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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: 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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 Archdiocese of Quebec
The first parish erected was that of 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 chapter.
The foundation of the Quebec Sisters of Charity (1849) and of the Good Shepherd (1850), the reorganization of ecclesiastical conferences the publication of a new catechism and the approval of Butler's for English-speaking Catholics are the chief acts of Bishop Turgeon's administration.
His classical course was made in Quebec; after taking in France the degree of licentiate in letters, he was professor of rhetoric and prefect of studies in the Quebec seminary, became pastor of the Canadians at Hartford, Conn., and in 1901 was first parish priest of Jacques-Cartier in Quebec.
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 Quebec
Four of these-Laval, the University of Montreal, the University of Sherbrooke (1954), and the University of Quebec (1968)-use French, and three-McGill University and Concordia University (1974), in Montreal, and Bishop's University (1843), in Lennoxville-use English.
Quebec is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 24 senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general in council, and by 75 members of the House of Commons, popularly elected to terms of up to five years.
In the elections of 1970 and 1973 the Liberals under Robert Bourassa defeated the Union Nationale and the PQ largely by opposing separatism.
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 Wilfrid Laurier - Search View - MSN Encarta
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.
The election of 1908 was fought mainly on the issue of government corruption, but a vigorous campaign by Laurier carried the country against the Conservatives.
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 Encyclopedia
In the 1796 election Jefferson was the Democratic-Republican candidate for president; John Adams won the election, and Jefferson became vice president.
A generation later, in 1840, he waged a rousing presidential campaign, using the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” The Tyler of the slogan was his running mate, John Tyler.
In 1937 Johnson won an election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of a U.S. representative and in 1938 was elected to the full term, after which he returned for 4 terms.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Laurier was born in St. Lin, Quebec the son of a farmer in 1841.
The general election of 1891 saw the Liberals espouse the unpopular platform of unrestricted reciprocity with the United States, with the consequence that the Conservative Party was once again was returned to power.
The general election of 1911 brought to an end Laurier's run of 15 years as Prime Minister - and once more it was the question of unrestricted reciprocity with the U.S. which caused the Liberal Party to suffer at the ballot box.
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Rebel forces under the command of General Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold assault Quebec and fail, leading to the death of Montgomery and the relegation of Arnold to secondary roles.
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.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
In September 1843 he agreed to run in the by-election for the riding of the city of Quebec and was elected by acclamation.
On 19 Nov. 1846 he was asked to be chairman of the Quebec conference of this philanthropic society, the first conference in the Province of Canada, and on 7 Feb. 1847 he was also appointed president of the Quebec council; he retained both responsibilities until 1850.
In 1850 he was a director of the Quebec and Melbourne Railway, and in 1854 his name appeared on a petition presented to the assembly on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
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 Timeline 1895-1897
1897 Jun 7, George Szell, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45), was born in Budapest, Hungary.
1897 Jul 31, The commercial treaty between Britain and the German zollverein (established in 1865) was denounced by Britain and pronounced to end in one year.
1897 Sep 26, Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), the 262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church, was born.
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 Parti libéral du Québec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the Québec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
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.
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 Quebec general elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 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.
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 Québec
The most recent general election was held on 14 April 2003, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 45 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Québec Liberal Party won 76.
The Canadiens are the best-known team in hockey and have won the NHL championship (the Stanley Cup) a record 23 times—the earliest in 1924 and the most recent in 1993.
The Quebec Nordiques played in the NHL from 1979 to 1996 before the franchise became the Colorado Avalanche.
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 PlanetPapers - Mackenzie King" The Greatest Prime Minister of Canada
After he lost his seat in the 1911 election, King worked as a labor advisor for the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States.
The Governor General refused King's request to separate Parliament and called on Arthur Meighen, Leader of the Opposition to form the government.
Although the Liberals lost the 1930 election, it was to their benefit in the long run.
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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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Jacob Dolson Cox, lawyer, soldier, statesman, and scholar, was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 25, 1828.
In 1858 he won election to the State Senate of Ohio and during his term allied closely with other radical anti-slavery advocates, including James A. Garfield (1831-1881).
Residing in Oberlin, he was near to the college at which he had served as a trustee since 1876 and to which he donated his private library.
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Pearson initiated the idea of peace-keeping as a meaningful role for the U.N. He recommended U.N. troops be sent to Egypt to restore peace during the 1956 Suez crisis, for which he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace prize.
He believed that a strong Canadian role in international affairs had to be based on a self-confident Canadian nationalism, and that such a role would in turn strengthen the common interests of all Canadians.
It was one of the principle reasons for the emergence of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, and when L.B. Pearson came to power in 1963 it was 'national unity' that was his principle concern.
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 A Chronology of the Missionaries of La Salette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
4: Election to the papacy of Giuseppe Sarto (1835- 1914), St. Pius X. Aug. l9: Perrin's Circular Letter #11 offers a retrospective of recent convulsive events and their devastating effect on the Community in France.
In the presence of the Most Reverend Maurice F. McAuliffe (1875 - 1944), Bishop of Hartford, a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving is celebrated in the Seminary Chapel by the Very Reverend Paul M.
