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Edgar Dewdney

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Edgar Dewdney, (November 5, 1835 – August 8, 1916) was a Canadian surveyor, road builder, Indian commissioner and politician born in Devonshire, England. [1]

88 relations: Anglican Church of Canada, Assiniboia East, Battleford, Bideford, British Columbia, British Columbia Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Cabinet of Canada, Canadian Confederation, Canadian Indian residential school system, Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadians, Capital city, Colonel, Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942), Coquitlam, David Laird, Devon, Dewdney (electoral district), Dewdney Trail, Dewdney Trunk Road, Dewdney, British Columbia, Dewdney-Alouette Regional District, Diocese of Qu'Appelle, England, Fort Qu'Appelle, Fort Walsh, Francis Jones Barnard, Fraser River, Fraser Valley, Frederick Seymour, Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Frog Lake Massacre, Government House (Saskatchewan), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Hiking, House of Commons of Canada, Hudson's Bay Company, Hugh Nelson (Canadian politician), I. G. Baker Company, James Macleod, John A. Macdonald, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, John Herbert Turner, Joseph Royal, Kootenays, Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary, Legislative Council of British Columbia, Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier, ..., Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, List of electoral districts in the Kootenays, List of Governors of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, List of lieutenant governors of the Northwest Territories, Louis Riel, Manitoba, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Member of parliament, Mission, British Columbia, National Historic Sites of Canada, Nature reserve, New Westminster, North-West Mounted Police, North-West Rebellion, Northwest Territories, Parliament of Canada, Politics of Canada, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Prime Minister of Canada, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Queen Victoria, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Responsible government, Saskatchewan, Somerset, The Honourable, The StarPhoenix, Theodore Davie, Thomas Robert McInnes, Viceroy, Victoria, British Columbia, Wascana Creek, William Dell Perley, William Walter McDonald, Yale (electoral district). Expand index (38 more) »

Anglican Church of Canada

The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada.

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Assiniboia East

Assiniboia East was a federal electoral district in Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1908.

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Battleford

Battleford (2011 population 4,065) is a small town located across the North Saskatchewan River from the City of North Battleford, in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Bideford

Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, south-west England.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Columbia Interior

The British Columbia Interior, BC Interior or Interior of British Columbia, usually referred to only as the Interior, is one of the three main regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the other two being the Lower Mainland, which comprises the overlapping areas of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, and the Coast, which includes Vancouver Island and also including the Lower Mainland (from the perspective of the Interior).

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Cabinet of Canada

The Cabinet of Canada (Cabinet du Canada) is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada.

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Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation (Confédération canadienne) was the process by which the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into one Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.

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Canadian Indian residential school system

In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Colonel

Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.

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Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)

The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation.

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Coquitlam

Coquitlam is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

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David Laird

David Laird, (March 12, 1833 – January 12, 1914) born in New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island into a Presbyterian family noted for its civic activism.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Dewdney (electoral district)

Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Dewdney Trail

The Dewdney Trail is a trail in British Columbia, Canada that served as a major thoroughfare in mid-19th century British Columbia.

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Dewdney Trunk Road

The Dewdney Trunk Road was one of the earliest major roads in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, originally running from Port Moody to its original destination at Dewdney, just east of Mission.

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Dewdney, British Columbia

Dewdney, originally named Johnson's Landing from 1884–1892, is an unincorporated community in the Central Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, about 15 km east of the city of Mission.

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Dewdney-Alouette Regional District

The Dewdney-Alouette Regional District was a regional district in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada, comprising the district municipalities of Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Mission and unincorporated areas east to the Harrison River and north to the southern end of Lillooet Lake.

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Diocese of Qu'Appelle

The Diocese of Qu'Appelle in the Anglican Church of Canada lies in the southern third of the civil province of Saskatchewan and contains within its geographical boundaries some 50% of the province's population of one million.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fort Qu'Appelle

Fort Qu'Appelle is a town in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada "located in the Qu'Appelle Valley 70 km NE of Regina between Echo and Mission Lakes" and not to be confused with the once-significant nearby town of Qu'Appelle.

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Fort Walsh

Fort Walsh is a National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre.

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Francis Jones Barnard

Francis Jones Barnard (18 February 1829 – 10 July 1889), often known as Frank Barnard Sr., was a prominent British Columbia businessman and Member of Parliament in Canada from 1879 to 1887.

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Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver.

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Fraser Valley

The Fraser Valley is the region of the Fraser River basin in southwestern British Columbia downstream of the Fraser Canyon.

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Frederick Seymour

Frederick Seymour (6 September 1820 – 10 June 1869) was a colonial administrator.

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Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby

Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908), known as Frederick Stanley until 1886 and as Lord Stanley of Preston between 1886 and 1893, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and the sixth Governor General of Canada, from 1888 to 1893.

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Frog Lake Massacre

The Frog Lake Massacre was part of the Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion in western Canada.

