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5 unusual facts about John Baird


2013 Bohol earthquake

Canada, through Foreign Minister John Baird, also offered sympathies and stated that his country is ready to help the Philippines.

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

In May 1927 he formally opened the first meeting of the Australian Parliament in the newly built Parliament House in Canberra, and the Governor-General was at last given a permanent residence, Government House, Canberra, commonly known by the previous name of the house, Yarralumla.

Lord Stonehaven married Lady (Ethel) Sydney Keith-Falconer, daughter of the 9th Earl of Kintore, in 1905.

The Viscountess Stonehaven succeeded her elder brother as eleventh Countess of Kintore in 1966.

Lord Stonehaven died of hypertensive cardiac disease at Ury House, Stonehaven, Scotland, in August 1941, aged 67, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Ian.


Atilla Altıkat

The inauguration ceremony was attended by his widow and two children, as well as the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Canada, Ahmet Davutoğlu and John Baird, respectively.

Ottawa municipal election, 2006

October 10, 2006 - John Baird, president of the federal Treasury Board, announced that the 200M$ promised from the federal government for the O-Train project would not be given until the new elected council approves the project.

Priorities and Planning Committee

As of June 4, 2013, the members of the committee are Stephen Harper (chair), Senator Marjory LeBreton (vice-chair), Peter MacKay, Vic Toews, Diane Finley, John Baird, Tony Clement, Jim Flaherty, Jason Kenney, Christian Paradis, James Moore, Denis Lebel, and Ed Fast.


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Coraopolis Bridge

John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.

The Hemingway Hoax

Seventy-five years later in 1996, John Baird, a Hemingway scholar (and possessed of a completely eidetic memory), is persuaded by Sylvester "Castle" Castlemaine, a grifter in Key West, to create a fake manuscript to be passed off as one of the lost copies.