By Michael Bliss on August 16, 2010
William Lyon Mackenzie King’s grandfather was a rebel, who probably would have been hanged if he had not fled to the United States. King himself became Canada’s longest-serving and one of its best prime ministers. King and the Liberal party governed the country most of the time from 1921 to 1948....
(more)
Other Canadian Experience Instalments Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada’s First Prime Minister
Post Date: Monday, August 23, 2010
Canada’s first prime minister, and one of its greatest statesman, was an immigrant.
John Alexander ...(more) Bloc Québécois
Post Date: Monday, August 16, 2010
The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a provincially-based federal party dedicated to the achievement of an independent, French-language ...(more) The CCF and NDP
Post Date: Monday, August 9, 2010
Canada’s social-democratic left has been embodied in two successive political formations, the Co-operative Commonwealth ...(more) The Liberal Party
Post Date: Monday, August 2, 2010
The Liberal Party dates back to political struggles in Great Britain’s North American colonies in the 1820s and 1830s. The term ...(more)
AroundTOWN
Also in the News
Sir Wilfrid Laurier: The Man with the ...
By Michael Bliss on August 16, 2010
It was not hard to be Prime Minister of Canada 100 years ago. In 1910 immigrants were pouring into the Canadian west. Canadian trade was booming. New transcontinental railways were being built. Great deposits of gold, silver and other ... (more)
TownHALL
(For TownHALL Members)
Publication © Multimedia Nova Corporation 2010 |