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  Manitoba Liberal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Manitoba had been founded as a bilingual province, but Greenway's government provoked the Manitoba Schools Question, ending the educational rights of (predominantly French) Catholics, and making the public school system entirely English and Protestant.
The Manitoba Liberals also supported Robert Borden's Union government in the election of 1917 (see Conscription Crisis of 1917), and were not reconciled with the "Laurier Liberals" until 1922.
She was elected to the assembly in the 1986 election, and in the 1988 election, led the party to 20 seats and official opposition status.
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 Manitoba
Manitoba's population is disproportionately distributed between the "North" and the "South." A line drawn from lat 54° N (north of The Pas) to the southeast corner of the province sharply divides the continuous settled area, containing 95% of the people, from the sparsely populated north.
Manitoba Hydro, a crown corporation, is the principal authority for the generation, development and distribution of electric power, except for Winnipeg's inner core, which is served by Winnipeg Hydro, a civic corporation.
Manitoba was returning to its roots, reaffirming rural virtues of thrift, sobriety and labour to counter rapid change, depression and the aftereffects of war.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tories were brought down in 1915 by a scandal involving the construction of the province's new legislative buildings.
The Manitoba Conservatives received their greatest strongest from the francophone community in the 1915 election, due to the fact that the party was seen as more supportive than the Liberals of francophone education rights.
Willis was defeated in the election of 1920, and the Conservatives became the fourth-largest group in parliament with only six seats.
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 Manitoba Liberal Party biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
In Manitoba's first parliament, the leader of the opposition was Edward Hay, a Liberal who represented the interests of recent anglophone immigrants from Ontario.
Brown was unable to win a seat in the 1907 election, however, and resigned shortly thereafter.
The Manitoba Liberal government also supported Robert Borden's Union government in the election of 1917 (see Conscription Crisis of 1917, and was not formally reconciled with the "Laurier Liberals" until 1922.
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 MHS Transactions: Radical Politics in Winnipeg, 1899-1915
In the General Election of 1900, he received 71 per cent of the vote in that area; in 1904 his proportion of the vote fell to 21 per cent.
Rigg's election and the labour unrest caused by the pre-war depression encouraged the radicals to launch their most important political effort to that time in the provincial election of 1914.
Throughout this essay the term radicalism is used to describe a general category which subsumes all forms of political insurgency associated with the labour movement, from the most moderate labourites on the right to the most revolutionary socialists on the left.
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 The Law Society of Manitoba - Publications
Manitoba has led the way for change by drafting a conveyancing protocol outlining a restructured conveyancing practice in which sale and mortgage proceeds are dealt with and disbursed prior to the completion of registrations at the Land Titles Office.
He was Manitoba Counsel for the Department of Justice, and in that capacity was one of the Crown Counsel in the historic appeal of his conviction by Louis Riel.
After serving on the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench and Court of Appeal he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1973 and became Chief Justice of that Court in 1984.
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 OPSEU v. ONTARIO (ATTORNEY GENERAL)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Attorney General of Canada, the Attorney General of Quebec, the Attorney General of Nova Scotia, the Attorney General for New Brunswick, the Attorney General of British Columbia, the Attorney General for Saskatchewan and the Attorney General for Alberta
It was contended by the Attorney General for Ontario, supported by several intervening Attorneys General, that the Court should not address the Charter issues because all of the activities in the case were pre-Charter and neither of the Ontario courts had heard Charter arguments.
Speaking more generally, I hold that neither Parliament nor the provincial legislatures may enact legislation the effect of which would be to substantially interfere with the operation of this basic constitutional structure.
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 University of Manitoba : Archives & Special Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
On scanning the Manitoba section of the Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1916 "Sketches of Members", it becomes plain that few, if any, members of the 15th Legislative Assembly entered the Legislature with such a proven record of community action as Dr. Hamilton.
Dr. Hamilton was responsible for piloting the amendment to the Manitoba Medical College Act (which made the Medical College a part of the University of Manitoba) through the Assembly.
In 1923 he was appointed one of Manitoba's two representatives to the Executive of the Canadian Medical Association--a position he held until 1933.
