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  James Cox Aikins Information
Aikins was a minor figure in the Grit parliamentary ranks for the next three years but was nevertheless re-elected in 1857, with 2007 votes against 915 for his Conservative opponent.
Aikins played only a minor role in the parliamentary debates on Canadian confederation, which he supported in principle despite concerns about the legislative means which John A. Macdonald was using to move the policy forward.
Aikins arrived in Manitoba during a period of discord between the provincial and federal governments; Macdonald had recently disallowed Premier John Norquay's railway legislation, and an opposition movement was forming around Thomas Greenway.
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  James Cox Aikins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Honourable James Cox Aikins (born March 30, 1823; died August 8, 1904) was a prominent (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician in the 19th century.
Aikins was born in (The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)) Toronto Township, (Click link for more info and facts about Upper Canada) Upper Canada (now (A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada) Ontario).
Aikins was a minor figure in the Grit parliamentary ranks for the next three years but was nevertheless re-elected in 1857, with 2007 votes against 915 for his Conservative opponent.
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James Aikins ( December 10, 1851 - March 1, 1929) was a Manitoba politician.
His father, James Cox Aikins, was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1867, and joined the cabinet of John A. Macdonald on December 9, 1969.
From 1879 to 1896, Aikins was a counsel for the Department of Justice.
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 James Cox Aikins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aikins played only a minor role in the parliamentary debates on Canadian confederation, which he supported in principle despite concerns about the legislative means which John A. Macdonald was using to move the policy forward.
On May 22, 1882, Aikins was pursuaded to resign from cabinet and the Senate, and to accept an appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (with the promise of being re-appointed to the Senate after his term ended).
Aikins arrived in Manitoba during a period of discord between the provincial and federal governments; Macdonald had recently disallowed Premier John Norquay 's railway legislation, and an opposition movement was forming around Thomas Greenway.
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 James Aikins - winnipedia.ca
Sir James Albert Manning Aikins (December 10, 1851 – March 1, 1929) was the leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party in the provincial election of 1915, and later served as the province's Lieutenant-Governor.
His father, James Cox Aikins, was a prominent Canadian politician, serving as a cabinet minister from 1869 to 1873 and 1878 to 1882, and serving as Manitoba's Lieutenant-Governor between 1882 and 1888.
Aikins was appointed counsel to the Manitoba government in 1900, and was responsible for drafting the Temperance Act passed by the government of Hugh John Macdonald.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Aikins acted as president of the new Canadian Bar Association from its beginnings in 1915 until 1927 and he was honorary president in his final years.
Aikins resigned as leader of the provincial Conservatives sometime in the spring or summer of 1916.
One of their sons, James Cox (Jamie), died when he was only six; the other, Gordon Harold, succeeded his father as head of the law firm.
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 James Albert Manning Aikins
His father James Cox Aikins was a prominent Canadian politician, serving as a cabinet minister from 1869 to 1873 and 1878 to 1882, and also serving as Manitoba's Lieutenant-Governor between 1882 and 1888.
Aikins was appointed counsel to the Manitoba government in 1900, and was responsible for drafting the Temperance Act passed by the government of Hugh John Macdonald.
In 1922, Aikins gave the Norris government permission to continue in office for a few weeks after being defeated in the house, such that important legislation could be passed before the next election.
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 James Aikins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Aikins was the name of a father and son, who were both prominent politicians in the Canadian province of Manitoba :
James Cox Aikins, the father, federal Member of Parliament, Senator and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba from 1882 to 1888,
James Albert Manning Aikins, the son, leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1916 to 1926.
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 Aikins, Hon. James C.
James Aikins was a hospitable christian man, and his backwoods house, half a century ago, was the frequent resort of evangelists and the centre wherefrom radiated strong religious influences.
Aikins has held a few civil offices in the township in which he resided in the county of Peel; is Major of the 3rd Battalion Peel Militia, and has been in some legislative body almost constantly for a quarter of a century.
Aikins is a member of the Methodist church of Canada: and holds the offices of trustee and steward in that connection; was at one time Vice-President of the Ottawa Auxilliary Bible Society, and is a man whose christian integrity is unquestioned.
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 James Cox Aikins - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
James Cox Aikins ( March 30, 1823 - August 8, 1904) was a prominent Canadian politician in the 19th century.
Aikins was offered the Reform (Liberal) Party nomination for the riding of York West in 1851, but declined.
Aikins was under instructions from Macdonald to ensure that national policies were reflected in the province's legislation, though his awkward relationship with Premier Norquay made this task difficult.
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 James Aikins
James Aikins (1851-1929) was the leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party in the provincial election of 1915, and was subsequently the province's Lieutenant-Governor.
Aikins was born on December 10, 1851 in Grahamsville, Peel County, Canada West (now Ontario).
In 1911, Aikins was elected as a Conservatve to the Canadian House of Commons, for the riding of Brandon.
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 Aikins, Sir James Albert Manning
Aikins, Sir James Albert Manning, lawyer, politician, lieutenant-governor of Manitoba (b at Richview, Peel County, UC 10 Dec 1851; d at Winnipeg 1 Mar 1929).
The son of James Cox Aikins, senator, Dominion Cabinet minister (1869-73 and 1878-82) and lieutenant-governor of Manitoba (1882-88), Aikins was called to the bar of Ontario in 1878 and of Manitoba in 1879.
While maintaining a large and influential practice in Winnipeg, where he was western solicitor for the CPR (1881-1911), he was also prominent in local, provincial and national affairs.
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 James Albert Manning Aikins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Honourable Sir James Albert Manning Aikins (December 10, 1851 – March 1, 1929) was a (One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada) Manitoba politician.
His father (Click link for more info and facts about James Cox Aikins) James Cox Aikins was a prominent Canadian politician, serving as a cabinet minister from 1869 to 1873 and 1878 to 1882, and also serving as Manitoba's Lieutenant-Governor between 1882 and 1888.
Aikins was appointed counsel to the Manitoba government in 1900, and was responsible for drafting the Temperance Act passed by the government of (Click link for more info and facts about Hugh John Macdonald) Hugh John Macdonald.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Aikins protested by resigning as dean in June; his successor, appointed by the board, was Rolph.
Aikins was apparently senior spokesperson in their unsuccessful talks with the trustees.
None the less, during the late 1850s and the 1860s Aikins increasingly enjoyed the support of allopathic practitioners, his colleagues at the school and on the medical board, and several other educators, notably Dr John Robinson Dickson* of Queen’s College, in regard to his efforts to raise standards and reform licensing procedures.
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Canadian Confederation, or the Confederation of Canada, was the process that ultimately brought together a union among the provinces, colonies and territories of British North America to form the Dominion of Canada, a Dominion of the British Empire, which today is a federal nation state simply known as Canada.
James Albert Manning Aikins (December 10, 1851-March 1, 1929) was a Manitoba politician.
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His paternal grandfather, James Cox Aikins, served as Secretary of State (1869-73, 1878-80) in Sir John A's cabinet before becoming Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba from 1882 to 1888 (51).
Aikins' father, John Somerset Aikins, was a successful businessman, and a member in the Manitoba House of Assembly between 1879 and 1883 (O'Neill 66).
Aikins was connected through class and family to an upper-class group that was adapting Shakespeare in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.
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 BH History
Aikins House was a gift to the United Church of Canada from Sir James Aikins upon his death in 1929.
Sir James Aikins was born in Ontario on December 10, 1851 to Mary Elizabeth Jane (née Somerset) and James Cox Aikins, who was later called to the Senate.
Sir James A.M. Aikins played a significant role in the early history of Winnipeg and western Canada and Aikins House is a monument to his achievements.
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Aikins was born in Grahamsville, Ontario Grahamsville, Peel County, Canada West (now Ontario) and educated at Toronto's Upper Canada College.
In 1911, Aikins was elected as a Conservative to the Canadian House of Commons, for the riding of Brandon, Manitoba Brandon.
Aikins was resoundingly defeated in Brandon City (Manitoba riding) Brandon City.
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His father had previously converted to Methodism, and the young Aikins was educated at the Methodist-run Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, Ontario Cobourg from 1840 to 1845.
On November 8, 1880, Aikins was promoted to the Minister of Inland Revenue Ministry of Inland Revenue.
Aikins presided over the transfer of power from Norquay to Greenway in 1887 - 1888 88, but his own involvement in Manitoba politics was fairly limited.
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Carroll Aikins was born in 1888 in Stanstead, Quebec, and while not born into a theatrical family nor directly encouraged towards the performing arts he was, because of his temperament as well as his family background, inclined in a number of ways to the written and spoken arts.
Aikins' father was John Somerset Aikins, a successful businessman in real estate and insurance, who, before his abrupt death while Carroll was in his mid-twenties, was also a Member of Parliament.
Aikins, a man of ideals and dreams, was not concerned with organization; he taught 'whatever happened to strike him - his blue eyes would sparkle and he'd be inspired, [but] he was no planner'.
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James Cox Aikins was born in Toronto Township, Peel County, Upper Canada on March 30, 1823.
Aikins didn’t know who Birmingham was and passed the letter onto a Liberal Party friend to ask him if he knew who Birmingham was.
Aikins didn’t want to give up his seat in the Senate to take the job even though Macdonald promised him the first available seat in the Senate when his term of office was over.
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