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  Mitchell Hepburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As premier, Hepburn closed the residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and cut back on other government spending in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression, which Henry had been unable to solve.
Hepburn, supported by the owners of the plant and General Motors, organized a volunteer police force to help him put down the strike when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to send the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Hepburn remained a bitter opponent of Mackenzie King after the strike, and harshly criticized King's war effort in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II.
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 Harry Nixon - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mitchell Hepburn, a farmer, became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and Nixon led his Progressive remnant into an alliance with Hepburn's party.
Hepburn openly supported King's rival, Conservative leader Arthur Meighen in a 1942 York South by-election and seemed to be calling for the defeat of King.
Hepburn was forced to resign on October 21 1942.
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 Hepburn, Mitchell Frederick
Hepburn, while sympathetic to the unemployed, was opposed to unionization and to letting the Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) into Canada.
The strike ruptured Hepburn's relationship with Prime Minister KING (which had never been close), and in January 1940 he passed a resolution in the Ontario legislature critical of King's war effort.
Hepburn's day was over; he helped to scuttle the 1941 federal-provincial conference and supported A. in the South York by-election of 1942, but his struggle with King ruined his party and destroyed his health.
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 mitchell hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mitchell Frederick Hepburn (August 12, 1896 - January 5, 1953) was Premier of Ontario from 1934 to 1942.
This force was somewhat derisively known as "Hepburn's Hussars," or the "Sons of Mitches." Cabinet ministers who disagreed with Hepburn over the issure were forced to resign.
Hepburn supported Mackenzie King's opponent Arthur Meighen in a by-election in Toronto in 1942, helping Meighen recover his seat in the federal government.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Mitchell_Hepburn.html   (552 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ontario Liberal Party
Hepburn was able to build an electoral coalition with Liberal-Progressives and attract reformers and urban voters to the party.
A "wet", Hepburn was able to end the divisions in the party around the issue of temperance which had reduced it to a narrow sect.
In government, Hepburn's Liberals warred with organised labour led by the Congress of Industrial Organizations, who were trying to unionize the auto sector.
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 `Just call me Mitch': The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn. Ontario Historical Studies Series. by Robin Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hepburn was the Liberal premier who led the province of Ontario during the years of depression and war between 1934 and 1942.
Hepburn was first elected as a federal Liberal in 1926, he became leader of the Ontario party in 1930, and premier of the province in 1934.
Hepburn obviously lived on the edge of disaster in his personal life just as he did in politics, and one would like to know why he was such a risk-taker.
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 MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1938: Ontario
Hepburn combined with Premier Duplessis of Quebec to oppose the Dominion Government on such issues as the St. Lawrence waterway, the export of electric power to the United States, and amendment of the North America Act.
Although its vote-getting powers were apparently undiminished, the Hepburn government came in for serious criticism at a meeting of the Ontario mayors in the summer of 1938.
Although the mayors defeated a resolution which would have given them "a mandate to take over the provincial government" if steps were not taken to relieve the burden on the cities, the introduction of such a resolution indicated that their patience was very rapidly becoming exhausted.
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 gordon daniel conant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hepburn resigned suddenly, in October 1942, due to his feud with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King that split Hepburn's cabinet and threatened the unity of his party.
Hepburn announced that he was remaining leader of the party and selected Conant as the new Premier.
The party, led by King's supporters, demanded a leadership convention and Conant and Hepburn were forced to acquiesce resulting in the election of Harry Nixon as the new Liberal leader and Premier in 1943.
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 Mitchell Hepburn - Definition up Erdmond.Com
As premier, Hepburn closed the residence of the Lieutenant_Governor_of_Ontario and cut back on other government spending in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great_Depression, which Henry had been unable to solve.
Hepburn, supported by the owners of the plant and General Motors, organized a volunteer police force to help him put down the strike when Prime Minister William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King refused to send the Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police.
Hepburn remained a bitter opponent of Mackenzie King after the strike, and harshly criticized King's war effort in 1940 after the outbreak of World_War_II.
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 Hepburn, Mitchell Frederick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1930 he became leader of the Ontario Liberals, and in 1934 he won an overwhelming victory in a provincial election to become premier.
The union won the strike, and Hepburn's involvement hurt his position in the Liberal Party.
Hepburn returned briefly as Ontario Liberal leader but he lost the 1945 election badly and retired to his farm.
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 Chapter 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hepburn was a high-school dropout, but he was possessed of a nimble mind and rapier-sharp wit.
Hepburn saw a CIO incursion into Ontario as an unwelcome invasion by foreign agitators who had no respect for the province's traditions of law and order.
Mitchell Hepburn's second administration lasted from 1937 until his resignation in 1942, at which time Attorney General Gordon Conant became his successor.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume3/chapter15/295-301.htm   (1806 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Mitchell Hepburn
His stance as a "wet" on the issue of alcohol allowed him to break the Liberal Party from the militant prohibitionist stance that had helped reduce it to a rural, Protestant south western Ontario rump in the 1920s.
This force was somewhat derisively known as "Hepburn's Hussars," or the "Sons of Mitches." Cabinet ministers who disagreed with Hepburn over the issue were forced to resign.