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 Dictionary of Basilian Biography Book 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
SOULERIN, Jean Mathieu, fourth Superior General, founder of St. Michael's College in Toronto, Ontario, was born in Ailhon, Ardèche, France, on June 6, 1807, the son of Mathieu Soulerin and Marie Pigeyre.
TEEFY, John Read, general councillor, educator, uncle of Father Matthew Mulcahy, was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, on August 21, 1848, the second child of nine born to Matthew Teefy and Elizabeth Clarkson.
He was elected to the general council at the second session of the first General Chapter, December 2, 1822, and on October 27, 1838, was elected Superior General.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
In Manitoba general election, 1870 Manitoba's first general election (1870), the riding was divided into '''St. Boniface East''' and '''St. Boniface West'''.
Boniface, Manitoba, which was a distinct civic jurisdiction before being amalgamated with the City of Winnipeg in 1971.
For many years after the introduction of partisan politics in 1882, St. Boniface was a hotly-contested battleground riding between the provincial Manitoba Liberal Party Liberals and Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Conservatives (although candidates of the parliamentary left were also elected in the 1930s and 1940s).
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 MHS Transactions
In 1879, one of the first initiatives of the newly formed Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society was support for public lectures on a range of topics.
Expansion of Settlement in Manitoba, 1870-1890 by J.
Bishop Taché and the Confederation of Manitoba, 1869-1870 by Lionel Dorge
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 Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Assn. v. Ontario (Attorney General)
The province is generally free to alter the funding allocation between these sources as it sees fit, provided that the source relied on delivers sufficient funds to operate a denominational education system equivalent to the public education system.
The province is generally free to alter the funding allocation between these sources as it sees fit, provided that the source relied on provides sufficient funds to operate a denominational education system which is equivalent to the public education system in place at the time.
It is because the sanctions of convention rest with institutions of government other than courts, such as the Governor General or the Lieutenant Governor, or the Houses of Parliament, or with public opinion and ultimately, with the electorate, that it is generally said that they are political.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
The original Elmwood riding existed from 1914 to 1920, in what was then a suburban community in the north of Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg.
The modern Elmwood riding was created by redistribution in 1957, and has formally existed since the Manitoba general election, 1958 provincial election of 1958.
It is located in the northeastern section of the amalgamated City of Winnipeg; the Red River forms its western and part of its southern boundary.
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 Deadwood, South Dakota Revealed - About DEADWOOD
In 1876 General George Crook (1828-1890), Commander of the Department of the Platte made his first visit to Dakota to remove gold hunters from the Black Hills before a treaty legalized their entry.
They are hotels, bar-rooms, and stores for general merchandise, all combined in one, and the whole business is usually transacted in a single room.
The city proper, as generally understood (there is no legally defined limits), is about one mile long, and contains at the present time about six thousand inhabitants, the male portion being engaged almost exclusively in mercantile and other legitimate business pursuits.
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 The Nation, 07/17/1920 - Manitoba's Startling Election by Thomas, A. Vernon
They are serving sentences of one year each for alleged seditious conspiracy in connection with the general strike.
...The startling result of the general election in the Canadian Province of Manitoba, the oldest of the western provinces, seems to demand some similar standard of comparison...
...While many factors peculiar to Manitoba politics have undoubtedly played a part in the recent election, it is none the less true that the result reflects a world-wide process-the death of liberalism as we have known it in modern times...
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 Benzene 4
A new generation of Mexicans grew up with no memory of the chaos and backwardness that the Porfiriato had corrected.
Manitoba's other old settlement on Hudson Bay was once called Fort Nelson.
An interesting consequence of the transfer of properties in the American South after the Civil War is that the freed slaves, although they were eager to continue farming, showed very little interest in growing cotton.
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 Western Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
1831, 1832,1822, 1834, 1835, 1838, 1840, 1843, 1846, 1849 and 1870 census for Manitoba
The collections are indexed according to general subjects, i.e., agriculture, arts, businesses, communications, education, environment, fur trade, labour, land, legal, medical, military, municipal, native peoples, natural resources, photographers, police, politics, religious, sports and leisure, transportation, women and women’s societies and organizations.
