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Haldimand (federal Electoral District)
Haldimand was a federal electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1892 and from 1904 to 1953. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It initially consisted of the Townships of Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga North, Cayuga South, Rainham, Walpole, and Dunn. In 1872, the Township of Dunn was excluded from the riding. In 1882, it was defined to consist of the townships of Walpole, Oneida, Rainham, Seneca and North Cayuga, and the villages of Cayuga and Caledonia. The electoral district was abolished in 1892 when it was merged into Haldimand and Monck riding. Haldimand riding was recreated in 1903, consisting of the county of Haldimand. The electoral district was abolished in 1952 when it was merged into Brant—Haldimand riding. Members of Parliament This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada: Election results 1867–1896 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British North America Act Of 1867
The ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (french: Loi constitutionnelle de 1867),''The Constitution Act, 1867'', 30 & 31 Victoria (U.K.), c. 3, http://canlii.ca/t/ldsw retrieved on 2019-03-14. originally enacted as the ''British North America Act, 1867'' (BNA Act), is a major part of the Constitution of Canada. The act created a federal dominion and defines much of the operation of the Government of Canada, including its federal structure, the House of Commons, the Senate, the justice system, and the taxation system. In 1982, with the patriation of the Constitution, the British North America Acts which were originally enacted by the British Parliament, including this Act, were renamed. Although, the acts are still known by their original names in records of the United Kingdom. Amendments were also made at this time: section 92A was added, giving provinces greater control over non-renewable natural resources. History Preamble and Part I The act begins with a preamble declaring th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Humphries Montague
Walter Humphries Montague, (November 21, 1858 – November 14, 1915) was a Canadian politician. He was a federal cabinet minister in the governments of Mackenzie Bowell and Charles Tupper, and subsequently a provincial cabinet minister in the Manitoba government of Rodmond Roblin. Montague was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Biography Montague was born in Adelaide, in Middlesex County, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of Joseph Montague. He was educated at Woodstock College and the Toronto School of Medicine, and received a medical degree from Victoria University in 1882. He practised medicine in Dunnville, Ontario and later at the General Hospital in Hamilton. He married Angie Furey. Montague was a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, Scotland. He campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a candidate of the provincial Conservative Party in the provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Federal Electoral Districts Of Canada
This is a list of past arrangements of Canada's electoral districts. Each district sends one member to the House of Commons of Canada. In 1999 and 2003, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario was elected using the same districts within that province. 96 of Ontario's 107 provincial electoral districts, roughly those outside Northern Ontario, remain coterminous with their federal counterparts. Federal electoral districts in Canada are re-adjusted every ten years based on the Canadian census and proscribed by various constitutional seat guarantees, including the use of a Grandfather clause, for Quebec, the Central Prairies and the Maritime provinces, with the essential proportions between the remaining provinces being "locked" no matter any further changes in relative population as have already occurred. Any major changes to the status quo, if proposed, would require constitutional amendments approved by seven out of ten provinces with two-thirds of the population to ratify constitutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Canadian Federal Electoral Districts
This is a list of Canada's 338 federal electoral districts (commonly referred to as '' ridings'' in Canadian English) as defined by the ''2013 Representation Order''. Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament to Canada's House of Commons every election. Provincial electoral districts often have names similar to their local federal counterpart, but usually have different geographic boundaries. Canadians elected members for each federal electoral district most recently in the 2021 federal election on . There are four ridings established by the British North America Act of 1867 that have existed continuously without changes to their names or being abolished and reconstituted as a riding due to redistricting: Beauce (Quebec), Halifax (Nova Scotia), Shefford (Quebec), and Simcoe North (Ontario). These ridings, however, have experienced territorial changes since their inception. On October 27, 2011, the Conservative government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Elis Brown
Howard Elis Brown was a merchant and politician from Ontario, Canada. He represented the provincial riding of Welland (provincial electoral district), Welland as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section) member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945. He unsuccessfully contested the federal riding of Haldimand (federal electoral district), Haldimand as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the 1949 Canadian federal election, 1949 federal election. References External links * Year of birth missing Year of death missing Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPPs 20th-century Canadian legislators Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament {{Ontario-MPP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Catherwood
