 70 votes to 63.
In the Canadian general election of 1874, Smith defeated Liberal candidate A.G.B. Bannatyne by 329 votes to 225.
He was subsequently a leading figure in the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway, although he was not appointed as a director of the organization until 1883 because of his lingering animosity with John A. Macdonald (who had again become Prime Minister in 1878).
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 Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
Election deposit reduced to $100 (SBC 1906 c.19).
Canadian citizenship recognized as qualification in addition to being a British subject (SBC 1947 c.47).
Frank Calder, Nishga Indian, ran and was elected to Legislature in general election 15 June 1949.
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 CANADA - Canadian history
The first Canadian contingent, numbering 33,000, reached England soon after the outbreak of war in 1914, and it was in the thick of the fighting on the continent a few months later in the second battle of Ypres.
In the election of that year, Quebec was almost unanimous in its opposition to the conscription policy that was supported elsewhere across the country.
Canadian workers produced raw materials, farm products, and manufactured goods needed to fight the war; and this was all done in a volume unprecedented in Canadian history.
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 1874
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 Encyclopedia: Manitoba general election, 1870   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Manitoba's first general election (held on December 27, 1870) resulted in a victory for Lieutenant-Governor Adams George Archibald's governing coalition.
The only organized opposition in the province was the Canadian Party of John Christian Schultz, which demanded swifter retribution against the leaders of Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion.
The government was dominated by the Lt. Governors (Archibald and his successor, Alexander Morris) until July 1874, when Joseph Dubuc's francophone bloc joined forces with the Opposition members to bring down the government.
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 Articles - Canadian federal election, 1925   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Canadian federal election of 1925 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
This plan was complicated by the fact that his party lost the election, and that King himself had lost his seat in the House of Commons.
King was not a crusader, or a polemist, or a debater, but he saw this as interference in Canadian politics by an official appointed by a foreign power.
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 Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Donald Alexander Smith (August 6, 1820-January 21, 1914) was a Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.
Smith was born in Forres, in Morayshire, Scotland, and briefly apprenticed to become a town clerk.
In 1889, he was the principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company and was elected as its governor, holding this position until his death in 1914.
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 Cyndi's List - Canada - General Canada Sites
The Canadian Centre was founded to assist the Home Children and their families in locating their real identities, confirming documents (i.e., birth certificate) and to help them reunite with living family members where possible.
For those with an interest in general Canadian genealogy and research as well as those who may not know which Province their ancestor came from.
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 POL 211 CANADIAN POLITICAL PARTIES 1998-99
Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Women in Politics: Becoming Full Partners in the Political Process (Ottawa: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1987).
John C. Courtney and David E. Smith, "Voting in a Provincial General Election and a Federal By-election: A Constituency Study of Saskatoon City," CJEPS 32 (1966), 338-353.
Gerald L. Caplan, The Dilemma of Canadian Socialism: The CCF in Ontario (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973).
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 cars - Donald Alexander Smith
Historical Members of the Canadian House of Commons
Donald Alexander Smith (August 6, 1820-January 21, 1914) was a Scottish born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.
Smith's offers, including land recognition for the Métis, led to Riel calling a Council of 40 representatives for formal negotiations.
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 Canada 2004 · Voter Turnout · Canadian Federal Election 2004
In many general elections, several electoral districts were won by acclamation, hence, no eligible voters nor actual votes were recorded.
Furthermore, in some of the more remote districts, votes were cast but no voters' lists had been prepared.
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Arthur Meighen's Conservatives, who won 116 seats, are left out in the cold, as the Progressives back King when he promises to cut tariffs and bring in old age pensions.
Weston's father moved to England in 1933 and was elected to the British House of Commons but never gave up his Canadian citizenship.
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 Canadian Eleciton Results: 1867-2000
Notes: Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.
**Note that the official voter turnout figure in 2000 is 61.2%, but that Elections Canada later realized that this was based on a voters' list that was artificially inflated by almost a million duplicate names.
The actual turnout figure is now estimated to be about 64.1%.
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 Corncrake Body 1
By coincidence, the photograph of this event in Craigellachie, British Columbia, was also available free of charge and is therefore now part of the archives in Corncrake Towers:
Driving in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway
A magnifying glass inspection of the photograph reveals what looks like the forebears of a number of current Colonsay residents, but that surely couldn't be, could it??…Wouldn't that be just too much of a coincidence??
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