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  William Whiteway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in England, Whiteway emigrated to the island in 1843 and entered the law in 1852.
Whiteway's major policy ambition was the construction of a railway spanning the island which was begun in 1881 and which he believed would spur economic development of the colony.
Whiteway himself had been found guilty, his seat declared vacant, and under the provisions of the law he was barred from seeking election to the House of Assembly or sitting in government.
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 Sir William Whiteway in the 1890s: Memorial University's Archival Treasures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir William Whiteway in the early years of the 1900's.
This portrait was taken between 1901 and 1908 by Lafayette Ltd. of London, Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester and Belfast.
Courtesy of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives (Coll - 026), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland.
www.heritage.nf.ca /cns_archives/004_whiteway.html   (66 words)

  
 Whiteway, Sir William Vallance
Whiteway, Sir William Vallance, lawyer, politician, premier of Newfoundland 1878-85, 1889-94, 1895-97 (b near Totnes, Eng 1 Apr 1828; d at St John's 24 June 1908).
Whiteway came to Newfoundland in 1843 and began a legal career in 1852.
Whiteway's principal legacy is the Newfoundland railway, though his assertion of colonial rights on the FRENCH SHORE is historically important.
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 Descendents of John Whiteway and Grace Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Whiteway was christened on 10 Oct 1768 in Ringmore, Devon, died on 4 Sep 1829 at age 61, and was buried on 7 Sep 1829 in Ringmore, Devon.
John Whiteway was born in 1768 in Ringmore, Devon, was christened on 10 Oct 1768 in Ringmore, Devon, died on 4 Sep 1829 in Ringmore, Devon, at age 61, and was buried on 7 Sep 1829 in Ringmore, Devon.
William Henry Whiteway was born in 1845 in Shaldon, Devon.
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 William Whiteway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Whiteway's major policy ambtion was the construction a railway spanning the island which was begun 1881 and which he believed would spur development of the colony.
In Opposition Whiteway founded a new Liberal Party which won office in 1889 returning as Premier on the issue of the His government was forced to resign in however due to allegations of electoral corruption the previous year's election.
Whiteway himself had been guilty his seat declared vacant and under provisions of the law he was barred seeking election to the House of Assembly sitting in government.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
In contrast, Whiteway’s view was still that the development of the interior and the west coast was of primary importance, and that a deal with the French was preferable to economic warfare.
Whiteway was widely criticized for abandoning his party and for weakness in not contesting the election, and with some justification.
Whiteway’s argument that the house was reneging on a commitment was ignored, as was his warning that its intransigence would doom the planned imperial guarantee for a Newfoundland development loan.
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 William Whiteway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Whiteway's major policy ambtion was the construction of a railway spanning the island which was begun in 1881 and which he believed would spur economic development of the colony.
In Opposition Whiteway founded a new Liberal Party which won office in 1889 returning Whiteway as Premier on the issue of the railway.
The Tories had argued that Whiteway's Liberals had promised jobs to Newfoundlanders who voted for him and filed petitions in the Supreme Court under the Corrupt Practices Act against fifteen Liberal memebers of the House alleging briberty and corruption.
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 Robert Thorburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1870 to 1885 and again from 1893 to 1906 he was a member of the colony's appointed Legislative Council, the Upper House of Newfoundland's parliament.
Thorburn was an opponent of Sir William Whiteway's plans to build a cross-Newfoundland railway as a means of diversifying and industrialising the economy.
Whiteway, however, who had been elected as a Conservative with the support of Protestants had lost the support of much of the business community with his support of the railway over the fishery and reached out to the Catholic Liberals In order to stay in power creating a cross denominational coalition.
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 Robert Bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He went to England where he was educated and came back to Newfoundland and articled under Sir William Whiteway.
He was speaker of the House of Assembly before the Whiteway government was defeated in 1885.
The government was defeated by judicial means in 1894 but came back to power shortly after because of the bank crash of 1894.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Bond   (524 words)

