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Nipissing (electoral District)
Nipissing was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 2004. It was located in the northeastern part of Ontario, Canada. When it was first created, the riding took in the eastern half of Northeastern Ontario, including the towns of North Bay, Ontario, North Bay and Greater Sudbury, Sudbury. Before 1892, this region was part of the electoral district of Renfrew North (federal electoral district), Renfrew North. It initially consisted of the temporary judicial district of Nipissing, and the townships of Head, Clara and Maria in the county of Renfrew, and a part of the district of Algoma. In 1892, it was redefined to consist of the townships of Airey, Appleby, Awrey, Badgerow, Ballantyne, Biggar, Bishop, Blezard, Bonfield, Boulter, Bower, Boyd, Broder, Butt, Caldwell, Calvin, Cameron, Canisbay, Chisholm, Clara, Deacon, Devine, Dill, Dryden, Dunnet, Ferris, Field, Finlayson, Fitzgerald, French, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nipissing District, Ontario
Nipissing District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay. In 2021, the population was 84,716. The land area is ; the population density was , making it one of the most densely populated districts in northern Ontario. History The Sudbury District was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The Timiskaming District was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury Districts. Subdivisions City: * North Bay Towns: * Mattawa * Temagami * West Nipissing In addition, the eastern part of the town of Kearney is within Nipissing District, but the entire town is enumerated with the Parry Sound District. Townships: * Bonfield * Calvin * Chisholm * East Ferris * Mattawan * Papineau-Cameron * South Algonquin Unorganized areas: * North Part (Local services boards in this unorganized areas include Redbridge, Thorne, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Klock
James Bell Klock (October 5, 1856 – June 14, 1927) was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1900. He was a member of the Conservative Party. Klock was born in Aylmer, Canada East, the son of Robert H. Klock, an early lumberman in the Ottawa Valley, and was educated in Aylmer and Berthier. Before entering politics, he was a farmer. In 1883, Klock married Alice, daughter of judge William McDougall. He was involved in the timber trade and also raised livestock. Klock took over the lumber company established by his father at Klock's Mills south of Mattawa. He was also a director of the Crystal Gold Mining Company and president of the Quinze El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Legault
Carl Legault (January 2, 1923 – March 12, 1983) was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the House of Commons of Canada from 1964 to 1972. He represented the Liberal Party. Before entering politics, Legault was a furniture retailer in Sturgeon Falls. He was first elected in a 1964 byelection, following the death of the district's longtime MP Jack Garland. He was reelected in the 1965 and 1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ... elections, and then retired from politics in 1972. He died in 1983 and was buried at Sturgeon Falls.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~murrayp/nipissin/sturgeon/st_mary1/legaul24.jpg References External links * 1923 births 1983 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Dickerson
Merle Dickerson (1911/1912 – June 9, 1984) was a Canadian politician, who served as a longtime mayor of North Bay, Ontario."Colourful mayor of North Bay was last old-style politician". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 11, 1984. A "colourful" populist, he was frequently re-elected despite various legal infractions. Early life Originally from Lindsay, Dickerson was involved in municipal politics in Lindsay in his early 20s, and was briefly barred from holding office in a conflict of interest charge over his business dealings with the town's hydroelectricity commission. He later served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II before moving to North Bay, where he worked as a building contractor. He ran as a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidate in Nipissing in the 1949 federal election, losing to Jack Garland. During this time, he was also found guilty of using his position as chair of North Bay's hydroelectricity commission to illegally tap into power lines to pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Garland (Canadian Politician)
John Richard Garland (January 1, 1918 – March 14, 1964) was a Canadian politician, who was a longtime member of the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Nipissing. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Garland was first elected in 1949, when incumbent member Léo Gauthier moved to represent the new Sudbury riding. He was reelected in every subsequent election until his death in 1964. Garland was appointed Minister of National Revenue in the government of Lester Pearson in 1963, and held that cabinet position when he died. He was given a state funeral. As a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada he was entitled to use the honorific The Honourable. The airport in North Bay is named Jack Garland Airport and John Garland Boulevard in Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welland Gemmell
Welland Stewart Gemmell (October 10, 1910 – June 18, 1954) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 until his death in 1954. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Gemmell won the riding in the 1948 election, following a rift in the Sudbury area's labour movement which resulted in vote splitting between incumbent MPP Robert Carlin and a new CCF candidate. Gemmell was appointed to the cabinet of Leslie Frost, serving as Minister of Mines from May 4, 1949 to June 3, 1952, and thereafter as Minister of Lands and Forests until June 18, 1954. He died of a heart attack at a hotel in North Bay on June 18, 1954. A byelection was not called to replace Gemmell following his death; the Sudbury riding instead remained vacant until it was won by Gerry Monaghan in the 1955 provincial election."J. L Gauthier, MP:: Councils Only Puppets For Frost Government". ''The Globe and Mail ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Gauthier
