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unusual facts about MacKenzie King



Andrew Rae Duncan

In addition to his service in the United Kingdom, Duncan was appointed in 1926 by Prime Minister of Canada MacKenzie King in response to the Maritime Rights Movement to chair the Royal Commission on Maritime Claims which was thus nicknamed the "Duncan Commission".

Igor Gouzenko

This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.

Music Inspired by the Group of Seven

However, snippets of recorded dialogue from the Group of Seven artists, and other contemporaneous figures such as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Mackenzie King and John Diefenbaker, are mixed in.

William Wasbrough Foster

In April 1943, Foster was enlisted by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to serve as Commissioner of Defense Projects in Canada's northwest.

Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island

In 1935, Prime Minister MacKenzie King brought Saskatchewan politician Charles A. Dunning back into federal politics to economically resurrect the nation from the Great Depression and appointed him Minister of Finance.


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F. A. Sampson

Acting on direct orders from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King to enforce Canada’s military commitments in defense of England in the lead up to World War II, Sampson confronted strike leaders on the steps of Canada House in London, February 8, 1939 declaring "It will be considered mutiny if you men are out after February 11, 1939".

Norman Rogers

Norman McLeod Rogers, member of the Cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

Ontario Film Review Board

1940: The March of Time newsreel episode "Canada At War" was banned until the 1940 federal election was completed, as Premier Mitchell Hepburn charged that the production was "pure political propaganda for the Mackenzie King Government".

W. Roger Graham

Other works by Graham include The King-Byng affair, 1926: A Question of Responsible Government (Copp Clark, 1973), a collection of papers related to the 1926 constitutional crisis that involved then Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King and Governor-General Lord Byng and the posthumously published Old Man Ontario: Leslie M. Frost (University of Toronto Press, 1991), a biography of former Premier of Ontario Leslie Frost.