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unusual facts about MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates



2011 Governor General's Awards

Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891

Alan MacDonald

Alsy MacDonald (Alan MacDonald, born 1961), Australian rock musician and lawyer

Alex Bath MacDonald

MacDonald served during World War II and commanded the Jungle Training Centre and Darwin Mobile Force.

Amy Honey

The album was recorded at Tolan McNeil's Lucky Mouse Studios and also features Tolan McNeil, Gregory "Goose" MacDonald, Carolyn Mark, Diona Davies, Ida Nilsen, Grayson Walker and Calvin Dick.

Andrew MacDonald

Andrew Macdonald, pseudonym of William Luther Pierce (1933–2002), American leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization

Bangkok Post

Nevertheless, under MacDonald's stewardship, the Bangkok Post was reasonably independent and employed many young newsmen, including Peter Arnett and T. D. Allman, who later became known internationally.

Betty MacDonald

MacDonald also published three other semi-autobiographical books: Anybody Can Do Anything, recounting her life in the Depression trying to find work; The Plague and I, describing her nine-month stay at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium; and Onions in the Stew, about her life on Vashon Island with her second husband and daughters during the war years.

Bob MacDonald

MacDonald was part of the team that founded The Toronto Sun newspaper after the demise of the The Toronto Telegram.

Charleswood, Winnipeg

It is located in the southwestern part of the city, and is bordered by the Assiniboine River to the north, the Rural Municipality of Macdonald to the south, the Rural Municipality of Headingley on the west and the Assiniboine Park and Forest to the east.

Chimacum, Washington

Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I, the book upon which the Ma and Pa Kettle films were based, described the author's experiences on a chicken farm on the road that became Egg & I Rd, Chimacum.

Clan Donald

Ardtornish Castle is a ruined MacDonald castle located on the peninsula Morvern.

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

"Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!," a 1925 song by Billy Rose, Ballard MacDonald and Joseph Meyer

Curtis Macdonald

Growing up in Westlake Village, California, Macdonald aspired to become a composer after exposure to the entertainment industry by his family that included his grandfather, pioneering newscaster Clete Roberts.

David R. Macdonald

In 1976, President of the United States Gerald Ford nominated Macdonald as Under Secretary of the Navy and Macdonald held this office from September 14, 1976 to February 4, 1977.

District Municipality of Muskoka

Edmund Burke Wood, Provincial Treasure in the John Sandfield Macdonald Government.

Geoff Macdonald

Macdonald succeeded Phillip Campbell in 1988 and recorded an overall record of 50-24 in three seasons as head coach of the Lady Tigers.

George Augustus Frederic II

The will granted considerable power to the Superintendent, Alexander MacDonald to appoint councilors, and gave the council full power to institute and change laws, aside from the law establishing the Church of England as the official church.

George F. MacDonald

Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.

Glasgow Govan by-election

Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973, won by Margo MacDonald of the Scottish National Party (SNP)

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.

Hector Munro Macdonald

Both of Hector Macdonald's parents, his mother Annie Munro and his father Donald Macdonald, were from Kiltearn.

James Stuart MacDonald

Returning to Australia, MacDonald took up art study, publishing works on Frederick McCubbin, Penleigh Boyd, David Davies and George Lambert.

John Taylor Caldwell

For many years, Caldwell shared with Ethel MacDonald a third-floor flat in Gibson Street, Hillhead, Glasgow.

Kenneth MacDonald

Ken Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven, QC (born 1953), former Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford

MacDonald Airfield

MacDonald Airfield was an airfield built alongside the former northern road, west of Stuart Highway, north of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.

Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional

Robert-Ralph Carmichael, one of the Canadian dollar coin's designers, lives near Echo Bay.

Manus O'Cahan's Regiment

By the Civil War of the mid-seventeenth century there was already a centuries old blood feud running between the Campbell and Macdonald clans.

Marie Thérèse Metoyer

Other possible origins of the name Coincoin, together with the names of her siblings discovered by Elizabeth Shown Mills, are being studied by the Africanist Kevin MacDonald at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Matthew Crooks Cameron

With the defeat of the Macdonald government in the provincial election that December, Cameron became leader of the Ontario Conservative Party, but stepped down in 1878 to became Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Me Doing Stand-Up

Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Stand-Up is a stand up DVD by comedian Norm Macdonald released by Comedy Central.

Membrane paradigm

In 1986, Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price and D. A. Macdonald published an anthology of papers by various authors that examined this idea: "Black Holes: The membrane paradigm".

This approach to the theory of black holes was created by Kip S. Thorne, R. H. Price and D. A. Macdonald.

Mott MacDonald

Greathead is renowned as the foremost soft ground tunneller of the time, while Baker is remembered particularly for London's District Railway, the Forth Railway Bridge and the first Aswan Dam - which coincidentally was heightened between 1926 and 1933 by Sir M MacDonald & Partners.

New York State Route 68

Along the way, it passes residential homes and several commercial businesses, parallelling the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway (Highway 401) to the north in Ontario and NY 37 to the south.

Paul Bowman

Paul Bowman-MacDonald, a fictional character from Monarch of the Glen

Radarsat-2

To carry out this new project, the satellite's owner MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) of Richmond, B.C., was awarded $25-million contract to carry out upgrades (called project Polar Epsilon) to enhance the satellites capabilities to detect surface ships.

Red River Rebellion

In Ottawa, the Governor General Lord Lisgar had, at Macdonald's behest, proclaimed an amnesty on December 6 for all in Red River who would lay down their arms.

Robert Bowie Owens

After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Rolf Stein

Among Stein's most notable students were Anne-Marie Blondeau, Ariane Macdonald-Spanien, Samten Karmay, Yamaguchi Zuiho, and Yoshiro Imaeda.

Schaeffer–Fulton stain

The procedure was designed by Alice B. Schaeffer and MacDonald Fulton, two microbiologists at Middlebury College, during the 1930s.

Sir Archibald Macdonald, 1st Baronet

Archibald Macdonald was the posthumous son of Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet, and younger brother of the 8th baronet (see Baron Macdonald), but was bought to England in the aftermath of Culloden to complete his education at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.

Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonald

MacDonald was instrumental in the establishment of La Ribambelle French language day care, the development of École secondaire Gabriel-Dumont, the Centre Desloges and French language education in general in the London area.

The Doomsters

Many sources agree that this book marked a turning point in the series, wherein Macdonald abandoned his imitations of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and found his own voice.

The Old American Barn Dance

Three episodes are held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.

Tingari

One begins west of Jupiter Well and eventually runs due east, concluding south-east of Lake Mackay; another heads south-west from near Kintore for some 200 km, and then doubles back to end at Lake Macdonald; the third runs from south to north through Docker River and Kintore.

Twenty-one Conditions

The Communist International cannot tolerate a situation where notorious opportunists, as represented by Turati, Modigliani, Kautsky, Hilferding, Hillquit, Longuet, MacDonald, etc., have the right to pass as members of the Communist International.

Wilson MacDonald

Some of MacDonald's poetry certainly does not hold up: for example, the books Caw-Caw Ballads and Paul Marchand and Other Poems, which employ dialect verse – here the French-Canadian habitant dialect of English popularized by William Henry Drummond – more entertaining if heard performed rather than read, and even then more embarrassing than entertaining.


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