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Topic: Ontario general election, 1902


  
  Ontario - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
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 Ontario general election, 1902 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ontario general election, 1902 was the tenth general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
It was held on May 29, 1902, to elect the 98 Members of the Legislative Assembly ("MLAs").
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Sir George William Ross, formed the government for a ninth consecutive term, although with only a very slim, two-seat majority in the Legislature.
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 Elections BC - Election Advisory Committee
Election staff are required to wait until the last instant for lists from parties, some individuals are not of the calibre required for the jobs, and others are unaware that their names have been put forward.
Elections BC can become aware that a voter no longer resides at the address shown on the Voters List; however, the voter's new address is not known.
Elections BC may receive information from Elections Canada on voters who have moved from British Columbia, and from the Motor Vehicle Branch on people who have given up their BC Drivers' Licences because they had been issued one in another Province.
www.elections.bc.ca /eac/Apr97mtg.html   (4737 words)

  
 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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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hierarchy of the Early Church
As long as the Church in general was conceived as the subject of all activity, the functions of the individual organs remained undefined nor could any clear distinction be drawn between their respective attributions.
19-20; 2:7; 3:15; and in general 2, 4, 5 and 6; 2 Timothy 1:11-14; 3:10; 4:13 sq.
It is obvious that amid the general disorder and revolt it was not the presbyters threatened with deposition who were able to judge the disturbers of the peace, but only the people as a whole in a kind of plenary council.
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 ontario
Ontario, five times as large as France, covers some 412,579 square miles (1,068,580 square kilometers) and is bordered on the north by Hudson Bay; on the east by Québec; on the south by the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and the US state of Minnesota; and on the west by Manitoba.
The populous regions of southern Ontario are divided into counties, regional municipalities, the Municipality of Metro Toronto, the District Municipality of Muskoka, and the Restructured County of Oxford.
Ontario had over 3.95 million occupied private dwellings in 1996, when the province had 3.92 million private households, with an average size of 2.7 persons.
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He was born in Cartwright Township, Ontario on June 02, 1863 and was the youngest of the Hughes brothers.
In the Manitoba election of 1920 he was elected as the Conservative member for the riding of Cypress.
In the 1919 Ontario election he was elected as a Conservative member for the riding of Toronto Northeast and when the legislature opened in March, 1920 he was given the position of party whip.
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 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Education is generally compulsory for children from ages 6 or 7 to ages 15 or 16, depending on the province in which they live, and it is free until the completion of secondary school studies.
Elections are held at the prime minister's discretion.
In the parliamentary elections of January 2006, the Conservatives won 124 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons; the Liberals finished second with 103 seats, the BQ took 51, the NDP won 29, and an independent filled the lone remaining seat.
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 Ontario NY History and Genealogy, Biographies, Q - R
In 1884 he was elected county judge of Ontario county, being thus honored with the fifth victory in a Republican county.
The old Rice farm in the town of Seneca, Ontario county, New York, consisting of 125 acres has been in the family for 120 years and is still in the possession of the family.
He was elected to the office of district attorney of Ontario county in the fall of 1875, reelected in 1878, holding the office altogether for a period of six years.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/ontario/bios/q-r.html   (8628 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Election in January? That's goal
Canada's opposition politicians have a plan to topple the minority Liberal government and force a federal election in January.
The other parties say that is too long to wait, and that by that time the electorate will have forgotten about the scandal in which the Liberals misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit their supporters.
The violent storm that tore part of the roof off a school gym in Hamilton, Ontario, was a rare November tornado, Environment Canada said.
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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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 Use of U.S. Forces Abroad
Ontario dispatched from Washington, landed at the Columbia River and in August took possession of Oregon territory.
General Gaines occupied Nacogdoches (Tex.), disputed territory, from July to December during the Texan war for independence, under orders to cross the "imaginary boundary line" if an Indian outbreak threatened.
On May 11, 1989, in response to General Noriega's disregard of the results of the Panamanian election, President Bush ordered a brigade- sized force of approximately 1,900 troops to augment the estimated 11,000 U.S. forces already in the area.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Huron Indians
When a matter had been thoroughly debated, the speaker, in asking for a decision, addressed the elders saying, "See to it now, you are the masters." Their general councils, or assemblies of all the clans of which the nation was made up, were the states-general, and were convened only as often as necessity required.
When the Hurons were the weaker party, they were attacked and either massacred on the spot, or reserved for torture at the stake; and when they were the stronger, the wily Iroquois hung upon their trail and cut off every straggler.
The group now residing in the vicinity of Sandwich, Ontario, are the remnants of the Petun, or Tobacco Nation, with possibly a slight intermixture of neutrals who, after many vicissitudes, had been induced to leave Michilimackinac when Detroit was founded.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07565a.htm   (12953 words)

  
 Haiti - List of Expeditions 1901-1929
The U.S.S. Panther sailed on November 18, 1902, for Culebra, Virgin Islands, for duty in connection with the winter maneuvers and arrived at League Island, Pa., on December 9, 1902 where the marine battalion was disembarked.
General Luis Mena, Minister of War under President Alfonso Diaz, and a disappointed aspirant for the presidency of Nicaragua, on 29 July, 1912, attempted to seize Managua, the capital of the Republic, and by a coup d’etat to possess himself of the executive power.
At the close of the conference Admiral Caperton delivered an ultimatum to General Arias to the effect that if "the rebel forces" then in the capital did not disarm and surrender their equipment to the American forces by 6 A.M., May 15th, that he intended to occupy the city and forcibly disarm them.
www.history.navy.mil /library/online/haiti_list_exp.htm   (10213 words)

