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  Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Head had declined an offer of Guiana, as he was in 1864 to decline Ceylon, ostensibly on grounds of Lady Head’s health, but he accepted Canada with alacrity, and travelled from Fredericton to Quebec without returning to England.
Head was in London in 1857 when the select committee on the HBC was deliberating, and there was a considerable resemblance between his known views and the final conclusions of the committee.
Cartier was asked by Head to form the government, and he, Macdonald, and their colleagues, by shifting portfolios and adroitly relying on an ingenious interpretation of the relevant act (20 Vict., c.17), avoided the necessity of seeking re-election.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=38612   (3675 words)

  
 Sir Hubert Edmund Walker, Kt., C.B.E.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hubert Edmund Walker was born on the 31st of May 1891 at 1 Carlton Villas, King's Heath, King's Norton, in the County of Worcester.
Walker was also present at the action at Krithia on the 4th of June 1915.
Walker was responsible for organizing the supply of materials and stores for other than routine projects, to the value of about one million pounds a year.
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 Descendants of Isham Walker
Mary Walker was married in Wayne County on Jan. 28, 1817 to Willoughby Cooper born in 1795 in Pitt County, NC.
Drucilla Walker born in Glynn Co. and was married in1817 to Nathan Smith born in NC in 1788.
Nancy Walker died shortly after 1870 as Jeremiah Walker is shown on the 1880 census in Baker County married to Ada, maiden name unknown, age 40, born in Ga., with three children, the eldest born in 1874.
www.lamartin.com /genealogy/walker.htm   (6161 words)

  
 William Hazlitt - LoveToKnow 1911
Treating of the contemporary drama, he successfully vindicated for Edmund Kean, whose genius he recognized from the first, the high place which he has retained as an actor, and his enthusiasm for Mrs Siddons knew no bounds.
His inequalities of temper separated him for a time even from Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb, and on the whole the period of his most brilliant literary success was that when he was most soured and broken.
It consists of conversations between Hazlitt and Sarah Walker, drawn up in the spring of 1822, of a correspondence between Hazlitt and his friend P. Patmore between March and July, and an account of the rupture of his relations with Sarah.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Hazlitt   (2510 words)

  
 Edmund Hamilton Sears
Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810-January 16, 1876), a Unitarian parish minister and author, was understood in his day to be conservative and not in sympathy with either "broad church" or "radical" Unitarians.
Ironically, the piety and theology of Edmund Sears, author of this "humanist" carol, were intensely Christ-centered.
Papers relating to the life and ministry of Edmund H. Sears are at the Wayland Historical Society and at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/edmundhamiltonsears.html   (1609 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sir Edmund Walker Head (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sir Edmund Walker Head 1805–68, British governor-general of Canada (1854–61), cousin of Sir Francis Bond Head.
An Oxford scholar and tutor, he published several books.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Sir Edmund Walker Head
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 Edmund Walker Head - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Edmund Walker Head (Wiarton Place, near Maidstone February 16, 1805 – January 28, 1868 London) was British colonial administrator.
While Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, Head authorized the creation of an engineering faculty at the University of New Brunswick.
In his honour, the buildings housing this faculty at UNB are called Head Hall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Walker_Head   (166 words)

  
 IN SEARCH OF.......HISTORY AND FAMILY LORE OF OUR WALKER FAMILY
Walker who was an engineer on the Canadian National Railways, was killed in a rear end collision between two freight trains, just east of Sarnia on the main line, as was also the brakeman and the conductor was seriously injured.
Walker had the honor of filling a number of offices in the gift of the municipal electors of his native township, and was identified with the Clinton Agricultural society over a long period.
Walker in London, on Tuesday afternoon, was not unexpected as he had been ill for almost a year, confined to a hospital in London and his recovery was doubtful.
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 Sir Francis Bond Head — FactMonster.com
A soldier (1811–25) and unsuccessful mining adventurer in South America, he had had little experience to prepare him for the post of lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (Ontario), to which he was appointed in 1835.
Head, who had resigned but had not yet been replaced in his post, quelled this uprising.
Sir Edmund Walker Head - Head, Sir Edmund Walker, 1805–68, British governor-general of Canada (1854–61), cousin...
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 VQR » Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod Landscape
Edmund and Margaret left Provincetown for New York in mid-September.
After her death he recalled such behavior in his journal: "When I hurt her once or twice she was stunned and simply nodded with her head, as if it were going to drop.
“Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod Landscape” is part of the Winter 2004 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review, which also features essays, fiction, poetry, book reviews, and humor, all available online.
www.vqronline.org /articles/2004/winter/wilson-edmund-wilsons-cape   (5336 words)

  
 jan sterling - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Jan Sterling was born Jane Sterling Adriance on April 3, 1921, in New York City, NY, into a prosperous family.
Sterling was educated in private schools before heading to Europe with her family.
She was schooled by private tutors in London and Paris, and was enrolled in Fay Compton's dramatic school in London.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Jan-Sterling   (416 words)

