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Jacob Nicol
Jacob Nicol, (April 25, 1876 – September 23, 1958) was a Canadians, Canadian lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician. He became Senator under Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Early life Born in Roxton Pond, Quebec, the son of Philip Nicol, farmer and tool manufacturer, and Sophie Cloutier, Nicol was educated at Feller College, McMaster University, and Université Laval à Québec. He studied law with Henry Thomas Duffy and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1904 and was created a King's Counsel in 1912. Law career He practiced law in Sherbrooke, Quebec with Wilfrid Lazure and Silfrid Couture until 1935. From 1906 to 1921, he was a crown attorney for the District of St. Francis. From 1921 to 1931, he was a member the Board of Education of the Province of Quebec. Newspaper owner In 1910, he was one of the founders of the newspaper ''La Tribune'' in Sherbrooke, where he remained an owner until 1955. He was also an owner ...
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Roxton Pond
Roxton Pond is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. The population as of the 2021 Canadian Census was 4,224. The municipality was created in 1997 with the merger of the Parish and the Village of Roxton Pond. History It was from 1790 that the British government of Canada divided the lands east of the Richelieu River valley into townships. The townships were largely granted to loyalists who, in exchange, had to commit to populating these territories to develop colonization. Roxton Township, which included present-day Roxton Pond, Roxton and Roxton Falls, was given in 1803 to Elizabeth Ruite, widow of a military commander. In 1895, a first municipality was created under the name Sainte-Pudentienne. In 1886, the village and parish of Sainte-Pudentienne are split to form two distinct municipalities and will both change their name to Roxton Pond in 1985, nearly a hundred years later. Finally, the village an ...
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CKOY-FM
CKOY-FM is a French language, French-language Canada, Canadian radio station located in Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec. Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 107.7 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 11,000 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 25,000 watts (List of broadcast station classes, class C1). The station's transmitter is located at Mont-Bellevue, Quebec, Mount Bellevue. The station identifies itself as "107,7 FM" and is one of the few full-time FM talk stations in North America to broadcast in stereophonic sound, stereo. History The station first aired as CHLT on AM radio, AM 1210 kHz in 1937, moved to AM 1240 on March 29, 1941, moved to AM 900 in 1946 and then to 630 AM in the 1950s. It was owned by the city's main newspaper, ''La Tribune,'' hence its call letters. Originally a Ici Radio-Canada Première, Radio-Canada affiliate, it became independent in 1978 when CBF-FM, CBF set up a repeater in the city. ...
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CKOB-FM
CKOB-FM is a French language, French-language Canada, Canadian radio station located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 106.9 Hertz, MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 59,000 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 100,000 watts, as a List of broadcast station classes, Class C1 station. The station moved to the FM band on August 20, 200 it was previously heard on the AM band, on 550 Hertz, kHz, with a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a List of broadcast station classes, class B station, using a directional antenna with slightly different daytime and nighttime directional patterns in order to protect various other stations on that frequency. The station identifies itself as ''106,9 FM'' and is one of the few full-time FM talk radio, talk stations in North America to broadcast in stereophonic sound, stereo. History CKOB went on the air as CHLN, an AM station ...
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L'Événement-Journal
''L'Événement-Journal'' was a daily Canadian newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ... in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded by Hector Fabre in 1867 with the name ''L'Événement''. Fabre sold the paper in 1883. In 1936 it was purchased by Jacob Nicol, the owner of '' Le Soleil''. In 1938 the paper merged with ''Le Journal'' to become ''L'Événement-Journal''. The paper's last publication was on 3 March 1967.Québec since 1930 By Paul-André Linteau, James Lorimer & Company, 1991, pg 558 References Defunct daily newspapers Defunct newspapers published in Quebec Newspapers published in Quebec City Daily newspapers published in Quebec Newspapers established in 1867 1867 establishments in Quebec Publications disestablished in 1967 {{Canada-newsp ...
