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Casselman Public Library
Casselman may refer to: ;Places * Casselman, Pennsylvania, a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania * Casselman, Ontario, a village in eastern Ontario * Casselman-Steele Heights, Edmonton, a residential area located in northeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. * Casselman, Edmonton, a residential neighbourhood located in northeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. * Casselman River, a tributary of the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania * Casselman Formation, a sedimentary bedrock unit in Pennsylvania and Maryland ;People * Amos Casselman (1850-1929), an American archer * Arthur Allen Casselman (1902-1974), a Canadian politician * Arza Clair Casselman (1891-1958), an Ontario lawyer and political figure * Cora Taylor Casselman (1888-1964), a Canadian federal politician * Frederick Clayton Casselman (1885-1941), a Canadian federal politician * Mike Casselman (born 1968), a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player * Orren D. Casselman (1861-1950), an Ontario merchant and political fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casselman, Pennsylvania
Casselman is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. Population The population was 100 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The final section of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line between Pittsburgh and Cumberland was completed on the afternoon of April 10, 1871, with the final rail being laid near Forge Bridge, which became a small station just west of Casselman. Geography Casselman is at (39.885828, -79.209148). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all of it land. Casselman sits on the bank of the Casselman River, along the far eastern tip of Upper Turkeyfoot Township. The accompanying map shows the area that later became the borough of Casselman, around the capital "T" in the "OOT". Mineral Point to the northeast is an earlier name for Rockwood. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 99 people, 40 households, and 33 families living in the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Clayton Casselman
Lieutenant Frederick Clayton Casselman (October 2, 1885 – March 20, 1941) was a soldier, barrister, teacher, as well as a Canadian municipal and federal level politician. Military service Casselman joined the Canadian Forces in 1916. He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and then the Wiltshire Regiment until 1919. Political career Casselman served a long career as an Edmonton municipal politician, he served as a public school trustee from 1928 to 1937. In 1937 he resigned his trustee seat and ran for alderman winning a seat. He held his aldermanic post until he resigned in 1940 to run for the House of Commons of Canada. Casselman ran in the 1940 Canadian federal election in the Edmonton East as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada. He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament Orvis A. Kennedy. Casselman died a year into his first term in office on March 20, 1941, at age 55. His wife Cora Taylor Casselman Cora Taylor Casselman (October 18, 1888 – September 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casselman Railway Station
Casselman railway station is located on St. Joseph Street in the village of Casselman, Ontario, Canada. It is an optional station stop on the Via Rail Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal ''Corridor'' line for two trains a day in each direction. Both westbound trains arrive from Montreal and continue towards Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto. The first eastbound train arrives from Toronto, Kingston, and Ottawa and continues towards Montreal, while the second eastbound train arrives from Ottawa only and continues to Montreal. The station is wheelchair accessible. Railway services As of September 2020, Casselman station is served by 1 domestic route (with connections) provided by Via Rail, the primary passenger rail operator in Canada. Departures have been reduced to 4 trains per day due to the coronavirus pandemic (effective September 1, 2020). Ottawa - Quebec Quebec / Montreal - Ottawa * No local service between Québec City, Sainte-Foy and Charny, or Saint-Lambert and Montréal. See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casselman Bridge
The Casselman Bridge is an historic transportation structure on the Casselman River, located immediately east of Grantsville in Garrett County, Maryland. The bridge was built in 1813-1814 as part of the National Road. Historic markers posted at each end read: Since 1957, the structure, which has also been known as Casselmans Bridge, Castleman's Bridge, and Little Crossings Bridge, has been preserved by the state of Maryland as Casselman River Bridge State Park. The bridge was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and placed on the National Historic Register in 1966. History The stone arch bridge spans with a arch and a roadway width of . The bridge was constructed in 1813–1814 to aid in the westward movement through the frontier wilderness west of Cumberland, Maryland. The first wheeled vehicles crossed the bridge in 1815. As a "tidal wave" of western expansion followed the opening of the National Road, Casselman Bridge had heavy traffic that included wagons drawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gordon Casselman
