Donald Nicholson | |
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Member of Parliament for Queen's | |
In office 1911–1921 Servingwith Angus McLean, John Ewen Sinclair | |
Preceded by | Lemuel Prowse,Alexander B. Warburton |
Succeeded by | Donald McKinnon |
Personal details | |
Born | March 20,1850 Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,British North America |
Died | April 30,1932 |
Political party | Conservative |
Donald Nicholson (March 20,1850 - April 30,1932) was a Canadian politician,who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1911 to 1921. He represented the Prince Edward Island electoral district of Queen's as a member of the Conservative Party from 1911 to 1917,and the Unionist Party from 1917 to 1921.
Prior to his election to the House of Commons,Nicholson was a tobacco merchant. [1]
Nicholson built two houses on Fitzroy Street in Charlottetown,at house numbers 13 and 15,for his sons Edward and Robert. Both are designated as historic properties by the city of Charlottetown. [1] [2]
John Paton Nicholson,Robert's son and Donald's grandson,later became chief justice of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island. [2]
The 2003 Prince Edward Island general election was held on September 29,2003 to elect the 27 members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Pat Binns,who enjoyed a high level of popularity among voters.
Andrew Archibald Macdonald,served as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1 August 1884 to 2 September 1889,and was one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation.
Sir Louis Henry Davies was a Canadian lawyer,businessman and politician,and judge from the province of Prince Edward Island. In a public career spanning six decades,he served as the third premier of Prince Edward Island,a federal Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister,and as both a Puisne Justice and the sixth Chief Justice of Canada.
Neil McLeod was a Prince Edward Island lawyer,judge,politician,the fifth premier,and Leader of the Opposition during the amalgamation of the Prince Edward Island legislature. He was born at Uigg on the island to Roderick McLeod and Flora McDonald,Baptist immigrants from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He was educated at the Uigg Grammar School and in Wolfville,Nova Scotia,articled in law at Charlottetown and was called to the bar in 1873. Four years later,his marriage to the beloved Isabella Jane Adelia Hayden,the Methodist granddaughter to Irish Roman Catholic immigrant and merchant John Roach Bourke,furthered Gaelic intersections among Islander cultural enclaves. McLeod was the child of immigrants from the Isle of Skye. Between 1886-1893,transcriptions by parliamentary reporters and petition amanuenses identified him as both "Neil McLeod" and "Neil MacLeod." Reporters included his 5th Queens district next to his name in order to distinguish him from Angus MacLeod. Charlottetown dailies that reproduced passages from the transcriptions also replicated the spelling variation during this period. Historians continue to research his positions on the 1882 replacement of French-language texts with bilingual readers for French Acadians,late nineteenth-century prohibitions on Canadian Gaelic,and corporal punishment in Prince Edward Island schools. During this period,McLeod practiced law with partner Edward Jarvis Hodgson before joining the McLeod,Morson,and McQuarrie law firm. He also served as Commissioner for the Poor House and as a "trustee" to the public Prince Edward Island Hospital for the Insane,which replaced the Lunatic Asylum following a Grand Jury inquest. In 2019,mental health officer and occupational therapist Tina Pranger examined the presents and pasts of the Hillsborough Hospital,providing a summation of previous assessments of the inquest by historians and curators.
Province House is where the Prince Edward Island Legislature,known as the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island,has met since 1847. The building is located at the intersection of Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown;it is Canada's second-oldest seat of government.
The Green Party of Prince Edward Island is a registered provincial political party and one of the three major parties in Prince Edward Island,Canada. The party was founded by Sharon Labchuk,a political organizer for the federal Green Party of Canada. It is a party in the international green political tradition,espousing environmentalism,grassroots democracy,and social justice.
St. Dunstan's Basilica is the cathedral of the Diocese of Charlottetown in Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada. It is named for St. Dunstan,the Anglo Saxon saint from Glastonbury. It is located on Great George Street,between the harbour and the Confederation Centre of the Arts.
Sir Robert Hodgson was a Canadian lawyer,politician,judge,and the second Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
By the arrangements of the Canadian federation,the Canadian monarchy operates in Prince Edward Island as the core of the province's Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. As such,the Crown within Prince Edward Island's jurisdiction is referred to as the Crown in Right of Prince Edward Island,His Majesty in Right of Prince Edward Island,or the King in Right of Prince Edward Island. The Constitution Act,1867,however,leaves many royal duties in Prince Edward Island specifically assigned to the sovereign's viceroy,the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island,whose direct participation in governance is limited by the conventional stipulations of constitutional monarchy.
Donald Alexander MacKinnon was a Canadian teacher,lawyer,politician,author,and the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1904 to 1910.
James Joseph Hughes was a Canadian politician.
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island,and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte,Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855.
John Stanfield was an industrialist and Conservative politician in Nova Scotia,Canada,who represented Colchester in both the Canadian House of Commons (1907–17) where he served as Chief Government Whip (1911–17) and the Canadian Senate (1921–34). He was the brother of the politician Frank Stanfield.
James McIsaac was a journalist and political figure in Prince Edward Island,Canada. He represented King's in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1921 as a supporter of Sir Robert Borden's Union government.
David Stirling was a Canadian architect of Scottish birth. In 1872 he was made Dominion architect for the federal works in Nova Scotia and in 1880 he became one of the first associate architects of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
105th Battalion,CEF was a battalion of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force. It was recruited,through the 82nd Regiment Abegweit Light Infantry,first as a reinforcement company,and then a CEF battalion,from its headquarters in Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island. As initially,on 3 September 1915,the 82nd was only authorized to prepare an overseas reinforcement draft:The Infantry Reinforcement Company,Prince Edward Island,"to reinforce as soon as ready the battalions from the Maritime Provinces."
The Prince Edward Island Liberal Party,a political party in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island chooses its leadership by an open vote of party members at a convention called by the party executive when there is a vacancy in the leadership. The first convention was held when Alex W. Matheson sought reelection as leader in 1961.
A number of militia artillery batteries were raised in Prince Edward Island from 1875. When the First World War broke out,three battery-sized units were raised and deployed from the island as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.