Albert Earl Catherwood (23 May 1900 – 25 March 1988) was a Canadian politician and farmer. Catherwood served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Hagersville, Ontario, he was a farmer by career. He was also reeve of Walpole Township, Ontario in 1947 after being a councillor there from 1935 to 1943. He was first elected to Parliament at the Haldimand riding in the 1949 general election. When the riding was dissolved in 1952, Catherwood did not seek re-election in the new Brant—Haldimand Brant—Haldimand was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1953 to 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1999. The Riding ... riding but instead let John Charlton stand as the Progressive Conservative candidate for the 1953 election. He died aged 87 in 1988 at West Haldimand General Hospital, where he had resided si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Senn
Mark Cecil Senn (1 June 1878 – 10 January 1951) was a Canadian farmer, merchant, teacher and politician. Senn served as a Conservative and Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Oneida, Ontario. He was first elected to Parliament at the Haldimand riding in the 1921 general election, initially under the Conservative party. Senn was re-elected in 1925, 1926, 1930, 1935, 1940 and 1945. He did not stand for re-election in 1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ... due to health problems. Senn died at his residence in Oneida Township on 10 January 1951, survived by his wife, three sons and three daughters. References External links * 1878 births 1951 deaths Canadian farmers Canadian merchants Canadian scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Thorburn Thompson
Andrew Thorburn Thompson (May 27, 1870 – April 20, 1939) was a Canadian military officer, editor, lawyer and a third generation political figure of Canada. Thompson was born in Seneca Township and raised at Ruthven Park Estate, now designated as Ruthven Park National Historic Site; located just north of Cayuga, Ontario. His father, David Thompson was a businessman and political figure who sat in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and then the House of Commons of Canada. His grandfather, also named David, had sat in the 1st and 2nd Legislative Assemblies for the United Province of Canada representing Haldimand County. A lawyer and editor, he was elected to the House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Haldimand and Monck in the 1900 federal election defeating former Conservative cabinet minister Walter Humphries Montague by less than 150 votes. Due to redistribution, Thompson's riding was abolished and in the 1904 federal electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ramsey Lalor
Francis Ramsey Lalor (November 14, 1856 – June 24, 1929) was a Canadian politician. Born in St. Catharines, Canada West, Lalor was educated at the Durnville Public and High Schools. A merchant and manufacturer, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Haldimand (federal electoral district), Haldimand at the 1904 Canadian federal election, general elections of 1904. A Conservative Party of Canada (historical), Conservative, he was re-elected in 1908 Canadian federal election, 1908, 1911 Canadian federal election, 1911, and 1917 Canadian federal election, 1917. References * The Canadian Parliament; biographical sketches and photo-engravures of the senators and members of the House of Commons of Canada. Being the tenth Parliament, elected November 3, 1904 1856 births 1929 deaths Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Politicians from St. Catharines {{HistoricalCo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wesley Colter
Charles Wesley Colter (February 26, 1846 – July 25, 1929) was a lawyer, publisher and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Haldimand in the House of Commons of Canada from 1886 to 1887 and from 1889 to 1890 as a Liberal member. Biography Colter was born in York County, New Brunswick, the son of Samuel Colter, an immigrant from Ireland, and was educated at the Sackville Academy and the University of New Brunswick. In 1869, he married Annie Folinsbee. Colter taught school in Cayuga and Dunnville for several years. In 1879, he was called to the Ontario bar. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1886 in a by-election held following the death of David Thompson but was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1887 and in an 1887 by-election held after the first election was successfully appealed. His election in 1889 was declared void and he lost the by-election which followed in 1890 to Walter Humphries Montague. Colter was unsuccessful when he ran for reelecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In English it is also colloquially and more commonly known as a Riding (division), riding or constituency. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), National Assembly of Quebec, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Since 2015, there have been 338 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Flood Davin
Nicholas Flood Davin, KC (January 13, 1840 – October 18, 1901) was a lawyer, journalist and politician, born at Kilfinane, Ireland. The first MP for Assiniboia West (1887–1900), Davin was known as the voice of the North-West. Davin founded and edited the '' Regina Leader'', the first newspaper in Assiniboia. He tried to gain provincial status for the territory. Davin is considered one of the architects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. In 1879 he wrote the ''Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds'', otherwise known as '' The Davin Report'', in which he advised the federal government to institute residential schools for Indigenous children. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that the assimilation amounted to cultural genocide. Early life Davin entered the Middle Temple to study law and was called to the bar on January 27, 1868. Davin was a parliamentary and war correspondent in England before he arrived in Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
