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Whitewood (electoral District)
Whitewood, was a territorial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in the North-West Territories of Canada from 1887 to 1905. The district was created from the former district of Broadview (N.W.T. electoral district), Broadview, prior to the 1888 North-West Territories general election, 1888 general election. This district was the first to use a secret ballot. During the 1894 By-election, ballots were first used in this electoral district. The territory went to using coloured pencils on paper to count ballots, except someone forgot the pencil for the Candidate William Clements (Canadian politician), William Clements at the Fairmede polling station, and one had to be sent out from the Chief electoral office in Regina. Fred Chamberlain, the local liveryman, drove his horse and carriage twenty-five miles through a blizzard to deliver a new pencil and arrived just before the polls opened. After the province of Saskatchewan split from the North-West Territories in 1905, Whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a Riding (division), riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), National Assembly of Quebec, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North-West Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of the first quarter of 2025 is 45,074. Yellowknife is the capital, most populous community, and the only city in the territory; its population was 20,340 as of the 2021 census. It became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission. The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-Western Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870. At first, it was named the North-West Territories. The name was changed to the present Northwest Territories in 1906. Since 1870, the territory has been divided four times to create new provinces and territories or enlarge existing ones. Its current borders date from April 1, 1999, when the territory's size was decreased again by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadview (N , formerly Brink's Home Security
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Broadview can refer to: Places Australia *Broadview, South Australia Canada *Broadview (federal electoral district), in Ontario * Broadview (TTC), a Toronto subway station * Broadview Avenue, a street in Toronto *Broadview, Saskatchewan United States *Broadview, Illinois *Broadview, Indiana *Broadview, Montana *Broadview, Cibola County, New Mexico *Broadview, Curry County, New Mexico *Broadview, Seattle, Washington **Broadview Creek in Seattle *Broadview Heights, Ohio *Broadview Park, Florida *Broadview-Pompano Park, Florida Other uses * ''Broadview'' (magazine), formerly the ''United Church Observer'' *Broadview Press, Canadian academic publisher *Broadview Security The Brink's Company is an American cash handling company, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Its operations include cash-in-transit, ATM replenishment & maintenance, and cash management & payment services, such as vault outsourcing, money p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1888 North-West Territories General Election
The 1888 North-West Territories general election elected members of the 2nd Legislative Council of the North-West Territories. The 2nd Legislative Council of the North-West Territories replaced the 1st Council of the North-West Territories. The 2nd Legislative Council of the North-West Territories was replaced by the 1st North-West Assembly in 1891 when the quota of elected members was reached. (A different 2nd Council of the Northwest Territories (1905–1951) was created in 1905, when the NWT lost most of its population, to differentiate the new one from the two legislative councils of the NWT that had existed 1876 to 1891.) The 1888 election was the first general election in the history of the North-West Territories, Canada. Elections were held in various districts between 20 June and 30 June 1888. Although considered a general election, the writs were issued to return on various days. (1891 North-West Territories general election would be the first election where all the seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Clements (Canadian Politician)
William Perry Clements Jr. (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark Wells White, a Democrat who defeated Clements in the 1982 election only to lose his campaign for reelection in 1986. When Clements was first sworn in 1979, he became the first Republican to have served as governor of Texas since Reconstruction. When Clements left office for good at the end of his second term in 1991, his eight years in office were the most served by any Texas governor until Rick Perry surpassed his total in 2009. Clements was the first governor to be elected to multiple terms since Texas changed its constitution in 1972 to extend its governor's term of office to four years. Since then, George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Greg Abbott, also Republicans, have all won multiple terms. Before he became Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewood (Saskatchewan Electoral District)
