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1956 Ottawa Municipal Election
The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 3, 1956. Controller George Nelms is acclaimed as mayor, the last election in Ottawa's history where a candidate for mayor has run unopposed. Nelms was not the incumbent mayor. The incumbent was Charlotte Whitton who decided not to run again. After four years of wards just having numbers, names were returned to each of the wards. Mayor of Ottawa Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) City council (2 elected from each ward) References *''Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1956'' {{Ottawa elections Municipal elections in Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ... Municipal election, 1956 Ottawa municipal election Ottawa municipal election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Ward
Capital Ward or Ward 17 (French: ''Quartier Capitale'') is a city ward located in the centre of Ottawa, Ontario. Situated just south of downtown Ottawa, the ward includes the communities of Old Ottawa East, Old Ottawa South, the Glebe, Heron Park, Carleton University, and Riverview (Ottawa)#Sub neighbourhoods, Riverside Out of all the wards currently in existence, Capital ward has existed the longest. It was originally created in 1909 from parts of Wellington Ward and Central Ward when the Glebe was settled. The original capital ward consisted solely of the Glebe. It eventually annexed Old Ottawa South before assuming its current borders. Its first aldermen were John Carnochan (politician), John Carnochan and J. W. Nelson.Ottawa City Council minutes, 1910 Councillors Election results 1974 Ottawa municipal election 1976 Ottawa municipal election 1978 Ottawa municipal election 1980 Ottawa municipal election 1982 Ottawa municipal election 1985 Ottawa municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Parker (Ontario Politician)
Charles or Charlie Parker may refer to: Politicians and administrators * Charles D. Parker (1827–1925), former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Charles H. Parker (1814–1890), Wisconsin legislator * Charles Parker (Australian politician) (1896–1956), New South Wales politician * Charles Parker (British politician), activist in the British National Party * Charles Parker (New Zealand politician) (1809–1898), New Zealand politician and carpenter *Charles Parker (Michigan politician) (1877–1934), member of the Michigan House of Representatives * Charlie Parker (Nova Scotia politician) (born 1951), NDP MLA for Pictou West in Nova Scotia, Canada *Charles Stuart Parker (1829–1909), British Member of Parliament for Perth, 1878–1892 * Charles William Parker (1912–1997), clergyman and politician in British Columbia, Canada Sportsmen * Charlie Parker (basketball) (born 1948), American basketball coach *Charlie Parker (cricketer) (1882–1959), English cricketer *Charlie Parke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McAuley (politician)
James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax. Life and career McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University, where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy (which he studied under John Anderson. In 1937 he edited ''Hermes'', the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which many of his early poems, beginning in 1935, were published until 1941. He began his life as an Anglican and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill, in Sydney. He lost his Christian faith as a younger man. In 1943, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the militia for the Australian Army and served in Melbourne ( DORCA) and Canberra. After the war he also spent time in New Guinea, which he regarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalhousie Ward
{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Dalhousie Ward is a former ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1888 when it was annexed by Ottawa from Nepean Township, becoming Ottawa's eighth ward. It was merged with Wellington Ward in 1994 to become Somerset Ward. It consisted mainly of the neighbourhood of Centretown West, which includes Ottawa's Chinatown and Little Italy. Before it was merged, the ward contained Hintonburg, Mechanicsville and parts of the Civic Hospital and Centretown neighbourhoods. City councillors * Levi Crannell (1889-1890) * William Hill (1889-1892) *David Scott (1889-1890) * William H. Hewlett (1891-1892) * R. Thackray (1891) * James Peterkin (1892-1893) * J. C. Jamieson (1893-1895) *Terrence McGuire (1893-1895) * Robert Davidson (1894-1901) *William H. Hewlett (1896) *William Hill (1896) * Joseph Foster (1897-1900) *Terrence McGuire (1897) *William H. Hewlett (1898-1900) *William Hill (1901) * Moïse Plouffe (1901-1905) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Barber (politician)
Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS (born 30 October 1941) is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book ''The Knight and Chivalry'', about the interplay between history and literature, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a well-known British literary prize, in 1971. A similarly-themed 2004 book, ''The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief'', was widely praised in the UK press, and received major reviews in ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Republic''. Life Barber was educated at Marlborough College, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1969 he founded The Boydell Press, which later became Boydell & Brewer Ltd, a publisher in medieval studies, and acted as group managing director until 2009. In 1989, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, in association with the University of Rochester, started the University of Rochester Press in upstate New York. In 2016, the directors of Boydell & Brewer Ltd transferred the company into a trust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lon Campbell
Lon or LON may refer to: People * Lon (photographer), pseudonym of Alonzo Hanagan, also known as "Lon of New York" * Lon (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname Fictional characters * Lon Cohen, a character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout * Lon Suder, a character on the television series ''Star Trek: Voyager'' LON * Launch on Need, a Space Shuttle rescue mission which would have been mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if needed * League of Nations, the first permanent international organization for maintaining world peace, the predecessor of the United Nations * Local Operating Network, a networking platform by Echelon Corporation * Local oxidation nanolithography, a nanofabrication technique Other uses * ''Lon'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies * Lon protease family, in molecular biology * lon., abbreviation for longitude * LON, the IATA airport code covering all airports within the London area of the United Kingdom, see Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensboro Ward
Queensboro Ward is a former municipal ward in the city of Ottawa, Canada. In 1950, what is now Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood was annexed from Nepean Township. This area would be named Westboro Ward for just two years. In 1952, the size of Ottawa City Council was decreased, and the area became known as Ward 8 which eventually became Queensboro Ward in 1956. In 1991, the ward changed names to Carlington-Westboro Ward before it was merged with Elmdale Ward to become Kitchissippi Ward in 1994. Queensboro Ward traditionally consisted of Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood and Carlington neighbourhood. Its eastern boundary was Island Park Drive and Fisher Avenue, whilst its western boundary varied. Clyde Avenue was its usual southwestern boundary, but its northwestern boundary varied from Golden Avenue to Fraser Avenue. City councillors * Ernie Jones (1950-1952) *Harry Parslow (1950-1954) *Lon Campbell (1953-1960) *Richard Barber (1955-1958) *Ken Workman (1959-1972) *Kenneth Fogarty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Francis
Cyril Lloyd Francis (March 19, 1920 – January 20, 2007) was a Canadian politician and one time Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada. Biography Following service in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, Francis earned a Master of Arts (MA) and doctorate (Ph.D) in economics, and lectured in the discipline from 1948 to 1951 at the University at Buffalo. He then joined the Department of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa as a senior economist. In 1956, Francis and partner, lawyer Donald Sim, carrying on business as Lynhar Developments, acquired and laid out the Stinson Avenue area of Bells Corners in Nepean. They quickly formed a partnership with William Teron, T.F.S. Lands, to build the houses in Lynwood Village. The Lynwood Plaza at Bells Corners was built by Francis and Sim's Lynhar Developments and included what would become the landmark Robinson IGA. Long time Nepean Reeve D. Aubrey Moodie, in his book, "The Spirit of Nepean" described Francis as on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Boyce
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Aargau frank, Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Henry (politician)
Howard Houston Henry (June 19, 1882February 12, 1919) was an American football player. He played college football for the Princeton Tigers football team and was selected as a consensus All-American at the halfback position in 1903. Before Princeton, Henry was prepped at Germantown Academy graduating with the class of 1899. On June 23, 1904, he was married to Mae Drexel Fell, the daughter of Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer of Philadelphia. They had a daughter, Sarah Drexel Henry, born on March 28, 1905. During World War I, he served as a captain in the United States Army. While under the care of Dr. Norris Vaux, he died of heart failure in London, England London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major s ..., on February 12, 1919, at age 36. In 1924, the Howard Henry Memorial Dormit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton Ward
College Ward or Ward 8 (French: ''Quartier Collège'') is a city ward in Ottawa, Canada's west end. The ward covers the neighbourhoods of Bells Corners, Qualicum, Graham Park, Leslie Park, Redwood, Kenson Park, Parkway Park, Bel-Air Park, Bel-Air Heights, Braemar Park, Copeland Park, Briargreen, Centrepointe, Navaho, City View, Ryan Farm, Meadowlands and Crestview. Prior to the 2006 election, College Ward was known as Baseline Ward, and didn't include Bells Corners. It was incorporated into the city with amalgamation in 2001 (elections were held in 2000). Previously, the ward existed on the earlier Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council. The ward is represented on city council by Rick Chiarelli. The ward has an estimated population of 55,000 (2006) and an area of 46.2 km2. The ward is named for Algonquin College. Prior to amalgamation, the area now covered by College Ward in Ottawa's west end was in Carleton Ward. It was created in 1950, when Ottawa's west end was annex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
