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  Harlan Carey Brewster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harlan Carey Brewster (November 10, 1870 – March 1, 1918) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada.
Brewster became leader of the opposition, and was elected party leader in March 1912.
Brewster promised to end patronage in the civil service, end political machines, improve workmen's compensation and labour laws, bring in votes for women, and other progressive reforms.
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 Harlan Carey Brewster - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harlan Carey Brewster (1870-1918) was a British Columbia politician.
Brewster arrived in British Columbia in 1893 and had various careers working on a ship and then in a cannery eventually becoming owner of his own canning company.
Brewster became leader of the opposition and was elected party leader in March 1912 but lost his seat a few weeks later in the 1912 election which returned no Liberals at all.
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 John Marshall Harlan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harlan was born into a prominent Kentucky slaveholding family, his father a well-known Kentucky politician and former Congressman.
Harlan was elected county judge of Franklin County, Kentucky in 1858.
Harlan joined the Republican party in 1868 and remained a Republican for the rest of his life, and, befitting his new party, he turned strongly against slavery, calling it "the most perfect despotism that ever existed on this earth." He ran for governor in 1871 and 1875, losing both times.
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 John Oliver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He returned to the legislature in the 1916 election as a Liberal member, and became Minister of Agriculture and Railways in the cabinet of Harlan Carey Brewster.
Oliver succeeded Brewster as Premier when Brewster died in 1918.
Oliver's government developed the produce industy in the Okanagan Valley, and tried to persuade the federal government to lower the freight rate for rail transport.
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 Harlan Carey Brewster -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Harlan Carey Brewster (November 10, 1870 – March 1, 1918) was a politician in (A province in western Canada) British Columbia, (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada.
Brewster became (Click link for more info and facts about leader of the opposition) leader of the opposition, and was elected party leader in March 1912.
Brewster promised to end ((politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support) patronage in the civil service, end political machines, improve workmen's compensation and labour laws, bring in votes for women, and other progressive reforms.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Harlan_Carey_Brewster.htm   (364 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
As a new mla, Brewster had concentrated on constituency concerns; as “leader of the Liberal party of one,” he participated in most legislative debates.
Fulfilling promises made in opposition, the Brewster government passed legislation to promote agriculture and to tax speculators in timberlands, and created a department of labour to improve relations between capital and labour and ameliorate conditions for workers.
Brewster also sought administrative economies such as replacing the auditor general with a controller general.
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Harlan, John Marshall Harlan, John Marshall, 1899-1971, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955-71), b.
Carey was appointed bishop of Bath and Wells in 1987 and was enthroned as the 103d archbishop of Canterbury in 1991, succeeding Ro...
Carey, William Carey, William, 1761-1834, English Baptist missionary and Orientalist, one of the first Protestant missionaries to India.
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 John Oliver biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Oliver was involved in local politics when he won a seat in the provincial legislature in 1900 and became leader of the opposition.
He lost his seat in 1909 but returned to the legislature in 1916 as a Liberal MLA and became Minister of Agriculture and Railways in the cabinet of Harlan Carey Brewster.
Oliver succeeded Brewster as Premier when Brester died in 1918.
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 Adjunct Faculty - Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Carey is in private practice specializing in civil and criminal appeals, state or federal, with offices in Brookline and Hingham.
Carey was the Appellate Attorney for the Major Violators Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office from 1976 to 1979, responsible for all briefs in the Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court.
Carey lives in the Town of Hingham where he is active in civic affairs and was named citizen of the year by the Hingham Journal in 1998.
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 Brewster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brewster is the name of some places in the United States:
Brewster is also a common surname, and less common first name:
Brewster, is the name for a female brewer
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Carey Land Act Carey Land Act, sponsored by Sen. Joseph M. Carey and passed by the U.S. Congress in 1894.
Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946, American jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (1941-46), b.
Thomas, Martha Carey Thomas, Martha Carey, 1857-1935, American educator and feminist, b.
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 Brewster, Harlan Carey
Brewster, Harlan Carey, politician, premier of British Columbia (b at Harvey, NB 10 Nov 1870; d at Calgary 1 Mar 1918).
Educated in New Brunswick and Boston, Massachusetts, and qualified as a printer and deep-sea navigator, Brewster moved to BC about 1893.
Successively employed as ship's purser, accountant and salmon cannery manager, he eventually became owner of the Clayoquot Sound Cannery in 1907.
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 Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One 14th General Election 1916
Party affiliation is not provided and has been based on unofficial sources such as newspapers.
One candidate, H.C. Brewster who contested and was elected in both Alberni and Victoria City, is counted twice.
Also included as a candidate is R. McBride (Richmond) who withdrew before the 14 September polling day but received some overseas votes.
www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/14ge1916-1.html   (253 words)