In a 9:00 A.M. ceremony in the basilica, Etienne Cruveiller, Superior General, and Auguste Veillard (1895-1977), Provincial Superior of France, receive from the delegate of Alexandre Caillot (1861-1957), Bishop of Grenoble, the official document restoring the custody of the Shrine and mother house to the Congregation.
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The report did not advocate Quebec as a separate nation, but instead, proposed the concept of a two-nation federation along with the establishment of a ministry for multiculturalism.
He was the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party when it won an election victory in 1970.
He resigned as party leader when the Liberals lost the 1976 provincial elections to the Péquistes, but he was re-elected in 1983 and led the party to victory in 1986.
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Enacted by the Union Nationale administration of Quebec under Duplessis, this anti-communist legislation authorized the closing of any premises suspected of producing or distributing communist propaganda.
He was leader of the Canadian delegation to the UN, becoming President of the General Assembly in 1953 to 1953, Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1948 to 1957 and Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968.
In the 1921 federal election it won 65 seats on the platform of lower tariffs and a reciprocity agreement.
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 Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of ...
Auditor General, 1879-81 and 1881-3; Representative from Mecosta County, 1895-6; and Senator, 1897-8 and 1899-1900, from the Twenty-fifth District, comprising the countries of Isabella, Mecosta, Newaygo and Osceola.
Attorney General, 1848-51; and Delegate from Wayne County to the Constitutional Convention of 1867.
At the general election, November 7, 1922, he was elected to fill the unexpired term.
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 QuébecPolitique.com | Conservative Party
From this coalition was born a political party, which still exists today.
The Parti conservateur was the major party in Quebec from 1867 to 1897, when the last conservative prime minister in Quebec, James Edmund Flynn, lost his office.
Then, in 1935, after a 37 years domination of the Liberal Party in Quebec, the Parti conservateur, then led by Maurice Duplessis, merged with the Action libérale nationale and became the Union nationale.
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 Bibliography of the Baha'i Faith
A brief history of the movement is followed by a general exposition of its teachings, with an emphasis on the fulfilment of prophecy.
A general introduction, beginning with discussions of the nature of the Manifestation of God, the roles of previous prophets, including Christ, and continuing with an orthodox presentation of Baha'i history and teachings.
A short general introduction, emphasizing the lives of the Bab and Baha' Allah.
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 Quebec general election, 1900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quebec general election of 1900 was held on December 7, 1900 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Simon-Napoléon Parent, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.
This page was last modified 02:03, 20 July 2006.
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 The Morgan Library
General Morris regarding aid for Revolutionary War soldiers.
Highlights include: Brooks Watson's letters from Montreal in 1776 describing a naval engagement on Lake Champlain and victory of General Howe on Long Island; from 1782-1783, serving as the Commissary General to the British Army under Sir Guy Carleton, he describes the plight of loyalist refugees leaving for Nova Scotia.
John Butler, Mauger's agent in Nova Scotia, urges Mauger to seek the advice of Benjamin Franklin concerning the introduction of paper currency in Nova Scotia, and other letters describe events in the American Revolution and detail concern over the fate of Nova Scotia in the war.
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 86 - Armchair General Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tho, believing that the Americans were eager for peace in Vietnam before the elections, proposed that the United States and North Vietnam arrange a cease-fire, governing all military matters between themselves.
Confederate General John Bankhead Magruder is given command of the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee expressed his disappointment with Magruder for his slow reaction to attacking the retreating Yankees, even though General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson exhibited a similar sluggishness during the same engagements and Lee said nothing about him.
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 The Political Graveyard: Quebec
Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online), which has collected millions of interment records from thousands of cemeteries.
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.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
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 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 71136404
The M. Cttharines Milling Company (The Indian Title Case)- The Act respecting Assignments and Preferences (1885)-The General Elections of 1886-The Mowat Government ' slaves of the hierarchy'-' Protestant Boys to the Rescue' (of Martin J. Griffin)-School Law Amendments-Mr.
Mowat's notion of 'Equal Rights'-The 'Protestant Protective (?Destructive) Association'- Patrons of Industry-Sir Oliver's Opinion as to their Platform-Selection of Public Officials by popular vote undesirable-The 'Revised Statutes, 1887'-The Inter-Provincial Conference at Quebec-The Loyalty-Reciprocity Resolution-Powers of Lieutenant-Gover- nors-The Act as to Pardoning Powers-Correspondence between Sir John Thompson and Mr.
Page 635 The Mackenzie Bowell Administration-The Manitoba School Question-The General Elections of 1896-The Cabinet of Prem- iers-Letter to the Hon.
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 Political Science Resources/United States Politics
County election data for 1912, 1968, and 1980-2004
State-wide general and primary election results by district beginning with the 1998 primaries; registered voters
Election districts for the various state offices arranged by county
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 NS Railway Companies
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.
NSL 1897 chapter  81 — Act to incorporate the Dominion Eastern Railway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1897 chapter   83 — Act to incorporate the Inverness Railway Co. Ltd.
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