  
 PRESS ARTICLE
Andrew's nephew, Nelson Monteith, son of Samuel, was elected to represent South Perth in the Ontario Legislature in 1898 and became Minister of Agriculture.
A community in Northern Ontario was named Monteith in his honor because of his pioneering work in forestry and reforestation.
Andrew's eldest son John Monteith was Mayor of Stratford in 1893-94 and elected to the Ontario Legislature for North Perth in 1902 (He won by only two votes and the election was declared null and void, he lost the by-election).
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 Aberhart fonds
William Aberhart was born on a farm near Kippen, Ontario on December 30, 1878 to William Aberhart Senior and Louisa Pepper.
Aberhart himself had not been a candidate in the election, but because he was the leader of the Social Credit League, he was proclaimed Premier of Alberta.
After the general election of 1940, Aberhart represented the multi-member electoral district of Calgary.
www.ucalgary.ca /archives/FondLevelDescriptions/Aberhart.htm   (756 words)

  
 American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant | Timeline
General Zachary Taylor's force reaches the Rio Grande on March 28.
Grant runs the gauntlet, riding on the side of his horse with one foot hooked on the cantle of the saddle and an arm around the neck of his horse.
Two days later he writes to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas: "I feel myself competant to command a Regiment if the President, in his judgement, should see fit to entrust one to me." The letter is never answered.
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 Woodbridge Riley's 1903 Founder of Mormonism - part1
said that General Smith was not a fool, but somewhat of a jockey; that his socialistic schemes were crude, but that he had a clear insight into the grosser principles of human nature.
Goforth might have spared himself the trouble of coming to Nauvoo to electioneer for a duellist who would fire at John Randolph but was not brave enough to protect the Saints in their rights as American citizens.
It is this referring of everything unnatural to the supernatural that continued as a mark of Joseph's family during three generations; dreams are warnings, visions are messages from on high.
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 The History of Canada and Canadians - An In Depth Look At The History That Made Canada!
When Macdonald fought the 1878 election on a platform of protectionist tariffs, which he called his National Policy, the voters favored their "old chieftain." The Conservatives thus were returned to office.
In the election of that year, Quebec was almost unanimous in its opposition to the conscription policy that was supported elsewhere across the country.
In general elections on April 8 the Liberals won more seats than any other party, and Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson was named prime minister of Canada in 1963 at the head of another minority government.
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 Daniel Lantz Gen Rpt
He died on 20 Oct 1953 at Phelps, Ontario Co., New York, at age 86.<370> He was buried at North Rose, Wayne Co., New York.<371> The eleven known children of Marion Damaris(4) BLACKWOOD and Francis Shelly WEISS all born at Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co., West Virginia, were as follows: 87 i.
He was a member of the printing, police, lights, safety, and poor house committees.<418> He was re-elected to the council and served until he became a candidate for mayor in 1914.
She had been a member of the Library Staff for twenty-two years, had been associated with the Library since it was opened and was faithful and efficent in her work.
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 EPL.ca: Biographies of Mayors and Councillors - R
Born at Walton, Huron County, Ontario, in 1874.
Born in Durham, Grey County, Ontario, on June 1, 1872; son of Adam John and Mary (nee Grant) Robson.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, on August 14, 1851; son of James and Fannie (nee Foster) Ross.
www.epl.ca /Elections/Results/EPLBiographies/R.cfm   (1271 words)

  
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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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 CBC - Canada Votes 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PC Angus Maclean was the other MP in the 1951 to 1974 period, serving as minister of fisheries and postmaster general under John Diefenbaker.
She resigned in 1993 after winning the leadership of the provincial Liberal party and became the first female premier in Canada after winning the provincial election that year.
She is the author of an English text and Teachers Guide, currently used in P.E.I., Newfoundland, Ontario and Western Canada.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes2004/riding/011   (835 words)

  
 Learn more about 1812 in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
August 16 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
October 9 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
October 13 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - On the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaerof are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock (although he dies during the battle).
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 93 - Armchair General Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ultimately, Humphrey was defeated in the national election by Republican Richard M. Nixon.
The prefix "acting" was abolished by General David M. Shoup, 22d Commandant of the Marine Corps.
To make matters worse, general orders are issued to the troops to conserve firewood as there is a scarcity of fuel in the area.
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 LLMC - Canadian Collection
Alberta, Statutory Revisions=1880, 1891, 1902, 1913 and 1940
Ontario Local Courts and Municipal Gazette (1865–72), Vol.
Smith and Sager’s Ontario Drainage Cases (1901–13), 1 vol.
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 Newfoundland Newspapers D-F>
The Daily Unionist was published from the office of the Plaindealer during the strike of the St. John's Typographical Union "for the sole purpose of putting the position of the International Typographical Union before the public" (May 14, 1921).
Originally intended for Newfoundlanders in Ontario, it expanded its distribution nationwide, adding a special Newfoundland edition in 1989 and had a circulation of 45,000 in 1990.
Issued by the publisher of the Daily News and distributed free of charge, the Free Press was discontinued because it "served to divert attention from the primary newspaper it was designed to compliment" (May 4, 1972).
staff.library.mun.ca /staff/newspapers/df.htm   (4136 words)

  
 Enciclopedy1812 -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
July 12 - Americans invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
July 22 - Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca - British forces led by Lord Wellington defeat French troops near Salamanca in Spain.
August 5 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne 's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
www.adago.com /1812.html   (625 words)

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