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 John Duncan MacLean Biography
John Duncan MacLean (1873-1948) was a teacher, physician, politician and Premier of British Columbia.
MacLean was a practicing doctor in the town of Greenwood when he was elected in 1916 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.
Later that year he attempted to enter the Canadian House of Commons in a by-election as a Liberal candidate but was defeated by less than one hundred votes.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Duncan,
In 1941 he was given command of the Canadian 2d Division Overseas; in 1944 he became commander of the 1st Canadian Corps and...
Mystery, myth, and presence: concord and conflict in the correspondence of Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan.
Kevin Garnett vs. Tim Duncan: Duncan's fundamental play is second to none, but the broad game of "The Kid" makes this a battle.
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John W. Bucknam, a grandson of Gen. Edwards Bucknam, commenced practice in town, but was appointed assistant surgeon of the "Fighting Fifth" in which he served, being promoted to surgeon, until the close of the war, when he settled at Great Falls, NH where he died several years ago.
John, a son of Annawanski, their chief, often came in hunting expeditions to the Upper Cohos, and moved, in 1806, with his wife, to Lancaster, where he built his camp in Indian style, on Beaver brook, near Israel's river.
John Pope (now General); and as a surveyor, assisted in establishing the United States and Canada line from the "Highlands" in Maine westward past New Hampshire, Vermont, and along the northern boundary of New York to St. Regis on the St. Lawrence River.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Both were agrarian protest organizations that Liberal politicians used to help establish the Manitoba Liberal party as the voice of western protest against the federal Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald* and against what the Liberals believed was Macdonald’s “puppet,” the provincial government of John Norquay*.
After moving to Ottawa, Sifton appeared to abandon his western Liberal radicalism and to embrace the principles of John A. Macdonald’s policies of national development: protective tariffs, expansion of railways, and settlement of an agricultural population in the west.
Overall, the annual number of immigrants to Canada rose from 16,835 in 1896 to 55,747 in 1901 and to 141,465 in 1905, though probably less than half of them were intending to settle in the west.
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 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (F)
John Felton (1595?-1628), Assassin of the Duke of Buckingham.
John Fenwick (born Caldwell) (1628-1679), Jesuit and conspirator.
John Flinn (Flynn) (floruit 1817-1820), Naval Lieutenant; accompanied Queen Caroline in the Mediterranean.
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 6th Generation - Chief Charles Renatus Hicks & Lydia Halfbreed Hicks - David & N-wa-lee-ya-he Nannie Otterlifter Miller
John Ross was one of the chiefs of the Cherokee Nation.
Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and President James Monroe met with a Cherokee delegation in 1824 to extinguish aboriginal title in Georgia, and this meeting was seen by Georgians as a federal promise for removal.
John Rollin Ridge was talking about poets and journalists when he wrote that Native Americans can use a pen, chisel or pencil "to give us pictures of our nobler selves." But Ridge might as well have been talking about the America that could be, the America that would be the very essence of democracy.
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 John Duncan MacLean at AllExperts
John Duncan MacLean (Culloden, Prince Edward Island December 8, 1873–March 28, 1948 Ottawa, Ontario) was a teacher, physician, politician and Premier of British Columbia, Canada.
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.
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TV/film actor, born John Oleson Kvalen at Vancouver, BC, the son of a Norwegian Lutheran minister; dies Sept 12, 1987.
MD, politician, born at Culloden, PEI in 1873; died at Ottawa 28 Mar 1948.
Canadians win two Golds - Gerry Ouellette for Smallbore Rifle - Prone, and the UBC Coxless Fours (Donald Arnold, Ignace d'Hondt, Lorne Loomer, Archie MacKinnon) for Rowing.
www1.sympatico.ca /news/otd/otd.98.12.08.html   (755 words)

  
 Duncan Ceramics
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown - Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown (1 July 1731 - 4 August 1804), born in Lundie, Angus, Scotland, and receiving his education in Dundee - defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown (north of Haarlem) on 11 October 1797.
Duncan's new multiple range test - In statistics, Duncan's new multiple range test (MRT) is a multiple comparison procedure developed by David B Duncan in 1955.
Duncan's MRT belongs to the general class of multiple comparison procedures that use the studentized range statistic qr to compare sets of means.
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 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Riding Talk
Duncan was there to vote on Bill C-280 the same day C-263 was voted on but just could not bring himself to vote to protect workers.
Duncan was not in the PC Party at that time and the only reason you are targeting him is that you, and your group, feel you can swing this riding as it was a close vote last time.
John is a Canadian, not a USA sympathiser as you claim him to be.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/ridingtalk/2005/11/300.html   (15162 words)

