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Curtis James Bird
Curtis James Bird (baptized 1 February 1838 – 13 June 1876) was a Canadians, Canadian medical doctor, politician, and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Speaker of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly from 1873 to 1874. Bird graduated from St John's College in Winnipeg) and later studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London before returning to Canada to practice medicine and later as coroner. Bird, Henry Septimus Beddome, John Christian Schultz and others were the founders of the Medical Health Board of Manitoba which was incorporated in 1871 and became the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba in 1877. He was the youngest son of James Curtis Bird, James Bird, a long time Hudson's Bay Company, HBC employee who ended his career at the Red River Settlement. An older half brother, James Bird (fur trader), James Bird (Jimmy Jock) had a long career as a free trader and sometimes HBC employee. References * Manitoba Historical Society - ''Memorable Manito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Manitoba
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba () is the deliberative assembly of the Manitoba Legislature in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly at List of Manitoba general elections, provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post voting. Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Manitoba in the name of the King of Canada. The Manitoba Legislative Building is located in central Winnipeg. The premier of Manitoba is Wab Kinew, and the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is Tom Lindsey. Both are members of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, New Democratic Party. Historically, the Legislature of Manitoba had another chamber, the Legislative Council of Manitoba, but this was abolished in 1876, just six years after the province was formed. The 42nd Manitoba Legislature, 42nd Legislature was dissolved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Septimus Beddome
Henry Septimus Beddome (March 21, 1830''England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970'' – March 24, 1881) was an English-Canadian physician and a Hudson's Bay Company employee. Henry was born in London, England, to Protestant nonconformist parents William Beddome and Eleanor Smith. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London. He migrated to Canada and became "Surgeon and Clerk" at York Factory in Manitoba for five years starting in 1852. After this term, he traveled to the Red River Colony where he met and married Frances Omand. In 1859, the family returned to York Factory for another five-year contract. Beddome and his family returned to Red River in 1864 where he established a practice and a permanent residence near St Andrew's Church. It is said that when Louis Riel went into hiding in 1870, Beddome may have concealed him for a time. Henry Beddome and fellow doctors, including Curtis James Bird and John Christian Schultz were the founders of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speakers Of The Legislative Assembly Of Manitoba
Speaker most commonly refers to: * Speaker, a person who produces speech * Loudspeaker, a device that produces sound ** Computer speakers Speaker, Speakers, or The Speaker may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Speaker (song), "Speaker" (song), by David Banner, 2008 * Speakers (Sam Hunt song), "Speakers" (Sam Hunt song), 2014 * ''The Speaker'', the second book in Traci Chee's Sea of Ink and Gold trilogy, 2017 * The Speaker (periodical), ''The Speaker'' (periodical), a British weekly review, 1890 to 1907 * The Speaker (TV series), ''The Speaker'' (TV series), a British television series, 2009 People * Tris Speaker (1888–1958), American baseball player * Raymond Speaker (born 1935), Canadian politician Politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer of a legislative body, including ** Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada) ** Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) ** Speaker of the United States House of Representatives *** Mike Johnson (born 1972), curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Rupert's Land
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. *January 27 – The Northampton Bank robbery occurs in Massachusetts. February * February 2 ** The National League (baseball), National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago; it replaces the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president. ** Third Carlist War (Spain): Battle of Montejurra – The new commander General Fernando Primo de Rivera marches on the remaining Carlist stronghold at Estella-Lizarra, Estella, where he meets a force of about 1,600 men under General Carlos Calderón, at nearby Montejurra. After a courageous and costly defence, Calderón is forced to withdraw. * February 14 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a U.S. patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. * Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1838 Births
Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange, London, Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration of Morse's new invention, the telegraph. * January 21 – The first known report about the Lowest temperature recorded on Earth, lowest temperature on Earth is made, indicating in Yakutsk. * January 23 – A 1838 Vrancea earthquake, 7.5 earthquake strikes the Romanian district of Vrancea County, Vrancea causing damage in Moldavia and Wallachia, killing 73 people. * February 6 – Boer explorer Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith. * February 17 – Weenen massacre: Zulu impis massacre about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoikhoi and Sotho people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bird (fur Trader)
