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unusual facts about Canadian federal election, 1874



Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin

Duggan-Cronin was born on 17 May 1874 in Innishannon, County Cork, Ireland, and died on 25 August 1954 in Kimberley, South Africa.

Arthur Vierendeel

He obtained an MSc in construction and mining engineering in 1874 at the Université catholique de Louvain, after which he worked as an engineer for the company Nicaise et Delcuve in La Louvière, Belgium.

Bonnie Hickey

Bonnie Hickey served in the 35th Canadian Parliament after which she was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Norman Doyle in the 1997 federal election.

Brekkestø

Gabriel Scott (8 March 1874 – 9 July 1958) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer.

Canadian federal election, 1968

Stanfield paid tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated only three days earlier.

Charles William Henry Kirchhoff

He attended school in the United States and Germany and was graduated from the Royal School of Mines at Clausthal, Germany, in 1874, taking the degree of mining engineer and metallurgist.

Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth Monument and Grave

The monument to Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first casualty of the American Civil War, was built in 1874 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Conkling

Alfred Conkling (1789-1874), a lawyer and United States Representative from New York

Counts of Avranches

1874–1909 José Maria de Almada, 16th Count of Avranches, 19th Lord of Lagares d' El-Rei, 14th Lord of Pombalinho

Cunliffe-Owen baronets

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, father of the first Baronet, was Director of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) from 1874 to 1893.

Empire Poetry League

Initially having a patriotic impetus, and counting a number of leading literary figures among its supporters (G. K. Chesterton, Humbert Wolfe, L. A. G. Strong and the novelists H. E. Bates and A. G. Street 1892–1966) as members, it shortly became a vehicle for Sydney Fowler Wright (1874–1965), now remembered mainly for

Frank Perkins Whitman

He was graduated at Brown University in 1874 and took his A.M. there in 1877, later studying at Johns Hopkins University.

Franklin J. Moses

Franklin J. Moses, Jr. (1838-1906), Governor of South Carolina from 1872 to 1874, son of the above

Frederick Charles Denison

He won the West Toronto Conservative nomination for the 1887 federal election over three other candidates, including incumbent parliamentarian James Beaty, Jr..

Gordon Gibson

He was defeated in both the 1979 and 1980 federal elections.

Gottfried de Purucker

Gottfried de Purucker (January 15, 1874, Suffern, New York – September 27, 1942) was a Theosophist, author and leader of the Theosophical Society Pasadena (then headquartered at Point Loma, California) from 1929-1942.

James Carson

James S. Carson (1874–1960), American corporate executive and Spanish–American War veteran

Jean-A. Joly

Joly campaigned on behalf of Liberal Party of Canada candidate Michel Dupuy in the 1993 Canadian federal election.

Jean-Guy Carignan

With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.

John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale

In 1874, appeared 'Reasoning on some Points of Doctrine,' and in 1875 Redesdale entered into a controversy with Cardinal Manning in the 'Daily Telegraph' on the subject of communion in both kinds.

Joseph Kemp

Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp (1874–1950), British lawyer and Chief Justice of Hong Kong

Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

La jolie parfumeuse

It was seen at the Alhambra in London from 18 May 1874 with Kate Santley, bowdlerized, as the libretto was « inadmissible in an English theatre ».

Lorne Calvert

Federal New Democratic Party spokesman Brad Lavigne later told reporters that the party had asked Calvert to consider standing as a candidate in the 2008 federal election.

Manlius Township, Michigan

It was for a while a station on the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, but was mostly abandoned in 1874 after the destruction of the mill's dam and the local tavern burned down.

Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque

As soon as the federal Cortes had defeated Castelar, Pavia made his coup d'état of the January 3, 1874, and after the pronunciamiento was absolute master of the situation, but having no personal ambition, he sent for General Serrano to form a government with Sagasta, Martos, Ulloa and other Conservatives and Radicals of the revolution.

Martin Krippner

He was chairman of the Puhoi Highway District Board in 1874, and in 1877 and 1878 served on the Rodney County Council.

Miķelis Valters

Miķelis Valters (formerly, and as an author in German, Walters) (May 7, 1874 in Liepāja - – March 27, 1968 in Nice) was a prominent Latvian politician, diplomat, writer, and editor.

Morritt

William Morritt (c.1813–1874), British Conservative Member of Parliament 1862–1865

Omandongo

b Piirainen acted during 1874–1910 as the FMS representative in Omaruru in Hereroland.

Pasarét

The first vehicle of the Budapest Cog-wheel Railway ran from 4 p.m. on June 24, 1874, and regular traffic began on the following day.

Pennoyer v. Neff

Mitchell arranged for the sheriff to seize the land, purchased it at public auction, and subsequently assigned it to Sylvester Pennoyer causing Neff to sue Pennoyer in 1874 in federal court to recover his land.

Philip Petursson

He ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election of 1949 in the riding of Norquay, but lost to Liberal Robert James Wood by almost 4000 votes.

Progressive Conservative leadership election, 1976

He was defeated in the 1979 election, and was later appointed to the board of directors of the Canadian National Railway when Trudeau was returned to power in 1980.

Raymond Dupont

After one more victory in the 1980 election, he was defeated in 1984 by Richard Grisé of the Progressive Conservative party.

Ritch Workman

Workman was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1973, and in 1980, his family moved from Canada to the state of Florida, despite never having been there before, due to the fact that Pierre Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada were successful in the 1980 federal election, and his father did not want to live in a socialist country.

Robert Bockstael

After re-election in 1980 federal election, he was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Léo Duguay of the Progressive Conservatives and left federal politics after that.

Robert Layton

In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and was elected to the Federal Parliament in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.

Sabin Berthelot

He retired in August 1874, and was given the freedom of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Sinker

John Sinker (1874–1936), MA, an eminent Anglican priest and author in the 20th century

Stephen A. Cobb

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Texas Trail Stone Corral

The Texas Trail Stone Corral, near Imperial, Nebraska, was built in 1874 and is a rare surviving artifact of cattle drives along the Texas Trail.

The Oxbow

With his death in 1874, the painting was acquired from his estate by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, wife of Russell Sage.

Thomas Bridges Hughes

His football career included appearances for Oxford University (when he played against Cambridge University in March 1874), Swifts and Old Wykehamists, but he achieved notability for his exploits with the Wanderers amateur club, who won five of he first seven FA Cup finals.

United Kingdom general election, 1951

This was the second of three elections in the 20th Century where a party lost the popular vote but won the most seats, the others being 1929 and February 1974; it also happened in 1874.

Walter Stone

Walter F. Stone (1822–1874), Republican politician and judge in Ohio

Whiteinch Railway

The railway opened in 1874 along with Stobcross Railway and was built to service a shipyard & sawmill at Whiteinch.

William Holms

William Holms (born 5 February 1827) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1884.

Wong Foon Sien

He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958.


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