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22nd Legislative Assembly Of Ontario
The 22nd Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 4, 1945, until April 27, 1948, just prior to the 1948 Ontario general election, 1948 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by George A. Drew, George Drew. William James Stewart served as speaker for the assembly until March 21, 1947. James de Congalton Hepburn succeeded Stewart as speaker. Members elected to the Assembly Timeline External links Members in Parliament 22 References {{DEFAULTSORT:22nd Legislative Assembly Of Ontario Terms of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario 1945 establishments in Ontario 1948 disestablishments in Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Ontario General Election
The 1948 Ontario general election was held on June 7, 1948, to elect the 90 members of the 23rd Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew, won a third consecutive term in office, winning a solid majority of seats in the legislature—53, down from 66 in the previous election. Despite winning a majority, Drew lost his own seat to temperance crusader Bill Temple. Instead of seeking a seat in a by-election, Drew left provincial politics to run for, and win, the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservative Party. Drew was replaced as Ontario PC leader and premier by Thomas Kennedy on an interim basis, and then by Leslie Frost. The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Farquhar Oliver, increased its caucus from 11 to 14, but lost the role of official opposition. Only one of the three Liberal-Labour MPPs sitting with the Liberal caucus, James Newman, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Dye
Stanley Harding Dye (March 12, 1908 – July 3, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was Progressive Conservative member from 1945 to 1948 who represented the riding of Brantford. Background Dye was born in London, England, he is the son of Charles Harding Dye, was educated there and came to Canada in 1928. In 1944, he married Selina Kingswood. He served overseas during World War II and was wounded at Dieppe. Dye was manager for the Brantford Chiefs of the OHA. Politics He ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1945 provincial election. He defeated Liberal candidate Donald Williamson by a slim margin of 27 votes. Williamson contemplated but eventually declined to request a recount. He served as a backbench supporter in the government of George Drew. In 1948, the PC nomination in the riding was contested and Dye lost to C.C. Slemin. Instead Dye put his name forward as an independent Conservative candidate but finished 4th in the polling. Slemin l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham (provincial Electoral District)
Durham is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999 and from 1926 to 1975. The Durham provincial riding was created in 1999 when Ontario adopted federal riding boundaries for provincial elections purposes. It was created from Durham East and Oshawa It consisted initially of the Township of Scugog, Scugog Indian Reserve No. 34, the Town of Clarington, and the part of the City of Oshawa lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Taunton Road, south along Ritson Road North, east along Rossland Road East, south along Harmony Road North, and east along King Street East. In 2007, the riding gained the Township of Uxbridge Uxbridge () is a suburban town in west London and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Situated west-northwest of Charing Cross, it is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. Uxbrid ... but lost all of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Wallace Downer
Alfred Wallace Downer (May 1, 1904 – August 3, 1994) was a Canadian politician and longtime member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Background Downer was born near Penetanguishene in Simcoe County, Ontario. He was educated at Cookstown Continuation School, Alliston High School, the University of Toronto and Wycliffe College. After completing his schooling, he was ordained an Anglican priest. He was a vicar and then a canon in the Anglican Church of Canada and a member of the Conservative Party. Politics He ran unsuccessfully in the provincial riding of Wellington Northeast in 1929 and then was first elected to the legislature as the member for Dufferin—Simcoe in the 1937 election. He served as Member of Provincial Parliament until 1975, winning a provincial record of ten consecutive elections. While an elected MPP, he also served in the military during World War II, serving as chaplain of the Queen's York Rangers in North Africa and Europe. From 1955 until 1959, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dufferin–Simcoe (provincial Electoral District)
Dufferin–Simcoe was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1934 during a major redistribution of Ontario ridings. It was abolished in 1986 before the 1987 election and merged into Simcoe West Simcoe West was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1875 from Simcoe North Simcoe North (french: Simcoe-Nord) is a federal electoral district in central Ontario, Canada. It was established as a federal riding in 1867. .... Members of Provincial Parliament References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dufferin-Simcoe (provincial electoral district) Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Duckworth (Canadian Politician)
William Duckworth may refer to: * Will Duckworth (1954), deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales * William Duckworth (football manager) (fl. 1934–1946), Scottish professional football coach active in France * William Duckworth (composer) (1943–2012), American composer * William Duckworth (Canadian politician) (1884–1951), Ontario merchant and political figure * William Duckworth (British politician) (1879–1952), British Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side, 1935–1945 * William Henry Duckworth (1894–1969), justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia See also * Billy Duckworth Bill Duckworth (born 21 February 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL and West Perth in the West Australian Football League. He is best known for winning the 1984 Norm Smith Medal. His brother John ... (born 1959), Australian rules footballer * Bill Duckworth (footballer, born 1918) (1918–2016), Australian rules footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dovercourt (provincial Electoral District)
