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Qu'Appelle (territorial Electoral District)
Qu'Appelle was a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of North-West Territories, Canada. The riding was created as a single member electoral district by royal proclamation in 1883. In 1885 the riding was mandated to return two members to the Assembly (elected by block voting). In 1888 the riding was split into North Qu'Appelle and South Qu'Appelle. The redistribution was caused by the ''North-West Representation Act 1880'' passing through the Parliament of Canada. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) Election results 1883 1885 in 1885, the district elected two members. Each voter could cast up to two votes. 1886 1887 See also * List of Northwest Territories territorial electoral districts * Canadian provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non- coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts in the So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces And Territories Of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully Independence, independent country over the next century. Over its history, Canada's international borders have changed several times as it has added territories and provinces, making it the List of countries and dependencies by area, world's second-largest country by area. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (formerly called the ''British North America Acts, British North America Act, 1867''), whereas territories are federal territories whose governments a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crawford (Canadian Politician)
Robert Crawford (11 August 1834 – 22 September 1897) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician. He served on the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories for Qu'Appelle from 1886 to 1888. Crawford was born in Port Glasgow, the son of Andrew Crawford. After receiving his education at Greenock, he came to Canada in 1849. He initially farmed at the Island of Montreal, but would later gain employment with the Hudson's Bay Company as a clerk in 1854. He earned a commission in 1867 as Chief Trader at Lindsay, Ontario, then worked as Chief Trader or Factor at Nipigon, Ontario, Red Rock, Ontario and Fort Chimo until 1877 when he retired. He moved to Brockville, Ontario where he lived until 1882, when he moved west to Indian Head, North West Territories. At Indian Head he operated a general store, Crawford & Robinson. He married Elizabeth Miles, the daughter of Robert Seaborn Miles, a fellow Hudson's Bay Company employee, in August 1863. He resided at Indian Head where he operated hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Northwest Territories Territorial Electoral Districts
Northwest Territories territorial electoral districts are currently single member ridings that each elect one member to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. Current Defunct * Banff (territorial electoral district) * Batoche (territorial electoral district) * Battleford (territorial electoral district) * Broadview (territorial electoral district) * Calgary (territorial electoral district) * Cardston (territorial electoral district) * Central Arctic * Cumberland (territorial electoral district) * East Calgary (territorial electoral district) * Eastern Arctic * Edmonton (territorial electoral district) * High River (territorial electoral district) * Hudson Bay (Northwest Territories electoral district) * Innisfail (territorial electoral district) * Inuvik (electoral district) * Kinistino (territorial electoral district) * Lacombe (territorial electoral district) * Lethbridge (territorial electoral district) * Lorne (electoral district) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi Thompson
Levi ( ; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites. Most scholars view the Torah as projecting the origins of the Levites into the past to explain their role as landless cultic functionaries. Origins The Torah suggests that the name ''Levi'' refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to Human reproduction#Copulation, ''join'' with her, implying a derivation from Hebrew language, Hebrew ''yillaweh'', meaning ''he will join'', but scholars suspect that it may simply mean "priest", either as a loanword or by referring to those people who were ''joined'' to the Ark of the Covenant. Another possibility is that the Levites were a tribe of Judah not from the clan of Moses or Aaron and that the name "Levites" indicates their ''j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (politician)
George Senze Davidson (born: c. 1850 Ohio – died: 1935) was a hotel owner, farmer and politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. He came to Perth County in Canada West with his parents in 1852. From 1870 to 1876, Davidson was printer and publisher of the ''Listowel Banner''. He then moved to Palmerston, where he was a general merchant and served as town mayor, resigning in 1883 to move to the Northwest. Davidson was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the 1888 Northwest Territories general election for the riding of South Qu'Appelle. He ran for a second term in office in the 1891 Northwest Territories general election defeating George Bulyea George Hedley Vicars Bulyea (February 17, 1859 – July 22, 1928) was a Canadian politician and the first Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. As the youngest ever Lieutenant Governor, at age 46, he was appointed by Governor General Earl Grey on a .... Davidson was defeated running for a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus McKay (Manitoba Politician)
