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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Quebec
		Quebec (1664) which, suppressed by the Bull of erection of the diocese, was reestablished by the bishop in 1684 and united to the seminary; he also instituted a
		Quebec, begun in 1647, consecrated in 1666 by the prelate, became and remains the cathedral.
		Quebec (1807), was bishop from 1825 to 1833.
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	Prime Minister of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, if the leader of the governing party is changed shortly before an election is due and the new leader is not a Member of Parliament, he or she will normally await the general election before running for a seat.
		An election for every seat in the Commons (a general election) is called at most 5 years after the previous one; however, the prime minister has the power to call a general election at virtually any time.
		Customarily, when a majority government is in power, elections are called 3.5 to 5 years after the previous election or as a de facto referendum if a major issue is at hand (the last of these being the 1988 election, which revolved around free trade with the United States).
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	Quebec general election, 1878
		In the Quebec general election on May 1, 1878, the Quebec Liberal Party under Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière "defeated" the Quebec Conservative Party under Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.
		Joly de Lotbinière was the incumbent, since he had become premier two months earlier when the previous Conservative premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville had resigned or was deposed by the Lieutenant Governor, who refused to approve railroad legislation that had been passed by both houses of the Quebec legislature.
		Joly de Lotbinière did not quite win the election: the Conservatives won 32 seats to the Liberals' 31 (and there were two "Independent Conservatives").
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	Quebec General Elections Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1994 results include the by-election held on October 24, 1994 in the Saint-Jean electoral district to break a tie in the original general election.
		The 1998 results include the by-election held on December 14, 1998 in the Masson electoral district due to the death of PQ candidate Yves Blais on November 22, 1998.
		The 2003 results include the by-election held on May 20, 2003 in the Champlain electoral district to break a tie in the original general election.
	www.aplaceinthesun.com /encyclopedia/Quebec_general_elections (667 words)

	JOLY DE LOTBINIERE - LoveToKnow Article on JOLY DE LOTBINIERE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the general election of 1861 he was elected to the house of assembly of the province of Canada as Liberal member for the county of Lotbinire, and from 1867 to 1874 he represented the same county in the House of Commons, Ottawa, and in the legislative assembly, Quebec.
		In 1878 he was called by Luc Letellier de St Just, lieutenantgovernor of Quebec, to form an administration, which was defeated in 1879, and until 1883 he was leader of the opposition.
		Early in the year 1895 he was induced again to take an active part in the campaign of his party, and at the general election of 1896 he was returned as member for the county of Portneuf.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOLY_DE_LOTBINIERE.htm (393 words)

	Federal Election Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A Prime Minister may lose his or her seat in an election, but can remain in office as long as the party has sufficient support in the House of Commons to be able to govern, though again, he or she must, by custom, win a seat very promptly.
		In the general election of December 6, 1921, 4 women ran as candidates and only one was elected: Miss Agnes Campbell MacPhail became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons; she was elected as a Progressive.
		Until 1997, the minimum election period was 47 days, largely because of the requirement for a door-to-door enumeration to be conducted during the campaign.
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	Liberal Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1988 Canadian election was notable for John Turner's strong opposition to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement negotiated by Tory Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
		After a proposal for Quebec independence was narrowly defeated in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the Liberals passed the 'Clarity Act' in an attempt to outline the federal government's preconditions for negotiating Quebec independence.
		In the June 28th, 2004 federal election, Paul Martin was re-elected as the Prime Minister of Canada, despite fierce competition from Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper.
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	List of Quebec general elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is a list of Quebec general elections since Confederation in 1867, when Quebec became a province of the Dominion of Canada.
		The 63 Liberal seats include the May 27 1912 election of Gustave Lemieux by acclamation in Gaspé and the July 15 1912 election of Joseph-Édouard Caron in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
		A by-election was not held in Kamouraska until February 11 1869 (won by the Conservatives).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-Quebec-general-elections.htm (339 words)