William Gordon Casselman (born 1942) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. He has written about Canadian words, maintains a website about English etymology and a blog, ''The Casselmanual''. Bibliography *''Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse through Words & Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians'' **1st edition 1995 Copp Clark **2nd edition 1997 Little, Brown **3rd edition 1999 McArthur & Company, *Casselmania: More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings 1996 Little, Brown, *Canadian Garden Words, 1997, McArthur & Company, *A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meanings of Medical Words, 1998, Parthenon Publishing Group, *Canadian Food Words: The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods That Founded a Nation 1998, 1999 McArthur & Company **The book was a recipient of the 1999 Canadian Culinary Book Award *What's in a Canadian Name? The Origins and Meanings of Canadian Surnames, 2000 McArthur & Company, *Canadian Sayings : 1200 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Collected and An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen Casselman
William Allen Casselman (born November 27, 1941) is an American Canadian mathematician who works in representation theory and automorphic forms. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He is closely connected to the Langlands program and has been involved in posting all of the work of Robert Langlands on the internet. Career Casselman did his undergraduate work at Harvard College where his advisor was Raoul Bott and received his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1966 where his advisor was Goro Shimura. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1974, 1983, and 2001. He emigrated to Canada in 1971 and is a Professor Emeritus in mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Research Casselman specializes in representation theory, automorphic forms, geometric combinatorics, and the structure of algebraic groups. He has an interest in mathematical graphics and has been the graphics editor of the ''Notices of the American Mathemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Casselman
Michael Steven Casselman (born August 23, 1968) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left wing and former AHL All-Star. He was drafted out of Clarkson University by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1990 NHL Supplemental Draft. He played three games in the National Hockey League with the Florida Panthers The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern ... in the 1995–96 season, going scoreless. Career statistics External links * 1968 births Living people Adirondack Red Wings players Canadian ice hockey left wingers Carolina Monarchs players Cincinnati Cyclones (ECHL) players Cincinnati Cyclones (IHL) players Clarkson Golden Knights men's ice hockey players Detroit Red Wings draft picks Essen Mosquitoes players EV Landshut players Florida Panthers players Hann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Taylor Casselman
Cora Taylor Casselman (October 18, 1888 – September 6, 1964) was a Canadian federal politician. She was elected to represent the electoral district of Edmonton East in the House of Commons of Canada from 1941 to 1945. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, she was the fourth woman ever elected to the House of Commons and the first from the province of Alberta. Casselman was elected to the House in a byelection on June 2, 1941, succeeding her late husband Frederick Casselman. She served until 1945, when she was defeated in the 1945 federal election by Social Credit candidate Patrick Harvey Ashby. On March 13, 1944, she became the first woman to be speaker in the House of Commons, albeit temporarily. She was part of the Canadian delegation at the founding of the United Nations. She later stood as an Alberta Liberal Party candidate in Edmonton Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casselman, Ontario
Casselman is a village in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Situated on the South Nation River about southeast of downtown Ottawa, along the Trans-Canada Highway 417. It is served by a station on the Montreal-Ottawa Via Rail train, twice a day in each direction. Casselman is surrounded on all sides by The Nation since Casselman citizens refused to join the fusion of municipalities. The village was named after Martin Casselman who built a sawmill near the site of the current town in 1844. Its post office was established in 1857. The village installed modern water and sewer services that became operational in 1977. Casselman hosted ''L'écho d'un peuple'', at Ferme Drouin, one of the biggest shows ever presented in Ontario, until the organization ran into financial trouble in 2008. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Casselman had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arza Clair Casselman
Arza Clair Casselman, (January 19, 1891 – May 11, 1958) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Grenville in 1921 and then Grenville—Dundas from 1925 to 1958 in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative and later Progressive Conservative member. Personal life Early life and education Arza Clair Casselman was born January 19, 1891, in Mariatown, Ontario, located in what was then Williamsburg Township (now, the municipality of South Dundas) in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Casselman was the son of Michael and Almeda Casselman, who were married in 1872. His mother Almeda was born in Williamsburg Township in 1851 and his father Michael was born in Matilda Township in 1848, now also part of South Dundas. His family was likely descended from the first Casselmans to settle in Dundas County, who arrived in Canada around 1784 from the Mohawk Valley, New York, as United Empire Loyalists. Casselman's father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