  
 William Whiteway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir William Vallance Whiteway (April 1, 1828 – June 24, 1908) was a politician and three time (The person who is head of state (in several countries)) Premier of (An island in the north Atlantic) Newfoundland.
Born in (A division of the United Kingdom) England, Whiteway emigrated to the island in 1843 and entered the law in 1852.
Whiteway's major policy ambition was the construction of a (Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system) railway spanning the island which was begun in 1881 and which he believed would spur economic development of the colony.
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 William Whiteway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Whiteway's major policy ambtion was the construction of a railway spanning theisland which was begun in 1881 and which he believed would spur economic development of the colony.
In Opposition Whiteway founded a new Liberal Party which wonoffice in 1889 returning Whiteway as Premier on the issue of the railway.
Whiteway himself had beenfound guilty, his seat declared vacant, and under the provisions of the law he was barred from seeking election to the House ofAssembly or sitting in government.
www.therfcc.org /william-whiteway-266324.html   (599 words)

  
 Whiteway, sir William Vallance
Whiteway s'établit à Terre-Neuve en 1843 et entreprend une carrière d'avocat en 1852.
Cependant, des pétitions alléguant que Whiteway et 16 autres libéraux auraient eu recours à des pratiques électorales frauduleuses précipitent la province dans une crise politique majeure et le gouvernement est obligé de démissionner en avril 1894.
Whiteway laisse comme principal héritage le chemin de fer de Terre-Neuve, mais sa revendication des droits coloniaux sur la CÔTE FRANÇAISE est importante au plan de l'histoire.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Whiteway’s supporters, renamed the Liberal party, were successful, and Harvey entered the cabinet with responsibility for the fisheries commission while continuing as its chairman.
Whiteway and Harvey travelled to England that summer, prepared to accept the modus in return for financial assistance to complete the railway.
He was also a representative at a conference Whiteway and Bond held with Canadian officials at Halifax in November 1892 to discuss trade relations, which had deteriorated following the Canadian efforts to defeat the island’s reciprocity treaty with the United States.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40894   (2663 words)

  
 Scallion bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Milton Cooper was a writer, shortwave broadcaster, militia supporter and researcher of conspiracy theories.
William Giauque (May 12, 1895 — March 28, 1982) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero.
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (March 31, 1848–October 18, 1919) was a financier and statesman and a member of the prominent Astor family.
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 Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1246
The attachments of the men of William Longsword are put in respite to the next court under the same suretyship as before and the Hayward has in his keeping the particulars and the names of the pledges.
William Eve's son is at his law against Ringer [to prove] that he did not beat his mare to his damage 5 s.
William Miller is at his law [to prove] that he was not the pledge of William Scut of Hull whose sheep were caught in the lambs' pasture.
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 The Incorporation of St. John's in 1888
Whiteway, however, won the day; in 1882 he was re-elected with the support of the Roman Catholic Liberal Party over a St. John's mercantile opposition group styling itself the New Party.
Whiteway's 1885 effort was undoubtedly made with an eye to recapturing Liberal support; but it also held the promise of pleasing outport supporters by relieving the Board of Works of an increasing annual cost that benefited the capital alone.
Whiteway justified a government majority on the board on the grounds that the colony would have to both raise the proposed loan and guarantee the interest payments on it.
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 Augustus F Goodridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, the Tories complained that Whiteway's Liberals had promised jobs to Newfoundlanders who voted for him and filed petitions in the Supreme Court under the Corrupt Practices Act against fifteen Liberal members of the House alleging bribery and corruption.
In April 1894, in the midsts of the trials, Whiteway attempted to dissolve the House of Assembly and call new elections.
Instead, Governor Sir Arthur Murray refused Whiteway's requested and instead appointed Goodridge as the new Premier despite the fact that Goodridge's Tories were outnumbered by Liberals in the House of Assembly.
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 InDixie.Com - Descendants of Bernard "The Dane" De Harcourt
John Wareham and William Galer overseers of his will, and wheeras foure of the oldest are now of full age and the execatrix and overseers with the consent of the three yonger and for thire education and pferment, have joyntly sould unto John Glouer the farme at Dorchester purchased of Mr.
When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, Roger furnished sixty armed vessels for the fleet and was left in charge of the government of Normandy.
The first son, Robert de Beaumont accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, distinguished himself in the Battle of Hastings, and was rewarded with Ninety-one Lordships or Manors in England, mostly in Warwickshire.
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 Morine, Alfred B. (Sir), 1857-1944 - Documents
Whiteway ran on his record, promising to continue the construction of the trans-island railway, which he had initiated some years before.
James Winter, a former cabinet minister under Whiteway and Thorburn, who had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1893, was convinced to resign from the bench in 1896 and become leader of the Conservative Party.
Whiteway, a staunch supporter of the railway, was re-elected in 1889 on a promise to finish the line.
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In the 1870s and early 1880s Harvey was a strong supporter of the efforts of Conservative premiers Frederick Carter and William Whiteway to secure foreign investors for a railway across Newfoundland.
Whiteway's supporters were successful and Harvey entered the cabinet with responsibility for the fisheries commission while continuing as its chairman.
In 1890 he supported Whiteway's decision to complete the railway across the island as a means of strengthening Newfoundland's economy and hence postpone any new efforts by local politicians for confederation with Canada.
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 ARTICLES FROM THE TIMES RELATING TO THE PRESS GANGS
He having watched the party into a public house, went to Horsleydown, and brought a real gang with the proper officer, who surprised the sharpers regaling on their booty, every one of whom were carried on board the tender at the Tower.
Robert Dawson came in, who was an officer belonging to the same office as Whiteway; and William Pcket, who was one of the press gang, asked Dawson if he would take his word for Philbin's appearance tomorrow.
Mr.Justice Heath, summing up, said that Whiteway was acting under a warrant from a Justice of the Peace, and that it was his duty to execute it.
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 "The Newfoundland Election Trials" a Drawing
Whiteway offered such incentives as road grants and continued construction of a trans-island railway, while promising to keep the public debt in line.
Greene then handed the premiership back to Whiteway, and several members of the Liberal Party resigned their seats to make way for Whiteway and members of his administration to gain election to the House of Assembly.
Whiteway and Bond were found guilty of bribery and corruption in the 1893 Newfoundland election campaign, unseated and disqualified from running again; Watson, was also found guilty and unseated, but not disqualified.
www.library.mun.ca /qeii/cns/archives/trials.php   (1083 words)

