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  John Foster McCreight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Honourable John Foster McCreight (1827–November 18, 1913) was a jurist and the first Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
McCreight was born in Caledon, County Tyrone, Ireland (now located in Northern Ireland) to a well-established and well-connected family.
At the time of McCreight's arrival in Victoria in 1860, it was the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, which at the time was governed by the powerful and autocratic Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir James Douglas.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
There was definitely not a Mrs McCreight on the scene in 1871 when John Foster became premier of the new province — and hence attracted greater public scrutiny.
Trutch’s decision appears to have been based on McCreight’s legal abilities and the fact that he was unlike many of the other assemblymen, who were “queer kittlecattle — a wild team to handle” or were too closely connected with the factionalism of colonial days.
Johnson, “John Foster McCreight,” “McCreight and the law,” “McCreight and the bench,” and “McCreight and the church,” in British Columbia Hist.
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 Thomas Hays
John Hays, Sr., conveyed his right in that trust to David Ralston March 23, 1839, for $7,375, and by virtue of an act of Assembly, approved July 5, 1839, he conveyed as guardian the interests of his wards therein, Oct. 5, then next, to David Ralston, for $1,000.
John Hays, Sr., was the son of John and Mary Hays, the latter the famous “Molly Pitcher” of the Revolution.
Foster was a farmer, later a merchant at Cowansville and was prominent in the public affairs of his locality, serving as justice of the peace (fifteen years) and school director.
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 Info on BC and the Encyclopedia of BC
The concept of responsible government was formally acknowledged when the first premier, John Foster McCreight, resigned after losing a non-confidence vote in the legislature.
McCreight was replaced by Amor de Cosmos, a long-time political activist, and then by a sequence of men selected not as leaders of parties, which did not yet exist in BC, but as heads of loose, shifting coalitions of like-minded persons.
In 1878 Prime Minister John A. Macdonald launched a new National Policy intended to encourage economic development through higher tariffs, immigration and a transcontinental railway.
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 Mercer Chapter 15
John Carmichael, a Scotchman, who, drafted into the British army, served under Wolfe at Quebec in 1759, lived in Worth Township, whither as an old man he accompanied his sons in 1802.
It was on this occasion that Col. John Findley dropped his sickle in his tracks in the wheat field, hastened to his house, and seizing his gun, with such provisions as his wife had at hand to put in his haversack, hastened on his way to the defense of his country.
John Hoge, B.F. Baskin, James Dickson, Thomas Wilson, William L. Christy, Benjamin Polly and Thompson Graham were appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressing the sentiment of the meeting.
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 Freemasonry Encyclopedia Article @ 209.68.55.237   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a society founded by at least one Mason who also was a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (a research and study group focusing on symbolic alchemy, the mystical kabbalah, tarot, and Christian Symbolism).
John Cleese, and other cast members, portray spoof Freemasons in the How to recognise a Freemason sketch of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
In John Steinbeck's novel East of Eden Adam Trask, the main character, is mentioned as becoming a Freemason later in life.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
He read law with John Rose*, and was called to the bars of Lower and Upper Canada in 1858 and 1861 respectively.
On 23 Dec. 1872 De Cosmos, who was a member of parliament as well as of the assembly, replaced McCreight and formed a government of men who, prior to 1871, had been identified with reform and confederation.
Composed of the province’s three Supreme Court judges and chaired by Begbie, it concluded later in the year that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone with an attempt to prejudice the public interest.
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 John Foster McCreight - TheBestLinks.com - British Columbia, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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John Foster McCreight was the first elected premier of British Columbia after it joined Canadian confederation in 1871.
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 John Foster McCreight: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Freemasonry in Canada and British Columbia
Russian born John Malowansky, a Victoria news agent and tobacconist, is the first person to be made a freemason in the colonies.
John Foster McCreight, the first Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, becomes the first premier of the Province of British Columbia.
Israel Wood Powell, for whom Powell River, B.C. and Powell Street in Vancouver are named, refused the offer to become the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia and becomes the first Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
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 MHS Transactions: Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie
At the next session of his court, Judge Begbie summoned John Robson, the editor of the British Columbian, before him to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt.
McCreight stood his ground, replying that he did not need Begbie to teach him his duty.
John Robson took up his cause and thundered against Begbie "as a tyrant, an incompetent, and as a man who deliberately excluded Canadian barristers from practice in order that a clique of English lawyers might grow rich at the expense of the public." [46]
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 BCGNIS Geographical Name Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
McCreight Lake adopted 1 March 1927, not "Cranberry Lake" as labelled on BC map 1K, 1925 (Ottawa file OBF 1054).
John Foster McCreight, QC, first Premier of British Columbia.
An Irish barrister, McCreight came to BC from Australia; called to the bar (Vancouver Island) 26 June 1860; called to the bar (British Columbia) 30 November 1862.
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 Page Two of Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
The Fourth Gospel of John and the Epistles.
Adam C. English, Feeding Imagery in the Gospel of John: Uniting the Physical and the SpiritualPresented to the SBL "Johannine Literature Section" on Monday 11/20/00.
Zimmermann, Ruben, Nuptial Imagery in the Revelation of John.
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 Jefferson Chapter 15A
Governor Curtin adding his petition to that of the officers of the new regiment, that he should become its commander, Colonel Beaver resigned from the Forty-fifth, and assumed command of the new regiment, which was designated as the One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
He was a brave young officer, and his death was deeply regretted by his comrades and by his many friends in Brookville, from which place he enlisted.
