* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

B. M. Hertzog and Canada's Prime Minister at that time, William Lyon Mackenzie King.

In Canada, a similar situation took place in 1925 wherein Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy appointed Arthur Meighen after William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to resign the premiership ( known as the King-Byng Affair ).

He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

Seated: Stanley Baldwin ( Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom ), King George V, William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Prime Minister of Canada | Canada ).

Macdonald served 19 years as Canadian Prime Minister ; only William Lyon Mackenzie King served longer.

It was not until he was nearly 60 that St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941.

For example William Lyon Mackenzie King, after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, briefly " governed from the hallway " before winning a by-election a few weeks later.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the 10th Prime Minister of Canada ( 1921 – 1926 ; 1926 – 1930 ; 1935 – 1948 )

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

** Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address, stating its intentions to declare war against Nazi Germany.

Buchan's experiences during the First World War made him averse to conflict, he tried to help prevent another war in coordination with United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King.

As a result, with confidence in his government undermined, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King called the 1945 federal election several weeks later when he had originally intended to wait until after the end of the war.

Agents who worked for MI6 during the war included Augustus Agar, Paul Dukes, John Buchan, Compton Mackenzie and W. Somerset Maugham.

Vanier ( seated, right ), with William Lyon Mackenzie King ( seated, centre ), and other members of the Canadian delegation dispatched to the United Kingdom to discuss war planning, 1941

Hepburn remained a bitter opponent of Mackenzie King after the strike, and harshly criticized King's war effort in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II introducing a resolution into the Ontario legislature which was passed 44 to 10, that accused the federal government of mishandling the war effort.

Hepburn thought Canada should be doing more to support the war, and helped organize the military districts in Ontario, encouraging men to volunteer when Mackenzie King chose not to introduce conscription.

Now branding Drew's Conservatives as the greatest menace to Canada, he reversed his earlier criticism of Mackenzie King's war effort and campaigned for Liberal candidate General Andrew McNaughton in a 1945 federal by-election.

In 1940, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King pledged to limit Canada's direct military involvement in the war.

Many Canadians supported Mackenzie King's pledge, even as it became obvious the war would not be quickly resolved.

In contrast, Creighton saw William Lyon Mackenzie King as a weak and indecisive figure who was more concerned with safeguarding the electoral fortunes of the Liberals then winning the war, and who kept Canadian troops out of combat as long as possible to avoid making difficult decisions on conscription.

* September 7-Prime Minister Mackenzie King calls for a special session of Parliament, to discuss a declaration of war versus Nazi Germany.

Even though not that many people were forced to serve until the end of the war, the decision made by Mackenzie King to allow conscription was very unpopular in Quebec.

Mackenzie King recalled Parliament into session beginning 7 September, and Canada declared war on Germany.

After the war, Mackenzie King was asked by the British Government which prominent Canadians should be appointed to the Imperial Privy Council, entitling them to proceed their names with " The Right Honourable ".

After the honours were announced on New Year's Day 1946, Howe demanded a meeting with Mackenzie King, told the Prime Minister that he felt his war service was being slighted and threatened his resignation.

Mackenzie King died in 1950, by which time Canada was again going to war, this time in Korea ; on the train returning from the former prime minister's funeral, St. Laurent and his External Relations minister, Lester Pearson, began planning troop movements.

During World War II, Hepburn clashed with William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, arguing that King was not sufficiently prosecuting the war effort, in particular by not introducing conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ).

After the war, together with navigator Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve, he attempted to win the Daily Mail £ 10, 000 prize for the first flight across the Atlantic in " 72 consecutive hours ".

Drew was strident in his criticism of the federal government of Mackenzie King, attacking its leadership in the Canadian war effort, chastizing it during the Conscription Crisis of 1944 for not instituting full conscription, and accusing it of attempting to centralize power.

Although the soldiers and the war is largely forgotten, a monument to the Mackenzie – Papineau Battalion can be found in Victoria, British Columbia.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister of Canada, declined to join the body and, as Churchill was already unenthusiastic about sharing power with the dominions, the Imperial War Cabinet's role in the Second World War was greatly diminished in comparison to the previous war.

The expansion of government responsibilities during the war led to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King deciding to delegate the House leadership to one of his ministers.

As editor, Mackenzie was perhaps a little too vocal, leading the paper to a suit of law for libel against the local conservative candidate.

* 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay " To the People of Upper Canada ", published in his newspaper The Constitution.

As Opposition leader, Bennett faced off against the more experienced Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Commons debates, and took some time to acquire enough experience to hold his own with King.

On November 8, 1832, Lord Goderich sent a dispatch to Lieutenant Governor Colborne, which arrived in January 1833, instructing him to make certain financial and political improvements in Upper Canada, and instructing him to rein in the Assembly's vendetta against Mackenzie.

When Mackenzie and Lesslie subsequently campaigned against Baldwin in the October 1851 elections for the 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada, they were thus largely responsible for Baldwin and several other Reformers losing their seats, and Sir Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert Morin becoming co-premiers.

In May 1853, Mackenzie turned his full wrath against Hincks when it was revealed that Hincks and John George Bowes had stolen from the public in a railway debenture scheme known as the "£ 10, 000 Job ".

Macdonell was a conservative legislative councillor from 1831 leading the mainly Irish settlers against the Reform movement and Mackenzie.

Among those charged was Clodagh Mackenzie, an elderly lady from whom the land necessary for the bridge's arrival in Skye had been compulsorily purchased ; the charges against her were subsequently dropped without explanation.

In 1539 Iain Dubh Matheson, chief of the Clan Matheson, died whilst defending the castle against the Clan Macdonald of Sleat on behalf of Clan Macrae and Clan Mackenzie.

Lapointe helped draft Mackenzie King's policy against conscription for overseas service in 1939, and his campaigning helped defeat the Duplessis provincial government in 1939.

On September 9, he urged both Premier John Bracken and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to give full support to Poland against Nazi Germany's invasion.

Mackenzie King effectively campaigned against Byng in the election instead of against Meighen, and won the largest number of seats in the House of Commons despite receiving a smaller proportion of the popular vote than the Tories.

The first open uprisings in Canada against the monarchical system came in 1837, with the Lower Canada Rebellionled by Louis Joseph Papineau and his Parti Patrioteand the Upper Canada Rebellionled by William Lyon Mackenzie.

In the 14th century during the Wars of Scottish Independence the Clan Mackenzie is said to have been among the clans who fought against the English.

The Clan Mackenzie fought on the side of King Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Inverurie ( 1308 ) against the forces of the Clan Comyn who were rivals to the throne.

In his absence a prosecution for treason was raised < sup > 1 </ sup > against him and others of the exiles by Sir George Mackenzie, the Lord Advocate.

The cause of their abandonment was the appointment of his son, the Master of Stair, who had made his peace with James II, as Lord Advocate in place of Mackenzie, who was dismissed from office for refusing to relax the penal laws against the Roman Catholics.

He became president of the Dene Nation in 1974 and while president fought against the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.

Deadwood had a number of baseball teams in the 1950s and early 1960s and competed in the Mackenzie Highway Baseball League against a number of other teams in the area.

In the closing month of the season Shearer was being picked ahead of Mackenzie but ( due to an agreement made prior to his loan signing ) was not allowed to play against his parent-club Bristol Rovers in the League Two play-off final.

Mackenzie retired from football on 29 February 2012, during a team meeting which followed Corby Town's 3 – 1 home win against Long Buckby in the Hillier Senior Cup Semi-Final, in which all the players were asked to take a pay-cut.