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	King, William Lyon Mackenzie
		King, William Lyon Mackenzie, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE.
		King acted as conciliator in a number of strikes, his major legislative achievement being the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907, which delayed strikes or lockouts in public utilities or mines until a conciliation board achieved a settlement or published a report.
		King insisted on Canadian autonomy in relations with the UK and contributed to the definition of Dominion status at the 1926 Imperial Conference.
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	William Lyon Mackenzie King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King's promise not to impose conscription contributed to the Liberals' re-election in the 1940 election.
		King was not alone in his forced emigration of Japanese Canadians, as the United States government had a similar plan in effect during the war years.
		King was considered a minor player in the war by both United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, despite hosting a wartime conference in Quebec City in 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King (1710 words)

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		In 1908 King was the Liberal candidate from Waterloo North, Ontario for a seat in the House of Commons.
		King remained loyal to Laurier and in the 1917 election ran against a coalition candidate.
		King also made a long speech in Parliament, defending in detail his reasons for not having fought in the war, the main one being the necessity of supporting his family.
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	William Lyon Mackenzie King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, LL.B, Ph.D. December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921, to June 28, 1926; September 25, 1926, to August 7, 1930; and October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948.
		King was born in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener).
		King was considered a minor player in the war by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, despite hosting a wartime conference in Quebec City in 1943.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King (1362 words)

	WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING FACTS AND INFORMATION
		:''Not to be confused with William_Lyon_Mackenzie, Mackenzie King's grandfather.''
		King realized the necessity of World_War_II before Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, but unlike World_War_I when Canada was automatically at war as soon as Britain joined, King asserted Canadian autonomy by waiting until September_10, when a vote in the House of Commons took place, to support the government's decision to declare war.
		King was considered a minor player in the war by both United_States President Franklin_D._Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston_Churchill, despite hosting a wartime conference in Quebec_City in 1943.
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	William Lyon Mackenzie King biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King asked Governor General Lord Byng to dissolve Parliament and call another election, but Byng refused, perhaps the only time in Canadian history that the Governor General has exercised such a power.
		King realized the necessity of World War II before Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, but unlike World War I when Canada was automatically at war as soon as Britain joined, King asserted Canadian independence by waiting until September 10 to declare war.
		King's promise not to impose conscription contributed to the Liberals' reelection in 1940.
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		King interpreted the result as a “vote of race”, but there was no outbreak of violence in the French Canadian population, like in 1918, because conscription could still be avoided.
		King delayed imposing conscription as long as he could, and when he was forced by circumstances, he made “as little conscription as possible”.
		King is valued now, by those who value his at all, as a compromiser, a healer, a uniter, and unheroic man who understood the contradictions of an unheroic country” Jack Granatstein added that “he prevented the creation of successful class-based parties.
	www3.sympatico.ca /michelsarrabournet/Kingston2001.htm (2609 words)

	Mackenzie King Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mackenzie King Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands north of Canada.
		Mackenzie King has an area of 1,949 square miles (5,048 km²).
		The low-lying island was reached by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915, and later named for William Lyon Mackenzie King.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mackenzie_King_Island (110 words)

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		King's father came from a family that was loyal to Britain, and this combination of opposites foreshadowed King's future.
		King told the facts to the postmaster general, Sir William Mulock, who was a family friend, and suggested that a fair-wage clause be included in future contracts.
		King accepted and at 25 became deputy minister of labor.
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	William Lyon Mackenzie King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 - July 22, 1950) was the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926, September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930, and October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.
		Fortunately for those opposed to Nazi Germany, King realized the necessity of World War II when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, but unlike World War I when Canada was automatically at war as soon as Britain joined, King asserted Canadian independence by waiting until September 10 to declare war.
		Effectively, King was asking the nation at large to relieve him of his commitment to Quebec.
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	Gatineau Park - History and Culture - William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The young man, William Lyon Mackenzie King, grandson of the rebel leader William Lyon Mackenzie, was already dreaming of becoming Prime Minister of Canada and had recorded this ambition in the diary he was to keep meticulously for nearly fifty years.
		William Lyon Mackenzie King was a somewhat colourless politician having neither Laurier's charisma nor Meighen's flamboyance.
		Mackenzie King was also the artisan of the historic rapprochement with the United States.
	www.canadascapital.gc.ca /gatineau/history_culture/aboutwlm_e.asp (711 words)

