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3 days ago · But his headstone, a handsome Celtic cross shared with his wife and other members of his family, makes no mention of the roiling controversies that dogged the Scottish-born Mackenzie during the years he spent in his adoptive country. It merely records in upper-case letters: “William Lyon Mackenzie Born 12th March 1795 Died 28th August 1861.”
5 days ago · William Lyon Mackenzie King. Canada's Prime Minister 1921–26, 1926–30 and 1935–48
- Sheila Cornelisse
- 2014
6 days ago · Macdonald served just under 19 years as prime minister, a length of service only surpassed by William Lyon Mackenzie King. In polls, Macdonald has consistently been ranked as one of the greatest prime ministers in Canadian history.
3 days ago · Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and O.D. Skelton, head of the Department of External Affairs, played a pivotal role in securing this autonomy. They pushed for the changes agreed upon at the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930, which led to the creation of the statute.
3 days ago · Arthur Milnes, 1992 15-3 Canadian Parliamentary Review 14, 1992 CanLIIDocs 261
1 day ago · The leader of the Union Nationale, Maurice Duplessis appealed to anti-Semitic prejudices in Quebec in a violently anti-Semitic speech by claiming that the Dominion government of William Lyon Mackenzie King together with Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec had secretly made an agreement with the "International Zionist Brotherhood" to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees left homeless by the ...
5 days ago · In Upper Canada the rebels were led by William Lyon Mackenzie, a newspaper publisher and political radical who admired American Jacksonian democracy. In Lower Canada the rebellion was headed by Louis Joseph Papineau , seigneur and leader of the Parti Patriote.
