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  Elections in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
By-elections can be held between general elections when seats become vacant.
1904 - 10th general election, Liberals, led by Laurier, are re-elected with a third majority.
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 Timeline of Quebec history (1900 to 1930) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events relating to the province of Quebec, Canada between the beginning of the 20th century and the Westminster statute.
1904 - Henri Bourassa pleads in favour of bilingualism in the institutions of the federal government.
All provinces follow suit by 1922 except Quebec, which does not give women the right to vote in provincial elections until 1940.
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 CBC - Canada Votes 2004 - Daily Answer - Answer Reference Shelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Elections Canada recently recommended that federal legislation be changed to allow people to officially decline their ballots, and for that to be recorded alongside spoiled ballots so that the public will know how many people are making a peaceful protest against the process.
The Elections Canada definition of this is almost poetic: "The place of ordinary residence of a person is the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to which the person intends to return when away from it.
The Elections Canada website says an inmate's home riding is considered to be the place he or she lived before being imprisoned, or the house of a spouse, common-law partner, relative or friend with whom the voting inmate would usually live.
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 Canadian House of Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However, the actual formal selection of prime minister is not made by the House of Commons in a vote; rather they are appointed by the governor general, who selects the person he or she deems most likely to command the support of the House of Commons.
In theory the governor general then picks the members of the Cabinet, but in practice these selections have always been made by the prime minister.
The speaker of the House of Commons is elected from amongst the MPs by secret ballot after each general election.
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 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Roosevelt was reelected governor in 1930, and, to deal with the growing problems of the economic depression, he in 1932 surrounded himself with a small group of intellectuals (later called the Brain Trust) as well as with other experts in many fields.
The opposition (generally conservative) turned more bitter toward “that man in the White House,” whom they considered a “traitor to his class.” Quarrels and shifts among supporters in the government continued to have a divisive effect.
In the summer of 1940, after the fall of France and while Great Britain was being blitz-bombed by the Germans, aid to Britain (permitted since relaxation of the Neutrality Act) was greatly increased, and in 1941 lend-lease to the Allies was begun.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The issue of reconciling Quebec's francophone heritage with the majority anglophone Canadian population has moved to the back burner in recent years; support for separatism abated after the Quebec government's referendum on independence failed to pass in October of 1995.
Presidential elections scheduled for 2005 are unlikely to bring change since the opposition remains weak, divided, and financially dependent on the current regime.
Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - 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.
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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 List of Quebec general elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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)

  
 JOLY DE LOTBINIERE - LoveToKnow Article on JOLY DE LOTBINIERE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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)

  
 SIR GEORGES CARTIER - LoveToKnow Article on SIR GEORGES CARTIER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Canadian statesman, was born in the province of Quebec on the 6th of September 1814.
Above all he favored the construction of railways, and to his energy and fearless~ optimism are largely due the eventual success of the Grand Trunk railway, and the resolve to construct the Canadian Pacific.
de~rout Catholic, he became involved in a political quarrel with his church, and was defeated by clerical influence at the general election of 1872.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
Its paramount political problem continues to be the relationship of the province of Quebec, with its French-speaking residents and unique culture, to the remainder of the country.
Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a coup in May of 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil.
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).
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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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 Index Dr-Dz
Following the FNM victory in the Aug. 19, 1992, general elections, she was appointed to the Senate and sworn in as minister of health and environment (August 24); she was one of three females appointed to the cabinet.
She was reelected in the general election of April 17, 2000, when she led her party to victory.
After some weeks of strikes and uncertainty a general election was held on June 4 and the Christian Democrats, by gaining three seats, obtained an absolute majority over the left and were able to form a single-party government.
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 Speakers of the Senate - PARENT, Georges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1904 and began to practice with the Quebec City law firm of Fitzpatrick, Parent, Taschereau, Roy and Cannon.
He was soon returned to the House of Commons, however, when he won the riding of Quebec West for the Liberals in the general election of 1917.
He won all his subsequent election bids by holding the riding of Quebec West in the general elections of 1921, 1925 and 1926.
www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/people/Key/SP-BL/sen/sp_sen-e.asp?SP=2285   (392 words)

