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  George Brown
George Brown (1818-1880) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist and politician.
Brown was made a Senator in Ottawa in 1873.
In 1880, one of his former employees of the Globe, George Bennett, who was disgruntled by Brown's actions, shot Brown in the leg in Toronto; what seemed to be a minor injury turned gangrenous, and he died from the wound.
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 George Brown (Canadian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Brown (November 29, 1818 – May 10, 1880) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
.Brown was born in Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland, on November 29, and immigrated to Canada in 1843.
Brown used the Globe newspaper to publish articles and editorials that attacked the institution of slavery in the southern United States.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brown, George 1818-80, Canadian statesman and journalist, b.
She was elected (1921) to the Canadian House of Commons as a representative of the United Farmers of Ontario and Labor, the first woman in Canada to...
He was a delegate to the two Canadian conferences (1864) on confederation and to the Anglo-Canadian conference held in England (1866).
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 Brown, George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George Brown's reformers described themselves as "no dirt, clear grit all the way through" (Courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-26415).
Brown, George, journalist, politician (b at Alloa, Scot 29 Nov 1818; d at Toronto, Ont 9 May 1880).
Brown remained a power in Liberal circles as elder statesman and director of a formidable mass-circulation journal.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Brown’s Globe was only one of numerous liberal or voluntaryist-minded journals in Canada that commented severely on these papal and Catholic presumptions, but its power and vehemence involved it in a bitter exchange of doctrinal arguments and name-calling with the local Catholic press.
George Brown was in the forefront of debate, clearly representing a broader constituency in the west than just his own riding of Kent.
Brown had looked ultimately toward this larger goal, but he had deemed earlier Conservative advocacy of it to be premature and mainly used as a red herring to evade action on Canada’s own internal constitutional problem.
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 Brown, George - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He urged the secularization of the Clergy Reserves (lands reserved for the Protestant churches), a national school system, the purchase of the Northwest Territories, and representation by population instead of the equal representation for Quebec and Ontario as established by the Act of Union (1840).
George E. Brown, oldest in House, dies in 18th term: `Mr.
Breeder seeking justice for dead brother; George Brown, a former jockey in Britain, was horrifically murdered in 1984 while training in Australia.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Br-By
There Brown had an accident and broke his leg, providentially in his case, as the vessel was lost with all hands on her next voyage.
Brown remained at Sydney to continue his researches, and paid visits to Kent's Group in Bass Strait, Port Dalrymple (Launceston), Port Phillip and Hobart, where he arrived with Colonel Collins (q.v.) in February 1804.
As a politician he was much interested in education and the simplification of the law, and was responsible for the supreme court act, the district courts act, and insolvency and public trustee acts.
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 Gods of the Copybook Headings: In Profile: George Brown (Part II)
Brown, who opposed such interventions in the economy, also believed, rightly as it turned out, that Hincks would compromise on issues of political reform to gain Canada East’s support in the provincial legislature for government railroad subsidies.
George Brown, the businessman as well as politician, understood the need and value of economic union, and the vital strategic need for the St. Lawrence River system to remain under the control of the same government.
Brown knew that he lacked an overall majority and his government would almost certainly be defeated in the legislature.
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 George Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Brown (musician) (born 1949), drummer for Kool and the Gang
George Lindor Brown (1903-1971), British physiologist and Secretary of the Royal Society.
George Brown (Union official), president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (c.
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 George Brown (Canadian politician) biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was widely seen as the leader of the federal Liberals in the 1867 Canadian election.
The Liberals were officially leaderless until 1873 but Brown was considered the party's "elder statesman" even without a seat in the Canadian House of Commons and was regularly consulted by leading Liberal parliamentarians.
In 1880, one of his former employees of the Globe, George Bennett, who was disgruntled by Brown's actions, shot Brown in the leg on the front steps of his Beverley Street home in Toronto; what seemed to be a minor injury turned gangrenous, and he died from the wound.
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These included George Brown, Robert Baldwin, William Lyon Mackenzie and the Clear Grits in Upper Canada, Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, and the Patriotes and Rouges in Lower Canada led by figures such as Louis-Joseph Papineau.
In the 29 years after Canadian confederation, the Liberals were consigned to opposition, with the exception of one stint in government.
Brown was regarded by most Liberal candidates as their leader in the 1867 election but did not officially hold the title.
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 Brown™ font family : MyFonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brown™ is a ShinnType font family with 15 styles priced from $39.00.
Brown Gothic is a compact sans serif face, with rounder letterforms than the usual condensed grotesques such as Helvetica, Univers, et al.
Brown Gothic was named after Canadian publisher and politician George Brown.
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George Brown (British politician) the British politician and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
George Brown (musician) the musician in Kool and the Gang
George Brown (Union official), former president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
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George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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 Lord Elgin by John George Bourinot - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/4)
Canadians, although it was truthful in every particular.
Canadian trade by the repeal of the navigation laws, and the adoption
ambitious and irresponsible politicians, and the impartiality and
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 Unit 01 Section 03 Lesson 02 - Test Yourself   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Which of the politicians at the Charlottetown Conference had also published more than 300 poems?
What Canadian politician was born in Scotland but moved to Canada at the age of 5?
Which of the following politicians was heavily involved in the development of the Grand Trunk Railway?
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1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b.
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George Brown (musician) (born 1949), drummer for Kool & the Gang
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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