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  Ontario - LoveToKnow 1911
Ontario is thus pre-eminently an agricultural province, though the growth of manufactures has increased the importance of the towns and cities, and many of the farmers are seeking new homes in the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
In general, the soil is fertile and the climate favourable.
In the discussions from which sprang the federation of 1867, Ontario was the one province strongly in favour of the union, which was only rendered possible by the coalition of her rival leaders, J. Macdonald and George Brown.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ontario   (6000 words)

  
 Ontario NY History and Genealogy, Naples History
The township and village of Naples, the subject of this sketch, is situated on the Middlesex branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad, 24 miles south of the county seat and 4 miles from the head of Canandaigua lake.
Especially is this noticeable in the general condition of the streets and side walks.
Prior to the erection of the Academy in 1860, the general education of the masses was obtained in the district schools.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/ontario/napleshist.html   (5789 words)

  
 Ontario NY Wayne County History Early Settlers
Ontario, the northwest corner town in Wayne county, was set off from Williamson as Freetown on the 27th of March, 1807.
The surface is generally level, with a slight inclination northward; through the south part of the town extends the famous ridge, to the north of which the soil is a clay loam; on the south it is largely a gravelly loam and muck.
In June, 1894, districts 5 and 6, comprising the villages of Ontario and Ontario Center, were united to form a union free school district, and the sum of $8,000 was voted for the erection of a suitable school house near the old dividing line.
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 ONTARIO - Online Information article about ONTARIO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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Ontario is thus pre-eminently an agricultural province, though the growth of manufactures has increased the importance of the towns and cities, and many of the farmers are seeking new homes in the provinces of Manitoba, See also:
orchard lands of Canada are in Ontario, the chief crops being apples and peaches.
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 Charles Tupper - Search View - MSN Encarta
In spite of not being in the cabinet, Tupper was considered one of the fathers of confederation and was made a Commander of the Bath.
In the election of 1874, Tupper was one of the few Conservatives to survive.
Tupper became prime minister on May 1 and called the election for June 23, an election that was fought mainly on the Manitoba issue.
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 Ontario NY History and Genealogy, Biographies, N - O
Samuel NAGEL, born in Germany, September 15, 1855, was the son of George NAGEL who was also a native of Germany, followed farming all his life and died at the age of 84 years, was the possessor of a comfortable fortune, and held in high esteem in the town in which he lived.
P.A. rector of the St. Bridget's Church, East Bloomfield, New York, has been an indefatigable Worker in the interests of his religion and the church of which he has charge, and his life is so closely connected with that institution that a history of the one must of necessity be a history of the other.
He was an inspector of election for a number of years; assessor of the town of Farmington from 1891 to 1894 and supervisor in 1894-95.
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 History of Livingston County from The History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties
Underlying the general surface of the township is the coal formation peculiar to this county, Linn and Caldwell.
In preparing a biographical conspectus of Livingston county to accompany the general history of the county it would indeed be a grievous oversight not to include a sketch of the life of the esteemed and deservedly popular citizen whose name stands at the head of this brief statement of facts.
In 1886 he took a general course of instruction at the New York Polyclinic School and upon leaving here was the recipient of a certificate certifying to his complete and exhaustive application in the specialties of diseases of the throat and lungs and diseases of women.
www.livingstoncountylibrary.org /History/County/1886/1886chapt23.htm   (17233 words)