The order came from department headquarters, and the general did all in his power to have it revoked, but could not." The convalescents of the First Division were ordered to report to Colonel Brady, who was directed to organize and hold them in readiness to move.
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 History of British Columbia, Canada - Historical Dates
John Mackay was the first white man to live in BC - in Nootka on Vancouver Island.
Frances Barkley, the young wife of Captain Charles William Barkley, was the first white woman to set foot on Vancouver Island.
The first Premier of British Columbia was John Foster McCreight, from 13 November 1871 to 20 December 1872.
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 South Carolina Census Data
Quinton McCreight 1790 2 0 3 0 0 #022 Fairfield
John Foster 1800 00010 21010 0 6 #241 Fairfield
John Foster 1810 10010 02010 0 11 #181 Fairfield
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 John Boydell - Jr. (Xenosaga)
John E. Sununu - John Erskine, 1st Earl of Mar
John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar - John Ferguson, Sr.
John Lucas - John Maclean's Speech From the Dock
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 FS9moo-4-27
Professor Foster presented an oral report on behalf of the Faculty Senate's appointees to the Athletics Advisory Board.
Grubman to post her written report on FacSen-L and to also publish it on the web.
She then congratulated Senator Don McCreight, chair of the Athletics Advisory Board, on his upcoming retirement.
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 BCGNIS Geographical Name Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Steep Point adopted 7 March 1933 as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 1923A, 1870 et seq, and on BC map 3P, 1924.
Name changed to McCreight Point 3 July 1946 on 103/SE as recommended by Hydrographic Service in July 1945, to avoid duplication (file Q.1.45).
McCreight Point confirmed 6 April 1950 on C.3742 (file V.1.48).
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 A few famous freemasons
John F. McCreight, first premier of B.C. Amor de Cosmos, first lodge secretary in the province
Ontario records compiled by Milton Hill from the records of the Grand Lodge of Canada in Ontario, lodge records and John Ross Robertson's The History of Freemasonry.
John's Lodge, Hartford, CN Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) physician and botonist.
www.freemasonry.bcy.ca /textfiles/famous.html   (2490 words)

  
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US adm.; father of John McCain III _1911-1981 McCain, John Sidney III US (Panama Canal Zone-born) Rep. polit.; Senator from Arizona 1987--; member of Keating Five; son of John McCain Jr.
Menard, John Willis US polit.; 1st fl elected to Congress 1868 but did not serve _1838-1893 Menchik, Vera Francevna Rus.
India Co. 1807-1813 _1751-1814 Minto, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond, Earl of Eng.
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 Famous Freemasons of the secret society - InfoLanka Forum
A graduate of the law school of Tokyo Imperial University, he was first elected to the lower house of the Japanese legislature in 1915.
John Brown, Hudson Lodge No. 68, Hudson, OH John William Brown, (Governor of Ohio Jan 3-14, 1957), (Lt. Gov of OH 1953-57, 1963-75), (Ohio State House of Representatives 1959-1960), Freemason; Shriner
John Philip Sousa, Hiram Lodge No. 10, Washington, DC Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan, Past Grand Organist of the United Grand Lodge of England
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 New Page 2
The anniversary year culminated in a visit by William Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who delivered the annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities on October 14.
Typical performances include a monologue by the character followed by a question and answer period with the scholar responding as the historical figure.
The Council's 1999 McCreight Lecture featured Dr. William Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities who joined the Council in commemorating its 25th anniversary.
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John, at Fort Freeland- See reference section on military history *Maize- Maize, Maes, Maess, Maisch Machamer- See Union County Ancestors Marthaler-Desc.
John (Kate) Riehl *Riehl- See Amish-Mennonite Families of Union Co. Rishel- The Family Tree of Johann Michael & Catharine Steininger Rishel Ritchie- See Union County Ancestors *Romig- The Jesse Romig Family (Roemisch, Romich) Rote- Rote Family Genealogy Rowe- Rowe, Rau, Rauh, Row *Royer- The Royer Family.
of Lehigh County, PA *Steese- John Steese Sr.
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 Canadian provinces A-N   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
1742) 1701 John Graydon 1702 John Leake (b.
1946) 11 Jun 1993 - 18 Jul 1997 John Savage Lib (b.
1813) 21 Jun 1799 - 16 Sep 1800 John Murray 16 Sep 1800 - 6 Jul 1807 John Despard 6 Jul 1807 - 1 Jun 1813 Nicholas Nepean 1 Jun 1813 - 6 Feb 1816 Hugh Swayne (b.
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 SUNY New Paltz Foundation Annual Report 2004-05
John '68 and Juliann (Solghan) '69 De Leo
Carol (Rockwell Thien) '70 and John '70 Ward
We are grateful to the thousands of SUNY New Paltz Foundation donors listed here, whose gifts we received between July 1, 2004 and June 30, 2005.
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 M - SUBJECT HYPERTEXT LISTING - TEXTUAL RECORDS CATALOGUE - BC ARCHIVES
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1814 - McAllister, John - McAlonan, Ruth Ellen - McAlpine, C.D.H. McAulay, Donald, d.
1938 - McTavish, Catherine Amelia (Helmcken), 1855-1922 - McTavish, Dugald, 1817-1871 - McTavish, Duncan Archibald - McTavish, George Simpson, 1863-1943 - McTavish, John George, d.
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