Indexes to census records for British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and Manitoba for 1881, for the Territories in 1891 and 1901 and for Manitoba, as they are in published, for 1901; surname index to 1870 census of Manitoba and Red River; Red River census 1834-1835 (A-C), census of Icelanders in Canada 1891-1892
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 Chronology of North Dakota History
A women's suffrage bill was signed into law, ratified in 1919, and women were allowed to vote in the first general election in 1920.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier, Attorney General William Lemke, and Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor John N. Hagan, all Nonpartisan League members, were recalled by voters in the first successful gubernatorial recall in the nation.
The prohibition clause of the state Constitution was repealed by the electorate and former Attorney General William Lemke was elected to congress.
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 SBF Glossary: Me., ME to MHz
The general noun use, in various senses referring to written records or notes, began to be common only late in the 13th c.
ESA landing mission that used braking and landing strategies generally similar to those of NASA's MER (ESA's mission was called Mars Express), it was a relief verging on surprise when both rovers landed successfully in January 2004.
Jordan, who is fl (and a lawyer who was rumored to be in line for that post), replied levelly, ``I believe that America is ready for an able, competent attorney general regardless of race, sex, or previous condition of servitude.'' That was a joke, son.
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 Fathers of Confederation
After 1867, he no longer ran for election, but held several offices with Conservative governments; he was the ideal political lieutenant.Appointed to the Senate in 1867; In 1887, he left the Senate and was appointed lieutenant-governor of Ontario.
It is generally believed that McGee was the victim of a Fenian plot.
In the 1865 election the confederationists were defeated badly.
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 The Nonpartisan League and Social Democracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
In the general election, supporters were encouraged to again split their ticket and vote for the NPL slate.
In the 1918 election the NPL won control of both houses, the judicial, and executive branches, and won passage of ten initiatives needed to permit state ownership in North Dakota.
And to their having exploited the contradiction between democratic processes and economic goals, forcing the IVA to choose between its immediate goal of staying in office and ensuring that state-ownership was not expanded, and its long-term goals as business-allied state occupants.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Manitoba general elections
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As soon as the election was over, there was talk of impeachment, but no charges were filed.
After Moodie's inauguration on January 7, 1935, it was revealed that he had voted in a 1932 municipal election in Minnesota.
In order to be eligible for governor, an individual has to have lived in the state for five consecutive years before the election.
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 H - A Guide to the Microform Collections (Microform Reading Room, Library of Congress)
This reference work, described by the Canadian Library of Parliament as "an exceptional work of its kind" and "the reference source par excellence on federal ridings and elections," includes all the general election and by-election results since Confederation.
Contains the official twelve-volume history of the British Ministry of Munitions, June 9, 1915 to March 31, 1921, published by HMSO 1918-1923, and reproduces the records of the Ministry of Munitions, disposal and liquidation.
Access is provided by a general index to titles and headings of volumes, parts, and sections, located on the first microfiche.
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As Liberal leader of Manitoba, he lost the 1973 provincial election to the New Democratic Party, setting in motion a chain of events that got him involved with the troubled Global Television station.
Asper was "always the outsider but with a happy ending." Fascinated with public life, the young Izzy concocted a plan to become head of the provincial Liberal Party and present a right-wing alternative to the tax-and-spend New Democrats, thus winning the hearts and votes of the majority of Manitobans.
He won the leadership, but the NDP coasted to victory in the general election, leaving Izzy with a four-vote win in his riding.
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 The Constitution Act, 1982
Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein.
may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada only where so authorized by resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of each province to which the amendment applies.
The Queen's Privy Council for Canada shall advise the Governor General to issue a proclamation under this Part forthwith on the adoption of the resolution required for an amendment made by proclamation under this part.
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 1912 - findnice.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
General History of the Republican Era (from Hong Kong) General History
The Election of 1912 has been called one of the most significant elections in American history.
Description: Map of the Presidential Election of 1912.
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 Timeline 1841-1849
Morton was the 1st to take public credit for the use of ether in a medical procedure and applied for a patent on its use, which was later nullified.
Mexican General Santa Anna (of Alamo infamy) surrounded the outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor ('Old Rough and Ready') at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demanded an immediate surrender.
For two generations the family of Alexander Graham Bell was recognized as leading authorities on elocution and speech correction.
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 history
- Manitoba boundaries extended to the ocean shores of Hudson Bay.
1970 - 100th Anniversary of Manitoba becoming a province.
1971 - October 6- Election of first council of the new unified City of Winnipeg
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