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| | Prince Edward Island Liberal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Prince Edward Island Liberal Party is a left of center political party in the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. | | | Under Ghiz in the 1980s, the Liberals opposed free trade between Canada and the United States, and the federal Tory government's decision to close a military base on the island. | | | The party is led by Robert Ghiz, a former member of the staff of the Prime Minister's Office staffer under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and son of Joseph A. Ghiz, a former premier of the province. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Prince Edward Island |
| | Prince Edward Island is represented in the Canadian Parliament by four elected representatives in the House of Commons and four senators in the Senate. | | | Since the late 19th century, two parties have dominated electoral politics on Prince Edward Island: the Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. | | | The justices of the supreme court and the provincial court are appointed by the federal government. |
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| | Canada in the Making - Glossary |
| | Became Prince Edward Island's lieutenant-governor from 1854 to 1859 after spending time as a provincial secretary in the Executive Legislature of Canada East during the 1840s. | | | Vancouver Island's governor between 1851 and 1863, and British Columbia's governor from 1858 to 1864. | | | Chapleau was Québec premier from 1879 to 1882, and the province's lieutenant-governor from 1892 to 1898. |
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| | Gray |
| | Gray's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella fasciolata (1861) The Gray's Grasshopper Warbler, Locustella fasciolata, is an As... | | | Spalding Gray Spalding Gray (paranoia and acute self-consciousness. | | | Gray Jay Perisoreus canadensis (1766) The Gray Jay, Perisoreus canadensis, is a medium-sized jay. |
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| | John Hamilton Gray (Prince Edward Island) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | John Hamilton Gray ( 14 June 1811 â 13 August 1887) was Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1863 â 1865 and one of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation. | | | Gray was Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1863 to 1865 and during that time he attempted to alleviate the problems of the tenants by passing the fifteen year purchase act, but the final solution of this question had to await Confederation. | | | Gray was born in 1812, the son of Robert Gray, a United Empire Loyalist from Virginia. |
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| | Executive Council of Prince Edward Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Executive Council of Prince Edward Island is the formal title of the Cabinet of the province. | | | The Council consists of Ministers, headed by the Premier and is formally appointed by the Lieutenant governor on the advice of the Premier (whose formal title is President of the Executive Council). | | | Executive Councils of the Provinces and Territories : |
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| | ELECTION LAW RESOURCES - CHAN ROBLES & ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM |
| | Organic Law of the Supreme Court of Elections and Civil Registry | | | Federal Law on Election of Deputies of the State Duma | | | Decree 1-90 of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, 1990 |
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| | Elections in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 1900 - 9th general election, Liberals, led by Laurier, are re-elected with a second majority. | | | By-elections can be held between general elections when seats become vacant. | | | 1896 - 8th general election, Liberals, led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, are elected with a majority. |
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| | Canadian federal election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. | | | The voter turnout fell by more than 3% from the 2000 federal election which had 64.1% turnout [2]. | | | Polls suggested that the NDP had returned to the 18% to 20% level of support it enjoyed in the 1984 election and 1988 election. |
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| | Executive Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Executive Councils comprise a President and Executive Councillors (" ministers "). | | | An Executive Council in Commonwealth constitutional practice is the top tier of a government led by a Governor-General, Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor ("governor"), and exists to advise the governor of the colony/dominion/realm etc. | | | These Councils have almost the same functions as the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, and accordingly, decsions of the Cabinet gain legal effect by being formally adopted by the Executive Council. |
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| | John Alexander Mathieson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1917, Premier Mathieson left politics to accept an appointment as Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island and served in that position until he retired in 1943. | | | He was a schoolmaster and lawyer before entering politics with his election to the province's legislature as a Conservative in 1900. | | | James Palmer was defeated in a by-election which also caused the governing Liberals to lose their majority in the legislature. |
