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Ontario (provincial Electoral District)
Ontario was a provincial riding in the Canadian province of Ontario. Called Ontario South until 1933, it was active from 1867 to 1975. For its entire existence, the riding contained parts of or all of Ontario County, a now-defunct county which comprised most, but not all, of the contemporary Regional Municipality of Durham, including the municipalities of Ajax, Oshawa, Pickering and Whitby. After 1955, however, a separate riding called Oshawa was created to serve the city of Oshawa, Ajax and parts of Pickering and Whitby, while the Ontario riding continued to serve the more rural areas in the county. In 1966 a new Ontario South was created to represent Ajax, Pickering and Whitby. The remainder of the riding was divided into the new ridings of Durham West Durham West was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1904. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867 which divided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario County, Ontario
Ontario County was the name of two historic counties in the Canadian province of Ontario. Ontario County (1792–1800) The original Ontario County, located in the Midland District, was constituted in 1792 as an electoral district for the new Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada: In 1798, the Parliament of Upper Canada dissolved the county, and redistributed its territory to the following electoral counties and townships, effective at the beginning of 1800: Ontario County (1852–1973) On January 1, 1852 the old County of York was divided into three counties (York, Ontario and Peel); however they remained united. On January 1, 1854 Ontario County separated and became its own independent county, with the support of Peter Perry of Whitby. The population in 1854 was 30,000 and the first County Warden was Thomas N. Gibbs. It was replaced by the Regional Municipality of Durham effective January 1, 1974. Original townships * Brock, area Surveyed in 1817. Community c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham West (provincial Electoral District)
Durham West was an electoral Riding (division), riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of Canadian Confederation, confederation. It contained the towns of Pickering, Ontario, Pickering and Ajax, Ontario, Ajax. The Electoral district (Canada), riding first existed from 1867 until 1926, when it was distributed into the Durham (provincial electoral district), Durham riding. When Durham was split back into Durham East (provincial electoral district), Durham East and Durham West, as well as Durham North in 1975, the riding existed until 1999 when it was redistributed into Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge (provincial electoral district), Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge and Whitby—Ajax. Members of Provincial Parliament References External links Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Past & Present MPPs {{DEFAULTSORT:Durham West (provincial electoral district) Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Provincial Electoral Districts Of Ontario
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Dymond
Matthew Bulloch Dymond, (September 24, 1911 – February 21, 1996) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1955 to 1975 who represented the riding of Ontario. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Leslie Frost and John Robarts. Background Dymond was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada in his teens, where he completed his high school education. He received his Doctor of Medicine, from Queen's University in 1941 and he did post-graduate work in Kingston and Toronto before joining the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. He served in Canada, England, and Western Europe with the Surgical Division of Number 10 Canadian General Hospital. After the war, he set up general practice in Port Perry, Ontario, in 1946. Dymond was married to Phyllis Jeanne (January 28, 1903 - March 25, 2002) and they had two daughters, Beverley (Livesay) and Nancy Dymond. Politics Dymond star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Starr (politician)
Michael Starr, (born Michael Starchewsky; November 14, 1910 – March 16, 2000) was a Canadian politician and the first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent, his parents having emigrated from Halychyna ( Galicia), then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now Western Ukraine. Life and career Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, Starr was an alderman for the Oshawa City Council from 1944 to 1949. From 1949 to 1952, he was the mayor of Oshawa. In 1951, he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. First elected to the House of Commons in 1952 as a Progressive Conservative, Starr was re-elected six times until he was narrowly defeated in the 1968 election by future New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Ed Broadbent. Starr served as Minister of Labour in the government of John Diefenbaker from 1957 to 1963, and served as Opposition House Leader from 1965 to 1968. In 1967, Starr stood as a candidate at the PC leadership convention, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Thomas (politician)
Thomas David "T.D." Thomas (February 19, 1899 – July 30, 1980) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a CCF member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He represented the ridings of Ontario from 1948 to 1955, and Oshawa from 1955 to 1963. Background Thomas, who was known as "Tommy" or by his initials as "T.D. Thomas", was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1899. He emigrated to Canada in 1929 and worked for General Motors of Canada as a toolmaker. He sat Board of Education of the Ontario County Township and was a director of the Oshawa General Hospital from 1952 to 1973. His wife Christine served on Oshawa City Council and later as Mayor of Oshawa in 1961 and 1962, the city's first woman mayor. Politics Thomas served on the East Whitby Township council and was elected reeve in 1946 and 1947. He ran as the CCF candidate in the 1948 provincial election in the riding of Ontario. He defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Thomas Creighton by about 2,600 votes. He was re-e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Kelso Creighton
