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  James Colledge Pope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pope was in Britain during the London Conference (on the question of Confederation) of 1867, and persuaded delegates to agree to $800,000 being allocated by the federal treasury to buy proprietary lands on PEI so that they could be distributed to tenants.
Pope was able to form a coalition between his Tories and dissident Liberals by promising not to act on the question of schools, or confederation, before an election.
Pope's party won 20 out of 30 seats in the April election, and he proceeded to Ottawa where the persuaded the Canadian government to increase the promised annual subsidy to PEI by a further $25,000.
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 James Colledge Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Colledge Pope (1826 - 1885) was a land proprietor and politician on Prince Edward Island.
Pope's party won 20 out of 30 seats in the April election and he proceeded to Ottawa and persuaded the John A. Macdonald government to increase the promised annual subsidy to PEI by a further $25,000.
Pope's third stint as Premier ended in September 1873 when he won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons.He did not run in the 1874 Canadian election however and returned to the province's House of Assembly in 1875 though he did not return to government.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
James Pope was elected on 17 September for Prince in the House of Commons, and in Ottawa supported the crumbling Macdonald government.
James Pope led the latter group, and faced a difficult situation, for his rank and file disagreed among themselves over the extent to which separate schools should be instituted.
Pope’s own position was that of his “Summerside card” of 1868, which he described as “accepting the assistance of the private schools” and “payment for results.” Differences of opinion between his Roman Catholic and Protestant supporters soon appeared, and the Free Schoolers won a decisive victory.
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 James Colledge Pope -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Colledge Pope (June 11, 1826 - May 18, 1885) was a land proprietor and politician on (An island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada) Prince Edward Island.
Pope was in Britain during the (Click link for more info and facts about London Conference) London Conference of 1867 and persuaded delegates to agree to $800,000 being allocated by the federal treasury to buy up the islands proprietary lands so they could be distributed to tenants.
Pope's party won 20 out of 30 seats in the April election and he proceeded to Ottawa and persuaded the (Click link for more info and facts about John A. Macdonald) John A. Macdonald government to increase the promised annual subsidy to PEI by a further $25,000.
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 William Henry Pope - Charlottetown Conference of 1864   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope was admitted to the bar on the Island in 1847 and then spent time as a land agent.
Pope was an ardent supporter of the unification of the British North American colonies and had to resign from the cabinet in 1866 as this was an unpopular position at the time.
Even after his resignation Pope continued to promote P.E.I.'s inclusion in Confederation and eventually in 1873 with younger brother James Colledge Pope as premier his hopes were fulfilled with the Island's joining the Dominion.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography
James functioned primarily as a broker of ships, and his father, who lived from 1853 to 1868 in Liverpool, England, was instrumental in selling them there.
James impressed more by his forceful character than by skill or eloquence as a parliamentarian; on a later occasion, according to the official reporter, James stated that “he was a poor talker and when he did speak he did not always do so in the most satisfactory manner.”
But James was still first and foremost a commercial man, and it is entirely conceivable that his primary commitment was to the railway as a means of economic progress — a goal for which he was willing to contemplate confederation as an incidental result.
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 Robert Poore Haythorne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The issue of school funding divided his government, Haythorne supported funding of separate schools leading to the resignation of several of his ministers and the fall of his government in the fall of 1870.
James Colledge Pope formed a coalition government with dissidents from Haythorne's Liberal party but Pope's government fell in 1872 when its railway policy almost bankrupted the colony.
Pope's Tories were elected in April, persuaded Ottawa to increase the promised annual federal subsidy to the island by $25,000, and led the island into confederation on July 1, 1873.
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 Franklin Leonard Pope
Pope has since 1884 been the editor of "The Electrical Engineer," and, besides articles in the technical, historical, and popular periodicals, is the author of "Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph" (New York, 1871) and "Life and Work of Joseph Henry" (1879).
POPE, James Colledge, Canadian statesman, born in Bedeque, Prince Edward island, 11 June, 1826; died in Summerside, Prince Edward island, 18 May, 1885.
Pope became a member of the Prince Edward island assembly, and, except during a few months in 1873, when he sat in the Dominion parliament, held his seat until August, 1876, when he was defeated.
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 Prince Edward Island: Premiers Gallery, JAMES COLLEDGE POPE
Education, religion, economic development, railways and Confederation were all a part of politics and Pope took a decisive stand on all of the issues of the day.
J.C. Pope was educated in England but returned to the Island and embarked on a mercantile career as a merchant, shipbuilder and shipowner in Summerside.
Pope spent one more period as Premier, negotiating the final terms under which Canada accepted the Island into the Dominion, and then after becoming the first premier of the province and the last of the colony he resigned in the fall of 1873.
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 Pope, Sir Joseph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope, Sir Joseph, public servant, External Affairs (b at Charlottetown, PEI 16 Aug 1854; d at Ottawa 2 Dec 1926), son of W.H. Pope, brother of Georgina Pope.
After early experience in Prince Edward Island government and banking, he came to Ottawa in 1878 as private secretary to his uncle, James Colledge Pope.
Unsympathetic to the advances in Canada's status externally, Pope was nonetheless a loyal and competent public servant, a respected adviser to prime ministers from Macdonald to King.
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 COLES
At the election of 24 June 1858, the Coles government was sustained by the narrow margin of 16 to 14.
The James Coles (1783-1861), born Somerset and settled on Prince Edward Island, was married to Sarah Tally (1786-1857) and his son George (1810-1875), born in PEI was married at East Pennard, Somerset to Mercy Haines.
Uncle Job, as he was generally known by a large number of this community, had attained the advanced age of of 85, and throughout his active years associated himself in the service of church, society and various undertakings for the welfare of his home town.
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 James Colledge Pope - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Colledge Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Colledge Pope - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Colledge Pope.
Here you will find more informations about James Colledge Pope.
Pope was able to form a coaltion between his Tories and dissident Liberals by promising not to act on the question of schools, or confederation, before an election.
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 George Coles biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George Coles was born in Prince Edward Island in 1810, the son of James Coles, a farmer, and Sarah Tally.
He is said to have duelled with Edward Palmer, and to have challenged James C. Pope to a duel as well.
As a member of the provincial government in 1846, he spent 31 days in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms for refusing to retract a statement made in the assembly.
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 James Coco - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Coco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Coco - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Coco.
James Coco (March 21, 1930 - February 25, 1987) was an American character actor.
Coco was born in New York City, and achieved prominence in theater, both on and off Broadway, before going on to star in a number of movies and TV shows.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of New York
The truth of this is to be found in the testimony of Leo XIII, himself, of the civil dignitaries of the land, of his brethren in the episcopate, of his own clergy and laity, on the mournful occasion of his death.
It was planned in 1853 by James Renwick of New York; construction was begun in 1858, and the building was formally opened and dedicated on 25 May, 1879 (building operations having been suspended, owing to the Civil War, from 1861-66).
In 1829 an Irishman named James D. Boylan with the approbation of Bishop Dubois attempted to establish a religious community on the lines of the Irish Brothers of Charity to teach the boys' schools, and opened two schools.
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Although he was Premier when the Province joined Canada, J.C. Pope is not considered a "Father of Confederation".
However he was one of our first M.P.'s, the first to win a by-election and the first to run successfully in two different ridings.
J.C. Pope, besides being a politican and landowner, managed the construction of some 98 sailing vessels between 1856-1877.
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 James Coleman (sociologist) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Coleman (sociologist)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Coleman (sociologist) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Coleman (sociologist).
James Coleman (1926-1995) was a famous sociologist at the University of Chicago who studied US schools segregation (and was the author of the "Coleman Report" of 1966) and crafted the theory of social capital, a rational choice theory.
Coleman's theory of social capital is a productive form of capital that exists in the relationships between people.
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 Monuments to Our Past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Joseph Pope, K.C.M.G., C.V.D. was private secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 until 1891 and was knighted in 1912.
The community of Lower Bedeque is graced with a monument commemorating merchant, shipbuilder and statesman, James Colledge Pope who was three-time premier of Prince Edward Island.
Pope, born in Bedeque in 1826, played an important role in the Island’s entry into Confederation.
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 Genealogy Notes of PEI 1865-1881
James Callahan keeps a tavern, I enquired for him and was informed by his wife that he was in Charlotte Town.
James Carr and Eliza McCarthy are the sponsors to the baptism of Jane Beagan, daughter of Patrick Beagan and Eliza McCarthy at St. Patrick's.
Feb.16,1874 James William is born to Patrick Bragan and Catherine Hennessey and baptized at St. Patrick's on the 21 st by Fr.
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 Prince Edward Island Quiz answers
The first premier of Prince Edward Island was James C. Pope.
James Colledge Pope was an entrepreneur, land owner, land agent, politician and Premier.
He was born at Bedeque,P.E.I. on June 11, 1826 and died at Summerside PEI on May 18,1826.
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 William Henry Pope - TheBestLinks.com - Biography, Canada, Prince Edward Island, Tory, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Henry Pope (1825-1879) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge.
An enthusiastic supporter of Canadian Confederation, he left the PEI cabinet in 1866 but continued to press for union.
After this was accomplished in 1873 under the leadership of his brother James Colledge Pope, he was appointed a county court judge.
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 FactsCanada.ca -- Friday Feature 2000-13Fr -- Prince Edward Island
James Colledge Pope (1826-1885) -- Conservative -- 1873.
James David Stewart (1874-1933) -- Conservative -- 1931-1933 (second term).
James Matthew Lee (1937-) -- Conservative -- 1981-1986.
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 November 28 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appointed bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1489 - Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (d.
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