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Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-Canadian stonemason and politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878. He led the Liberal Party from 1873 to 1880 and was the first Liberal prime minister. He was also a member of Parliament (MP) from 1867 to 1892.
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Born 28 January 1822 · Died 17 April 1892 · Q128708
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1892· 6 entries
Died 1892-04-17.
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“...the Reformers of this country will remember... with gratitude, that it was the great leaders of the Reform Party who first gave perfect civil and religious rights to the people of Canada”
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“No Canadian government, whatever political party, will attempt to hinder the extension of the true principle of free trade all over the world”
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“To the working men of Dundee...I press upon them the absolute necessity, as the very foundation of success in life, that they shall assume an erect position; that they shall respect their own manhood; and they will soon compel all other people to respect them”
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“I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin”
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“We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.”
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1891· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1891–1892).
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1887· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1887–1891).
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1882· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1882–1887).
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1881· 1 entry
Became the first president of The North American Life Assurance Company
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1878· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1878–1882).
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The Liberals got slightly more than a third of the vote, and the Conservatives with 42 percent of the votes came back into power
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1876· 1 entry
The Conservative opposition announced a National Policy of protective tariffs, which resonated with voters
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1874· 3 entries
Mackenzie negotiated a new free trade agreement with the United States, eliminating the high protective tariffs in place on Canadian goods in US markets
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And the creation of the Office of the Auditor General in 1878
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1874–1878).
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1873· 3 entries
The Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government
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Career landmark: Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (1873–1880).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Canada (1873–1878).
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1872· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1872–1874).
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1867· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1867–1872).
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Mackenzie was elected to the new House of Commons of Canada for the Liberal Party
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1865· 1 entry
Brown resigned from the Great Coalition over negotiations of a reciprocity trade treaty with the United States
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1852· 2 entries
Finally succumbing to the effects of excessive doses of mercury-based calomel used to treat a fever while in Kingston
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Mackenzie became editor of another reformist paper, the Lambton Shield
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1851· 1 entry
Became the secretary for the Reform Party for Lambton
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1842· 1 entry
The couple and her family immigrated to Canada to seek a better life
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1822· 2 entries
In Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Mary Stewart (Fleming) and Alexander Mackenzie Sr
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Born 1822-01-28.
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