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	William Lyon Mackenzie William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861, Canadian journalist and insurgent leader, b. Scotland; grandfather of William Lyon Mackenzie King . Emigrating to Upper Canada in 1820, he published (1824-34), first at Queenston, then at York (later Toronto), his noted Colonial Advocate. In it he vigorously att... Read more
	William Lyon Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950, Canadian political leader, b. Kitchener, Ont.; grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie. An expert on labor questions, he served in Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal administration as deputy minister of labor (1900-1908) and minister of labor (1909-11) and was editor (1900-... Read more
	Sir William Mackenzie Sir William Mackenzie 1849-1923, Canadian railroad builder and financier, b. Ontario. In the early 1870s he became a railroad contractor. He constructed portions of the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific railroads. Entering (c.1888) into partnership with Sir Donald Mann, another Canadian Pa... Read more
	Caroline Affair Caroline Affair In 1837 a group of men led by William Lyon Mackenzie rebelled in Upper Canada (now Ontario), demanding a more democratic government. There was much sympathy for their cause in the United States, and a small steamer, the Caroline, owned by U.S. citizens, carried men and supplies ... Read more
	Louis Joseph Papineau Louis Joseph Papineau , 1786-1871, French Canadian political leader and insurgent, b. Montreal. After serving as an officer in the War of 1812, he entered (1814) the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada (Quebec), of which he was (1815-37) speaker. Eloquent and able, he soon became leader of the Fren... Read more
	Robert Baldwin Robert Baldwin 1804-58, Canadian statesman, leader of the movement for representative government in Canada, b. York (now Toronto), Ont. His father, William Warren Baldwin (1775-1844), was a leader of the Reform party and a supporter of the principle of responsible (i.e., cabinet) government in the ... Read more
	Liberal party Liberal party Canadian political party. Prior to confederation in 1867, reform parties advocating greater local participation in provincial governments, free trade, and increased separation of church and state existed in Canada West, Canada East, and the Maritime Provinces. After 1867 although the ... Read more
	Kitchener Kitchener city (1991 pop. 168,282), Regional Municipality of Waterloo, S Ont., Canada, in the Grand River valley. Settled largely by Mennonites from Pennsylvania in 1806, it was known as Berlin until 1916, when it was renamed in memory of Lord Kitchener. Its products include packaged meats, metal a... Read more
	Peter Warren Dease Peter Warren Dease , 1788-1863, Canadian explorer. He was in the North West Company before its merger with the Hudson's Bay Company and later was a Hudson's Bay Company trader. He was a member of the party of Sir John Franklin's second arctic expedition. Later he and Thomas Simpson (see under Simps... Read more
	Arctic Red River Arctic Red River c.310 mi (500 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts. of W Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Mackenzie River. At its mouth are a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the village of Tsiigehtchic, formerly Arctic Red River. ... Read more

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	Memories of William Lyon Mackenzie King to be shared.(LOCAL) Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario); 6/23/2009; 340 words ; ...of the Waterloo Historical Society and friends will share personal remembrances of meetings with prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during a visit to his boyhood home. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. on July 4 at Woodside National Historic...
	The grandfathering of William Lyon Mackenzie King (1).(Prime Minister of Canada and Ontario public monument) Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...of governors, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) exercised...means both of altering public memory and reconstituting his own sense...1876-1955) monument to William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) has stood since...
	Love among the ruins: the King of Kingsmere.(William Lyon Mackenzie King) Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; William Lyon Mackenzie King often said that he...parallels that preoccupied Mackenzie King throughout his life...inner disposition that Mackenzie King brought to a far larger...his lurid devotion to the memory of his mother can be found...
	The sideways March: Mackenzie King's monumental quest, 1893-1940.(Report) Magazine article from: Ontario History; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; William Lyon Mackenzie King knew how to work up a grand occasion...King's estimation of the role that William Lyon Mackenzie had played in the evolution of responsible...memorial was erected to honour the memory of the men and women in this land...
	Young family plagued by health, financial setbacks ; The York County couple still have hopes of sharing the joys of Christmas with their baby daughter. Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 12/10/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...143.99 In loving memory of my husband...of my husband, William G. Knudsen, from...15 Gil and Sandy Lyons $20 In memory of Michael J. Wiley...Bobby Morey $20 In memory of our grandmother...Erica, Nathan, Mackenzie, Ben, Ethan...
	Penumbra press. ('Our View'). Magazine article from: Canadian Speeches; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...near Cornwall, even after William Lyon Mackenzie had fled the colony. Scott...nightmares, which return him in memory to childhood poverty in Muskoka...s first premier, and even William Lyon Mackenzie King, though it is stretching...
	The political name game Newspaper article from: The Brandon Sun; 2/10/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...overstated. And I think honouring their memory by naming a lot of places after them...can find a traffic sign pointing to the MacKenzie King Bridge. It's Mackenzie King, as in William Lyon Mackenzie King, the man who was Canada's longest...
	Shades of Gray? "The Foundations of Canadian Policy in World Affairs" in context.(Louis St. Laurent's speech) Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...actions (or inactions) that characterized the era of William Lyon Mackenzie King. (7) In other words, the remarks have typically...series endowed by George Leishman Gray to honor the memory of his dead sons, Duncan and John Gray. The stated...
	Sally Rands. Magazine article from: Esprit de Corps; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's perpetual Prime Minister...the ocean and sink it without trace or memory." The St. Laurent, a River class...1951, at the height of the Cold War, Mackenzie King was no longer around to complain...
	The life of Yosh Tashiro.(Young Historians)(Biography) Magazine article from: Manitoba History; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...only vaguely sketched in our memories. For most of us, our heritage...December 7th, 1941. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced that all Japanese...faded in 1944. Prime Minister Mackenzie King stated, "It is a fact...