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See also:MACKENZIE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:LYON (1795-1861) , See also:Canadian politician, was See also:born near See also:Dundee, See also:Scotland, on the 12th of See also:March 1795• His See also:father died before he was a See also:month old, and the See also:family were See also:left in poverty. After some six years' See also:work in a See also:shop at Alyth, in See also:April 1820 he emigrated with his See also:mother to See also:Canada. There he became a See also:general See also:merchant, first at See also:York, then at Dundas, and later at Queenston. The discontented See also:condition of Upper Canada See also:drew him into politics., and on the 18th of May 1824 he published at Queenston the first number of the Colonial See also:Advocate, in which the ruling See also:oligarchy was attacked with See also:great asperity. Most of the changes which he advocated were See also:wise and have since been adopted ; but the violence of Mackenzie's attacks roused great anger among the social and See also:political set at York (See also:Toronto), which was headed by See also:John See also:Beverley See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson. In See also:November
incipient softening of the See also:brain, of which he died on the 29th of See also:August 186r.
Turbulent, ungovernable, vain, often the dupe of schemers, Mackenzie See also:united with much that was laughable not a little that was heroic. He could neither be bribed, bullied, nor cajoled. Perhaps the best instance of this is that in 1832 he refused from See also:Lord Goderich an offer of a position which would have given him great See also:influence in Canada and an income of £1,500. He was a born agitator, and as such tended to exaggeration and misrepresentation. But the evils against which he struggled were real and See also:grave; the milder See also:measures of the Constitutional Reformers might have taken See also:long to achieve the results which were due to his hot-headed advocacy.
The See also:Life and Times by his son-in-See also:law, See also:Charles See also:Lindsey (Toronto, 2 vols., 1862), is moderate and See also:fair, though tending to smooth over his See also:anti-See also:British gasconnade while in the United States. An abridgment of this work was edited by G. G. S. Lindsey for the " Makers of Canada " See also:series (1909). In The See also:Story of the Upper Canadian See also:Rebellion by J. C. Dent (2 vols., Toronto, 1885), a See also:bitter attack is made on him, which drew a See also:savage reply from another son-in-law, John See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King, K.C., called The Other See also:Side of the Story. The best See also:short See also:account of his career is given by J. C. Dent in The Canadian Portrait See also:Gallery, vol. ii. (Toronto, 1881). (W. L. G.)
1824 Mackenzie removed to Toronto, but he had little See also:capital; his See also:paper appeared irregularly, and was on the point of suspending publication when his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was attacked and his type thrown into the See also:bay by a number of the supporters of his opponents. In an See also:action against the See also:chief rioters he was awarded £625 and See also:costs, was thus enabled to set up a much larger and more efficient plant, and the Colonial Advocate ran till the 4th of November 1834.
In 1828 he was elected member of See also:parliament for York, but was expelled on the technical ground that he had published in his newspaper the proceedings of the See also:house without authorization. Five times he was expelled and five times re-elected by his constituents, till at last the See also:government refused to issue a See also:writ, and for three years York was without one of its representatives. In May 1832 he visited See also:England, where he was well received by the colonial office. Largely as the result of his representations, many important reforms were ordered by Lord Goderich, after-wards See also:earl of See also:Ripon, the colonial secretary. While in England, he published Sketches of Canada and the United States, in which, with some exaggeration, many of the Canadian grievances were exposed. On his return in March 1834 he was elected See also:mayor of Toronto. During his See also:year of office, the heroism with which he worked See also:hand in hand with his old enemy, See also:Bishop See also:Strachan, in fighting an attack of See also:cholera, did not prevent him from winning much unpopularity by his officiousness, and in 1835 he was not re-elected either as mayor or See also:alderman. In See also:October 1834 he was elected member of parliament for York, and took his seat in See also:January 1835, the Reformers being now in the See also:majority. A See also:committee on grievances was appointed, as chairman of which Mackenzie presented the admirable Seventh See also:Report on Grievances, largely written by himself, in which the See also:case for the Reformers was presented with force and moderation, and the See also:adoption of responsible government advocated as the remedy.
In the general See also:election of See also:June 1836 the Tory party won a See also:complete victory, Mackenzie and almost all the prominent Reformers being defeated at the polls. This totally unexpected defeat greatly embittered him. On the 4th of See also:July 1836, the anniversary of the adoption of the See also:American See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, he began the publication of the Constitution, which openly advocated a republican See also:form of government. Later in the year he was appointed " See also:agent and corresponding secretary " of the extreme wing of the Reform party, and more and more openly, in his speeches throughout the See also:province, advocated armed revolt. He was also in See also:correspondence with See also:Papineau and the other leaders of the Reformers in See also:Lower Canada, who were already planning a rising. See also:Early in See also:December 1837 Mackenzie gathered a See also:mob of his followers, to the number of several See also:hundred, at Gallows See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, some See also:miles to the See also:north of Toronto, with the intention of seizing the See also:lieutenant-See also:governor and setting up a provisional government. Misunderstandings among the leaders led to the See also:total failure of the revolt, and Mackenzie was forced to See also:fly to the United States with a See also:price on his See also:head. In the See also:town of See also:Buffalo he collected a disorderly See also:rabble, who seized and fortified See also:Navy See also:Island, in the See also:river between the two countries, and for some See also:weeks troubled the Canadian frontier. After the failure of this See also:attempt he was put to the most pitiful shifts to make a living. In June 1839 he was tried in the United States for a See also:breach of the See also:neutrality See also:laws, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, of which he served over eleven. While in See also:gaol at See also:Rochester he published the See also:Caroline See also:Almanac, the See also:tone of which may be judged from its references to " See also:Victoria See also:Guelph, the bloody See also:queen of England," and by the See also:title given to the British See also:cabinet of " Victoria See also:Melbourne's bloody See also:divan." He returned to Canada in consequence of the See also:Amnesty See also:Act 1849_ A closer inspection had cured him of his love for republican institutions.
In 1851 he was elected to parliament for See also:Haldimand, defeating See also:George See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown. He at once allied himself with the Radicals (the " Clear Grits") ,and, on the leadership of that party being assumed by Brown, became one of his lieutenants. He was still miserably poor, but refused all offers to accept a government position.
End of Article: MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (1795-1861)
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