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| | John Alexander Mathieson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1917, Premier Mathieson left politics to accept an appointment as Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island and served in that position until he retired in 1943. | | | He was a schoolmaster and lawyer before entering politics with his election to the province's legislature as a Conservative in 1900. | | | James Palmer was defeated in a by-election which also caused the governing Liberals to lose their majority in the legislature. |
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| | In the Provincial general election of 1919 he led his party to victory and became the fourteenth premier of Prince Edward Island. | | | Premier John Howatt Bell was the first Island Premier to lead his party from opposition to power and remain with the party as leader until its defeat. | | | His Government was defeated in the general election of 1923 and Premier Bell retired from public life. |
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| | Prince Edward Island |
| | In [1915]] Prince Edward Island's representation the House of Commons was about to from 4 to 3 when the provincial argued that since the province had 4 it could have no less than an number of Members of Parliament. | | | Prince Edward Island entered on July 1 1873. | | | The population is 137 800 (Prince Edward Islanders). |
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| | Find A Grave - Prince Edward Island |
| | Stewart served as the Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1923 to 1927, and from 1931 until his death in office in 1933. | | | He also served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, Member of the Legislative Council, Member of the Executive Council, Solicitor-General of Prince Edward Island, County Court Judge, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | | | He also served as a Member of the Legislative Council, Member of the Legislative Assembly, Member of the Executive Council, Vice Chancellor Puisine Justice of the Prince Edward Island Supreme Court, and was President of the Bank of Prince Edward Island. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Canadian Confederation |
| | Colonel John Hamilton Gray was Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1863 to 1865 and one of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation. | | | Prince Edward Island joined July 1, 1873 (and, as part of the terms of union, was guaranteed a ferry link, a term which was deleted upon completion of the Confederation Bridge in 1997). | | | Edward Barron Chandler (August 22, 1800-February 6, 1880) was a New Brunswick politician and lawyer from a United Empire Loyalist family Chandler moved from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick to study law and remained in the colony. |
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| | John Hamilton Gray (Prince Edward Island politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1858 he was elected to represent the district of 4th Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island as a Conservative. | | | He continued to be an administrator of military affairs until after the eventual Confederation of Prince Edward Island with Canada in 1873. | | | He should not be confused with John Hamilton Gray, a New Brunswick politician (and Father of Confederation) in the same era. |
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| | Descendants of John Randoll, 1470 |
| | Edward Randolph-[15879] was born in 10-1697 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia. | | | Thomas Randolph-[15950] was born on 2-3-1682 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died on 10-21-1729 in Tuckahoe Plantation, Goochland County, Virginia at age 47. | | | John Randolph-[15967] was born on 6-2-1773 in Cawsons, Prince George County, Virginia, died on 5-24-1833 in Roanoke Plantation, Virginia at age 59, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. |
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| | Scotland's Mark on America |
| | Edward Moody McCook, fifth and seventh Governor (1869-73, 1874-75), was of Scottish descent. | | | Edward was Member of Congress from New York (1795-1801), Mayor of New York City (1801-03), Member of Congress from Louisiana (1823-29), United States Senator (1829-31), Secretary of State (1831-33), and Minister to France (1833-35). | | | William Harper (1790-1847), born in Antigua, Leeward Islands, of Scottish parents, was Chancellor of the University of South Carolina (1828-30, 1835-47) and Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina (1830-35). |
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| | Prince Edward Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Prince Edward Island is the first province in Canada to elect a Premier of non-European descent (Joseph Atallah Ghiz) in 1986. | | | At the time of Confederation, Prince Edward Island's Parliamentary representation consisted of 6 seats in the House of Commons and 4 seats in the Senate. | | | Prince Edward Island (simply PEI or P.E.I. French, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Scottish Gaelic, Eilean a’ Phrionns or Eilean Eòin) is a Canadian province situated in the Maritimes. |
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| | Woodard v. Prince Edward Island (Minister of Provincial Affairs) |
