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	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit
		The Elections Canada definition of this term 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.
		However, voting in the Quebec riding of Frontenac during the 1980 general election was held off for two weeks because of the death of one of the nominated candidates.
		Victories were granted to Édouard Guilbault (Cons.) during the 1887 general election in the riding of Joliette, Que.; Nicholas Flood Davin (Cons.) during the 1896 general election in the riding of Assiniboia West, NWT; and Paul Martineau (P.C.) during the 1963 general election in the riding of Pontiac-Temiscamingue, Que.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/faqs.html (6671 words)

	CANADA - Information Pages dealing with our history
		It was at Quebec, at the foot of a great rocky cape on the north shore, which formed a natural fortress barring the way upstream to the interior.
		In the election of that year, Quebec was almost unanimous in its opposition to the conscription policy that was supported elsewhere across the country.
		Quebec promised that it would accept the 1982 constitution if the accord was approved by all the rest of the provinces.
	users.efni.com /~duenorth/canada/history.html (13218 words)

	Arthur Meighen - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Meighen believed that the general election in 1917 would be fought on the issue of the draft.
		The Military Voters Act and the War Times Election Act took the vote away from conscientious objectors and German-speaking naturalized citizens and gave it to the female relatives of men on active service, who until that time had not had the right to vote.
		In the December 1917 election the Union government won a decisive victory everywhere except Québec.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761565344___4/Arthur_Meighen.html (549 words)

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		Realizing Quebec would pretty much be like some of the inner African nations, or like maybe Luxembourg: Sure, they have their attractions to offer, but their presence is really little more than a piece of land no one else wants that takes up space in the middle of everything....
		about 2/3 of quebec was granted to the province after it joined confederation and is inhabited by indians who have zero desire to be citizens of the republic of quebec.
		if quebec was to attempt to leave canada i wouldn't be surprised if the natives in the north petitioned to stay in canada which complicates them leaving no end as they bicker over the "sanctity" of the existing borders.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/82-335.aspx (2504 words)

	Politics of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Since the monarch does not reside in she appoints a governor general to represent her and exercise her The person who fills this role is on the advice of the prime minister.
		The governor is appointed by the monarch on the of the prime minister for a five-year Following legislative elections the leader of the party in the House of Commons is designated by the governor general to become minister.
		Quebecers are usually prominent in federal cabinet and by law must hold of the nine positions on the Supreme Court of Canada.
	www.freeglossary.com /Politics_of_Canada (2374 words)

	Canada - MSN Encarta
		The election that followed was a disaster for Laurier.
		In 1916 Borden promised a half-million-man Canadian army, all volunteers, from a population still under 8 million.
		Meanwhile the Canadian Corps, commanded by Canadian general Arthur Currie, helped spearhead the final advances of Britain and its allies before an armistice ended the war in November 1918.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563379_26/Canada.html (1993 words)

	Welcome to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		General Assembly grants a charter for the Jacksonville Female Academy, the first institution in the state for women’s education.
		General Assembly repeals measures against fl settlement (Black Laws); is the first state legislature to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.
		General Assembly establishes the Illinois Industrial University at Champaign-Urbana, renamed the University of Illinois in 1885.
	www.state.il.us /hpa/lib/ILChronology.htm (3725 words)

	Politics of Canada
		Quebecers have always been prominent in the federal cabinet, and Quebecers, by law, must hold three of the nine positions on the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Chrétien, a member of parliament from his native Quebec, became the first prime minister to lead three consecutive majority governments since 1945, as the Liberals increased their majority in Parliament to 57% (172 of the 301 Parliamentary seats), with 40.9% of the popular vote.
		In the 1993 national election, the conservative vote was divided between two parties that resulted in the Bloc Québécois being elected as the official opposition.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Canada.html (3760 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Did the U.S. plan an invasion of Canada in the 1920s?
		Generally the plans weren't requested by civilian authorities (which would indicate an expectation of putting them into practice) but were prepared by the military on its own.
		He views Canadians' generally blasé attitude toward the plan since it was declassified as evidence of blindness to the American threat.
		Upon their return to Quebec, the raiders were arrested by local authorities there, but to the dismay of Union officials they were soon released.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mcanadawar.html (2973 words)

	translation, french, english, canada, quebec, translator, quotes, web, design, english to french, translation, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The situation may be contrasted with the written constitutional provisions of its American neighbour that provide for the separate elections of a president and a legislature.
		The governor general is conventionally appointed for a five-year term that may be extended.
		If the Commons passes a motion of no confidence in the government, the prime minister and his cabinet are expected either to resign their offices or to ask for Parliament to be dissolved so that a general election can be held.
	www.in2reach.com /countries/canada_gov.html (1094 words)

	quebec
		Annual generation of solid wastes is about 5.4 million tons, or 0.8 tons per person; Québec produces about 22.2 percent of Canada's hazardous waste.
		Women in Québec were not permitted to vote again until 1918 for federal elections and 1940 for provincial elections.
		The most recent general election was held on 1 December 1998, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 75 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Quebec Liberal Party won 48.
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/quebec.htm (7499 words)

