Whitney; in December he wrote an open letter to his Conservative mpp, James Joseph Foy, condemning the “carnival of corruption” in the ageing Liberal regime. When
against Ontario premier James Pliny Whitney’s promotion of public ownership of the hydroelectricity generated
been thwarted by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association and the new Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney
position of provincial secretary and registrar general when the Conservatives came to power under James Pliny Whitney
Whitney. At the same time he recognized the province’s impetuousity on this issue and the comic prospect of allowing a blusterer such as Henry Mill
Pliny Whitney] in June, which limited the teaching of French in Franco-Ontarian schools, and by the naval question, which led in October to Monk’s resignation as minister of public works. Unable to “bow
politics [see Sir James Pliny Whitney]. Compromise was also necessary in the founding in Sudbury of the Jesuits’ Collège du Sacré-Cœur, in which Lefebvre was instrumental. Modelled on the
Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney set out to reform the university’s constitution and, listening to
Whitney commissioned Morris to search out chiefs in the northwest who had signed earlier treaties. In June he went to Manitoba and enlisted the help of Acheson Gosford Irvine, former commissioner
Whitney. In a private letter to Whitney in February 1907, McEvay asked that the more than 80 religious teachers in his diocese be exempt from further certification. He added that the retroactive
Sir James Pliny Whitney], this body did not exploit water resources, but it had a mandate to regulate
incorporation federally of Dominion Power and efforts headed by Gibson to do the same for the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway were seen by the provincial Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney as an
mlas under James Pliny Whitney. Robertson kept special watch over hydro matters in Toronto, and
certified by the Department of Education. Conservative leader James Pliny Whitney, however, judged that Ross’s
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Elected in 1905, the Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney moved swiftly under education minister
Whitney].
In January 1907 Spence stepped down as secretary of the Ontario branch to be succeeded by his brother the Reverend Ben