Whitewood can be: Plants *The wood of spruce trees. *''Bucida buceras'', a Caribbean tree *''Coccoloba krugii'', a species of seagrape *'' Petrobium'', an endemic tree from the island of St Helena *'' Elaeocarpus kirtonii'', an Australian rainforest tree *''Elaeocarpus obovatus'', an Australian rainforest tree *''Liriodendron tulipifera'', a large North American flowering tree *''Tabebuia heterophylla'', a tree of Caribbean islands Places *Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada * Whitewood, South Dakota, United States * Whitewood, Virginia, United States *Whitewood Creek, a stream in South Dakota * Whitewood (electoral district), an electoral constituency in the Northwest Territories of Canada Ships *Ships in the United States Navy: ** USS Whitewood (AG-129) ** USS Whitewood (AN-63) Other uses * When a pinball machine is in the development phase the prototype playfield is called a "whitewood". * Whitewoods, an American chillwave/vaporwave Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 North-West Territories General Election
The 1891 North-West Territories general election was held on 7 November 1891 to elect 25 members of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories, Canada. It was the second general election in the History of the North-West Territories. The legislature for the first time had no appointed members. It had 25 elected members, four more than in the 1888 election. The assembly had grown by one member—the three appointed "at large" legal advisors who had sat in the assembly previously were no longer there. Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, the member for Macleod, was the government leader. The key issue in this election was the French language question. Politicians had spent the previous three years divided on the issues of eliminating the status of the French language as an official language of the territory, and of assimilation of the French-speaking population. The appointed government made French an official language in Section 11 of the ''North-West Territories Act of 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Clementson
Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled , . In Kurdish (''Kurdî''), the name is , Persian, the name is , and in Turkish it is . In Pashto the name is spelled ''Esaf'' (ايسپ) and in Malayalam it is spelled ''Ousep'' (ഔസേപ്പ്). In Tamil, it is spelled as ''Yosepu'' (யோசேப்பு). The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Campbell (politician)
Daniel, Danny or Dan Campbell may refer to: * Daniel Campbell (died 1753) (1671/2–1753), Scottish merchant and politician * Daniel Campbell (Australian politician) (1812–1875), politician in Electoral district of Richmond, Australia * Daniel Campbell (Canadian politician) (1926–1992), Canadian politician * Daniel Campbell (constable), special constable of the Dominion Police who shot Albert "Ginger" Goodwin dead * Daniel Campbell (Medal of Honor) (1874–1955), American Spanish–American War Medal of Honor recipient * Dan Campbell (born 1976), American football coach and former player * Dan Campbell (biathlete) (born 1978), American biathlete * Dan Campbell (singer) (born 1986), lead vocalist for American punk band The Wonder Years * Danny Campbell (footballer, born 1944) Daniel Campbell (3 February 1944 – 16 August 2020) was an English footballer who played for Bradford Park Avenue, Stockport County and West Bromwich Albion. While at West Brom, Campbell was an underst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Thorburn
Alexander "Alex" Gibbon "Gillion" "Gillan" Thorburn (December 18, 1836 – 1894) was a Canadian real estate agent, merchant, and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1888 until 1891. Prior to that, he was a school trustee. __TOC__ Early life Thorburn was born on December 18, 1836, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a manufacturer. He left Scotland when he was 20 years old, arriving in Lower Canada in 1856. He married his wife Elizabeth at Galt, Ontario, on July 1, 1863. After marriage, he moved to the Northwest Territories, settling in the town of Broadview. He started his own general store and became a real-estate agent for the Canada North-West Land Company. His first involvement with politics was on the municipal level when he became a school trustee. Political career Thorburn was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the first Northwest Territories general election held in 1888. He won a hotl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sumner (N
James Sumner may refer to: * James Sumner (Medal of Honor) (1840–1912), United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor * James Sumner (baseball) (1851–1881), American baseball umpire * James B. Sumner James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith ... (1887–1955), American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry * James Edward (Red) Sumner, Jr. (born 1948), stellar occultation astronomer after whom asteroid 36983 Sumner is named {{hndis, Sumner, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lyons (N
Thomas Lyons may refer to: * Thomas Lyons (Medal of Honor) (1838–1904), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas Lyons (politician) Thomas Lyons (18 February 1896 – 16 May 1985) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Lyons studied at Albert Agricultural College in Glasnevin, then emigrated to Australia in 1922. He returned to Ireland in 1939, and was elected fo ... (1896–1985), Northern Irish politician * Thomas G. Lyons (1931–2007), American Democratic Party politician from Chicago, Illinois * Thomas William Lyons (1923–1988), bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States * Tom Lyons (1885–1938), English footballer * Tommy Lyons, Irish Gaelic football manager * Tommy Lyons (American football) (born 1948), former American football offensive lineman, now surgeon * Thomas Lyons (British Army officer) (1829–1897), British general See also * Thomas Lyon (other) {{hndis, Lyons, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