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Le Soleil (Quebec)
''Le Soleil'' (''The Sun'') is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded on December 28, 1896. It is distributed mainly in Quebec City; however, it is also for sale at newsstands in Ottawa, Montreal, New Brunswick and some places in Florida, where many Quebecers spend the winter. It has been owned by several media groups but is now a worker cooperative and is a member of thCN2i network ''Le Soleil'' was published first as a broadsheet, then in Compact (newspaper), compact format since April 2006. It ceased its print edition in 2023 and is now a fully digital publication. History ''Le Soleil'' rose from the ashes of ''L'Électeur'', the official newspaper of the Liberal Party of Canada, which shut down in December 1896. The first edition was published on December 28, 1896. one day after the disappearance of its predecessor, which shut down because the Catholic clergy had forbidden it to parishioners when the newspaper criticized the Church's electo ...
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Crown Attorney
Crown attorneys or crown counsel () or, in Alberta and New Brunswick, crown prosecutors are the prosecutors in the legal system of Canada. Crown attorneys represent the Crown and act as prosecutor in proceedings under the Criminal Code and various other statutes. Criminal prosecutions pursuant to federal statutes other than the Criminal Code, such as the ''Controlled Drugs and Substances Act'', the '' Income Tax Act'', and others, are generally (but not exclusively) conducted by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, which also handles most narcotic case outside of Quebec and New Brunswick. There are similarities between this role and the procurator fiscal in Scotland, crown prosecutor in England and Wales and United States Attorney or district attorney in the United States. Crown attorneys are not elected. They are civil servants and may be removed from their positions pursuant to their employment agreements. Although the enactment of criminal law is under federal jurisdicti ...
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King's Counsel
A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarch is a woman, the title is Queen's Counsel (QC). The position originated in England and Wales. Some Commonwealth countries have retained the designation, while others have either abolished the position or renamed it so as to remove monarchical connotations — for example, "Senior Counsel" or "Senior Advocate". Appointment as King's Counsel is an office recognised by courts. Members in the UK have the privilege of sitting within the inner Bar (law), bar of court. As members wear silk gowns of a particular design, appointment as King's Counsel is known informally as ''taking silk'' and KCs are often colloquially called ''silks''. Appointments are made from within the legal profession on the basis of merit and not a particular level of expe ...
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Université Laval
(; English: ''Laval University)'' is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec, founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Canada and the first North American institution to offer higher education in French. The university, which was founded in Old Québec, moved to a new campus in the 1950s in the suburban borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge. It is ranked among the top 10 Canadian universities in research funding and holds four Canada Excellence Research Chairs. History The university's beginnings go back to 1663 with the founding of the Grand and 1668 with the founding of the Petit Séminaire by François de Montmorency-Laval, a member of the House of Laval and the first Bishop of New France. During the French regime, the institution mainly trained priests to serve in New France. After the Conquest of 1760, the Brit ...
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McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, Royal Botanical Gardens. It operates six Faculty (division), academic faculties: the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster Faculty of Engineering, Engineering, McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Science, and McMaster Faculty of Science, Science. It is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senate of Canada, senator and banker who bequeathed Canadian dollar, C$900,000 to its founding. It was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of On ...
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Feller College
Feller College, also known as Institut Feller, was a boarding school and a Bible college located in Grande-Ligne (now Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu) which closed its doors in 1967. History It was founded in 1836 by Henriette Feller of Lausanne, a Swiss Protestant missionary, in the small farming community of Grande-Ligne, 35 miles southeast of Montreal, Quebec). It grew to become a significant co-educational institution with imposing four-story central building and adjoining church, farm, and several faculty homes. In 1849, the mission and the school became partners with the Canadian Baptist Missionary Society. The school produced many French-speaking Baptist ministers, and many of its graduates, both francophones and anglophones, went on to become well known in diverse fields in Canada. Second World War Feller ceased operations as a school during the Second World War (1942–1946) and was used as a prisoner-of-war camp. It reopened shortly after the war. After the war Feller acce ...
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Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ...
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