  
 Duncan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The author, Francis Duncan, worked with Rickover from 1969, when he was assigned to write a history of the nuclear propulsion program, until the admiral's death in 1986.
The author was also granted interviews with the admiral's son Duncan and sister Duncan and with individuals from the Naval Reactors, an organization headed by Rickover whose members mostly had refused to talk to other biographers.
Duncan Phyfe China Cabinet - Duncan Phyfe China Cabinet Power by Design: Constitution-Making in Nationalist China by Suisheng Zhao, First established as a cabinet system in Guangzhou in 1925, the Nationalist Government of China was replaced three years later by a presidential system under a unified Nationalist government in Nanjing.
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 Clan MacQuarrie: A History
Finally John's last transaction found in the record of Louisa County was the purchase in May 1755 of a modest 55 acres on Hudson Creek from Mary Carver.
Both John and Duncan had survived with their wives and families, the former now having four children (one married), Duncan now with four married sons and one daughter; Donald Lindsey was still living with family, but Patrick MacEachern was dead.
McNaught(on) and Duncan Reid of those who did emigrate with Capt. Campbell in 1738-40, and who, their descendants or person impowered, have appeared and requested a proportion of the lands to be granted...
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Duncan
John Duncan (Canadian politician) (born 1948), MP from British Columbia
John Duncan (theologian) (1796-1870), also known as 'Rabbi' Duncan, Christian missionary to the Jews in Pesth, and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in Edinburgh
Johnny Duncan (actor), a american actor, famous by your performance in a Batman movie serial.
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 Going Have Now Politician Spray We're   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Duncan's MRT belongs to the general class of multiple comparison procedures that use the studentized range statistic qr to compare sets of means.
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 billingsgazette.com
John Duncan, the Opposition Conservative MP for the Campbell River area riding of North Island, stood in the House of Commons last month and raised questions about promoting a show that could hurt some of his constituents.
The episode reportedly deals with the presumed threat that fish farms pose to wild salmon through the proliferation of sea lice, he said in a statement.
Since Duncan's comments, the tourism commission decided not to run the ads, but a spokesman for the wilderness tourism industry in British Columbia said the Tory MP may have cost the operators valuable exposure to a huge audience of potential customers.
www.billingsgazette.com /newdex.php?display=rednews/2005/10/11/build/nation/89-bc-lodge.inc   (527 words)

  
 Tarleton's Legion by Thomas H. Raddall
As a politician he sat as M.P. for Liverpool (with the exception of one year) from 1790 to 1812, and for faithful service to his party was made a baronet in 1815.
John Stuart, to look after his Departments' needs at Port Mouton and to harass the authorities at Halifax in their behalf.
I have visited the spot a number of times, once with the American artist John Frost, who was so impressed with the tale that he sat upon one of the old cellar walls and sketched the scene, looking out towards the sea.
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 Bendomenech.com: July 2002 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This guy is on the verge of breaking John Riggins' franchise record, he's a fantastic running back, and he never quits, elevating this team to a new level.
Leave it to John Judis to come up with this stretch of an argument, claiming that the Democrats are on the cusp of a new dominant political majority.
The nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General is without a doubt the single smartest administrative move made by the President thus far.
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 Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 160 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It bridged a widening divide between members of the Commonwealth and ensured that a mechanism was in place to suspend Zimbabwe based on the observations and factual reports of election observers.
As a francophone, I am proud of my language and I invite all Canadian francophones to celebrate as well, and to promote and share the pleasure of the Francophonie at the regional, national and international levels with their fellow Canadians.
Speaker, it seems to me it would be important for the Deputy Prime Minister to say that if the auditor general does do her work and she does turn up something untoward on the watch of the former minister, that the government would then act accordingly.
www.parl.gc.ca /37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/160_2002-03-20/HAN160-E.htm   (5123 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Blinkbits.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, marquis de Lorne (fr)
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, neuvième duc d'Argyll (fr)
John Dudley, Duke Of, Earl of Warwick, Viscount Lisle, Baron Lisle Northumberland (en)
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 Index Am-Aq
When he pushed for a national park to encompass the lakes and rivers along the Canadian border, northern Minnesotans suspicious of federal intrusion were against the idea.
In 2004 he endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president because he said the war in Iraq was unjustified.
In 1955 she married Benigno Aquino, who was then a promising young politician.
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 John Duncan (Canadian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duncan's Private Member's Bill C - 259 passed the 38th Parliament to receive Royal Assent to eliminate the Excise Tax on Jewelry.
 This article about a British Columbian politician is a stub.
Members of the Canadian House of Commons from British Columbia
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 Index Am-Aq
When he pushed for a national park to encompass the lakes and rivers along the Canadian border, northern Minnesotans suspicious of federal intrusion were against the idea.
In 2004 he endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president because he said the war in Iraq was unjustified.
In 1955 she married Benigno Aquino, who was then a promising young politician.
www.rulers.org /indexa3.html   (8297 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
In the end, she settled on language that was similar to Senator John Kerry's when he was the Democratic nominee in 2004: that if she had known in 2002 what she knows now about Iraqi weaponry, she would never have voted for the Senate resolution authorizing force.
If an "authentically fl" politician is one who sees himself as representing his race rather than the country as a whole, it may be that no fl Democrat can be elected president, because anyone with broad enough appeal to win a general election doesn't appeal narrowly enough to fls to win the nomination.
Such behavior is at least explicable from politicians, for whom telling different groups what they want to hear can be expedient in gaining or holding power.
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 Index Br-By
By the time then-Labour leader John Smith died in 1994, however, Blair had overtaken Brown as the favoured candidate of party activists and the wider public.
Environmentalists like Gaylord Nelson, chairman of the Wilderness Society, accused her of "a wholesale dismantling" of environmental advances, but she insisted that she was bringing cost-effective market forces to the regulation of pollution.
As commander of the Canadian Corps in France (from May 1916), he was responsible for one of the most famous Canadian victories in either world war, the capture of Vimy Ridge, north of Arras (April 9, 1917).
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 Hispanic Nashville
So after the politicians weaponized the immigration debate for whatever gain they expected to receive in return next Tuesday, the status quo is unchanged, and Nunez and millions of ordinary people remain in the same old trap.
Unless "foreign race" refers to the Tour de France or Formula 1 at Monte Carlo, this slip of either the WKRN reporter or the politician quoted in the story reveals a racial undercurrent in a debate that is supposedly race-neutral.
Coopertown Mayor Danny Crosby is the subject of a complaint filed by Robertson County District Attorney General John Carney in regard to (among other things) Crosby's alleged instruction to police officers to ticket Hispanics because they're "mostly illegal anyway," according to this article in the Tennessean.
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 The Baptist Standard :: The Newsmagazine of Texas Baptists
For the last three months, I have realized that John Duncan's lessons in the Baptist Standard are bright lights in a dismal world.
Duncan's lessons have taught the very beautiful life of being a Christian.
Thanks to John Duncan, and thanks to the Baptist Standard for these gentle and loving lessons.
www.baptiststandard.com /postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=1099   (1321 words)

  
 Index Br-By
By the time then-Labour leader John Smith died in 1994, however, Blair had overtaken Brown as the favoured candidate of party activists and the wider public.
Environmentalists like Gaylord Nelson, chairman of the Wilderness Society, accused her of "a wholesale dismantling" of environmental advances, but she insisted that she was bringing cost-effective market forces to the regulation of pollution.
As commander of the Canadian Corps in France (from May 1916), he was responsible for one of the most famous Canadian victories in either world war, the capture of Vimy Ridge, north of Arras (April 9, 1917).
www.rulers.org /indexb5.html   (18653 words)

  
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Or, in the case of John Ibbitson's column this morning, it's all three.
June 7 is the 75th birthday of John Turner, who won the Liberal leadership and called a snap election in 1984 only to go down to resounding defeat.
"Canadians do not live in markets, nor do they raise their children in economies." It's a New Deal for communities, ie shoveling gobs of money to city politicians.
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