  
 Anecdotage.com - Elections anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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Bradley was born in the Township of Goulburn, Carleton County, Ontario, on July 13, 1848.
In 1886 he was elected Deputy Master of District No. 7, in the County of Carleton, which he held till 1889.
In the general election of 1891 he acted as returning officer for the County of Carleton.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Interior portfolio often generates controversy developers clashing with environmentalists and Norton's successor will have to deal with issues as diverse as a backlog of building needs at the National Park system and the state of health care on impoverished Indian Reservations.
She would like to see a home for the oldest generation of Navajos, many of whom still depend on hauled water and whose health is failing.
Ontario, Canada: A developer whose construction site is being occupied by native protesters feels he's been dragged into a political dispute that has nothing to do with him.
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 SUPERIMPERIALIST AMERICA ERA ONE: The Ascent to Domination (1844-1991)
Pendleton decides not to run for reelection and the Democrats nominate George McLellan, who was a general in the army until he was fired by Lee, for president and TN senator Andrew Johnson for VP.
General Robert E. Lee and the Union army are sent to once and for all recapture the ACA and end slavery.
The victory of the Saskatchewan CCF (under Bible-bashing lefty, Tommy Douglas) in the 1944 Provincial Election was the most importent event in the Province's history, and the first Socialist government in North America.
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 History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 2 by J.B. Mansfield, Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine Biographies, ...
England was born at Amherstburg, Ontario, December 28, 1854, son of William and Sarah (Sprague) England, and acquired his education in the public schools of his native town.
In 1886 he shipped as mate on the schooner Frank Perew, and in 1887 on the steamer James Pickands as wheelsman, continuing for two seasons in that berth.
He also established himself in a general banking business under the firm name of Evans, Swinger & Co. He is the inventor of the principle and instrument now known as the Wells double piston balance engine, which is fast coming into general use.
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 Freedom Party of Ontario (CANADA) - May Calendar
Ontario provides a $10 million grant as part of the US-Canada bailout of Chrysler.
Prohibition was in effect in Ontario for five periods from 1890-1930, all by referendum.
NDP government of Ontario announces its solution to the economic problems of the province: $2 billion in increased taxes.
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 William Macdougall
He represented North Oxford in the Canadian assembly from 1858 till 1863; North Ontario from 1863 till July, 1864; and North Lanark from November, 1864, till the union of 1867, when he was re-elected for the latter constituency to the Dominion parliament, and represented it till 1872, when he was defeated.
He was lecturer on criminal law for the Law society of Ontario from 1878 till 1883, junior judge of the county court of York and the city of Toronto from 1883 till 1885, and since that time he has been senior judge of the county court.
He became a Queen's counsel in 1883, and is one of the commissioners appointed in 1886 for revising the public statutes of Ontario.
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 Oneida County New York Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His grandparents, Minerva Hale and wife, were of the earliest settlers of the town, having come to it in 1793 from Connecticut, and the large farm which they cleared and cultivated was in the possession of their grandson at the time of his death.
Seneca, was the first male child born in Sangerfield; thus three generations of the family have been intimately connected with the history of the town and have been among its foremost citizens.
He took his conveyance from General Washington, and the penmanship was in the hand of Clinton, the general's private secretary.
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In 1919 the Ontario lumber workers joined the OBU, but Wobbly delegates continued to bootleg union supplies to the minority who wanted to keep their IWW membership books as well, as well as did OBU-IWW delegates in B.C. On April 2, 1919 the ban on the IWW was lifted.
The defeat of the Winnipeg General Strike and the depression of the early part of the decade weakened unions everywhere.
In 1949 the IWW was placed on the Attorney General's list, which came replete with mailing curtailments, refusal to members of government jobs, loans or housing, and FBI harassment of individual members, especially at their place of employment.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Running in the 1867 Ontario general election as a Reformer in Lambton he defeated the former warden of the county, Robert Rae, by a two-to-one margin.
He was acclaimed in 1871 and again in the by-election of 1872 necessitated by his elevation to the cabinet.
After his death Pardee was paid an immense tribute as well, in 1893, when his portrait was placed among those of seven other worthies of Ontario history on the western façade of the front portal of the new parliament buildings at Queen’s Park.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39872   (1168 words)

  
 NSLA - Archives & Records - Nevada Governors' Biographical Information
In 1986 he was elected lieutenant governor and also served as acting governor, completing the term of Richard Bryan, until his election as governor in 1990.
He lost the election later that year and did not run for public office again.
Charles Stevenson was born in Phelps, Ontario County, New York, in 1826.
dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/nsla/archives/gov/govbib.htm   (2142 words)

  
 p-h_020806.htm
Ontario is rich in natural resources such as timber, minerals, and fertile soils.
In the election of Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 1869, the only carpetbagger to win one of Texas' four Congressional seats was a Democrat The three Republicans elected were Texans.
The Kennedys were generally hostile to the protests of the movement, permitted FBI spying on its leaders and avoided any real clash with the South over civil rights until forced to act.
www.constitution.org /reform/us/tx/textbook/p-h_02806.htm   (19593 words)

  
 Archives of Ontario Library
The Archives of Ontario Library is a research and reference collection for the general public and the staff of the Archives.
Ontario Government Publications: The Library collects the key publications of the Ontario Government which shed light on the activities, policies and programs of the Government.
This includes a full run of annual reports for most Ontario Government ministries, departments and agencies from their inception, and in many cases before Confederation.
www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/services/library.htm   (405 words)