Jeremiah Léoda Gauthier (December 29, 1904 – January 17, 1964) was a Canadian Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1958.C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital''. Dundurn Press, 1993. . p. 209. A member of the Liberal Party caucus, he represented three different ridings over the course of his career as the city of Sudbury grew in size and importance to warrant one, and then two, ridings of its own."Northern MP For 13 Years, Retired in 1958". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 18, 1964. Background Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, Gauthier owned a lumber company in the Sudbury area, and was one of the founding shareholders in Sudbury Broadcasting, F. Baxter Ricard's radio company which established CHNO and CFBR. He was active in politics as an organizer, and as campaign manager for provincial MPP James Cooper. He also served on the boards of the Sudbury Wolves and the Victorian Order of Nurses. Political career In the 1945 election, he was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Morel (Canadian Politician)
Henri Morel (July 21, 1867 ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1912'', EJ Chambers – 1934, ) was an Ontario butcher and political figure. He represented Nipissing in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1919 and from 1923 to 1930 as a Conservative member. His name also appears as Henry Morel. He was born in Rimouski, Quebec, the son of Xavier Morel, and educated in Arnprior, Ontario Arnprior is a town in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Arnprior has experienced significant growth in populations with the widening of the Ontario Highway 417 to four lanes. The town experienced an increase in population by 8.4% from 2011 to 2 .... In 1890, he married Alexina Bangs. He lived in Mattawa. Morel ran unsuccessfully for the Nipissing seat in the House of Commons in 1930. He died in 1934. References 1867 births 1934 deaths Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Franco-Ontarian people People from Rimouski People from Mattawa, Ontario 20th-century me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Hurtubise
Joseph Raoul Hurtubise (July 1, 1882 – January 31, 1955) was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the House of Commons of Canada from 1930 to 1945. He was a member of the Liberal Party. Before entering politics, Hurtubise was a surgeon. He left electoral politics in 1945, when he was appointed to the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el .... He sat as a senator until his death in 1955. References Sources * 1882 births 1955 deaths Canadian senators from Ontario Franco-Ontarian people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Liberal Party of Canada senators Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 20th-century members of the Senate of Canada {{Libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Laberge
Joseph Alfred (Fred) Laberge (February 16, 1893 - March 27, 1964) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Sudbury, Ontario in 1920 and 1921. Laberge was the son of Jean-Baptiste Laberge, who founded the Laberge Lumber Company and constructed many of the earliest buildings in Sudbury."Laberge Lumber Company Founded 38 Years Ago, Has 52 on Payroll". ''Sudbury Star'', May 8, 1936. p. 6. He later took over management of the company from his father. Elected mayor in 1920,Wallace, C. M.; & Thomson, Ashley (Eds.) (1993). ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital'' (3rd ed.). Dundurn Press. . Laberge was at 27 years old the youngest mayor ever elected in Sudbury at that point. He was also the first mayor to have been born in Sudbury, and the first francophone to hold the mayoralty since Francis Lemieux in 1903. His election marked at least a temporary end to linguistic tensions between the city's anglophone and francophone communities initiated by the Conscription Crisis of 1917, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Lapierre
Edmond Anthony Lapierre (25 January 1866 – 20 June 1960) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative. Lapierre attended St. Mary's Academy in Montreal. He worked with Greenshields in that city for 18 years. Moving to northern Ontario, he became a member of Sudbury's Board of Trade and was a director of the Mattawa Fur Company, and served on various associations. He was first elected to Parliament at the Nipissing riding in the 1921 general election after an unsuccessful campaign as a Laurier Liberal there in the 1917 election. Lapierre was re-elected in 1925 over Conservative candidate John Ferguson, and in 1926 over Conservative candidate and former Sudbury mayor Alfred Laberge. He left federal politics at the end of his term in the 16th Canadian Parliament and did not seek another term in the 1930 election. He was subsequently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario The Legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Robert Harrison
Charles Robert Harrison (July 3, 1868 – February 7, 1946) was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1921. He was a Conservative member of Robert Borden's Unionist caucus. Harrison, who was born in Frodingham, Lincolnshire, England, was a train conductor before entering politics. He served only a single term, and was defeated by Edmond Lapierre in the 1921 election. He subsequently served a term in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the provincial electoral district of Nipissing from 1930 to 1934 as a member of the Conservatives Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilizati .... External links * * 1868 births 1946 deaths Unionist Party (Canada) MPs Members of the House of Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |