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Peter Manley (politician)
Peter Thomas Manley (December 8, 1904 – February 12, 1998) was an Ontario dairy farmer and political figure. He represented Stormont in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1951 to 1963. He was born in Berwick, Stormont County, Ontario Stormont County area is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. Stormont was created in 1792, but was settled seven years earlier in 1785. Veterans of Loyalist regiments were among the first settlers. An estimated one third of the pioneers ... in 1904. The Ottawa Journal carried this story in 1958 reporting on how Peter Manley was the only Liberal to defeat a Conservative in a recent provincial election, with comments about how he balanced political life with the farm duties and the family. References External links * 1904 births 1998 deaths Ontario Liberal Party MPPs People from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry {{Liberal-Ontario-MPP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)
A Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) is an elected member of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of Ontario. Elsewhere in Canada, the titular designation "Member of Provincial Parliament" has also been used to refer to members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1791 to 1838, and to members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1955 to 1968. Ontario The titular designation "Member of Provincial Parliament" and the acronym "MPP" were formally adopted by the Ontario legislature on April 7, 1938. Before the adoption of this resolution, members had no fixed designation. Prior to Confederation in 1867, members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada had been known by various titles, including MPP, MLA and MHA. This confusion persisted after 1867, with members of the Ontario legislature using the title Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) or Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) interchangeably. In 1938, Frederick Fraser Hunter, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lawrence McDonald
John Lawrence McDonald (August 6, 1894 – February 26, 1969) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Stormont in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1951 as a Progressive Conservative member. He was born in Cornwall Township, Ontario Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic .... McDonald served as reeve for the township and was also warden for the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the federal seat in 1953. He died in 1969. References External links *''Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry : a history, 1784-1945'', JG Harkness (1946) 1894 births 1969 deaths People from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Progressive Conservative Party of On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Guindon
Joseph Roméo Fernand Guindon (May 30, 1917 – August 21, 1985) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1957 to 1974 who represented the ridings of Glengarry and then Stormont. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments John Robarts and Bill Davis. Background He was born in Fugèreville, Quebec, the son of Pascal Guindon and Josephine Lalonde, and he was educated in Bourget, Ontario and at the University of Ottawa. He married Claire-Marie Rouette (1917 - 2007). He settled at Apple Hill, Ontario after World War II, later moving to Cornwall. He was secretary for the Chamber of Commerce at Apple Hill. After graduating from school he worked for an Ottawa newspaper called Le Droit and as a translator for the Federal government. He also worked for his father's fuel oil business. In 1956, Guindon and his wife, Claire-Marie, founded a two bay full-service gas station and home heating oil distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stormont (provincial Electoral District)
Stormont may refer to: Peerages * Viscount of Stormont, title in the Peerage of Scotland People * Lord Stormont (1727–1796), British ambassador to France in the 18th century * Robert Stormont (1872–1943), Scottish footballer, played for Preston North End, Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur and Brentford. * Bill Stormont (1898–1925), New Zealand rugby player * Mary Stormont (1871–1962), British painter Structures * On the Stormont Estate: ** Stormont Castle, the seat of the Northern Ireland Executive ** Stormont House, a government building. ** Stormont (cricket ground), first-class cricket ground in the Stormont Estate * Stormont Vail Health, a hospital center in Topeka, Kansas Politics * Stormont, a metonym for: ** Government of Northern Ireland (past and present) ** Northern Ireland Assembly (current) ** Northern Ireland Executive (current) ** Parliament of Northern Ireland (former) Places Canada * Stormont, Nova Scotia, a community in Guysborough County ** ''Stormont I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Liberal Party
The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP; french: Parti libéral de l'Ontario, PLO) is a political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. The party has been led by interim leader John Fraser (Ontario MPP), John Fraser since August 2022. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, and generally sits at the Centrism, centre to Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum, with their rival the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Progressive Conservative Party positioned to the Right-wing politics, right and the Ontario New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party (who at times aligned itself with the Liberals during minority governments), positioned to their Left-wing politics, left. The party has strong informal ties to the Liberal Party of Canada, but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate, though overlapping, memberships. The provincial and federal parties were organizationally the same party until Ontario members of the party vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berwick, Ontario
North Stormont is a lower tier township in eastern Ontario, Canada in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Communities The township of North Stormont comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities: * Finch Township: Berwick, Crysler, Finch; Cahore, Goldfield, Glenpayne * Roxborough Township: Avonmore, Monkland, Moose Creek, Roxborough Gardens, Bloomington, Dyer, Gravel Hill, Lodi, MacDonalds Grove, McMillans Corners (partially), Sandringham, Strathmore, Tayside, Tolmies Corners, Warina, Valley Corners The township administrative offices are located in Berwick. File:Crysler ON.JPG, Crysler File:Finch ON.JPG, Finch File:Monkland ON sign ON138.jpg, Monkland File:Moose Creek ON.JPG, Moose Creek File:Tayside ON.JPG, Tayside File:Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Avonmore, Ontario (I0002517).tiff, Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Avonmore, Ontario, etween 1895 and 1910 History Early settlement in the area began in 1785 Finch Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Ontario
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA, french: Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its elected members are known as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs). Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to become law. Together, the Legislative Assembly and Lieutenant Governor make up the unicameral Legislature of Ontario or Parliament of Ontario. The assembly meets at the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park in the provincial capital of Toronto. Ontario uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government in which members are elected to the Legislative Assembly through general elections using a "first-past-the-post" system. The premier of Ontario (the province's head of government) holds office by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the Legislative Assembly, typically sitting as an MPP themselves and lead the largest party or a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stormont County, Ontario
Stormont County area is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. Stormont was created in 1792, but was settled seven years earlier in 1785. Veterans of Loyalist regiments were among the first settlers. An estimated one third of the pioneers in the county were Highlander, one third German and the rest English, Irish and Lowland Scots people. The original territory of Stormont also included Russell County, which became a separate county in 1800. Stormont later united with Dundas and Glengarry to form the regional government United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Historic Townships *Cornwall (SE): area . Was settled in 1785 by veterans of Sir John Johnson's and other Loyalist companies. Community centres were Moulinette, north Field and Cornwall. This township is now part of South Stormont Township *Finch (NW): Was part of Osnabruck Township until 1798. It was settled in 1785. It is named in honour of Lady Elizabeth Finch, wife of the first Earl of Mansfield. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa Journal
The ''Ottawa Journal'' was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1885 to 1980. It was founded in 1885 by A. Woodburn as the ''Ottawa Evening Journal''. Its first editor was John Wesley Dafoe who came from the ''Winnipeg Free Press''. In 1886, it was bought by Philip Dansken Ross. The paper began publishing a morning edition in 1917. In 1919, the paper's publishers bought the ''Ottawa Free Press'', whose former owner, E. Norman Smith, then became editor with Grattan O'Leary. In 1959, it was bought by F.P. Publications. By then, the ''Journal'', whose readers tended to come from rural areas, was trailing the ''Ottawa Citizen'', its main competitor. The paper encountered labour problems in the 1970s and never really recovered. In 1980, it was bought by Thomson Newspapers and was closed on 27 August 1980. That left Southam Newspapers's ''Ottawa Citizen'' as the only major English-language newspaper in Ottawa (''Le Droit'' remaining the only Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
