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He was also head of the French section of the Canadian Censorship Branch through most of the Second World War, assuming full control of the Censorship Branch in January 1945, when chief censor Wilfrid Eggleston resigned.
* March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 ( d. 1985 )

Wilfrid and journalist
They include Mrs Wyatt, Prince Kishan, arms dealer Mr Peters ( Eugene Deckers ), British ex-pat Mr Bridie ( Wilfrid Hyde-White ), Lady Wyndham ( the governor's wife ), two Indian NCOs and half-Dutch, half-Indian journalist Mr Van Leyden ( Herbert Lom ).

Wilfrid and chief
Wilfrid, chief advocate for the Roman position, later became Bishop of Northumbria, while Colmán and the Ionan supporters who did not change their practices withdrew to Iona.
Nimitz's chief of intelligence, Captain Edwin T. Layton, whimsically suggested one of Commander Rochefort's men, Wilfrid J.

Wilfrid and for
Bede had another brush with Wilfrid, for the historian himself says that he met Wilfrid, sometime between 706 and 709, and discussed Æthelthryth, the abbess of Ely.
Wilfrid had been present at the exhumation of her body in 695, and Bede questioned the bishop about the exact circumstances of the body and asked for more details of her life, as Wilfrid had been her advisor.
The battle of the name raged on for many years and drove a wedge between Louis and LeGros Clark, Sir Wilfrid from 1955, who took the Paranthropus view.
An analytic philosopher, Rorty believed that combining Willard Van Orman Quine's criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction with Wilfrid Sellars's critique of the " Myth of the Given " allowed for an abandonment of the view of the thought or language as a mirror of a reality or external world.
Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except for one named Bob.
In 681 the founder of Selsey Abbey, the exiled St Wilfrid of Northumbria, arrived in the kingdom of the South Saxons and remained there for five years evangelising and baptising the people.
Today Wilfrid Laurier University is reputed for its business and liberal arts programs while the University of Waterloo is reputed for its engineering and math programs.
A collaborative effort between the University of Waterloo, Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier and Conestoga College the Partnerships for Employment Career Fair is the largest in the country.
The third version of The Plank was made in 1979 for Thames TV as a half-hour TV special, with a cast including Eric, Arthur Lowe ( taking Tommy Cooper's role ), Charlie Drake, Charles Hawtrey and Wilfrid Hyde-White.
Alchfrith ’ s position in the royal house, together with his promotion of Wilfrid ( who would be the spokesperson for the Roman position at the synod ), has contributed to the view that he was instrumental in arranging his father ’ s convocation of the synod.
Because of Agilbert ’ s inability to express the complicated arguments in Old English, which was for him a foreign language, Wilfrid was selected as the prime advocate for the Roman party.
Wilfrid ’ s advocation of the Roman Easter has been called, “ a triumphant push against an open door ”, since most of the Irish had already accepted the Roman Easter and for this reason Iona “ was already in danger of being pushed to one side by its Irish rivals ”.
In 664 Wilfrid acted as spokesman for the Roman " party " at the Council of Whitby, and became famous for his speech advocating that the Roman method for calculating the date of Easter should be adopted.
Wilfrid went to Mercia, where he helped missionaries and acted as bishop for the Mercian king.
The main sources for knowledge of Wilfrid are the medieval Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, written by Stephen of Ripon soon after Wilfrid's death, and the works of the medieval historian Bede, who knew Wilfrid during the bishop's lifetime.
Other, more minor, sources for Wilfrid's life include a mention of Wilfrid in one of Bede's letters.

Wilfrid and Canada
St-Laurent's father, a Compton shopkeeper, was a staunch supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
St-Laurent won, and was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada on 15 November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after Wilfrid Laurier.
* 1841 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1919 )
In 1917 Canada was in crisis ; King supported Liberal leader Sir Wilfrid Laurier in his opposition to conscription, which was violently opposed in the province of Quebec.
* February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada ( b. 1841 )
* Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( Canada )
* November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1919 )
* Polish — Szczeniowski, Boleslaw ( worked mainly in Canada ): " Pierrot " ( 1958 ; voice ; text by Wilfrid Lemoine ).
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003.
Furthermore, it is associated with the North American Mobility Project, a transnational academic program that links it to Georgia Southern University in the United States and Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.
Eventually, Sir Wilfrid Laurier was able to lead the Liberals back to a competitive position in English Canada, but by the time of the First World War, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Laurier again found himself in charge of a Liberal Party limited to Quebec and a few other pockets.
Various Prime Ministers such as Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, and Pierre Trudeau have attempted to reasonably distance Canada from the United States to focus on self-sufficiency while maintaining good relations, while other Prime Ministers such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, and Brian Mulroney attempted to integrate with the Americans on an economic level and strived for close political relations hoping to enlarge markets.
This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal Party of Canada dominance at the federal level.
* Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada
When his brother Clifford became Wilfrid Laurier's Minister of the Interior in November 1896, Sifton advised him on Liberal Party affairs in western Canada.
He argued that Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier was un vendu (" a sell-out ") to British imperialism and its supporters in Canada.
David Roberston Brown of Brown & Vallance were the initial architects constructing a campus plan and the first university buildings in Collegiate Gothic style: The Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, laid the cornerstone of the first building, the College Building, on July 29, 1910.
The first two Secretaries of State for External Affairs, from 1909 until 1912, ( Charles Murphy under Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William James Roche under Sir Robert Borden ) concurrently served as Secretary of State for Canada.
Annual invitational tournaments held in Canada include the McGill University Winter Carnival, the Queen ’ s University Chancellor ’ s Cup, the Carleton University Lord Dorchester Cup, the University of Toronto Hart House IV, the University of Ottawa Father Guindon Cup, and the Wilfrid Laurier University / University of Waterloo Seagram Cup.
Following Canadian Confederation, Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald, having been denied the name Kingdom of Canada for the new country, was repeatedly heard to refer to Queen Victoria as the Queen of Canada, and, similarly, in the lead up to the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier desired to have the words King of Canada included in the royal title by the time of the ceremony.
The Laurier Museum commemorates the summer home of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and is a National Historic Site of Canada.

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