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9 unusual facts about Minto


Bayshore, Ottawa

The developer was the Minto Group which is a rental community for neighbourhoods in Ottawa.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto

The district of Minto in New South Wales, Australia, was named after him in 1809.

Gregory Despres

Gregory Allan Despres was convicted of the murders of Fred Fulton, 74, and Veronica "Verna" Decarie, 70, of Minto, New Brunswick, Canada, which occurred on April 23, 2005.

Minto, Alaska

The people from the Minto band were eventually joined by families from Nenana, Toklat, Crossjacket and Chena.

Minto, New Brunswick

Minto was originally named Northfield but it is known to have taken its present name in 1904 upon the retirement of Canada's eighth Governor General, The Earl of Minto.

Currently, Minto has a Tim Hortons, Twins Pizza, Silver Dragon, Omega, Station House Pub, The Sun Rise Diner and Myjakins.

During the Second World War, the largest internment camp in eastern Canada was located in the hamlet of Ripples, 10 km west of the village; in addition to German POWs, its most notable prisoner was the anti-conscriptionist mayor of Montreal, Camillien Houde.

During the early years of the Great Depression, the New Brunswick Power Corporation built the province's first thermal generating station south of the village on the shores of Grand Lake.

Minto did not feel the depression, or at least did not feel it in the same way as most other places in Canada; during recession and the Great Depression, Minto was profiting from a coal mining boom.


Abid Hassan Minto

Following a split in the PSP in 1986, Minto founded the Awami Jamhoori Party (Peoples Democratic Party) in 1987, comprising dissidents from the PSP and members of a Sindh based left group called the Communist League.

Aemilius Jarvis

Jarvis also formed AEmilius Jarvis & Co., earning the friendship and respect of such men as Lord Minto (Governor General of Canada), J.P. Morgan, Sir Thomas Lipton, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Henry Pellatt, and Ned Hanlan.

Alison Cockburn

Another later set of lyrics to the song by Jean Elliot of Minto written in 1756 is also in circulation and should not be confused with Rutherford's .

Frances Minto Elliot

Gilbert Elliot had family connections with the Earls of Minto – her 1873 book, Old Court Life in France, is dedicated to "My niece The Countess of Minto".

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 6th Earl of Minto

In 1965 Lord Minto married, secondly, Mary Elizabeth Ballantine (29 December 1936 — 24 January 1983), daughter of Peter Ballantine, of Stonehouse Farm, Gladstone, New Jersey, United States.

Lady Minto Hospital

Lady Minto Hospital was one of 43 hospitals built from funds established by Lady Minto and the Victorian Order of Nurses.

Minto Circle

The school bore the name, Muslim University High School, but became popular as Minto Circle after the then Viceroy of India, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845–1914), who funded the construction for its new buildings.

Minto Follies

“It all began for me in the winter of 1932, when I was taken to see the ‘Minto Follies,’ which that year, had a special attraction - the Olympic Champions who had only weeks before won there gold medals at a Lake Placid, New York.”

In 1926 at the inspiration of Melville Rogers, Minto distilled many of those earlier elements into the format of a show and christened it the “Minto Follies.”

Minto Heights, New South Wales

Until then, the area was known as East Minto and, like its neighbour, was named after the Earl of Minto, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, who was Viceroy of India from 1807-1814.

Minto Parish, Cumberland

It includes Minto, Ingleburn, Glenfield and Macquarie Fields.

Muraqqa

The Minto Albums, from the reign of Shah Jahan, contains miniatures depicting royal courtiers, gardens, and images of wildlife, surrounded by elaborate floral borders.

Palmerston, Ontario

Effective 1 Jan. 1999, The Town of Minto is composed of the former towns of Harriston and Palmerston, the former village of Clifford, and the surrounding rural area of the former Minto Township.

Silver Wheaton

The six mines from which the company gets most of its silver are : San Dimas, Penasquito, Barrick (made up of five parts), Yauliyacu, Zinkgruvan, Cozamin and Minto.

Tea production in the United States

Minto Island Growers near Salem, Oregon has begun to market small quantities of their own tea.

Thomas Robert McInnes

Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier had finally become exhausted with McInnes and requested the Governor-General (The Earl of Minto) replace him with Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, a cabinet minister from Quebec.


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