The Liberals under Nixon were routed soon after in the 1943 Ontario election falling to third party status behind the Progressive Conservatives under George Drew and the Ontario CCF under Ted Jolliffe.
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 Chapter 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hepburn, to be sure, offered economy, balanced budgets and administrative efficiency, but his political style, his arbitrary and mercurial nature seemed contemptuous of established institutions and values.
Hepburn expressed admiration for the political style of Louisiana's Huey Long and enjoyed doing business "to the clink of glasses," surrounded by cronies and retainers in his suite in Toronto's King Edward Hotel.
Hepburn and Ferguson were the last of a breed: politics in post-World War II Ontario would strike out in sharply different directions.
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 Mitchell Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His support of farmers and free and his former membership in the UFO him to attract Harry Nixon 's rump of United Farmers of Ontario MPPs into the Liberal Party (as Liberal-Progressives) and defeat the unpopular premier George Stewart Henry in the 1934 election held in the midst of Great Depression.
As premier Hepburn closed the residence of Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and cut back on other government in an attempt to alleviate the effects the Great Depression which Henry had been unable to Hepburn also cut spending on electric power Quebec gave money to mining industries in northern Ontario and introduced compulsory milk pasteurization.
Hepburn remained a bitter opponent of Mackenzie after the strike and harshly criticized King's effort in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II He thought Canada should be doing to support the war and helped organize military districts in Ontario encouraging men to when Mackenzie King chose not to introduce conscription.
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 Mitchell Hepburn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mitchell Frederick Hepburn (August 12, 1896 - January 5, 1953) was (Click link for more info and facts about Premier of Ontario) Premier of Ontario, (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada, from 1934 to 1942.
Thomas, Ontario, Hepburn worked as an onion (A person who operates a farm) farmer and also worked for the (Click link for more info and facts about Canadian Bank of Commerce) Canadian Bank of Commerce from 1913 to 1917.
Hepburn supported Mackenzie King's opponent (Click link for more info and facts about Arthur Meighen) Arthur Meighen in a by-election in (The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)) Toronto in 1942.
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 Harry Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the defeat of the UFO-Labour government in the 1923 election, Nixon sat as a Progressive Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), and became the leader of the small Progressive bloc (as most UFOers now called themselves) after the 1929 election.
Nixon resumed his former Cabinet position of Provincial Secretary and Registrar in the Hepburn cabinet and was the senior minister in the government.
Nixon resigned from the cabinet on October 22, 1942 in opposition to Hepburn's refusal to allow a leadership convention to elect a new leader.
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 Mitchell Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hepburn también cortó el gasto en energía eléctrica de Quebec, dio el dinero a las industrias de explotación minera en Ontario norteño, e introdujo la pasterización obligatoria de la leche.
Hepburn, apoyado por los dueños la planta y General Motors, organizó una fuerza voluntaria del policía para ayudarle a colocar la huelga de cuando el rey de Guillermo Lyon Mackenzie del primer ministro rechazó enviar al policía montado canadiense real.
Hepburn apoyó a Arturo opuesto Meighen del rey de Mackenzie en una por-eleccio'n en Toronto en 1942.
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 central vic squatters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This history covers the settlement of the Shire of Hepburn and surrounds by Henry Munro, William Yaldwyn, Charles Ebden, Jas Orr, Alexander Mollison, Captain Hepburn, Captain Dugold McLachlan, and the Clowes brothers.
In mid 1837 Hepburn and William Coghill became partners in a plan to overland 1400 ewes, 50 rams and 200 wethers to central Victoria.
Captain Hepburn did achieve 20 bushels of wheat to the acre this is compared with an average of 30 bushels to the acre at Dowling Forest (near Ballarat).
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 Hepburn, Mitchell Frederick
Hepburn, Mitchell Frederick, homme politique, premier ministre de l'Ontario de 1934 à; 1942 (St. Thomas, Ont., 12 août 1896 -- id.
Une fois au pouvoir, Hepburn met en oeuvre de nombreuses mesures populistes, dont la vente aux enchères des limousines du gouvernement et la fermeture de la résidence du lieutenant-gouverneur.
En janvier 1940, Hepburn adopte à l'Assemblée législative de l'Ontario une résolution qui critique l'effort de guerre de King.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=F0003717   (496 words)

  
 Tobacco taxes and teenage smoking: A political issue
Hepburn’s announced intention to pass such laws ignited a political firestorm as the powerful farm lobby of the day swung into gear in an attempt to prevent the passage of this legislation.
It is a tribute to Dr Brown’s insight, and Mitchell Hepburn’s tenacity and determination that the law was eventually passed, and Ontario’s children received the benefits of pasteurized milk.
Perhaps we might also point out the courage and integrity of Mitchell Hepburn who was willing to confront powerful vested interests in the cause of community and child health.
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 Mitchell Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mrs Mitchell from Slaithwaite, having had a wonderful display of summer flowers in her...
Mr and Mrs Hepburn from Upper Cumberworth have watched their fig tree...
After no less than Provincial Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn called it a "fake, fiasco and disgrace to sport," Max Baer said he was homesick and went back to...
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