	Mackenzie King-Biography-First Among Equals
		William Lyon Mackenzie King was born in Berlin (later renamed Kitchener), Ontario in 1874.
		King studied economics and law at the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago.
		King reduced them, but not enough to satisfy the prairie farmers, who gave their support to the Progressives, a new political party formed to represent their interests.
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	Juno Beach Centre - W.L. Mackenzie King
		The son of a lawyer, King was the grandson, on his mother’s side, of William Lyon Mackenzie, one of the leaders of the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada.
		An experienced negotiator, King restores the internal unity of the party and leads it to victory in the 1921 elections.
		Mackenzie King knows that conscription is likely to divide the country and render French Canadians hostile to the war effort.
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		William Lyon Mackenzie King or for short Mackenzie king was born on December 17, 1874.
		Mackenzie King studied economics and law at the university of Toronto and also at the university of Chicago he also received his masters of arts and Later on he pursued his studies at Harvard.
		It wasnít till 1919 that When Mackenzie King was elected as leader of the Liberal party in the first leadership convention held in Canada, that he was seen as an important political figure.
	www.saskschools.ca /~kennedy/grassroots-2002/canadians/king.html (198 words)

	PlanetPapers - Mackenzie King" The Greatest Prime Minister of Canada
		King kept his word on a lot of issues that his people were waiting to on or to be brought up.
		Mackenzie King was a goddess to most people, and some he came off as a strange human being.
		King had a lot of goals in his life one important one being National unity King understood and agreed to the whole conscription thing.
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		In early 1935, King was leader of the Opposition when he raised in the House of Commons the future of the area we know as the Gatineau Park.
		One of the ideas which attracted King was a towering war memorial, reminiscent of the one at Vimy Ridge, which would stretch a thousand feet long on the side of King Mountain, visible from Parliament Hill, and approached by a monumental Via Sacra.
		King was in July 1946, for in the last four years of his life we were abroad.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /gatineau/king.html (4315 words)

	King, William Lyon Mackenzie. The Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1931
		The diaries of Mackenzie King document the public and private life of this scholar, civil servant, Minister of Labour, labour consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation, Leader of the Opposition, and Prime Minister.
		King began his diary in 1893 while he was a student at the University of Toronto and, with only a few gaps, continued to make daily entries up to three days before his death in July 1950.
		King occasionally placed copies of correspondence, memoranda, and clippings within the pages of the diaries or in the jackets of the binder.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /robarts/microtext/collection/pages/kingmack.html (182 words)

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		William Lyon MacKenzie King was raised in Ontario.
		In 1990 King was invited to be the Senator of new department in Ottawa.
		King was first elected in 1908, but he wasn’t leader until 1919.
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	William Lyon Mackenzie King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He obtained three from the University of Toronto: B.A., and M.A. After studying at the University of Chicago, Mackenzie King proceeded to Harvard, receiving an M.A. Political Economy degree 1898 and a Ph.D. He led the Liberal Party from 1919-1948 and was the longest serving Prime Minister of Canada.
		King guided Canada through the World War II and he introduced social programs such as unemployment insurance and family allowances.
		Mackenzie King is pictured on the Canadian fifty-dollar bill.
	www.city-search.org /wi/william-lyon-mackenzie-king.html (560 words)

	Mackenzie King Estate - Ottawa Attractions
		Mackenzie King was Canada's 10th Prime Minister and held power for 22 years -- the longest ever for a Canadian prime minister.
		Mackenzie King was Prime Minister of Canada for twenty-two years: that was not only a record for Canada but for the entire Commonwealth.
		Mackenzie King fell in love with the beauty of the Kingsmere area as a young civil servant.
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	Mackenzie King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King became Prime Minister three times, 1921-1926, 1926-1930, and 1935-1948.
		King was Prime Minister in 1927, when Canada's Old Age Pension system began.
		In1945 King took an active part in the formation of the United Nations, and in the postwar conferences on atomic power and defense.
	www.plpsd.mb.ca /amhs/history/macking.html (374 words)

	William Lyon Mackenzie King Microfilm
		William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (1921-1925, 1926-1930, and 1935-1948), was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, on December 17, 1874, the son of John King and the grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie.
		In 1919 he was chosen to succeed Laurier as leader of the Liberal party; and in 1921 he was elected to represent North York in the House of Commons, and became Prime Minister of Canada and Minister for External Affairs.
		This fonds consists of microfiche copies of manuscript diaries written by King covering his university education, entry into the civil service, achievements as Minister of Labour and his election in 1919 as Leader of the Liberal Party, the Liberal victory of 1921 and the King-Byng controversy.
	www.trentu.ca /library/archives/75-013.htm (350 words)

	ABC News: Girl Misses End of Recess, Gets Locked Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Principal Donna MacKenzie King called her back in about 15 minutes, reaching Merrow as she was on her way to school.
		MacKenzie King confirmed Merrow's account, but said officials had not yet determined if the girl had been locked out or was unable to pull open one of the school's large glass doors.
		MacKenzie King said the school's child safety team, which meets every other day, will try to come up with ways to prevent similar incidents from happening.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=472855 (370 words)

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