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POLITICS AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS cont'd |
| d'Aulnay, Charles de Menou (P), NS |
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Governor of Acadia (1647-50), organized colonies at Port-Royal and Saint John |
| Dalnavert (S), MB |
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Queen Anne revival home of Hugh John Macdonald |
| Davies, Sir Louis Henry (P), PE |
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Premier of Prince Edward Island (1876-79), Chief Justice of Canada (1918-24) |
| Davin, Nicholas Flood (P), SK |
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Founded the Regina Leader newspaper (1883), Member of Parliament for West Assiniboia (1887-1900) |
| Dawson, Robert MacGregor (P), NS |
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Political scientist, wrote text book The Government of Canada |
| De Bienville, Jean-Baptiste le Moyne (P), QC |
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Governor of Louisiana, founded Mobile, Alabama (1702) and New Orleans (1718) |
| de Buade, Louis (Count of Frontenac) (P), QC |
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Governor General of New France (1672-82, 1689-98), extended it to the Great Lakes |
| De Cosmos, Amor (P), BC |
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Premier of British Columbia (1872-74), founded the British Colonist |
| Denison, Colonel George T. (P), ON |
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Founder of the Canada First Movement and the Imperial Federation League |
| Desbarres, Joseph Frederick Wallet (P), NS |
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First Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Breton (1784-87), charted coast of Nova Scotia |
| Dewdney, Edgar (P), SK |
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Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories (1881-88), established Regina as capital |
| Dickey, Robert Barry (P), NS |
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Father of Confederation |
| Diefenbaker, John George (P), SK |
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Prime Minister of Canada (1957-63) |
| Donnacona (P), QC |
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Iroquois leader, dealings with Jacques Cartier |
| Dorion, Sir Antoine-Aimé (P), QC |
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Minister of Justice of Canada (1873-74), Chief Justice of Quebec (1874-91) |
| Douglas, Sir Howard (P), NB |
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Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1823-31), Chancellor of King's College, University of New Brunswick |
| Douglas, Sir James (P),BC |
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Governor of Vancouver Island (1851-63), first Governor of British Columbia (1858-64) |
| Dufferin, Marquess of (Frederick Blackwood) (P), QC |
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Governor General of Canada (1872-78), writer, traveller, linguist and diplomat |
| Dunning, Charles Avery (P), SK |
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Premier of Saskatchewan (1922-26); Federal Minister of Finance |
| Duplessis, Maurice (P), QC |
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Founded Union Nationale Party in 1935, Premier of Quebec (1936-39, 1944-59) |
| Earnscliffe (S), ON |
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Longtime Ottawa home of Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1867-73, 1878-91); Eagles Cliff, 1855-57 |
| Edwards, Henrietta Muir (P), AB |
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Social and legislative reformer, fought for rights of women |
| Étienne-Paschal Taché House (S), QC |
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Eclectic home of Father of Confederation, Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché |
| Fielding,William Stevens (P), NS |
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Premier of Nova Scotia (1884-96), federal Minister of Finance (1896-1911, 1921-25) |
| First Responsible Government in the British Empire Overseas (E), NS |
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First Executive Council of majority party elected representatives (1848) |
| Fisher, Charles (P), NB |
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Father of Confederation, Premier of New Brunswick (1851-61) |
| Foremost Man (Neekaneet) (P), SK |
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Plains Cree chief, followers settled in Cypress Hills in 1880s |
| Fortin, Pierre-Étienne (P), QC |
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President of Quebec Legislative Assembly (1875-76) |
| Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch (P), QC |
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Entrepreneur, railway promoter and politician, Father of Confederation |
| Gardiner, James Garfield (P), SK |
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Premier of Saskatchewan (1926-29, 1934-35), federal Minister of Agriculture (1935-57) |
| George Brown House (S), ON |
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Home of Canadian statesman George Brown |
| Gray, Colonel John Hamilton (P), PE |
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Father of Confederation, Premier of Prince Edward Island (1863-65) |
| Gray, John Hamilton (P), BC |
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Father of Confederation, Speaker of the New Brunswick Assembly (1866-67) |
| Great George Street Historic District (S), PE |
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Fine 19th-century streetscape associated with Confederation |
| Guy, John (P), NF |
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Merchant venturer, governor of first English colony in Newfoundland |
| Haldimand, Sir Frederick (P), QC |
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Governor of Quebec (1778-86), built the Coteau-du-lac Canal (1779), settled Loyalists on land |
| Hardy, Arthur Sturgis (P), ON |
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Premier and Attorney General of Ontario (1896-99) |
| Hart, Ezekiel (P), QC |
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First Jewish legislator in Canada, Member of Quebec Assembly (1807), influenced 1832 law on civil and political freedoms for Jews in Canada |
| Harvey, Sir John (P), NF |
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Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island (1836-37), New Brunswick (1837-41), Governor of Newfoundland (1841-46) |
| Haultain, Sir Frederick W. G. (P), SK |
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Premier of the North-west Territories (1891-1905), Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1912-38) |
| Haviland, Thomas Heath (P), PE |
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Father of Confederation |
| Head, Sir Edmund (P), ON |
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First civilian Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, Governor General of British North America (1854-61) |
| Henry House (S),NS |
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Common 19th-century urban type in local ironstone, 1834, residence of Father of Confederation William A. Henry |
| Henry,William Alexander (P), NS |
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Father of Confederation |
| Hincks, Sir Francis (P), ON |
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Important reform politician, 1840s, led the government of the Province of Canada (1851-54) |
| Hind, E. Cora (P), MB |
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Leading advocate of women's rights and suffrage in Manitoba |
| Hocquart, Gilles (P), QC |
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Intendant of New France (1731-48), began Les forges du Saint-Maurice |
| Howe, Clarence Decatur (P), ON |
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Important Liberal cabinet minister, began Atomic Energy of Canada |
| Howe, Joseph (P), NS |
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Premier of Nova Scotia (1860-63), achieved responsible government in Nova Scotia |
| Howland, Sir William Pearce (P), ON |
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Father of Confederation |
| Hughes, Sir Samuel (P), ON |
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Soldier, journalist, federal Minister of Militia and Defence (1911-16) |
| Isapo-muxika (Crowfoot) (P), AB |
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Blackfoot chief, diplomat; established peace with the Plains Cree |
| Isbister, James (P), SK |
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Leader of English Métis during critical time in their history, 1870s and 1880s |
| Jetté, Sir Louis-Amable (P), QC |
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Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (1898-1908), Chief Justice of Quebec (1908-11) |
| Johnson, John Mercer (P), NB |
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Father of Confederation |
| Jonathan McCully House (S), NS |
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Italianate urban residence of politician and Father of Confederation Jonathan McCully |
| King,William Lyon Mackenzie (P), ON |
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Longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48), through World War II |
| Kirke, Sir David (P), NF |
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Captured Québec, 1629, first Governor of Newfoundland (1637-51) |
| LaFontaine, Sir Louis-Hippolyte (P), QC |
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Reformer, co-Premier of the Province of Canada (1842-43, 1848-51) |
| Laird, David (P), PE |
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Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories, Minister of the Interior |
| Lajoie, Marie Lacoste-Gérin (P), QC |
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Crusader for women's rights in the province of Quebec; campaigned for women's suffrage |
| Lambton, John George (First Earl of Durham) (P), QC |
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Governor General and High Commissioner of British North America in 1838 |
| Land Tenure Question in Prince Edward Island (E), PE |
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Disputes between landholders and tenants, strikes, riots, arson (1767-1866) |