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| | King, William Lyon Mackenzie |
 | | King, William Lyon Mackenzie, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE. | | | King called a snap election early in 1940 and his government was returned with an increased majority. | | | King acted as conciliator in a number of strikes, his major legislative achievement being the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907, which delayed strikes or lockouts in public utilities or mines until a conciliation board achieved a settlement or published a report. |
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| | William Lyon Mackenzie King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | King was considered a minor player in the war by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, despite hosting a wartime conference in Quebec City in 1943. | | | Mackenzie King was a cautious politician who tailored his policies to prevailing opinions. | | | King did ask whether his party would win the 1935 election, one of the few times politics came up during his seances. |
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http://www.moorpark.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King
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| | MSN Encarta - Mackenzie King |
| | In 1911 the Liberal government was defeated by the Conservatives in the general election, and King lost his post and his seat in the House of Commons. | | | He was named after his maternal grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie, a leader in an unsuccessful 1837 rebellion against British rule. | | | King accepted and at 25 became deputy minister of labor. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561685/Mackenzie_King.html
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Mackenzie was elected alderman, and the Reformers obtained a majority on the council. | | | Mackenzie, like Jackson, whom he met, was an entrepreneurial radical who strongly supported the independent proprietor and farmer but was hardly an agent for the common man. He returned to York filled with admiration of the United States and its institutions, an attitude soon supplemented by a growing dislike of Great Britain. | | | As mayor, Mackenzie was both head of council and chief magistrate for the city. |
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http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38684
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| | With King’s outstanding friendship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States President Roosevelt it is no wonder it was a cornerstone of the Allied effort. | | | His father a lawyer, and his grandfather William Lyon Mackenzie, to whom he was very close to was the leader of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada. | | | Despite the fact that a recently uncovered scandal involving the a Liberal, King and his party won the 1926 election. |
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/cdnmagz/ww2/bio-king.htm
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| | Commemorative Chairs: Mackenzie King |
| | William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's indomitable Prime Minister, was born in present day Kitchener, Ontario December 17, 1874, the son of a prominent lawyer. | | | King was an excellent student, eventually attending the University of Toronto in 1895, obtaining both his Masterss and law degrees there. | | | King developed a strong working relationship with American President Franklin Roosevelt when the latter took office in January 1933. |
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| | Juno Beach Centre - W.L. Mackenzie King |
| | The son of a lawyer, King was the grandson, on his mother’s side, of William Lyon Mackenzie, one of the leaders of the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada. | | | Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King inspecting guard of honour from the Régiment de la Chaudière, Redhill, England, 1 July 1941. | | | At their 1919 congress, the Liberals choose King as leader. |
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| | The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| | King's close friendships with U.S. President F. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a cornerstone of the Allied movement. | | | King was also able to recognize the varied talents of his party member and filled his Cabinet with the most capable men available. | | | Following the election in 1925, King needed the support of the prairie farmers to maintain his majority government and lost a vote of confidence in 1926. |
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| | The Prime Ministers of Canada - Mackenzie King Biography |
| | King probably was a sexless bachelor and that meant that he devoted all his time to his politics and to running the country, rather than to anything else. | | | Grandfather of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, William Lyon Mackenzie was a colourful figure in pre-Confederation politics known for his radical views. | | | PHOTO: Mackenzie King with his parents and elder sister Bella, ca. |
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| | The close friendship of King with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President F.D. Roosevelt was one of the cornerstones of the Allied effort. | | | MacKenzie King gave back the affection and lived "hanging on his mother's apron strings" for the rest of his life.His father owned a successful law firm in Kitchener and later in Toronto until the mid 1890's. | | | King's record of prime minister is sometimes difficult to judge. |
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| | Historica: Woodsworth Interactive Minute |
| | King was born in Kitchener-Waterloo into a lawyer's family. | | | King resigned as Prime Minister in 1948, and died two years later. | | | In the 1925 election, the Liberals did not win a majority; in an effort to keep his minority government in power, King agreed to introduce old age pensions in return for the votes of the two Labour members of the house, Abraham Heaps and J.S. Woodsworth. |
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http://www.histori.ca/minutes/woodsworth_en/bios_king.html
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| | Early Canada Historical Narratives -- WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE, PART 1 |