  
 Dictionary of Australian Biography Cl-Cu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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.
In 1904 Creswell was appointed director of the Commonwealth naval forces, and in 1909, in company with Colonel J. Foxton (q.v.), he attended the Imperial conference, as a result of which the naval defence act of 1910 was passed which created the Australian navy.
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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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 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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 Arthur Meighen Biography / Biography of Arthur Meighen Biography Biography
In 1913 Meighen became solicitor general of Canada and in 1917 was appointed secretary of state.
Among Canadian political leaders of the day, he was without superior as a parliamentary debater and public speaker; his oratorical skills were frequently employed in defense of the protective tariff and the maintenance of close ties with Britain.
On Borden's retirement on July 10, 1920, Meighen became prime minister and held office until the government was defeated in the general election of December 1921.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Missionaries of the Company of Mary
Montfort's community, debilitated by the Revolution, was reorganized by Father Deshayes, elected general in 1821.
After the election of Père Maurille as general, in 1887, the membership of the community doubled.
In Canada a novitiate and a scholasticate were founded near Ottawa (1890); a mission school at Papineauville (Quebec), in 1900; in Rome, a scholasticate; several missions in Denmark.
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 portland imc - 2003.11.01 - A different "another world" is possible
These physical features have led to the versatility of the human species as embodied in their labour as well as social behaviour such as the accumulation of shared experience that can be passed down through the generations.
In this process of individual growth we draw not only on personal relationships, we draw on society in general and even on the lives of those who lived in the past.
In plain english, that means that socialism will entail a change in work, etc. Building upon the work of William Morris, Paul Lefarge, etc, only the WSM has kept the origonal Marxist concepts of the abolishent of employment, doing away with commodity production, etc which are the basis of the soviet/fascist/corporate factory-soceities.
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 ipedia.com: List of Quebec general elections Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Table of contents 1 2003 general election 2 1998 general election 3 199...
Quebec general election, 1871 (June and July, 1871)
Quebec general election, 1867 (August and September, 1867)
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 pinc, vol 1, no 3 - William McDougall by Chris Brand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On the other hand, the post-War generation of 'social scientists' and literati would dispute biological factors altogether and insist on funding for their own favoured programmes such as 'Head Start', a compulsorily raised school leaving age and mass 'university' education.
The Irish and Italians, though largely of peasant origins, are to be found almost exclusively in the cities (discharging the highly sociable functions of policemen, bus conductors and local politicians) or in the closely settled agricultural regions.
Secondly, by means of the Inquisition she destroyed with fire and sword or drove into exile through many generations all those who would not conform to her narrow creed, who combined intellectual power with independence and originality of spirit and a firm will.
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 Cyndi's List - Canada - Quebec
For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Canadian Province of Quebec, not limited to French settlers but including all other contributing immigrants from Europe and other countries and, in particular, the influx of Loyalists and Hessian soldiers during and after the American Revolution.
Since Alberta and Saskatchewan both became provinces of Canada in 1905 (one year after the general election) the electoral atlas differs greatly in relation to these two provinces..
This project's aim is to index arrivals at Halifax and Quebec (Montreal is included in the Port of Quebec) from 1900 to about 1921 when the passenger lists were discontinued.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Etienne-Pascal Tache
at St. Thomas (Montmagny, Province of Quebec), 5 Sept., 1795, son of Charles, and Geneviève Michon; d.
He was a self-made man, who after a mere elementary course succeeded in graduating at Philadelphia as a physician, and later in taking the foremost rank among Canadian statesmen.
After twenty-two years of successful medical practice, he entered politics as member of the Legislative Assembly at the first election following the Union (1841), which he had strenuously opposed.
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 NS Railway Companies
About 1904, the Canada Coals & Railway Co. went bankrupt, and the assets were sold to United States interests which reorganized the property under the name Canada Coals & Railroad Co. (the American owners preferred to use "Railroad", more familiar to them than the Canadian terminology "Railway").
NSL 1904 chapter 136 — To amend chapter 128 of 1899, respecting the Coast Railway Co. of Nova Scotia Ltd.
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.
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 Baudouin
I am concerned that so many Genealogy web-pages restrict their knowledge to display their own direct lines, and in many cases you have to find the information person by person.
Louis AMEAU bap 9/11/1662 Trois Rivieres, Mauricie, Quebec and was alive in 1681
Marguerite AMEAU-SEVERIN bap 22/6/1669 Trois RIvieres, Mauricie, Quebec.
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 1900
February 23 - Boer War: Battle of Hart's Hill - In South Africa the Boers and British troops battle.
February 27 - Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan.
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 New York City During the First Year of the Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
[62] General Orders issued on April 27, 1776 by General Washington; The Papers of George Washington, Vol.
[63] General Orders issued on May 14, 1776 by General Washington; The Papers of George Washington, Vol.
[73] Letter of September 11, 1776 from “Certain General Officers” to George Washington; The Papers of George Washington, Vol.
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