  
 Brewster - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
This page was last modified 16:10, 22 Sep 2004.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Brewster contains research on
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 Brewster New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
1) " Brewster" -- As it applies to Brewster New York
Brewster is the name of some places in the United States :
Note: unsuccessful searches are often caused by searching for common words like "have" and "from", which are notindexed.
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 Brewster Wallpaper Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wallpaper can be traced back to 200BC when the Chinese, inventors of paper itself, pasted rice paper on their walls.Wallpapers that we know of today, with block designs in continous patterns, weren't used until 1675 by a French engraver, JeanPapillon.
A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose.
Related terminologies are : Brewster Wallpaper Company, Brewster Washington, Brewster Whitecaps, Brewster Whitecaps, Brewster Window, Brewsters Angle, Brewsters Angle, Brewsters Comedy, Brewsters Comedy, Brewsters Comedy Club, Brewsters Comedy Club, Brewsters Ice Cream, Brewsters Ice Cream, Brewsters Icecream, Brewsters Icecream, Brewsters Millions, Brewsters Millions, Brewsters Mountain Lodge, Brewsters Mountain Lodge, Brewsters Peoria
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 Brewster -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Brewster is the name of some places in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States:
(Click link for more info and facts about Kingman Brewster, Jr.) Kingman Brewster, Jr.
(Click link for more info and facts about Brewster) Brewster, is the name for a female brewer
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 math lessons - John Duncan MacLean
MacLean was a practicing doctor in the town of Greenwood when he was elected in the 1916 election to the provincial legislature as a Liberal.
He served as Minister of Education and Provincial Secretary in the cabinets of Harlan Carey Brewster and John Oliver before becoming minister of finance in 1924.
Maclean became premier when Oliver died in 1927 at a time when the Liberal government was in decline.
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 Brewster Bus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
1) " Brewster" -- In regards to Brewster Bus
2) " Bus" -- In regards to Brewster Bus
This article is about the form of transport.
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 Biff Brewster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
1) " Biff" -- in the term Biff Brewster
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal 1: his childhood pal, Levi bar Alphaeus, nick-named Biff.
2) " Brewster" -- in the term Biff Brewster
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 B - Information about Everything and Everybody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Biography of David Brewster - (1781-1868), Scottish physicist
Biography of Harlan Carey Brewster - 1916 November 23 - 1918 March 1
Biography of Henry P. Brewster - (1816-1884), Texas lawyer, soldier, and Attorney General
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THOMAS E. MARTIN was the recipient of the Elliott Coues Award, and CYNTHIA CAREY was the recipient of William Brewster Memorial Award.
MARGARET WETMORE HARLAN, daughter of A. Guarantor Alexander Wetmore, died at her home in Gloucester, Virginia, 22 Aug 2000 at the age of 84.
Peg, as she was called, was Wetmore's only offspring and had no children of her own.
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 The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1916 Chronology
In the musical Gypsy the character Baby June is based on June Havoc.
November 23 Harlan Carey Brewster is elected Premier.
Two other decisions by B.C.’s voters this day were notable: we approved Prohibition in the province, to come into effect July 1, 1917, and we also approved giving women the vote.
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1 ID: Henry C. Carey, a Philadelphia publisher and writer, was an strong advocate of the protective tariff and one of the most prominent political economists of his day.
That which I now [write?], as to the effects of postponement, will, as I think, be history four years hence, u nless our friends take lessons from the failure of the present President.
I telegraphed him to }{\f4\ul wait until he hears from me again}{\f4, which will be when I receive your letter.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Whether caused by McBride’s illness, partisanship, ineptitude, or all three, the irregularities in this plebiscite so marred it that the new Liberal government of Harlan Carey Brewster disregarded most of it.
He did not, however, leave the Conservative party in good shape.
The Bowser administration lost all but nine seats to Brewster’s Liberals in the September 1916 election.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41697   (4762 words)

  
 New Books at BGSU for November 2004 by Author part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
ART & THE 60S : THIS WAS TOMORROW / EDITED BY CHRIS STEPHENS AND KATHERINE STOUT ; WITH ESSAYS BY BARRY CURTIS...
NS-FILMPROPAGANDA : WUNSCHBILD UND FEINDBILD IN LENI RIEFENSTAHLS "TRIUMPH DES WILLENS" UND VEIT HARLANS "JUD S{232}USS" / VON DANIEL KNOPP.
Lane, Harlan L. Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
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 City of Victoria - Private Records Number Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Victoria Lemmax died in Oak Bay on January 24, 1991.Fonds consists of photographs of the Lemmax family, school groups at North Ward and Girls' Central School, Campbell's Drug Store and Beacon Hill Park (Maynard photos); miscellaneous school certificates belonging to Victoria Lemmax; school and pharmacy certificates belonging to James L.
Lemmax IV; program of memorial service for Harlan Carey Brewster; and a song sheet for Canada's Diamong Jubilee celebrations, 1927.
Artifacts include a sewing box, lady's suede gloves, headband, parasol, doilies, hair ornaments and pins, swagger stick, etc.
www.city.victoria.bc.ca /archives/archives_prvrec_numberlist.shtml   (14676 words)

  
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Mary PECK, Brewster, N.Y., Feb. 3, 1880, by Rev. N.C. SMITH, assisted by Rev. D.D. ROWE, Deborah, d.
of Barnabas M. and Hannah Brewster MAPES, sis.
Maggie R. SMITH, New Haven, Conn, Nov. 11, 1880, by Rev. Seth C. Carey, at home of E. BREWSTER, George R., New Orleans, m.
www.historicalsocietyunitedmethodistchurch.org /NYCA1880.html   (9951 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Monroe County, N.Y.
Judge of U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, 1927-34; died in office 1934.
Henry Colvin Brewster (1845-1928) — also known as Henry C. Brewster — of Rochester,
U.S. Representative from New York 31st District, 1895-99; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
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