| | The golden key was the gift of the Niagara Parks Commission and Prime Minister King said he would keep it in his possession until he died and direct in his will that it be returned to Mackenzie House for permanent keeping. | | | In October 1935 Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King visited Queenston to inspect the deterioration of his grandfather's residence and print shop. | | | Worn out at the age of 29 by his wild and wanton ways, Daniel died within a year of his marriage, leaving a wife, a three-week old son and little else. |
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| | People - Canadian Heritage Gallery |
| | King and Roosevelt Prime Minister King and President Roosevelt, 1936, at a meeting in Quebec. | | | W.L. Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was born in Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, educated at Toronto, Chicago and Harvard, was federal member of parliament 1908-1911, Liberal leader in 1919 and Prime Minister in 1921. | | | Conscription Plebiscite Prime Minister Mackenzie King presents his personal vote in the national plebiscite on conscription, April, 1942. |
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| | Mackenzie, William Lyon |
| | Mackenzie evaded capture and fled to the United States. | | | In 1834 York became the city of Toronto and Mackenzie became its first mayor. | | | He was adored and despised in his own time. |
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| | Information about Canada FDC: 4¢ William Lyon MacKenzie King |
| | King was born in Kitchener (formerly Berlin) Ontario, and studied at Toronto, Chicago, and Harvard. | | | Though he cherished the memory of his rebel grandfather, King was a cautious politician who tailored his policies to prevailing opinions. | | | Canada's longest-serving prime minister and perhaps its shrewdest political tactician, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) held the prime ministership for over twenty-one years. |
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| | CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties |
| | King campaigned on the constitutional issue of the Governor General refusing to accept his earlier request for dissolution, and won the election. | | | Result: Mackenzie King leaned heavily on support from the Progressives to complete his term. | | | Within days, the new government lost a vote of confidence and Byng was forced to dissolve Parliament and allow an election after all. |
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| | Waterloo Historical Society - William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| | Within a year, Mackenzie King retired and within 3 years he had passed away. | | | The University of Waterloo has honored Canada's longest-serving Prime Minister by naming a new residence after him. | | | Mackenzie King always referred to his 8 years at Woodside as the most memorable of his life. |
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| | Historical Studies 521 University of Calgary |
| | Its emphasis was on the private life or the picayune matters, as some argued, instead of the public accomplishments of Prime Minister Mackenzie King. | | | -Neatby, H. Blair, William Lyon Mackenzie King Vol. | | | The most famous example of a biographer presenting the underside of his subject’s life is C.P. Stacey, A Very Double Life: The Private World of Mackenzie King. |
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http://hist.ucalgary.ca/courses/F1999/521L01.htm
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| | King, William Lyon Mackenzie. The Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1931 |
| | The diaries of Mackenzie King document the public and private life of this scholar, civil servant, Minister of Labour, labour consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation, Leader of the Opposition, and Prime Minister. | | | King began his diary in 1893 while he was a student at the University of Toronto and, with only a few gaps, continued to make daily entries up to three days before his death in July 1950. | | | This information may be found in biographies, historical studies, and periodical articles published on Mackenzie King and his times. |
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http://www.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/microtext/collection/pages/kingmack.html
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| | CM Magazine: William Lyon Mackenzie King: Dreams and Shadows. (Quest Library) |
| | Although he sometimes felt unsure and alone in the position of prime minister, King knew he had guidance. | | | As leader of the Liberal party, he served as Prime Minister during a major portion of the first half of the Twentieth Century. | | | Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King felt humbled to receive such a wonderful card for his sixty-ninth birthday. |
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http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol10/no4/williamlyonmackenzieking.html
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| | William Lyon MacKenzie King - Dreams and Shadows |
| | King was Canada’s longest serving prime minister — how could an author capture his life in 30,000 words? | | | It also seemed that his life-long mandate had been to serve the Canadian people, as he believed his grandfather William Lyon Mackenzie, the Rebel leader of 1837-38, had striven to do. | | | It became clear in reading the spiritualist transcripts of the table-rapping sessions he held, King had a good deal of regard for his father. |
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| | Find in a Library: William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. | | | Find in a Library: William Lyon Mackenzie King | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | William Lyon Mackenzie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mackenzie was born in Dundee, Scotland and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1820. | | | William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 – August 28, 1861) was a Canadian journalist, politician and leader of an unsuccessful rebellion. | | | Mackenzie escaped to the United States, and set up a provisional Republic of Canada government on Navy Island in the Niagara River. |
