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Thomas D'Arcy McGee

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Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Grace Hughes McGee, (13 April 1825 – 7 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. [1]

61 relations: Brian Mulroney, British Empire, Canada, Canadian Confederation, Canadians, Carlingford, County Louth, Catholic Church, Charles Haughey, Charlottetown Conference, County Donegal, D'Arcy, Saskatchewan, D'Arcy-McGee, Daniel O'Connell, Downtown Ottawa, Dublin, Fenian, Fenian Brotherhood, Frank Charles McGee, Government of Canada, Great Coalition, Hedge school, History of Ireland, Ireland, Irish Catholics, Irish Confederation, Irish Rebellion of 1798, Jane Urquhart, Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, Liberal-Conservative Party, McGee, Saskatchewan, McGill University, Michael Doheny, Michael Patrick Ryan, Montreal, Montreal West (electoral district), Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Ontario, Orange Order, Ottawa, Ottawa Catholic School Board, Patrick Donahoe, Patrick J. Whelan, Prime Minister of Canada, Quebec, Quebec Conference, 1864, Republicanism, Saint Mary's University (Halifax), Saskatchewan, Sectarianism, Selskar Abbey, ..., Sparks Street, Taoiseach, The Nation (Irish newspaper), The Pilot (newspaper), Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Ultramontanism, Wexford, Young Ireland, Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, 1st Canadian Parliament. Expand index (11 more) »

Brian Mulroney

Martin Brian Mulroney (born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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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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Canadians

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

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Carlingford, County Louth

Carlingford (Cairlinn) is a coastal town and civil parish in northern County Louth, Ireland.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles Haughey

Charles James Haughey (16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach on three different occasions, 1979 to 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and 1987 to 1992.

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Charlottetown Conference

The Charlottetown Conference was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island for representatives from the colonies of British North America to discuss Canadian Confederation.

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County Donegal

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster.

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D'Arcy, Saskatchewan

D'Arcy is an unincorporated community in Rural Municipality of Pleasant Valley No. 288 in western-central Saskatchewan, Canada.

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D'Arcy-McGee

D'Arcy-McGee is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of the province of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec.

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Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), often referred to as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century.

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Downtown Ottawa

Downtown Ottawa (Centre-Ville d'Ottawa) is the central area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Fenian

Fenian was an umbrella term for the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Fenian Brotherhood

The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny.

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Frank Charles McGee

Frank Charles McGee, (3 March 1926 – 4 April 1999) was a Canadian businessman, member of parliament, and, briefly, a Cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.

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Great Coalition

The Great Coalition was a grand coalition of political parties that brought the two Canadas together (Canada East and Canada West) in 1864.

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Hedge school

A hedge school (Irish names include scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal illegal schools, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland designed to secretly provide the rudiment of elementary education to Catholic children.

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History of Ireland

Prehistoric Ireland spans a period from the first known evidence of human presence dated to about 10,000 years ago until the emergence of "protohistoric" Gaelic Ireland at the time of Christianization in the 5th century.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish Catholics

Irish Catholics are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland that are both Catholic and Irish.

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Irish Confederation

The Irish Confederation was an Irish nationalist independence movement, established on 13 January 1847 by members of the Young Ireland movement who had seceded from Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association.

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Irish Rebellion of 1798

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798), also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion (Éirí Amach na nÉireannach Aontaithe), was an uprising against British rule in Ireland lasting from May to September 1798.

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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario.

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Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper Canada, then known as Canada West and later the province of Ontario.

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Liberal-Conservative Party

The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, and again from 1922 to 1938, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives before 1873.

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McGee, Saskatchewan

McGee is a hamlet in Pleasant Valley Rural Municipality No. 288, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Michael Doheny

Michael Doheny (22 May 1805 – 1 April 1863) was an Irish writer and member of the Young Ireland movement.

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Michael Patrick Ryan

Michael Patrick Ryan (September 29, 1825 – January 18, 1893) was an Irish-born Quebec businessman and political figure.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Montreal West (electoral district)

Montreal West (Montréal-Ouest) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1892.

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Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery

Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Orange Order

The Loyal Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order, is a Protestant fraternal order based primarily in Northern Ireland.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Ottawa Catholic School Board

The Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 53 prior to 1999) is a publicly funded separate school board in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Patrick Donahoe

Patrick Donahoe (born Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, 17 March 1811; died Boston, U.S.A., 18 March 1901) was a publisher who founded influential magazines for the Irish Catholic community in his adopted country.

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Patrick J. Whelan

Patrick James Whelan (c. 1840 – 11 February 1869) was a suspected Fenian sympathiser executed following the year 1869 assassination of Irish journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

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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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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quebec Conference, 1864

Beginning on 10 October 1864, and lasting over two weeks, the Quebec Conference was held to discuss a proposed Canadian confederation.

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Republicanism

Republicanism is an ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty.

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Saint Mary's University (Halifax)

Saint Mary's University (SMU) is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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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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Sectarianism

Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group.

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Selskar Abbey

Selskar Abbey is a ruined twelfth-century abbey in the town of Wexford, Ireland.

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Sparks Street

Sparks Street (French: Rue Sparks street in Uptown Ottawa, Ontario that was converted into an outdoor pedestrian street in 1967, making it the earliest such street or mall in Canada., retrieved 19 August 2012 Sparks runs from Elgin Street in the east to Bronson Avenue. The Sparks Street Mall, that contains a number of outdoor restaurants and also a number of works of art and fountains, only runs from Elgin to Bank Street. The pedestrian-only portion continues for another two blocks westward, with the final two blocks west of Lyon Street being a regular road and merges into Bronson Avenue going south. The mall and most of the buildings on the south side are owned and operated by the National Capital Commission. Buildings on the north side of the mall were expropriated by the Government of Canada in 1973 and are currently operated by Public Works and Government Services Canada.

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Taoiseach

The Taoiseach (pl. Taoisigh) is the prime minister, chief executive and head of government of Ireland.

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The Nation (Irish newspaper)

The Nation was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in the 19th century.

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The Pilot (newspaper)

The Pilot is the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston and claims the title of "America's Oldest Catholic Newspaper", having been in continuous publication since its first issue on September 5, 1829.

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building

The Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building, at 90 Sparks Street, is an office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Catholic District School Board

The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 40 prior to 1999) is an English-language public-separate school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada, headquartered in North York.

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Ultramontanism

Ultramontanism is a clerical political conception within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the pope.

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Wexford

Wexford (Yola: Weiseforth) is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland.

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Young Ireland

Young Ireland (Éire Óg) was a political, cultural and social movement of the mid-19th century.

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Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848

The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe.

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1st Canadian Parliament

The 1st Canadian Parliament was in session from November 6, 1867, until July 8, 1872.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D'Arcy_McGee

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