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	canadian federal election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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, 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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	Canadian House of Commons - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The new Canadian Parliament consisted of the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the Senate and the House of Commons.
		The Canadian Parliament was based on the Westminster model (that is, the model of the Parliament of the United Kingdom).
		General elections occur whenever Parliament is dissolved by the Governor General.
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	CANADA - Canadian history
		Canadian and European histories usually treat the final contest for the continent as beginning in 1756, with the opening of the Seven Years' War.
		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.
	www.cyber-north.com /canada/history.html (13202 words)

	Federal Election Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Canadians have gone to the polls most often in the fall; 13 fall elections have been held since 1867, 12 elections have been held in summer, 9 in the spring and only 4 have been held in winter.
		A Prime Minister may lose his or her seat in an election, but can remain in office as long as the party has sufficient support in the House of Commons to be able to govern, though again, he or she must, by custom, win a seat very promptly.
		In the general election of December 6, 1921, 4 women ran as candidates and only one was elected: Miss Agnes Campbell MacPhail became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons; she was elected as a Progressive.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/process/house/electionsTrivia/index.asp?lang=E&pv=1 (3806 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the next election he was elected for Ripon and Hampden and in October 1859 became president of the board of land and works in the Nicholson (q.v.) ministry.
		At the general election held in 1856 he was elected a member of the legislative assembly for Geelong and advocated a public bank of issue and the encouragement of immigration.
		At the first election for the Melbourne city council, held on 1 December 1842, he was elected a councillor for the Bourke ward, and except for a short interval, he was on the council for the remainder of his life.
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	Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		On this first Canadian visit, he was very active in raising a Canadian volunteer force to serve with the British Army in the Sudan Campaign of 1884.
		Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891, Macdonald's prediction came true when Lord Minto was named Governor General of Canada in the summer of 1898.
		He was appointed honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Governor General's Foot Guards Regiment on December 1, 1898, and was subsequently appointed Honorary Colonel, a tradition that has continued with the post of Governors General to this day.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gilbert_Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,_4th_Earl_of_Minto (979 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Benjamin Harrison Third State of the Union Address
		The general interest in the operations of the Treasury Department has been much augmented during the last year by reason of the conflicting predictions, which accompanied and followed the tariff and other legislation of the last Congress affecting the revenues, as to the results of this legislation upon the Treasury and upon the country.
		The value of free imports during the twelve months ending September 30, 1891, was $118,092,387 more than the value of free imports during the corresponding twelve months of the preceding year, and there was during the same period a decrease of $106,846,508 in the value of imports of dutiable merchandise.
		It is a source of general congratulation that success has at last been attained, for the effects of an enlarged foreign market for these meats will be felt not only by the farmer, but in our public finances and in every branch of trade.
	www.usa-presidents.info /union/harrison-3.html (12993 words)

	Old Canadian Photographs
		The Canadian copyright law was hotly debated in the House of Commons in 1842.
		What really ticked off Canadian historians was the fact that Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister Mackenzie King signed a order-in-council in 1937, which decreed that some of the material be offered to the Secretary of State Library and the rest to the Copyright Office to be dispose of what remained.
		The Canadian Pacific Railway commissioned a number of Canadian photographers to record spectacular sights and development in Canada and then were sent to Britain and Europe to provide stimulus for the massive wave of immigration which soon followed the opening of the railway.
	www.buriedantiques.com /old_canadian_photographs.htm (734 words)

	Articles - Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		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).
		He was re-elected in the election of 1891, defeating his only opponent (one James Cochrane) 4586 votes to 880.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Donald_Alexander_Smith,_1st_Baron_Strathcona_and_Mount_Royal?mySession=ba996c254c73317881115a990a929ee0 (1437 words)

	Canadian federal election, 1891
		The 1891 Canadian election was won by John A. Macdonald.
		This was Wilfrid Laurier's first election as leader of the Liberals.
		Although he lost this election, he returned in 1896 to win a solid majority.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/canadian_federal_election__1891 (144 words)

	Sir John A. Macdonald - Canadian Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He helped form the 1854 coalition with Upper Canadian reformers and French Canadians, creating the Liberal-Conservative Party (forerunner of today's Conservative Party.) With this coalition in power, Macdonald was appointed to the office of attorney-general.
		It resulted in the resurrection of Macdonald's political career, and the Conservative party, in the general election of 1878.
		He was able to win the general election of 1891, and had the honour of introducing his son Hugh, elected as a member for the first time, to the House of Commons.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2360-e.html (806 words)

	National Anthem: O Canada
		Lavallée's obit in 1891 doesn't mention it among his accomplishments, nor does a biography of Judge Routhier published in 1898.
		Since then the I.O.D.E. and the Canadian Authors Association have endorsed it and in 1958 the Native Sons of Canada found in favour of it.
		Calixa Lavallée, the well-known Canadian composer, was commissioned to set it to music, and it was first sung in 1880 during a national convention of French Canadians in Quebec City.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/anthem_e.cfm (2878 words)

	Canada's National Anthem - Oh Canada!
		English Canada in general probably first heard "O Canada" when school children sang it when the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and Queen Mary) toured Canada in 1901.
		Calixa Lavallée was a "canadien errant", a man who left his country for greener fields, but who nevertheless loved Canada and returned to it, returned with a reputation well earned in the United States and France to become the "national musician" of Canada.
		Calixa Lavallée was born in Verchères, Lower Canada, on December 28, 1842, the son of Augustin Lavallée, a woodcutter and flsmith, who became an instrument repairman, bandleader and music teacher.
	www.cyber-north.com /info/anthem.html (2578 words)

	Canada 2004 · Voter Turnout · Canadian Federal Election 2004
		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.
	www.nodice.ca /election2004/voterturnout.html (92 words)

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		In mathematics, a parameter may be a constant value in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general type, especially such a constant that describes a curve or surface, such that changing it changes the curve or surface in some way.
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		A Generation of Vipers, a scathing denunciation of the American value system, appeared in 1943 when such loud criticism was not widespread.
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		``In general, however, owing to the subdivision of labour, the duty of an individual reporter is by no means burdensome, and requires promptitude and facility rather than prolonged exertion.
		The expertness produced by habit is remarkable, and it not infrequently happens that a single reporter, from the notes taken in three quarters of an hour, supplies from one to three columns of printed matter to the paper on which he is engaged.
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	Sir John Alexander Macdonald
		Macdonald, Sir John Alexander, 1815–91, Canadian statesman, first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, b.
		With his election (1844) as a Conservative to the legislative assembly, he entered upon his long political career.
		The Northwest Territories were taken over from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869; to facilitate their development, Macdonald's government decided to construct the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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		In general ideology, the GRP is very similar to the Greens -- but with a much stronger emphasis on marijuana legalization issues.
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		He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms."
		Hell, I was almost a candidate for them in the last federal election.
		Harper had this one in the bag in beginning...but his team couldn't keep their mouth shut, and so he's left with little because he couldn't organzie the troops, much like Mario Dumont and the ADQ during the provincial elections we had last year.
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