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Pat Sobeski
Patrick Anthony "Pat" Sobeski (25 July 1951 – 17 March 2016) was a Canadian politician, who has served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993, and as mayor of Woodstock from 2010 to 2014. He was elected in the 1988 Canadian federal election, 1988 federal election at the Cambridge (federal electoral district), Cambridge electoral district for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Janko Peric of the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party in the 1993 Canadian federal election, 1993 federal election, finishing with less than half of Peric's votes, and even behind the Reform Party of Canada, Reform party's Reg Petersen. Sobeski served as a municipal councillor in Woodstock, Ontario beginning in 2003. He was elected as the mayor of Woodstock in the 2010 Oxford County municipal elections, 2010 municipal election, defeating incumbent Michael Harding. Sobeski was defe ...
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Woodstock, Ontario
Woodstock is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The city has a population of 46,705 according to the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 Canadian census. Woodstock is the seat of Oxford County, Ontario, Oxford County, at the head of the Thames River, Ontario, Thames River, approximately 128 km from Toronto, and 43 km from London, Ontario. The city is known as the Dairy Capital of Canada and promotes itself as "The Friendly City". Woodstock was first settled by Europe, European colonists and United Empire Loyalists in 1800, starting with Zacharias Burtch and Levi Luddington, and was incorporated as a town in 1851. Since then, Woodstock has maintained steady growth, and is now a small city in Southwestern Ontario. As a small historic city, Woodstock is one of the few cities in Ontario to still have all of its original administration buildings. The city has developed a strong economic focus towards manufacturing and tourism. It is also a market city for the surrounding agricultura ...
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2010 Oxford County Municipal Elections
Elections were held in Oxford County, Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with 2010 Ontario municipal elections, municipal elections across the province. Oxford County Council County council consists of the mayors of the municipalities plus two "city and county" councillors from Woodstock. Blandford-Blenheim East Zorra-Tavistock Ingersoll, Ontario, Ingersoll Norwich, Ontario, Norwich South-West Oxford Tillsonburg Woodstock, Ontario, Woodstock Zorra, Ontario, Zorra {, class="wikitable" , - ! style="background:#ddf; width:200px;", Mayoral Candidat
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People From Woodstock, Ontario
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Progressive Conservative Party Of Canada MPs
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Politicians From Cambridge, Ontario
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Members Of The House Of Commons Of Canada From Ontario
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2016 Deaths
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ...
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CKCO-DT
CKCO-DT (channel 13) is a television station in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside London-based CTV 2 station CFPL-DT (channel 10), although the two stations maintain separate operations. CKCO-DT's studios are located on King Street West in Kitchener (across from the Grand River Hospital and Ion rapid transit light rail station adjacent to the Waterloo border), and its transmitter is located at Baden Tower between Snyders Road East and Highway 7 in Baden, just west of the Kitchener city limits. History The station first signed on the air at 6 p.m. on March 1, 1954. Its signal transmitted from the Baden Tower (a transmitter on Baden Hill), near Baden, just west of Kitchener. The transmitter has become one of the most identifiable landmarks in the area. Originally, like all privately owned television stations in Canada from 1953 to 1959, CKCO was an affiliate of the CBC; it becam ...
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
''The Woodstock Sentinel-Review'' is a local daily newspaper that serves Woodstock, Ontario and Oxford County, Ontario, Oxford County in the Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It's published four days a week, Tuesday to Friday, after the Monday print edition was ended November 19, 2018. The Sentinel-Review' is owned by the Postmedia Network corporation. The newspaper is printed at ''The Hamilton Spectator'', which prints several Postmedia Network newspapers, and is designed in Barrie, Ontario. The ''Sentinel-Review'' was formerly printed at The London Free Press for more than 10 years until their print production moved to Hamilton after Postmedia announced The London Free Press' printing press operations would be closed and outsourced to Hamilton. The ''Sentinel-Review''s last London print date was Oct. 6, 2016 and their first printing out of Hamilton was Oct. 10, 2016. Content for ''The Oxford Review'' is provided from the ''Sentinel-Review'' and is delivered by mail every Th ...
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Cambridge, Ontario
Cambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, located at the confluence of the Grand River (Ontario), Grand and Speed River, Speed rivers, in the central part of the Ontario Peninsula. The city had a population of 138,479 as of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census. Along with Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Waterloo, Cambridge is one of the three core cities of Canada's List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, tenth-largest metropolitan area. Cambridge was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation (politics), amalgamation of Galt, Ontario, Galt, Preston, Ontario, Preston, Hespeler, Ontario, Hespeler, the settlement of Blair, North Dumfries, as well as east and west Galt. The former Galt covers the largest portion of Cambridge, making up the southern half of the city, while Preston and Blair cover the western side. Hespeler makes up the most northeastern section of Cambridge. Historical information and records ...
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Cambridge (federal Electoral District)
Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of the City of Cambridge was 145,700; the population of the wider built-up area (which extends outside the city council area) was 181,137. (2021 census) There is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age, and Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman Britain, Roman and Viking eras. The first Town charter#Municipal charters, town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. The city is well known as the home of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209 and consistently ranks among the best universities in the world. The buildings of the university include King's College Chap ...
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