| | H-12, to investigate the complaint of the applicants that they were discriminated against in their employment on he basis of their political belief, err in law in that the said minister was influenced by political and administrative factors in his decision, contrary to the provisions of the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Act. | | | Prince Edward Island Supreme Court - Trial Division DesRoches J. Heard: January 22 and 26, 1996. | | | The Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission (1993), 2 P.E.I.R. 377 (P.E.I.S.C.T.D.), the Commission undertook a re-examination of complaints in respect of which it had earlier formed the opinion that insufficient evidence existed to substantiate a complaint of political discrimination. |
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| | Prince Edward Island |
| | The Island is represented by 4 members of Parliament, elected from the ridings of Egmont, Malpeque, Hillsborough and Cardigan, and 4 senators. | | | In spite of its high density the Island is the second-most rural province in the nation (after Nunavut), as 44.8% of the population is classed as urban. | | | The present land surface of the Island ranges from nearly level in the west to hilly in the central region and to gently rolling hills in the east. |
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| | Prince Edward Island: Premiers of PEI, ALEXANDER BRADSHAW CAMPBELL |
| | He went on to Dalhousie Law School where he obtained his degree in law and was admitted to the Bar of Prince Edward Island in 1959. | | | Campbell was elected Leader of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party and acted in that capacity for one full session of the Legislative Assembly in 1966. | | | in Summerside on December 1, 1933, the son of Thane Alexander Campbell, a former Premier and Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island and Cecilia L. Bradshaw. |
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| | Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Island New Democrats, is a social democratic, party as they are currently known, is a branch of the Canadian New Democratic Party on Prince Edward Island. | | | In the 1996 election, the party captured 7.8% of the vote, and elected Dr. Dickieson to the house for the riding of West Prince (now called West Point-Bloomfield). | | | In 1974, the NDP contested their first provincial election on the island and got 5.9% of the vote, but due to internal bickering, the party fell in the polls. |
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| | Arsenault, Aubin-Edmond |
| | Premier of Prince Edward Island (born on July 28, 1870 at Abrams Village, P.E.I.; died on Apr 29, 1968 at Charlottetown, P.E.I. Arsenault was the first Acadian to become premier of P.E.I. He was proud of his Acadian heritage and was active in preserving its culture. | | | Arsenault was one of the first to recognize the important role that tourism would play in the economy of the Island. | | | From 1921 to 1945 he was a judge of the Supreme Court. |
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| | Institute of Island Studies |
| | Prince Edward Island, Election Act and Electoral Boundaries Commission, Changing the Political Landscape: Report of the Election Act and Electoral Boundaries Commission (March 1994). | | | On Prince Edward Island the most obvious effect of this disproportionality is the frequent decimation of opposition parties in the Legislature. | | | This is evident in the rise of a third party on the Island, the New Democratic Party, which has attracted five, eight and eight per cent of the popular vote respectively over the last three elections. |
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| | Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Island New Democrats, is a social democratic political party in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and a branch of the national New Democratic Party. | | | In 1974, the NDP contested their first provincial election on the island and got 5.9% of the vote, but due to internal bickering, the party fell in the polls. | | | In the 1996 election, the party captured 7.8% of the vote, and elected Dr. Dickieson to the house for the riding of West Point-Bloomfield. |
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| | Prince Edward Island |
| | Binns, Premier and Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, was born October 8, 1948. | | | He was elected to the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly in 1978. | | | Binns was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for District 5, Murray River-Gaspereaux, in the general election of November 18, 1996. |
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| | County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | County sheriffs are the principal agents of law enforcement in some states, for areas outside of cities and towns. | | | At the county level there is a county administrative board led by a governor appointed by the central government of Sweden, as well as an elected county council that handles a separate set of issues, notably hospitals and public transportation. | | | Lists of counties by state can be found through U.S. counties; for more comparative information on U.S. counties, see county statistics of the United States. |
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| | Prince Edward Island: Executive Council |
| | Ministers are appointed to the Executive Council by the Lieutenant Governor on the advice of the First Minister, who is leader of the political party having the confidence of the Legislative Assembly. | | | The Executive Council consists of the Ministers of the Crown who advise the Lieutenant Governor. | | | The terms "Premier" and "Cabinet" are used in popular speech to refer to the First Minister and the Executive Council. |
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