  
 Benjamin Head & Martha Sharman
The Francis Kirtley lands adjoining James Head's lands in 1791 may be those of the widow Elizabeth (Powell) Kirtley or a son or nephew of her deceased husband.
Someone with a surname of Head (or some variation), whether or not they had done in-depth genealogical research, could compare their haplotype to known Benjamin Head direct male descendants see if they were likely to be a direct male descendant of Benjamin Head.
One of the descendants of Anthony Head of Orange County, Virginia has participated in the Head DNA project and his Y-chromosome haplotype is posted.
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 The Chadwicks of Guelph and Toronto and their Cousins
The head of that family commenced about 1845 the erection of what was to have been a large and handsome mansion between Shronell and Damerville, but it was never completed, and was taken down, and the stones, some handsomely carved, have been carried away.
Edmund Ironside, murdered 1018, married Edith, widow of Sigeferth, a Danish Thane.
This account of Queen Margaret's head was first found by the writer in Strickland's Queens of England, and seemed to him to be so interesting that he made further enquiries, thinking that possibly the head might be still in existence, and with the aid of a friend, Mr.
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 Janus Head 2-2: Norman K. Swazo/A Preface to Silence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Whether in and as the Platonic or Nietzschean "experiment with truth," philosophy never relinquishes its first and highest power, viz., its right of "spiritual legislation." Thus, the twentieth century begins with its distinctive, yet essential, declaration that knowledge is power.
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Philosophy, trans., D. Carr (Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970), p.
Says Derrida: "The value of exemplarity that inscribes the universal in the proper body of singularity, of an idiom or a culture, whether this singularity be individual, social, national, state, federal, confederal, or not.
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 USQUE AD MARE - A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
She was smaller than the other two, but generally similar in design except that she had only one boiler and one funnel and carried no square canvas.
The two larger ships of the group being named after the prominent crowned heads of the day, this was considered a little too grand for the small sister which was christened in honour of Maria, Lady Head, wife of Sir Edmund Walker Head, a former Oxford don who eventually became Governor-in-Chief of Canada.
It was Sir Edmund Head, incidentally, who recommended Ottawa as the preferred location of the capital city.
www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca /usque-ad-mare/chapter08-01_e.htm   (2122 words)

  
 Ancestors of Harvey Walker
Harvey Walker, age 2, male, 2 years in Iowa, born in Iowa.
Harvey Walker, head of household, male, white, age 56, married (once) for 32 years, born in Iowa, father in West Virginia, mother in Germany.
Matilda Walker, wife, female, white, age 50, married (once) for 32 years, five children born, 3 living, born in Iowa, father in North Carolina, mother in Virginia.
www.brumm.com /familytrees/7744.htm   (1089 words)

  
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The party held on their course to the head waters of the lake, near to which several Iroquois villages were situated.
The sick and wounded were scalped, slain, and barbarously mutilated before the eyes of the Marshal of France, who had guaranteed that not a hair of their heads should fall.
Next day, having rounded the head of the lake, he attacked the fort; but the garrison made a vigorous defence, and he was compelled to retire to Fort Ticonderoga, at the foot of the lake!
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext06/7cnn110.txt   (21886 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Episode Guide
He heads for UNIT HQ where he agrees to help the Brigadier and Liz in exchange for the TARDIS key, which the Brigadier has custody of.
Spearhead from Space is the birth of a new era for Doctor Who: the first story transmitted in color, and the first serial with Jon Pertwee.
For more details on the various novelizations of this story, with additional background material, artwork and details of both UK and foreign releases, visit On Target.
www.gallifreyone.com /episode.php?id=3a   (1627 words)

  
 Head Start Letter
The assessments being considered are narrow, occur outside of the context of classroom learning, depend heavily on language skills and language learning, and rely on children having had particular opportunities to learn what is on the test in order to perform well on it.
The tremendous diversity of the children in Head Start will be hard-pressed to conform to a single vision of what they should know and be able to do at a particular point in time.
Instead of eliminating the failures of the Head Start program, this system may teach young children to view themselves as failures, simply because they see things or represent them differently than the test developers, or because they learn skills in ways that differ from how those skills are represented on the test.
www.fairtest.org /nattest/Head_Start_Letter.html   (1533 words)

  
 Ben Yagoda’s “About Town : The New Yorker and The World It Made”
It is difficult today to appreciate the impact that The New Yorker had on American culture in it's heydays of the 1930s through the 1950s.
Some of The New Yorker's long fact pieces-the distinction between "fact" and "fiction" is made clear in The New Yorker with an editor being assigned to head up each department-have been reprinted as famous books.
And it is quite amazing that Edmund Wilson, author of the Marxist History "To the Finland Station" and the book of Civil War literature "Patriotic Gore", learned Hebrew so that he could document the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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 Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt - Canadian Confederation
Nonetheless, the remainder of his career would clearly show him to be a Conservative, first and foremost.
When the government was dissolved in 1858, Governor General Edmund Walker Head asked Alexander Galt to form a new government.
He refused, but suggested the job be given to George-Étienne Cartier, who agreed to form the new government with John A. Macdonald.
www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2326-e.html   (627 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reaching for the Moon: DVD: Edmund Goulding,Douglas Fairbanks,Bebe Daniels,Edward Everett Horton,Claud ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Falling head over heels for glamorous aviatrix Vivian Benton (Daniels), he follows her onto an ocean liner, even though she is going overseas to marry someone else.
Another big star of the silents was Bebe Daniels: she to would see her career quickly fade by 1935.
Edmund Goulding - Director, Irving Berlin - Writer (Story), Edmund Goulding - Writer (Written by), Elsie Janis - Writer (Additional dialogue), Joseph M. Schenck - Producer (executive producer), Douglas Fairbanks - Producer (producer)...
www.amazon.com /Reaching-Moon-Edmund-Goulding/dp/B000CSUNP2   (1606 words)

  
 Becoming
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink.
She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.
edmund.becoming.ca   (1088 words)

  
 John Pearson
McNab and "Uncle" Peter McCallum, carried Brock off the field at Queenston Heights after he had been mortally wounded and between them divided a sash that the great Canadian General had worn at that time.
Pearson's commission was granted in 1858, as Captain in the "First Battalion Grey Regiment" on April 1st, 1858, and was signed by Sir Edmund Walker Head, Gov. Gen.
He was, up to his death, the oldest living officer of the Grey Regiment.
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 Mount Head
Located S of the head of Head Creek.
It is the highest point in the cluster of peaks that make up the S end of the Highwood Range.
History: Named in 1859 by John Palliser after Sir Edmund Walker Head who was Governor-in-chief of Canada from 1863-1868 and a key supporter of the Palliser Expedition.
bivouac.com /MtnPg.asp?MtnId=756   (106 words)

  
 New Page 1
Some of these arm-chair literary critics write one blurb and are never heard from again.
Others are aspiring Jonathan Yardleys, Lionel Trillings, or Edmund Wilsons who write dozens or hundreds of essays.
The long head start it has had in this market and in this idea should help it keep its competitors at bay.
walkerrowe.com /amazon.html   (842 words)

  
 Complete 911 Timeline
He says, “Probably one of the most difficult moments of my life was the 11 minutes from the point I watched that aircraft, when we first lost communications until the point that aircraft hit the World Trade Center.
The head New York flight controller notifies a manager at the facility that she believes Flight 175 has been hijacked.
He’s headed for Manhattan!” [Washington Post, 9/21/2001] The controllers start speculating what it is aiming for, with one guessing the Statue of Liberty.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /item.jsp?item=a900americanheadquarters   (7170 words)

  
 South Bruce Peninsular:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The name Wiarton is said to have been taken from the birthplace of the Governor General at the time, Sir Edmund Walker Head.
The area’s lots were not put up for sale until 1868, putting it behind the earlier settlements on Colpoys and Oxenden, with the earliest settler being James Lennox,living in his little log shanty.
As you can see from the websites linked on the left, Clarksbury's residents are an ecclectic bunch, very interested in railroads and transit, and boasting a substantial artistic community.
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 HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKE... - Online Information article about HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKE...
Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
End of Article: HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
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 Biography of Frederick Preston Rubidge
None of the designs for government house was thought suitable by Rubidge.
As deputy commissioner, Keefer submitted their report to the governor general, Sir Edmund Walker Head*, with a strong argument in favour of his own choices.
He noted the differences between himself and the "department's architect" and regretted that Rubidge had been forced to go to Quebec City to attend to works in progress there.
www.sas.upenn.edu /~grace2/jeff/frederickpreston2.html   (1136 words)

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