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 John Joseph Caldwell Abbott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, P.C., Q.C., K.C.M.G., B.C.L., D.C.L. March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) was the third Prime Minister of Canada from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892.
John Abbott married Mary Bethune (1823-1898) in 1849.
Sir John Abbott is buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec.
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 Turner, John Napier
Turner, John Napier, politician, lawyer, prime minister (b at Richmond, Eng 7 June 1929).
Recruited by Lester PEARSON as a Liberal candidate in Montréal, Turner was elected to the Commons in 1962 (re-elected 1963, 1965).
Turner resigned as leader in 1990, replaced by Jean Chrétien, but he kept his seat until dissolution in 1993.
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 John Sparrow David Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson,KBE, PC (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was the fourth Prime Minister of Canada from December 5, 1892 to December 12, 1894 as well as Premier of Nova Scotia in 1882.
From 1878 to 1882 John Thompson was Attorney General in the provincial government of Simon H. Holmes.
Sir John Thompson had been Prime Minister of Canada for only two years when he died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 49 on December 12, 1894, at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria had just made him a member of her Privy Council.
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 The Right Honourable John Napier Turner
Turner was aware of the powerful undertows, but, being a competitive swimmer during his university years, he plunged into the surf and was soon pulling the grateful man to shore.
Turner's mother was Canadian, and when John's father died in 1932, his mother returned with her family to her hometown in British Columbia.
Turner tried to rebuild the Liberal Party during his stint as Opposition leader and took advantage of the scandals which plagued the Conservative Party.
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 John Napier Turner biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Pearson retired Turner ran in the race to succeed him, finishing third at the 1968 Liberal leadership convention behind the winner Pierre Trudeau.
Turner served in Trudeau's cabinet as minister of justice during the October Crisis and then served as minister of finance until 1975 when he resigned to protest the implementation of wage and price controls.
When Prime Minister Trudeau retired, John Turner re-entered politics and was elected leader of his party and became Prime Minister, defeating Jean Chrétien at the June 1984 Liberal leadership convention.
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 John McCrae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, doctor, author and artist and soldier during World War I, who wrote the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario, attending the Guelph Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
McCrae was the uncle of Alberta MP David Kilgour and Kilgour's sister Geills Turner, the wife of former Canadian Prime Minister John Napier Turner.
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 The Prime Ministers of Canada - John Turner Biography
John Napier Turner was born June 7, 1929 in Richmond, England.
When Turner was three, his father died and his mother moved the family to British Columbia and later to Ottawa.
A brilliant student as well as a superb athlete, Turner graduated at the top of his class at the University of British Columbia, and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study law at Oxford.
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 the Rt. Honourable John Napier Turner Quiz Answers
John Napier Turner was born in Richmond, Surrey England.
Turner was educated in Ottawa and he received degrees in political science in 1949 from the University of British Columbia.
John Turner moved to Canada at the age of 3 in 1932 from England.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Turner Tina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turner, Tina (1938- ), popular American singer, noted for her raucous vocal style and her dynamic stage presence.
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), English painter and watercolourist.
He was born Robert Edward Turner III in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at...
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Turner John Napier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turner, John Napier, born in 1929, 17th prime minister of Canada (1984).
Turner was elected leader of the Liberal Party and assumed the office of...
Although his tenure as Canadian prime minister totaled less than two weeks, Liberal Party leader John Napier Turner was no stranger to politics...
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Turner (old English) is a surname reflecting the occupation (one who uses a lathe).
Richard Turner was a British civil engineer in 1844-8 he built in conjuction with Decimus Barton The Palm House in Kew Gardens after 140 years the heat weakened the structure and it was closed in 1984 to be dismantled and rebuilt using the original design.
Walter Lewis Turner was a prisoner in Newgate Prison and was executed on August 18th, 1891 for the murder of Barbara Waterhouse.
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 Napier, John --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Napier also spelled Neper Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations.
Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop was born in Dreghorn, near Irvine.
Contains discussions of John Napier, the abacus, and the slide rule and descriptions of numerous mechanical calculators, including early machines and their inventors, such as the Stepped Reckoner from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Arithmometer from Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, and the pin-wheel type, invented by Willgodt T.Odhner in 1878.