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| | Rt. Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King Quiz Answers |
| | William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister from 1921-1926, 1926-1930,1935-1948. | | | He was forced to flee to the United States. | | | It was changed during the war because of a city of the same name. |
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| | William Lyon MacKenzie King specs at MSN Shopping |
| | Mackenzie King is affixed in popular memory for his seances, his love for his mother, and his dog. | | | King (1874-1950) was Canada's tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War. | | | This fascinating glimpse into the world of Mackenzie King takes into account new material in the final volume of King's diaries, recently opened to the public in the National Archives of... |
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| | Additional Reading (from W.L. Mackenzie King) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Between 1921 and his retirement in 1948, Mackenzie King was prime minister of Canada for a total of more than 21 years. | | | Scottish lawyer who gained the nickname “Bloody Mackenzie” for his prosecution of the Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters; he was founder of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, now the National Library of Scotland. | | | Compton Mackenzie was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. |
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| | “After all, Berlin was our home, we were all children together there |
| | His formative years (birth to 19 years old) were spent in his birthplace, and he never failed to acknowledge the significance of his hometown on his personal development. | | | William Lyon Mackenzie King wrote in his diary that Berlin’s “strong influence of home, school and church, and simple community life among all classes” had well prepared him for public life. | | | King still holds the record as the longest serving Prime Minister in |
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| | Mackenzie King: Citizenship and Community |
| | In this book some of Canada's leading experts on King and his times describe aspects of King's youth in Berlin, his fascination with posterity, his early interest in sociology, and the impact of his unusual community on his later political attitudes. | | | He has also been an advisor to the government on museum policies for Canada and is currently director of the University of Waterloo's Public History Program; he is also the Associate Chair, Graduate in the Department of History and Director of the Tri-University (Waterloo, Laurier, Guelph) Graduate Program in history. | | | Mackenzie King has been regarded as perhaps the most successful of our prime ministers; these essays both evaluate that success and bring new insight to bear on this most remarkable Canadian leader. |
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| | Prime Ministers of Canada - 1867 to Date |
| | Mackenzie King recalled years later that the years spent in this rambling mid-Victorian house "left the most abiding of all impressions" on him. | | | Woodside was leased to John King, a lawyer of means, from 1886 to 1893. | | | The Kings' four children, the second of whom was William (Willie), held fond memories of the time they lived at Woodside, although the family never owned the property. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/pm/index.asp?lang=E¶m=bio&id=10
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| | Mackenzie King, William Lyon on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The grandfathering of William Lyon Mackenzie King (1).(Prime Minister of Canada and Ontario public monument) | | | Canadisk/CanPix 06-15-1989 King, William Lyon Mackenzie; with John D. Rockefeller Jrlater Prime Minister; at a Rockefeller mine 1915StateNAC/ANC C-29350Keyword: Politics, Business 1989 Ottawa Researchers/Dr. Alastair Sweeney | | | MACKENZIE KING, WILLIAM LYON [Mackenzie King, William Lyon] see King, William Lyon Mackenzie. |
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| | William Lyon Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1950 - Library and Archives Canada |
| | This project was made possible with the generous support of the Millennium Bureau of Canada. | | | There are approximately 50 000 pages available for you to access in this on-line database of the Diaries of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, MG26-J13. | | | William Lyon Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1950 - Library and Archives Canada |
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| | WCFIA: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |
| | Randall Morck, professor of economics at the University of Alberta, is the fall 2005 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Canada Seminar Chair, followed in spring 2006 by Laurier Turgeon, professor of history at Laval Univesity. | | | Guest speakers of the Canada Seminar have included Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chretien, as well as Hall of Fame hockey player and former Toronto Maple Leaf President Ken Dryden. | | | Helen Clayton, Program Coordinator, Canada Program; Assistant to Professor Richard Cooper and to the Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies |
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| | Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), Prime Minister of Canada |
| | William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), Prime Minister of Canada | | | The online database contains information on 87,077 works, 48,964 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works. | | | National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE. |
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| | William Lyon MacKenzie quotes |
| | Authors > Wil Wil > William Lyon MacKenzie | | | Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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| | William Lyon Mackenzie King Speech - Heritage Community Foundation |
| | To carry out the government's policy effectively, immigration services will be further developed to meet expanding requirements. | | | William Lyon Mackenzie King Speech - Heritage Community Foundation | | | home » continuity and change » post wwII » king |
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