Thomas Kelso Creighton (April 4, 1892 - October 20, 1973) was a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Ontario in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1948. He was a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Born April 4, 1892 in Dorchester, Ontario, Creighton was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, and was admitted to the bar as a lawyer in 1919.''The American Bar, the Canadian Bar, the International Bar, Volumes 1964-1965''. R.B. Forster & Associates, 1965. He practiced law in Oshawa, Ontario, and was appointed King's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or ... in 1938. He died in Oshawa at the age of 81. References External links * 1892 births 1973 deaths People from Middlesex County, Ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Henry Williams
Arthur Henry Williams (December 4, 1894 – October 4, 1968) was a Canadian trade union organizer and politician who served in both the Ontario legislature and the House of Commons of Canada on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He was born in Tredegar, Wales, emigrating with his wife to Canada in 1929. Background Williams lived in the Toronto suburb of East York, Ontario in the 1930s and served as president of the East York Workers' Association, a Great Depression era labour organization which was formed in 1931 to improve the situation of the unemployed and had 1,600 members by 1934. He married Lily Evans in 1912. Politics East York At the end of 1933, Williams was elected to and served a one-year term as alderman on the East York Town Council for 1934. That same year, Williams ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1934 provincial election as an Ontario CCF candidate and won 21% of the vote (30% in East York Township) coming in third place. He also ran for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Daniel Conant
Gordon Daniel Conant (January 11, 1885 – January 2, 1953) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and the 12th premier of Ontario, from 1942 to 1943. Personal life Born in Cedar Dale, East Whitby Township (now part of the City of Oshawa) in Ontario, Conant was a member of one of Oshawa's early European families. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1912. He practiced law in Oshawa. In 1913 he married Verna Conant (née Smith), daughter of E. D. Smith. Together they had three children. Outside politics, Conant served as president of Oshawa General Hospital, Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and South Ontario Canadian Club. In 1933, he was made a King's Counsel. From 1943 to 1951, he was a Master of the Supreme Court of Ontario. In 1944, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Toronto. Conant died on January 2, 1953. Municipal politics In 1914, he was Deputy Reeve of Oshawa and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham North (Ontario Provincial Electoral District)
Durham North may refer to: * Durham North (Ontario provincial electoral district) * Durham North (UK Parliament constituency) * Durham, North Carolina Durham ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, Durham County. Small portions of the city limits extend into Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County and Wake County, North Carol ... * Durham—Northumberland, Ontario {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham—York
Durham—York was a provincial electoral district in northern Durham Region and York Region in Ontario, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It contained the towns of East Gwillimbury, Newmarket, Ontario, Newmarket, Whitchurch–Stouffville, Uxbridge, Ontario, Uxbridge, Georgina, Ontario, Georgina and Brock, Ontario, Brock. The riding was created in 1975 as Durham North from parts of York North (Ontario provincial electoral district), York North and Ontario (provincial electoral district), Ontario, Ontario South (provincial electoral district), Ontario South and Durham (provincial electoral district), Durham. It was renamed Durham—York in 1977 and existed until 1999 when it was distributed into York North (Ontario provincial electoral district), York North, Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge and Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock. MPPs # Bill Newman (politician), Bill Newman, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Progressive Conservative (1975–198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham East (provincial Electoral District)
Durham East was a provincial electoral district in the Durham Region in Ontario, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It contained parts of the towns of Oshawa, Ontario, Oshawa, Whitby, Ontario, Whitby, Scugog, Ontario, Scugog, and Newcastle, Ontario, Newcastle. The riding first existed from 1867 to 1926, when it was distributed into the Durham (provincial electoral district), Durham riding. When Durham was split back into Durham East and Durham West (provincial electoral district), Durham West, as well as Durham North in 1975, the riding existed until 1999 when it was redistributed into Durham (provincial electoral district), Durham, Whitby—Ajax and Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock (provincial electoral district), Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock. Members of Provincial Parliament External links Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Past & Present MPPs {{coord missing, Ontario Former provincial electoral distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
