William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who was the tenth prime minister of...
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Abdication of Edward VIII (redirect from Abdication of King Edward VIII)
there was "no alternative to course (3)". William Lyon Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada), Joseph Lyons (Prime Minister of Australia), and J. B....
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William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 – August 28, 1861) was a Scottish Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of...
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This article is the electoral history of William Lyon Mackenzie King, the tenth Prime Minister of Canada. A Liberal, he was Canada's longest-serving prime...
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under the system of responsible government. Under this system, William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada's longest-serving prime minister, holding office for...
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Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request by the prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to dissolve parliament and call a general election. The prime...
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life. The election resulted in the incumbent Liberal government of Mackenzie King being reduced to 101 seats in the House of Commons, while the opposition...
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The Farm (Canada) (category William Lyon Mackenzie King)
farmstead built by settler Henry Fleury in the mid-19th century. William Lyon Mackenzie King, the 10th Prime Minister of Canada, privately purchased the farmstead...
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Canadian fifty-dollar note (category William Lyon Mackenzie King)
new Polymer Series (2011). The front features a portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie King. A large clear window runs vertically on the right hand side...
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Conservatives had the most seats, but Mackenzie King formed the government with the support of the Progressive Party. After the King–Byng Affair, Arthur Meighen's...
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Australia Mackenzie King Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canada (named for the Mackenzie King families of William Lyon Mackenzie...
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until the mid-1950s, the Liberal Party under Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent gradually built a Canadian welfare state...
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University of Toronto (redirect from King's College, Toronto)
Toronto alumni include five Prime Ministers of Canada (including William Lyon Mackenzie King and Lester B. Pearson), three Governors General of Canada, nine...
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hosted by the Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although Churchill suggested that Mackenzie King be involved in all discussions, Roosevelt...
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government, defeating the Liberal Party led by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. 3,922,481 votes were cast in this election.[1] The first signs...
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Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The declaration accepted the growing political and diplomatic...
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Agreement was an agreement concluded between Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Heuvelton near Ogdensburg...
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of his prime minister (William Lyon Mackenzie King) in what came to be known colloquially as the King–Byng Affair. Mackenzie King, after resigning and then...
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Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (redirect from Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge)
of Canada, on the recommendation of Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He occupied the post until 1946. Athlone helped galvanise the...
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Mackenzie House is a historic building and museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that was the last home of William Lyon Mackenzie, the city's first mayor...
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16th Canadian Ministry (redirect from 3rd Ministry of William Lyon Mackenzie King)
Canadian Ministry was the third cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. It governed Canada from 23 October 1935 to 15 November 1948...
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was published in the Canada Gazette. Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced the recommendation for a declaration of war in a radio-broadcast...
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which has been represented by two different Prime Ministers: William Lyon Mackenzie King from 1926 to 1945, and John Diefenbaker from 1953 to 1979; the...
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Wilfrid Laurier (category Canadian King's Counsel)
minister of Canada, behind Pierre Trudeau, John A. Macdonald, and William Lyon Mackenzie King. The second child of Carolus Laurier and Marcelle Martineau,...
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The Twentieth Century (film) (category William Lyon Mackenzie King)
portrait of the rise to power of former Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King as played by Dan Beirne. It won three Canadian Screen Awards...
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William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924–1932: The Lonely Heights (1963) standard biography, online edition. Neatby, H. Blair. William Lyon Mackenzie King:...
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Robert Forke (category Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada)
Canada. Forke served as a cabinet minister in the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Forke was born in Gordon in Berwickshire, Scotland, and was...
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has had two prime ministers who were bachelors, William Lyon Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. Mackenzie Bowell, a widower whose wife, Harriet, died in...
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A notable exception to the above is the transition between William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent, making it perhaps the only lame duck example...
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is not open to the public, but the Mackenzie King Estate, the retreat of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at Kingsmere, is a tourist attraction...
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