order Premier Pope managed to extract what could be argued were slightly improved terms from the Conservative government of Sir John A
federal election in the summer of 1872 did not, however, measure up to the hopes of the youthful members. Sir John A. Macdonald
Sullivan on the resignation of the government of Louis Henry Davies*. In the election which was called within days, he won easily in
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partisanship was evident in 1894. The Davie government tended to favour the federal Conservatives. A staunch Liberal, Smith ran in North Nanaimo against John
Davies*, put Wakeham in command of an expedition charged with reassessing the span of time during which the strait was free of ice and with asserting Canadian rights over Baffin Island and the Arctic
Taylor, the 12th president of the United States and also the great-grandnephew of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. His father, John Taylor Wood, was