Dovercourt is a small seaside town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Harwich, in the Tendring district, in the county of Essex, England. It is older than its smaller but better-known neighbour, the port of Harwich, and appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. Today the towns are contiguous. In 1921 the parish had a population of 7695. Dovercourt is a seaside resort which offers shops and cafes for visitors and residents. The main shopping area is The High Street, with shops from independents to the national chains. The town is served by Dovercourt railway station. History The Saxon lord Wulwin/Ulwin was lord in 1066; by 1086 the estate was in possession of Aubrey de Vere I and remained part of the barony of his descendants the Earls of Oxford until the 16th century. It formed part of the dowry of Juliana de Vere when she married Hugh Bigod in the mid-12th century, and the sub-tenancy passed to the Bigod earls of Norfolk who held it as one knight's fee of the Veres. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Grummett
William John Grummett (January 8, 1891 – 1967) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cochrane South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1955 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Background The son of a farmer in Maxwell, Ontario, just south of Collingwood, Grummett was the first lawyer in Iroquois Falls-Ansonville, having attended law school in Toronto, Ontario. He and his wife Marie raised their five children in Iroquois Falls, Ontario. He had fought in World War I as an officer in the British Army where he saw action in the Mesopotamian campaign. While there, he contracted malaria which affected him for the rest of his life. He died in 1967. Politics In the 1943 provincial election he ran as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the riding of Cochrane South. he defeated Liberal candidate J. Emile Brunette by 5066 votes. He was the only CCF MPP to survive both the 1945 and the 1951 provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochrane South
Cochrane South was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1999. It encompassed the southern part of the Cochrane District, including the city of Timmins. For the 1999 election, in which all electoral districts in the province were realigned to match their federal counterparts, Cochrane South was divided between the new districts of Timmins—James Bay and Timiskaming—Cochrane Timiskaming—Cochrane was a federal electoral district in Ontario that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2003. It was located in the northeast part of Ontario. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Cochra .... Members of Provincial Parliament Election results References {{DEFAULTSORT:CochraneSouth (provincial electoral district) Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph-Anaclet Habel
Joseph-Alphonse-Anaclet Habel (July 13, 1895 – December 5, 1979), usually known as Joseph-Anaclet Habel, was a Canadian politician. Born in Deschaillons, Quebec, the son of Wenceslas Habel and Henriette Charland, he served in the Canadian Army during World War I. From 1919 to 1926, he ran a general store in Amos. Habel then moved to Fauquier, Ontario, serving as reeve of the township of Shackleton and Machin and living there until 1943, when he moved to Kapuskasing. In 1934, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Cochrane North. An Ontario Liberal, he was re-elected in 1937 and 1945. In 1953, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Cochrane. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochrane North (provincial Electoral District)
Cochrane North was an electoral riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1914 as the riding of Cochrane. In 1926 the riding was split into Cochrane North and Cochrane South. It was abolished in 1996 before the 1999 election. From the 1987 election until its abolition, the riding included most of the District of Cochrane (except Timmins, the geographic townships bordering Timmins on the west, Iroquois Falls, and all the communities and townships south of a line extending east from the northern boundary of Iroquois Falls to Lake Abitibi and then all communities and townships south of Lake Abitibi). The riding also included the two geographic townships in Algoma District immediately south of Hearst and all of Kenora District east of the prolongation of the westerly border of Cochrane District. The riding was abolished in 1998 into Timmins—James Bay, Algoma—Manitoulin and Timiskaming—Cochrane Timiskaming—Cochrane was a federal electoral district in Ontario that was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Holland Acres
Adam Holland Acres (May 11, 1878 – April 20, 1955) was an Ontario politician. He was a Conservative and then Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1948. He represented the riding of Carleton. Background He was born in March Township, Ontario, Carleton County, Ontario, the son of George H. Acres. In 1900, he married Almena Waterson. His farm was situated on Britannia Bay on the Ottawa River. Politics Acres served as reeve for the township from 1913 to 1916. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Carleton in 1923. Acres was a candidate in the 1936 Conservative leadership convention placing sixth. He continued to sit in the legislature as a Tory backbench In Westminster and other parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament (MP) or a legislator who occupies no governmental office and is not a frontbench ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
