The Numbered Treaties (or Post-Confederation Treaties) are a series of eleven treaties signed between the First Nations, one of three groups of Indigenous peoples in Canada, and the reigning monarch of Canada (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921. These agreements were created to allow the Government of Canada to pursue settlement and resource extraction …

Elizabeth Helen McCaughey (/ m ə ˈ k ɔɪ /; née Peterken; born October 20, 1948), formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, is an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki.She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 …

York was a town and second capital of the colony of Upper Canada.It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998).It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada, while he made plans to build a capital near today's London, Ontario.Simcoe renamed the location York after Prince Frederick, …

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Ralph Steinhauer; Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Stewart Owen; ... Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1891) June 10 - William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1886) July to December.

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes (until June 21) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière; ... lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (d.1991) April 30 – David Manners, actor (d.1998) May 25 – Alain Grandbois, poet (d.1975) John Babcock in 1920. May 25 – Malcolm Norris, Métis leader (d ...

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada.Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed its present name in 1850 upon becoming a …

The Governor of Bermuda (fully the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somers Isles (alias the Islands of Bermuda)) is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda.. For the purposes of this article, Governor of Bermuda refers to the local office, although this was originally a Lieutenant-Governorship ("Lieutenant Governor and …

The premier of Prince Edward Island is the first minister for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive.. Prince Edward Island was a British crown colony before it joined Canadian Confederation in 1873. It has had a system of responsible government since 1851, and the province kept its own legislature …

The Battle of Lundy's Lane, also known as the Battle of Niagara, was a battle fought on 25 July 1814, during the War of 1812, between an invading American army and a British and Canadian army near present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario.It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war, and one of the deadliest battles ever fought in Canada, with over 1,731 casualties including 258 killed.

Tiny, also known as Tiny Township, is a township in Simcoe County, south-central Ontario, Canada. The Township of Tiny can be found in the southern Georgian Bay region and is approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) ... (1792–1873), wife of Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Two other adjoining townships were also named ...