James Bird (Jimmy Jock) ( c. 1798 – 11 December 1892) was a fur trader, hunter, interpreter, and guide in both western Canada and the United States. He was probably born at one of the first editions of Fort Carlton which came to be known as Carlton House. His father, James Curtis Bird, was a Hudson's Bay Company Factor there for a time. James began an apprenticeship with HBC, first at York Factory and later at Edmonton House completing it in 1815. He spent a short time as a captive of the North West Company while serving at Fort Qu’Appelle in 1816. By 1821 he left the company and became a free trader in the west on both sides of the border. He worked for both the HBC trader Peter Skene Ogden and the American Fur Company over the next 10 years, providing a link between the Indians and these companies. He was married into the Peigan tribe at the time. James or Jimmy Jock as he became known, continued to guide, interpret, and work for a variety of sources during the next y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the namesake Hudson's Bay (department store), Hudson's Bay department stores (colloquially The Bay), and also owns or manages approximately of gross leasable real estate through its HBC Properties and Investments business unit. HBC previously owned the full-line Saks Fifth Avenue and off-price Saks Off 5th in the United States, which were spun-off into the Saks Global holding company in 2024. After incorporation by royal charter issued in 1670 by Charles II of England, King Charles II, the company was granted a right of "sole trade and commerce" over an expansive area of land known as Rupert's Land, comprising much of the Hudson Bay drainage basin. This right gave the company a monopoly, commercial monopoly over that area. The HBC functioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Curtis Bird
James Bird ( c. 1773 – 18 October 1856) was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader. He was born in England and came to Canada in 1788. Bird made steady progress within the company serving his apprenticeship in York Factory and then moving on to more westerly posts which he first visited with the HBC inland master, William Tomison. They included Cumberland House, Saskatchewan and Buckingham House in Alberta. Bird was named chief factor of the Lower Red River district in 1821. He had previously served as the acting HBC governor of Rupert’s Land. At the end of his career, he was an important figure with the company in the Red River Colony. It was there that he married his last wife, having had one or more previous wives according to the customs of the country. He retired there and had a large property at what is now Birds Hill which was named after him. His last son, Curtis James Bird Curtis James Bird (baptized 1 February 1838 – 13 June 1876) was a Canadians, Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of Physicians And Surgeons Of Manitoba
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba is a regulatory college which acts as a medical oversight body in Manitoba, Canada. Its stated purpose is to "protect the public as consumers of medical care and promote the safe and ethical delivery of quality medical care by physicians in Manitoba". , College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, accessed 11 August 2007. Notes External links College Home Page Medical and health organizations based in Manitoba [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christian Schultz
Sir John Christian Schultz (January 1, 1840 – April 13, 1896) was a Manitoba politician and businessman.Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker, Vol. II: pg. 100. Vintage Canada, 2012. Print. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1871 to 1882, a Senator from 1882 to 1888, and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1888 to 1895. Background Schultz was born in Amherstburg, Upper Canada (now Ontario). Despite being raised in a poor household, he saved enough money to study medicine at Queen's College in Kingston (1858–60) and Victoria College in Cobourg (1860–61). He did not graduate from either institution, but nonetheless advertised himself as a "Physician and Surgeon" after moving to the Red River settlement later in 1861 (it is unknown if he purchased a degree, as was legal at the time).See Paragraph 2 oBiography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''/ref> He also worked as a businessman and speculator in this area, and eventually owned a numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy in 1721, located in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. It is the large teaching hospital of GKT School of Medical Education. The hospital's Tower Wing (originally known as Guy's Tower) was, when built in 1974, the tallest hospital building in the world, standing at with 34 floors. The tower was overtaken as the world's tallest healthcare-related building by The Belaire in New York City in 1988. As of June 2019, the Tower Wing, which remains one of the tallest buildings in London, is the world's sixth-tallest hospital building. History The hospital dates from 1721, when it was founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy, who had made a fortune as a printer of Bibles and greatly increased it by speculating in the South Sea Bubble. It was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