	Canada Votes 2004 - Federal political parties in Manitoba
		Located only in Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois is committed to affirming the existence of the Quebecois nation, defending the interests of Quebecois, and demanding recognition of its distinct place within Canada.
		In 1916, when Wilfred Laurier was elected Prime Minister, the modern Liberals emerged as a powerful force in Canadian Politics.
		The Liberal party has approached politics from a left-wing perspective, although sometimes being accused of "ruling from the right." The party maintains that progress in health care, education, economic strength, and relationships in the international community are key factors in their policies.
	www.newwinnipeg.com /news/election2004/federal/parties.htm (1323 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: Voter Alamanc - Federal Political Parties in Canada
		To become registered, a political party must meet requirements under the Canada Elections Act, most important of which is the endorsing of at least one candidate in a general election or by-election.
		An eligible political party cannot place its name next to its candidates’ on election ballots, and will not be able to take advantage of the benefits provided to registered parties, such as the allocation of broadcast time during election campaigns and the ability to issue tax receipts for donations.
		The Party was declared eligible for registration in August 2005, with full registration pending the Party’s endorsement of al least one candidate in a general election or by-election.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /election/federal/parties/index.html (1937 words)

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		He served as councillor for the municipality of South Norfolk in 1907 and the next year was elected Reeve, a position he was to hold until he retired from office at the end of his term in 1920.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /~Roughian/index-51.html (1482 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rogue Tory: the Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker: Books: Denis Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Election campaigns revived his spirits after the crisis of 1963 and after two years of fractious opposition in 1965.
		Perhaps his most bitter defeat was as the forlorn leader of the provincial Conservatives in the Saskatchewan general election of 1938.
		His fifty seats in Quebec in 1958 gave him a golden opportunity to restore the Conservatives in the province to a position they had not held since Macdonald's death.
	www.amazon.ca /Rogue-Tory-Life-Legend-Diefenbaker/dp/1551990091 (3652 words)

	N-JAN97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Cabot Martin's excellent article in the Globe and Mail on November 23,1996 (The truth behind the Churchill Falls deal) Smallwood is quoted defending himself from charges that it was his incompetence or stupidity that led him to approve the deal.
		The context is that this was just another whimsical exercise of autocratic power by a Newfoundland leader who was the embodiment of that atavistic method of government.
		Newfoundland's nationhood was forged in the blood and glory of Beaumont Hamel in 1916.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/bstagg/n-jan97.htm (748 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Legislative elections in November 1958 assured a majority for the new Gaullist party (the Union for the New Republic) and other supporters of de Gaulle, and in December 1958 he was elected president of the Fifth Republic by a 78% vote of the electoral college.
		He proposed that the constitution be amended to permit election of the president of the republic by direct popular vote.
		In the election of June 1968, de Gaulle, effectively using the threat of a Communist takeover and gaining the support of many Frenchmen who were frightened by the student excesses, won a landslide victory for his regime.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_degaulle.html (2175 words)

	The Bush Family Connections to the Nazis - CMAQ
		While population control is a laudable goal, in the hands of the Bush family it remains a genocidal weapon.
		In 1923, Germany was in economic shambles and Thyssen met with his friend General Ludendorff, who advised him that Germany’s hope lied with Hitler and the Nazi Party.
		Draper was the former general placed in control of the military government‘s economic division after the war.
	quebec.indymedia.org /en/node.php?id=13919 (3315 words)

	Scriptorium - H.P. Lovecraft
		In any case, the traditional image of Lovecraft – the one we think of when we see Virgil Finlay's exquisite portrait of him as a periwigged gentleman – as the eighteenth-century fossil completely ignorant of and hostile to the twentieth century has, since the publication of his letters, been shown conclusively to be false.
		The general revolt of the sensitive mind against the tyranny of corporeal enclosure, restricted sense-equipment, and the laws of force, space, and causation, is a far keener and bitterer and better-founded one than any of the silly revolts of long-haired poseurs against isolated and specific instances of cosmic inevitability.
		How much of this scholarship is actually seeping into the general academic community it is difficult to say; perhaps it is still too early to speak definitively on the matter.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/lovecraft.html (8944 words)

	Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Molema and Plaatje belonged to different generations; and were of different social backgrounds - Plaatje, a commoner and Molema, a chief - but Plaatje was influenced by the sense of duty and responsibility which Molema, as a chief, showed towards his people.
		P.E. Kuze, told of how he had met Plaatje in London in 1916 and "saw some of the hard work he had put in, by speaking and writing, to enlighten the English people as to the condition of the natives of this country".
		From 1914 to 1916 the ANC had largely refrained from any criticism of the South African government as a demonstration of their "loyalty to King and Empire" in the war against Germany.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/plaatje (5546 words)

	CBC Radio \| Canada Reads \| The Five Books
		He publicly broke with the RIN describing the merger as ‘suicidal’ for the Quebec independence movement.
		He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Manitoba (1916), his M.A. in Gothic and Teutonic philology from the University of Toronto (1917), and his M.Sc.
		The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and was the winner of the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Fiction and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2003/top5.html (1337 words)

	Canada: Our Oldest Good Neighbor: Is There a Deep Split between French and English Canada? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A considerable minority in Quebec, nearly 20 percent of the 3.3 million in that province, are English Canadians.
		Every motion in Parliament has to be put in both French and English, members may deliver their speeches in either tongue, and all federal publications—the Dominion laws, the debates in Parliament, and government reports—appear in two editions, one French and the other English.
		There was a general election on the issue: English Canada imposed its will on French Canada—contrary to assurances given when the Dominion was formed that the French Canadians could trust the English-speaking and Protestant majority never to run a steam roller over them.
	www.historians.org /projects/GIRoundtable/Canada/Canada_2.htm (1551 words)

	Women Black Leaders (outside Africa)
		1967-68 President of the United Nations-Trusteeship Council (Administering Nauru, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands Territories), 1969 and 1976 she was President of the General Assembly of the UN, 1973-75 Ambassador-at-Large, 1975-77 Ambassador to the United Nations and Cuba, and in 1977 appointed Judge in the Supreme Court.
		An economist she became Minister of Social Affairs 1990-91, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1993-95 and was Executive Director of the Washington Office of Haiti 1993, before becoming head of the government.
		The Deputy Governor General since 2001, she acted during the illness of the Governor General Sir Charles Antrobus (1933-96-2002), and after his death until a successor was appointed.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Black_Leaders.htm (1625 words)

	ADAH: Montgomery Historical Markers
		Central Bank, which generously supported the Confederacy, was bankrupt at the end of the Civil War.
		The Alabama General Assembly, meeting in the capital at Huntsville, approved an act on December 3, 1819 to combine the communities of New Philadelphia and East Alabama into the new town of Montgomery.
		The city cemetery was begun by donations of land from Andrew Dexter in 1817 and from General John Scott in 1818.
	www.archives.state.al.us /markers/imontgomery.html (12063 words)

	This Day In Military History... [Archive] - Page 3 - Armchair General Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		General Clark and members of his staff flew to Gibraltar and were then taken to Algiers via British submarine.
		He would eventually be promoted to general and become a key player in the planning or execution of virtually every major Soviet engagement until the end of the war.
		Union General Don Carlos Buell is replaced because of his ineffective pursuit of the Confederates after the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, on October 8.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-25513-p-3.html (16533 words)

	PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT
		The appointment of the Governor-General is generally for a period of five years, but this may be shortened or extended.
		These agents, as well as the Auditor General and the Chief Electoral Officer, may also be removed by the Governor in Council on address of the Senate and the House of Commons; in case of the Chief Electoral Officer, the removal must be for cause.
		It is the final general court of appeal, the last judicial resort for all litigants, whether individuals or governments.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/CtrlParlementaire/2056_F.htm (2766 words)

	Journal of Religion and Film: Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus by Adele Reinhartz
		First, they are directed primarily towards the general population, and hence tell the story in a way that is designed to appeal to and be comprehended by any viewers no matter what their background and education.
		Griffith’s portrayal of the Pharisees focuses on their role in persecuting Jesus and the general population, their hypocrisy, and their intolerance of wine and revelry.
		Contributing to this point is the visual detail of the Star of David on the uniforms of the hospital workers which subtly evoke the Jewish badge worn by Jewish residents of the ghettos and concentration camps of the Nazi regime.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/JesusinFilmRein.htm (5113 words)

	PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT
		These agents, as well as the Auditor General of Canada, may also be removed by the Governor in Council on address of the Senate and the House of Commons.
		After the Government has spent public funds, it must report on its performance by submitting to the House of Commons the annual spending plans of all departments and reports on their past year's activities, as well as the annual financial statements showing all federal spending, borrowing and taxing, known as the public accounts of Canada.
		He or she is appointed by the Governor in Council for a term of ten years, but the Auditor General may be removed by the Governor in Council on the address of the Senate and House of Commons.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/CtrlParlementaire/2055_F.htm (3070 words)

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