  
 Publications of the Newfoundland Museum - The Newfoundland Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Captain William Colston wrote, in his journal, recorded at John Guy's colony at Cupids, in 1612, that the colony's dogs had killed a wolf.
The Reverend William Wilson, for example, wrote that they were troublesome and had killed several sheep and cattle near Trinity in the winter of 1834.
William Ernest Whiteway, son of the perennial Newfoundland Prime Minister, Sir William Whiteway, shot a Newfoundland Wolf in the fall of 1894 (not in the fall of 1911, as was once thought) in the Gaff Topsails.
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 Gift Shops and Craft Shops in Whiteway, Newfoundland and Labrador
Whiteway is named for Newfoundland's Prime Minister, Sir William Whiteway.
The large triple-horned rock, jutting sharply out of the water near shore, is called the "Shipwrecker" and is a reminder of the dangers of the sea.
Whiteway, NL © 2003 - 2005 Explore Newfoundland and Labrador
www.explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com /Shops/whitewayshops.htm   (56 words)

  
 Guillermo Whiteway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
La ambición importante de la política de Whiteway era la construcción de un ferrocarril que atravesaba la isla que fue comenzada en 1881 y que él creyó estimularía el revelado económico de la colonia.
En la oposición Whiteway fundó un nuevo partido liberal de Terranova que ganó la oficina en 1889 Whiteway que volvían como primero ministro en la aplicación el ferrocarril.
Whiteway mismo había sido encontrado culpable, su asiento declaró vacante, y bajo provisiones de la ley lo barraron de la elección que buscaba a la casa de la asamblea o el sentarse en el gobierno.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/gu/Guillermo%20Whiteway.htm   (717 words)

  
 DITTO - LoveToKnow Article on DITTO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To this was annexed a tract (Matter not a Cogitative Substance) to demonstrate the impossibility of thinking or perception being the result of any combination of the parts of matter and motion.
There was also added an advertise-, meat from him and William Whiston concerning a method for discovering the longitude, which it seems they had published about half a year before.
Although the method had been approved by Sir Isaac Newton before being presented to the Board of Longitude, and successfully practised in finding the longitude between Paris and Vienna, the board determined against it.
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