  
 Chapter 26--Bancroft's History of Utah 1540-1886
were, in 1886, reasonably prosperous, resembling somewhat small English villages, except for the fact that no ale-houses were to be seen in their midst.
The limits of Summit county on the south were extended in 1872 by an act of the Utah legislature, and in 1886 it was bounded on the north by Wyoming and Morgan county, and on the south, east, and west by Uintah, Wasatch, Morgan, and Salt Lake counties.
of Washington, and a few miles north of the Arizona line, was in 1886 one of the principal cities in southern Utah, and though built on alkaline sands and artificial soil, was one of the garden spots of the country.
www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/bancroftshistoryofutah_chapter26.htm   (10406 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.05.01 - May Day 2004 Photos
It called for a general strike to begin on May 1, 1886, for gaining the eight-hour workday as a standard for all workers in the United States.
So it is little wonder that in response to the call for the general strike on May Day of 1886 more than 350,000 workers walked off their jobs.
The general strike was peaceable up to the third day, when six pickets at the McCormick Harvester plant in Chicago were killed by company agents.
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London, Ontario, 1831; Member of LOL 412, London; Mayor of London, 1861-1864; Deputy Grand Master of GOL of Ontario West in 1860; Elected as the first mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1874; Instrumental in arranging for the arrest of Louis Riel's Adjutant-Genreral, Ambroise Lepine in 1873
FLANAGAN, JOHN - County Master of Frontenac, Ontario in 1858;Grand Master of the 'Benjamin Grand Lodge of Canada' in 1855;One of the chief organizers of the Orange display of strength at Kingston, Ontario in 1860 during the Prince of Wales visit;Mayor of Kingston - 1858
Gananoque, Ontario, 1842; Called to the bar in 1863 and opened a law practice in Brockville, Ontario; Elected a councillor of the first Gananoque town council in 1863; County Master of Leed in the 1860's; Grand Master of the GOL of Ontario East, 1869-1873; M.P.P. for South Leeds, 1871-1873
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 Contacts
In 1886 when our Winchester boom was beginning this part of what is Riverside County now, was in possession of homesteaders and purchasers of railroad lands who had recently rescued it from sheep men.
The family was identified with the Catholic faith, and aided generously in the building of the church of that denomination at San Jacinto.
Four generations of the family, from immigrant to modern Americans of the 1970s, with our ups and downs, our happy times and our tragedies, have contributed in a wholesome way, we hope, to the America we love, but especially to the Winchester area.
www.domenigonivalley.net /history.htm   (2724 words)

  
 THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF CLEVELAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Evidently he was a man of considerable property, as he deeded a generous amount of land to each of his six sons.
The marshal chosen in that election of 1815 was John A. Ackley, the half-brother of Lorenzo Carter.
Henry H. Dodge, or "General Dodge," as he was known, was a lawyer by profession, being admitted to the bar at the age of 24.
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 Archives of Ontario: Highlighting Human Rights in Ontario - Women's Rights
Women's legal right to vote was obtained in Ontario April 12, 1917 (aboriginal women were not allowed to vote until 1954).
Despite resistance to the nomination of a female candidate, Agnes Macphail (1890-1954) triumphed in the 1921 federal general election to become the first woman ever elected to the House of Commons.
Born in Toronto in October of 1893, Rae Luckock, as she was known, grew up on the family farm in Arthur, Ontario.
www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/exhibits/humnrits/womnrts.htm   (433 words)

  
 Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records
Centenary of death of Brant, An episode in the War of 1812, Cruikshank, Highland pioneers of Middlesex, Fort Malden Amherstburg, statistics of St. Thomas.
General Brock, Mica Bay, mining, establishment of ontario ministry of culture 1974,
ontario hydro, toronto public art museum, guelph maple leafs, sisters of st joseph,
www.aandc.org /collections/ontario_history_detail.html   (3016 words)

  
 LLMC - Canadian Collection
Ontario Local Courts and Municipal Gazette (1865–72), Vol.
Robinson and Joseph — (Digest of Ontario Cases, beginning to 1884), 2 vols.+ supp., 1880
Smith and Sager’s Ontario Drainage Cases (1901–13), 1 vol.
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 Ripley Ontario
The completion of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway in 1873 placed Ripley on the business map.
The village was incorporated in 1925 and the first election was held on June 1, 1925.
John B. Martyn was the village's first reeve and R.H. Martyn was the first clerk.
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