	CBC Radio \| Cross Country Checkup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Having an election now is equivalent to road rage....the instant anger in the moment vs. a thoughtful analysis of what such an outcome would mean to the country's welfare as a whole.
		Quebec, the prairies, the territories and BC are seeking a new deal in Confederation.
		Even though an election should be called to throw out the corrupt Liberals—the same gang who in previous governments we are led to believe did not know what is growing on—I would oppose the calling of an election at this time because I prefer to see the Liberals slowly swinging in the wind.
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	Index Ar-As
		The election was the country's first after 16 years of military rule; it had been agreed to during negotiations between the U.S. and Panama that led to the signing of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty (Ardito Barletta was among the negotiators for Panama).
		Elections in 1987 ended military rule, and under a new constitution Arron became vice president and chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1988, only to have his government again deposed in 1990.
		By-election successes and a defection by a disillusioned Conservative raised the figure to 26, with Ashdown adding to his reputation as a foreign affairs expert with trips to Bosnia at the height of the fighting there.
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	Quebec general election, 1878 - Definition, explanation
		The Quebec general election of 1878 was held on May 1, 1878 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly for the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		The Quebec Liberal Party, led by Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière;, "defeated" the Quebec Conservative Party led by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.
		Joly de Lotbinière was the incumbent, since he had become premier two months earlier when the previous Conservative premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville had resigned or was deposed by the Lieutenant Governor.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/q/qu/quebec_general_election__1878.php (198 words)

	1881 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		July 1 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
		July 2 - James Abram Garfield, President of the United States is shot by lawyer Charles Julius Guiteau.
		September 8 - Prince Frederik of the Netherlands, Dutch noble and general (b.
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	Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Their proprietors were entrepreneurs who aspired to and sometimes, after a generation or two, achieved the status of a cultivated landed aristocracy.
		Among General Quitman's correspondents in 1857 and 1858 were William Alexander Richardson, who wrote to Quitman on 16 February 1857 about a conversation he had with John Slidell during the Democratic convention in Cincinnati in 1856 relating to the choice of a vice-presidential candidate and the possibility that Quitman might be chosen.
		Letters from October 1860 to May 1861 frequently mention the 1860 presidential election, its effect on the South, the secession crisis in Mississippi, and the disruption of family relationships by the turmoil.
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	Parti libéral du Québec biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
		This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal dominance at the federal level.
		Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Quebec under Premier Jean Charest.
	quebec-liberal-party.biography.ms (1013 words)

	Index La
		Lange led Labour to a sweeping victory in the July 14 election and was sworn in as prime minister on July 26, becoming the country's youngest prime minister in the 20th century.
		After the fall of that government he became, as the only member of the cabinet to survive the general election, the chairman of the much reduced party in parliament, and was elected party leader when Arthur Henderson resigned that position in 1932.
		General Laugerud's election as president in March 1974 was followed by violence and charges of fraud.
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	MSN Encarta - Robert Borden
		He was educated at the Acacia Villa Seminary in Horton, Nova Scotia, where he did so well that he was appointed the school's assistant classics master at the age of 14.
		At 19 he was apprenticed to a law firm in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and became a lawyer in 1878.
		After the Conservatives lost the elections of 1900, Sir Charles Tupper resigned the leadership of the party, and Borden was offered the post.
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	Dictionary of Australian Biography Cl-Cu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Samuel Griffith (q.v.) is generally believed to have taken the most important part in the drafting of this bill, but there is no doubt that Clark's special knowledge of the constitution of the United States must have been of great value.
		He was not a candidate at the election of Tasmanian representatives for the 1897 federal convention, and did not approve of the bill in its final form.
		If the generally given year of his birth, 1756, were correct that would mean that he was a lieutenant at 14 and an adjutant at 20.
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	Canada
		The Quebec government passed Bill 101 in 1977, which established numerous rules promoting the French-speaking culture; for example, only French was to be used for commercial signs and for most public school instruction.
		Quebec held a referendum in May 1980 on whether it should seek independence from Canada; it was defeated by 60% of the voters.
		The national election in Oct. 1993 resulted in the reemergence of the Liberal Party and the installation of Jean Chrétien as prime minister.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		The only French Canadian in the group, he was considered a traitor by the Liberals in Quebec, despite his quite minor role, and he was hanged in effigy during demonstrations in the province.
		As attorney general, it was he who had laid the charges of patronage and misappropriation of funds against the former premier.
		In the general election of 1904 Chase-Casgrain was defeated, a victim of the great popularity that Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s government enjoyed in Quebec and of the reputation as a “hangman” that stuck to him from the Riel affair.
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	Canada: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The St. Lawrence plain, covering most of southern Quebec and Ontario, and the interior continental plain, covering southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and most of Alberta, are the principal cultivable areas.
		The conflict led to elections in Nov. 1988 that solidly reelected Mulroney and gave him a mandate to proceed with the agreement.
		The Quebec referendum on secession in Oct. 1995 yielded a narrow rejection of the proposal, and separatists vowed to try again.
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	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Wilfrid Laurier
		In the election of 1878 the Liberals were defeated and the Conservatives, led by Sir John Alexander Macdonald, returned to power.
		In the election of 1882 he was not only returned to Parliament but was also made mayor of Arthabaska, where he had been rejected five years before.
		Nevertheless, in the 1887 election the Liberals gained only a few seats in Québec and the Conservatives remained in power.
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	Guide Introduction: Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some of the leading figures in the first generation of academic historians in the United States spent much of their time and energy on this endeavor and in so doing made possible the work of their colleagues who wrote monographs and general histories.
		In spite of the rather general chafing at the confines of patriarchy, individual women were devoted to and greatly admired their own husbands, sons, and fathers.
		In one family we see a member of the generation of post-Civil War single women earning her living in a variety of ways and then beginning a full-time career as a teacher at the age of fifty-eight.
	www.lexisnexis.com /cispubs/guides/womens_studies/southern_women/swmnd1.htm (13340 words)

	GILBERT ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOUND, 4TH EARL OF MINTO FACTS AND INFORMATION
		He was military secretary to Lord Lansdowne during Lansdowne's governor-generalship of Canada from 1883 to 1885, and lived in Canada with his wife, Mary Caroline Grey, sister of Lord Grey, Governor General from 1904 to 1911, whom he had married in England on July_28, 1883.
		His political aspirations were checked with his defeat in the 1886 general election.
		He was appointed honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Governor General's Foot Guards Regiment on December_1, 1898, and was subsequently appointed Honorary Colonel, a tradition that has continued with the post of Governors General to this day.
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	Prime Minister of Canada - Biocrawler definition:Prime Minister of Canada - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If a general election gives an opposition party a plurality of the seats, the prime minister's party is still given the first opportunity to continue as the government.
		If a minority government is in power, a vote of non confidence in the House of Commons may lead to a quick election (nine months in the case of the second-most recent Canadian minority government, the Clark government of 1979-1980).
		The function, duties, responsibilities, and powers of the Prime Minister of Canada were established at the time the country was created as self-governing dominion in 1867 and were modeled upon those of the existing office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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		John Turner was briefly Prime Minister in 1984 without being a member of the House of Commons; he would ironically win his seat in the general election that swept him from power.
		Customarily, when a majority government is in power, elections are called 3.5 to 5 years after the previous election or as a de facto referendum if a major issue is at hand (the last of these being the 1988 election, which revolved around free trade with the
		In modern-day Canada, however, his prerogatives are largely the duties to which the constitution refers to as the job of the Governor General (who is a figurehead).
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	M
		He was the first native-born Governor General (1952) after having served as Canada’s first minister to the U.S. in 1926.
		The failure of this Accord intensified a push towards Quebec separatism and resentment among the Inuit and Native Canadians at their own lack of representation.
		In 1759, the British under General Wolfe made a direct assault on the fortress city of Québec, the French colonial capital.
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	Chapter VII:
		In general, however, it would be true to say that when they lost their role of representative of the British government they lost the greatest strength they had to resist pressure from local Ministries to become nothing more than a “rubber stamp”.
		Although as a general principal after 1926 Governors-General were to represent the Sovereign alone, no longer be the agent of the British government, and were to be appointed on the advice of local Ministers after 1930, several decades were to pass before non-British candidates were appointed as Governors-General of New Zealand.
		Brigadier Lord Ballantrae (as he became in 1972) was the younger son of General Sir Charles Fergusson (Governor-General 1924-30), and grandson of Sir James (Governor 1873-74).
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	Sir John A. Macdonald
		Receiver General for the Province of Canada, 1847-1848.
		Macdonald was forced to resign and lost the election in 1874.
		Won 4'th consecutive election in March 1891 and died 3 months later on June 6, 1891, while still in office.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/macdonald.htm (621 words)

	The Art of the Rant: June 2005
		However there is a slight problem, there is the constant threat of a federal election because of the Liberal minority government is trying desperately to hold onto power.
		According to the Toronto Star article, the Quebec seperatists must hold a provincial seperation referendum within the first five years of power if the new PQ government follows party policy.
		The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 bans the military from participating in police-type activity on U.S. soil.
	billarends.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_billarends_archive.html (2016 words)

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