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Signature. • Father of Confederation •. George Brown (November 29, 1818 – May 9, 1880) was a British-Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He attended the Charlottetown (September 1864) and Quebec (October 1864) conferences. [1] A noted Reform politician, he is best known as the founder and editor of the ...
George Brown (communist) (1906–1937), Irish-born Manchester trade unionist killed in the Spanish Civil War; Other people. Sir George McLaren Brown (1865–1939), Canadian railway administrator; George Brown (executioner) (fl. 1911–1919), English executioner; Igor Gouzenko (alias George Brown, 1919–1982), Soviet defector to Canada; Other uses
George Brown House. National Historic Site of Canada. Designated. 1976. George Brown House is a historic building in the Grange Park neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was home to Father of Confederation, Reform Party politician and publisher George Brown. Its current address is 186 Beverley Street.
Clear Grits. Clear Grits were reformers in the Canada West district of the Province of United Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada. Their name is said to have been given by George Brown, who said that only those were wanted in the party who were "all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through".
The Globe began as a weekly newspaper on March 5, 1844, edited by George Brown, a Presbyterian immigrant from Scotland by way of New York City, where he and his father had edited newspapers. In August 1844, it began to be printed on the first cylinder press in Canada West. The press was able to print 1,250 papers in one hour, many more than the ...
George Brown co-wrote such Kool & the Gang classics as 'Celebration' and 'Jungle Boogie,' and earned the nickname 'Funky' for his style of drumming.
The 1867 Canadian federal election was held from August 7 to September 20, 1867, and was the first election for the new country of Canada. It was held to elect members representing electoral districts in the provinces of Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , Ontario and Quebec to the House of Commons of the 1st Canadian Parliament .
A statue of George Brown is installed in Toronto's Queen's Park, in Ontario, Canada. The sculpture was unveiled in 1884. The sculpture was unveiled in 1884. [1]