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Government House (Saskatchewan)

Government House, Regina, Saskatchewan, was constructed as a residence for the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, whose territorial headquarters were in Regina until the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were created out of the Territories in 1905 and Regina became the capital of Saskatchewan.

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Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, (14 January 1845 – 3 June 1927) was a British statesman who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group.

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Hugh Nelson (Canadian politician)

Hugh Nelson (May 25, 1830 – March 3, 1893) was a Canadian parliamentarian and the fourth Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

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I. G. Baker Company

The I. G. Baker Company was a mercantile and grocery company based in Fort Benton, Montana, started by Isaac Gilbert Baker and his brother, George Amos Baker, as I. G. Baker & Brother in 1866.

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James Macleod

Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod (c. September 25, 1836 – September 5, 1894), born in Drynoch, Isle of Skye, Scotland, was a militia officer, lawyer, NWMP officer, magistrate, judge, and politician in Alberta.

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John A. Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891).

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John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll

John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, (6 August 1845 – 2 May 1914), usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.

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John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (3 August 1847 – 7 March 1934), known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician.

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John Herbert Turner

John Herbert Turner (May 7, 1834 – December 9, 1923) was a British Columbia politician.

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Joseph Royal

Joseph Royal (7 May 1837 – 23 August 1902) was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, businessman, and Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories.

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Kootenays

The Kootenays or Kootenay is a region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary

Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary is a National Historic Site of Canada, located in the rural municipality of Last Mountain Valley No. 250 in Saskatchewan.

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Legislative Council of British Columbia

The Legislative Council of British Columbia was an advisory body created in 1867 to the Governor of the "new" Colony of British Columbia, which had been created from the merger of the old Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia (a.k.a. the Mainland Colony, or the Gold Colony).

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Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier

Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier (11 June 1846 – 25 February 1901), commonly known as L.N.F. Crozier, was a Canadian militia officer and a superintendent of the North-West Mounted Police, now best remembered for his role in the North-West Rebellion of 1885, a resistance movement headed by Métis leader Louis Riel in what is now the modern province of Saskatchewan.

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Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

The Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia is the viceregal representative of the, in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

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List of electoral districts in the Kootenays

Kootenay is a name found in various provincial and federal electoral districts in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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List of Governors of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

The following is a list of Governors of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

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List of lieutenant governors of the Northwest Territories

This is a list of historical lieutenant-governors of North-West Territories, Canada.

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Louis Riel

Louis David Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian Prairies.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.

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Maple Ridge, British Columbia

Maple Ridge is a city in British Columbia, located in the northeastern section of Greater Vancouver between the Fraser River and the Golden Ears, which is a group of mountain summits which are the southernmost of the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mission, British Columbia

Mission is a district municipality in the Lower Mainland of the province of British Columbia, Canada.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also called a natural reserve, bioreserve, (natural/nature) preserve, or (national/nature) conserve) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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New Westminster

New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of Metro Vancouver.

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North-West Mounted Police

The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian police force, established in 1873 by the Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, to maintain order in the North-West Territories.

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North-West Rebellion

The North-West Rebellion (or the North-West Resistance, Saskatchewan Rebellion, Northwest Uprising, or Second Riel Rebellion) of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people under Louis Riel and an associated uprising by First Nations Cree and Assiniboine of the District of Saskatchewan against the government of Canada.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Parliament of Canada

The Parliament of Canada (Parlement du Canada) is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the national capital.

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Politics of Canada

The politics of Canada function within a framework of parliamentary democracy and a federal system of parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions.

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Port Coquitlam

Port Coquitlam is a city in British Columbia, Canada.

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Port Moody

Port Moody is a city in Metro Vancouver, enveloping the east end of Burrard Inlet in British Columbia, Canada.

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Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

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Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, (Louise Caroline Alberta; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

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Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan

Qu'Appelle is a town in Saskatchewan, located on Highway 35 approximately east of the provincial capital of Regina.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Queen's Privy Council for Canada

The Queen's Privy Council for Canada (QPC) (Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada (CPR)), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs.

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Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Responsible government

Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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The Honourable

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.

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The StarPhoenix

The StarPhoenix is a daily newspaper that serves Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and is a part of Postmedia Network.

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Theodore Davie

The Hon.

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Thomas Robert McInnes

Thomas Robert McInnes or (Gaelic) Tòmas Raibeart Mac Aonghais (November 5, 1840 – March 19, 1904) was a Canadian physician, Member of the House of Commons, Senator, and the sixth Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

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Viceroy

A viceroy is a regal official who runs a country, colony, city, province, or sub-national state, in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Wascana Creek

Wascana Creek is a stream in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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William Dell Perley

William Dell Perley (February 6, 1838 – July 15, 1909) was a farmer and politician from western Canada.

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William Walter McDonald

William Walter McDonald (July 4, 1844 – June 20, 1929) was a politician from Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Yale (electoral district)

Yale was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1892 and from 1917 to 1953.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Dewdney

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