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 Search Results for "Napier"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Napier, Sir Charles James, (na´per, nper´) (KEY), 1782-1853, British general; brother of Sir William Napier.
Napier, Robert Cornelis, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, 1810-90, British general.
Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick, 1785-1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Napier John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Napier, John (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician, born in Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, and educated at the University of St Andrews.
Born in England, he was brought to Canada by his mother in 1931.
When Trudeau retired in June 1984, John Napier Turner became Prime Minister.
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 Turner, John Napier --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Turner's frontier thesis has proved to be one of...
The revolt ended the false belief that slaves were either happy with their lives as they were or were too submissive to rebel.
Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House.
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 CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Prime Minister: Former Prime Ministers: Turner
Turner might have grown up British had his father not died when John was only three years old.
Turner's mother, Phyllis, was Canadian, and she returned to her home town of Rossland, B.C. after her husband's death.
Turner continued as Minster of Finance after the 1974 election, a position he was beginning to like less and less.
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 UBC Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turner is one of five inductees into the Hall this year, while close to 150 athletes, coaches and staff will be welcomed into the 10,000-member Big Block Club, acknowledging their second year of participation in UBC varsity sports.
Turner, one of the three fastest men in Canada from 1947-49, led UBC to two Pacific Northwest Conference track championships with Canadian-best times in the 100 and 200-yards, qualifying him for the 1948 Olympic Trials where he was thwarted by an injury.
A popular, active student, Turner was the sports editor of the Ubyssey campus newspaper and graduated at the age of 19 as a Rhodes Scholar.
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 Canadian federal election, 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Liberals under John Napier Turner were opposed to the agreement, as were the New Democrats under Ed Broadbent.
Infighting among the Liberals and vote splitting between the NDP and Liberals led to a second Conservative majority government, however.
The Liberals returned as the official opposition, but the lackluster campaign cost Turner his job as Liberal leader.
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John N. Turner would seem to have been marked as a winner even from boyhood.
Turner was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, so was returning to his native country when he was appointed to a Rhodes Scholarship.
Known as Chick Turner through boyhood, he starred in football and hockey at St. Patrick's College, Ottawa, and was on its hockey team which reached the quarterfinal playoffs for the Memorial Cup three straight years.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Turner
Turner, Big Joe (Joseph Vernon) (1911–1985), American blues singer.
Turner, Frederick Jackson (1861-1932), American historian, born in Portage, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin and at Johns...
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), English landscape painter, renowned for his vibrant and dramatic treatment of natural light and...
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 Jane Turner book online - - cheap cookbooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A turner is also a kitchen utensil closely related to a spatula.
This artikel Turner is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
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 The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia: Turner, John Napier@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turner, John Napier, politician, lawyer, prime minister (b
Turner joined a Montral law firm, qualifying as a lawyer in
candidate in Montral, Turner was elected to the Commons in
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 CNEWS Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
 John Napier Turner was born at Richmond, Surrey, England on June 7, 1929.
 In 1968, Turner was appointed minister of justice in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet.
 Turner remained in private practice until Trudeau's retirement in 1984, when he successfully ran for leader of the Liberal Party and became prime minister on June 30, though he did not have a seat in the House of Commons.
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 Articles - Canadian federal election, 1984   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The party's new leader John Napier Turner had at first managed to distance himself from the policies of his predecessor Pierre Trudeau, but as the campaign wore on, he became closely attached to these faults.
That lead began to slip as Turner, who had been out of politics since he had resigned as Minister of Finance in 1975, made several mistakes that caused voters to see him as "yesterday's man".
Turner defended this action as being a friendly gesture, not recognizing that it was seen by many women as being condescending.
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 The Prime Ministers of Canada - John Turner Intro
He had been a star in the Liberal Party since the 1960s, an heir apparent and often a powerful Cabinet minister.
He called an election right away to get a mandate, and in that 1984 campaign had to bear all the weight of voters' dislike of the last Trudeau government.
And John Turner, like Kim Campbell a few years later, became a prime minister who never had a chance to do anything.
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 Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turner is the name of some places in the United States of America including
Admiral Stansfield Turner -- former director of the CIA
In German, a male gymnast is referred to as ein Turner (diphthong pronounced as in "lure"); a female is eine Turnerin.
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