Angus Augustin McKay (born Auguste McKay; 1 November 1836 – 1 September 1910) was a Canadian politician who represented the Conservative Party in the riding of Marquette, Manitoba. He was elected on 2 March 1871 in a by-election. His term ended on 8 July 1872. He was the first aboriginal Canadian elected to the House of Commons of Canada. Biography He was born in 1836 at the Red River Colony. A Roman Catholic, McKay appears to have identified with the French-speaking community of his mother rather than with the English-speaking, Presbyterian background of his father, a Scottish fur trader. His mother's ancestors were Cree and French Canadian. His brother James was also a fur trader like their father. Political career Although Métis, he was opposed to Louis Riel's (the spiritual leader of the Métis people) methods for dealing with the Canadian government. He was arrested by Riel in March 1870 because of his political stance. That same year he was elected to the Legislativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 North-West Territories Election
The 1885 North-West Territories election was the first major election in the history of the territory. On 15 September 1885, 11 members were elected in separate elections or by acclamation. The elections saw members acclaimed and elected in various electoral districts to the 1st Council of the North-West Territories. The elections were held to elect members to new districts, created to cope with rapid growth of settlers in the NWT at the time. These new districts were drawn in the wake of the North-West Rebellion of spring 1885. Elections were also held in established electoral districts to renew members terms at the end of three years as per North-West Territories law at the time. The election was not considered a general election, since it did not involve every electoral district, and was not caused by the dissolution of the council. The election was followed by the 1st North-West Territories general election three years later, in 1888 at the completion of the members' th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sutherland (N
William Sutherland may refer to: * William Sutherland of Roscommon (died 1715), Member of the Scottish Parliament * William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland (1708–1750), Scottish nobleman * William Sutherland (British Army officer), fought in the American Revolutionary War * William Sutherland (Northwest Territories politician) (1854–1930), general merchant and political figure in the Northwest Territories, Canada * William Sutherland (physicist) (1859–1911), Australian physicist * William Charles Sutherland (1865–1940), speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada * William Garner Sutherland (1873–1954), American osteopath * William A. Sutherland (California politician) (1874–1935), American lawyer and California State Assemblyman * William Andrew Sutherland (1849–1908), New York lawyer and politician * William A. Sutherland (American football) (1876–1969), American football coach and lawyer * William Henry Sutherland (1876–1945), physician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dell Perley
William Dell Perley (February 6, 1838 – July 15, 1909) was a farmer and politician from western Canada. He served as a member of the North-West Territories Council from 1885 to 1887, MP in the House of Commons from 1887 to 1888, and then as a Canadian senator. William had an extensive political career, he ran at least twice for the House of Commons of Canada in Sunbury electoral district as a Conservative being defeated both times in 1878 and 1882 in hotly contested and very close elections. He moved out west to the Regina area in the North-West Territories and ran for the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories in the brand new Qu'Appelle electoral district in the 1885 North-West Territories election and won the second of two seats in the district. He resigned his territorial seat two years prior to running in the 1887 Canadian federal election when he won one of the first House of Commons of Canada seats in the North-West Territories. A forceful speaker,"The P ... [...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 Canadian 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. Beginning with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wesley Jackson
Thomas Wesley Jackson (6 June 1859 – 26 February 1934) was a Canadian politician. He served on the 1st Council of the North-West Territories for Qu'Appelle from 1884 to 1886. Jackson was born in Downsview, Canada West, of Irish ancestry. He worked as a lawyer for a time in Chatham, Ontario, before moving to the Qu'Appelle Valley in 1880. At Qu'Appelle he would farm and get involved with the railway, eventually raising to the position of President of the Qu'Appelle and Wood Mountain Railway. He was also a justice of the peace. He was elected in 1883 to the Council of the North-West Territories, and resigned his seat in September 1886, owing to his activities as president of the railway. He later resided at Indian Head, Saskatchewan Indian Head is a town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada, east of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina on the Trans-Canada Highway. It "had its beginnings in 1882 as the first settlers, mainly of Scottish origin, pushed into the area in advance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Canada
The Parliament of Canada () is the Canadian federalism, federal legislature of Canada. The Monarchy of Canada, Crown, along with two chambers: the Senate of Canada, Senate and the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons, form the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature. The 343 members of the lower house, the House of Commons, are styled as Member of Parliament (Canada), ''Members of Parliament'' (MPs), and each elected to represent an Electoral district (Canada), electoral district (also known as a riding). The 105 members of the upper house, the Senate, are styled ''senators'' and appointed by the Governor General of Canada, governor general on the advice of the Prime Minister of Canada, prime minister. Collectively, MPs and senators are known as ''parliamentarians''. Bills may originate in either the House of Commons or the Senate, however, bills involving raising or spending funds must originate in the House of Commons. By Constitutional convention (political custom), cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
