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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Quebec
The parish church of Quebec, begun in 1647, consecrated in 1666 by the prelate, became and remains the cathedral.
1833, parish priest of Rivière-Ouelle, consecrated Bishop of Saldes and coadjutor of Quebec (1807), was bishop from 1825 to 1833.
On the tercentenary of the foundation of Quebec (1908) a monument was erected to Bishop Laval.
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 Quebec general election, 1897 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quebec general election of 1897 was held on May 11, 1897 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
The Quebec Liberal Party, led by Félix-Gabriel Marchand, defeated the incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.
The Conservative Party never held power again in Quebec, and ceased to exist in 1936 when it merged with the Action libérale nationale to form the Union Nationale.
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 Quebec general election, 1892 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Quebec general election of 1892 on March 8, 1892 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
The incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, defeated the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Honoré Mercier.
Flynn lost the 1897 election, and the Conservatives never held power in Quebec again.
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 Cabinet of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Unlike the United States Cabinet, the size and structure of the Canadian cabinet is relatively malleable, with the number of ministers and their titles generally selected by the Prime Minister within a relatively broad legislative framework.
Nominally appointed by the Governor General the Cabinet is in practice selected by the Prime Minister.
Cabinets are generally appointed from amongst the governing party's pool of MPs; should a Prime Minister appoint a cabinet minister from outside Parliament, it is expected that the individual acquire a seat within a reasonable timeframe or resign.
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 Gateway: For Want of a Nail Timeline
An election in the USM, happening to coincide with the period of high tension and the failure of mediation, is won by the Continentalists on a platform of war.
Quebec is the only state to decline economically in the quarter-century following the war, due in part to patriote terrorism which led to emigration of nearly half a million.
Elections in Britain and Germany that year are won by the "hawk" factions of those countries.
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 Federal Election Trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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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 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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 List of Quebec general elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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).
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 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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 Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They were the largest, the most commercialized, and on the whole, the most efficient and specialized agricultural enterprises of their day, producing the bulk of the South's staple crops of tobacco, cotton, sugar, rice, and hemp.
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.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
Democratic elections in 1974 and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy; Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992).
The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but are viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people.
Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open.
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 Wisconsin Rapids Area
General obligation bonds are used for school and general city purposes while revenue bonds are for revenue producing utilities.
The amount of general state aid, the largest source of funds for the school district, is determined by the State Department of Public Instruction using a formula which takes into account the amount of equalized property valuation for each student in the district.
Elections held in Wisconsin Rapids are the March primary, April election, September primary, and the general election in November.
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 Legal Resources
In the four elections of the 1950s an average of only 86 or 13.5% of MPs were elected without having the support of a majority of those voting in their constituency.
It may be said that, if two elections of the fifteen since the war have produced perverse results, that is in itself unfortunate, but it nonetheless means that thirteen have given the victory to the party with more votes than any other and that is on average not at all bad.
These elections were in consequence peculiarly important, carrying a choice of far more moment for the limited parliamentary electorate than does a choice of local MP for the run of constituency voters.
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 Reference re Secession of
In the first Dominion election in September 1867, Premier Tupper's forces were decimated: members opposed to Confederation won 18 of Nova Scotia's 19 federal seats, and in the simultaneous provincial election, 36 of the 38 seats in the provincial legislature.
Receiver-General of New Brunswick, [1892] A.C. 437 (P.C.), at pp.
In individual terms, the right to vote in elections to the House of Commons and the provincial legislatures, and to be candidates in those elections, is guaranteed to "Every citizen of Canada" by virtue of s.
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He lost the election of 1878 and was succeeded as leader by Edward Blake in 1880.
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.
He was the leader of the Quebec Liberals reviving the Parti National in response to the execution of Louis Riel in 1885.
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 Hon John McIntosh
McIntosh's election, and some go further and say that, thought politically opposed to him, he will have their votes for personal reasons.
In 1892 he was appointed commissioner for the province of Quebec at the Columbian Exposition, held in 1893.
The success of Quebec's exhibits, particularly the butter and cheese exhibits was largely due to his personal activity in selecting them.
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 Articles - Parti libéral du Québec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Liberals won the 1897 election, and held power without interruption for the next 39 years; the Conservatives never held power in Quebec again.
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 Québec under Premier Jean Charest.
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 Highlights of the Sierra Club's History - History - Sierra Club
Club supports passage of the reform Coal Leasing Act and establishment of a 303,508-acre Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Washington.
Quebec abandons James Bay Project, which the Club had fought for many years.
The EPA announced that General Electric must pay to clean PCBs from the Hudson River.
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 Tom Mitchell | 'Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government': the CanadianState, the Citizens' Committee of ...
In 1920, however, the role of the Auditor General was limited to examining the operations of departments and approving or refusing the issuance of government cheques.
Prosecuted by the provincial Attorney General, Dixon defended himself and was acquitted.
Elected in the 1921 election as the member for Winnipeg North, he served until his defeat in the general election of 1925.
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He received his early education at the Christian Brothers schools in the city and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to the druggists McMurdo and Co. Ill health led him to seek out outdoor employment and in 1891 he began work as a reporter for the Evening Herald.
In 1893 he served as interim editor of the Herald during the general election, when the paper supported the Tory opposition led by Moses Monroe and Walter Baines Grieve.
In the 1908 general election, which resulted in a tie, he did yeoman service as chief propagandist for Morris and again provided advice and editorial support when Morris won a clear victory in 1909.
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Presumably, if someone were to use a firearm in defending him or herself, charges could be laid on a number of possible violations -- from unsafe storage to homicide -- and he or she would have to prove in court that the firearm had been used in self defense.
Methods This paper is based primarily upon two surveys of the general publics in the United States and in Canada undertaken simultaneously in the early spring of 1990 [Mauser & Margolis 1992].
Random digit dialing methods were used to generate unlisted telephone numbers.5 Professional interviewers completed 393 telephone interviews in all Canadian provinces (including 93 interviews of residents in Quebec conducted in French) and 344 in the United States during the period of March 20 through April 10, 1990.
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 AMEC - News and Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
General Board and Bishops Council—June 26 through 29.
John Love, General Chairperson, (850) 875-1748 or (850) 933-7463 (cell) for inquiries and contract application.
It also directs SACS to mediate with EWC in mediation to be presided over by the U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger and Attorney and Interim Supervisor of Elections William Scheu.
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 portland imc - 2005.06.04 - May Day Versus Loyalty Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The mainstream news media in general makes emphasis and gives continuous ongoing perspective towards violence and war agenda and makes only vague attempts to portray the growing number of people who do NOT support war agendas and who do NOT support nuclear weapons and who faithfully work and demonstrate for peace.
NOTE: Altgeld, a progressive Democrat, was elected governor of Illinois in 1892 with the support of the United Labor Party.
Altgeld was defeated by the Republican candidate in the 1896 election and a further attempt in 1899 also ended in failure.
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 Today In Alternate History
However, a few dozen challenges to their elections came up in the courts, and most of the wins were invalidated, leaving them in a minority status.
She promised the country that “though I may represent the fairer sex in form, I vow to represent all of America in office.” She apparently did; she was re-elected with 52% of the vote in 1876.
The accusation of treason is enough to throw the election to Democrat Hubert Humphrey, and in Chennault's subsequent trial, she rolls over on Nixon, who joins her in the docks.
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 Québec : Key moments in its evolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1774 - Concerned with the possibility of the independence of its colonies and intent on obtaining the loyalty of the French-speaking population, Britain adopts the Quebec Act which reestablishes French Civil Law, enlarges the territory, recognizes the Catholic religion and the seigniorial system.
The British North America Act is adopted creating a federal system to replace the Act of Union (1840).
1976 - Election of the first government advocating sovereignty for Québec.
www.premier.gouv.qc.ca /secteur/bienvenue_quebec/decouvrir_quebec_dates_en.htm   (1691 words)

  
 NS Railway Companies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As sanctioned by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, held on June 24th, 1892, the purchase of the Cornwallis Valley Railway was duly effected, a moiety [one half] of the purchase money being payable in cash, and the balance in debentures [bonds] authorized by the said meeting.
The purchase was effected in June 1892, and the transfer was made on 26 July 1892.
The Joggins Coal & Railway Co. was formed in 1888 by the amalgamation of the Joggins Railway Co. with the Joggins Coal Mining Co. In 1892 the Joggins Coal & Railway Co. was sold to the Canada Coals & Railway Co.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Bonder to Boogher
Adjutant General of South Carolina, 1885-90; circuit judge in South Carolina, 1924-30;
U.S. Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1857-60; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
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 Finding Canadian statistics
For a general introduction to Statistics Canada, and how data are organized, classified, and released, see
Includes: dates of most recent general elections, number of candidates and political parties, number of polling stations, number of electors registered, voting results, number of valid votes by methods of voting, election expenses, cost of most recent general election in each jurisdiction.
Also 1996 census of agriculture data at province and census division level, aggregate data from censuses between 1666 and 1871, and statistics from the 1997 federal general elections at the province and federal electoral district (FED) levels.
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The centre invites applications for its research associateships for 2005-6, from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational system, as well as from artists, community organisers and political activist - both local and international.
International applicants may also apply for one of the two 1-semester Ford Associateships for Fall 2005 or Spring 2006, which offer a generous stipend/ allowance in return for teaching.
In Haiti, where World Bank pressure to cut public expenditure has wiped out health clinics in poor communities, the maternal mortality is over 50 times higher than in the US.
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