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Angus Lewis Macdonald, PC, QC ( August 10, 1890 – April 13, 1954 ), popularly known as ' Angus L .', was a Canadian lawyer, law professor and politician from Nova Scotia.
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Twelve graduates of Dalhousie have also served as provincial premiers across Canada, including Allan Blakeney, John Buchanan, Alex Campbell, Amor De Cosmos, Darrell Dexter, Joe Ghiz, John Hamm, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Russell MacLellan, Gerald Regan, Robert Stanfield, Clyde Wells, and Danny Williams.
According to AdventureStats, Jason Lewis completed the first true human-powered circumnavigation of the globe while National Geographic lists Colin Angus as being the first to complete a global circumnavigation.
While neither Lewis or Angus met the Guinness World Records criteria, each completed continuous human powered journeys around the planet, although they did not cross a pair of antipodes or travel the distance of the Tropic of Cancer.
* Lewis Deer and John Barr: Australia's First Patriot: The Story of William C. Wentworth: Angus & Robertson Ltd .: Sydney 1911.
* April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia ( b. 1890 )
* August 10 — Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia ( d. 1954 )
Hicks was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1945 as a Liberal for Annapolis County and served as Nova Scotia's first Minister of Education from 1949 to 1954 in the government of Angus Lewis Macdonald.
Angus Lewis Macdonald was born August 10, 1890, on a small family farm at Dunvegan, Inverness County, on Cape Breton Island.
In her poetry Violet Jacob was associated with Scots revivalists like Marion Angus, Alexander Gray and Lewis Spence in the Scottish Renaissance, which drew its inspiration from early Scots poets such as Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, rather than from Robert Burns.
* Angus Lewis Macdonald ( 1890 – 1954 ), Canadian liberal MP for Kingston, and Premier of Nova Scotia
Alexander Mackenzie, in his history of Clan Mackenzie, claims that Angus Nicolson of Stornoway raised 300 men from the island of Lewis for Jacobite service, only to be ordered back by a furious Earl of Seaforth when they landed on the mainland.
During World War II, he was the executive assistant to Angus Lewis Macdonald, Minister of National Defence for Naval Services.
She encouraged the work of the young CM Grieve ( Hugh MacDiarmid ), of James Leslie Mitchell ( Lewis Grassic Gibbon ), and other writers, and was sympathetic in her appreciation of the poetry of Violet Jacob and Marion Angus.
Angus and Macdonald
In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.
In 1955, the town was permanently linked to Halifax by the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge which led to rapid suburban growth.
During the early 1950s, construction began on the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge, a suspension bridge crossing Halifax Harbour.
The bridge was designed by the Montreal firm Monsarrat and Pratley, which was later responsible for the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia using a similar design.
King Haakon IV of Norway ( reigned 1217 – 1263 ) confirmed Donald's son Angus Mor ( the Elder ) Mac Donald ( the first Macdonald ) as Lord of Islay, and the two participated jointly in the Battle of Largs ( 1263 ).
Angus L. Macdonald, the province's most storied Liberal premier, split his term into two by spending five years as a federal Liberal cabinet minister in the wartime government of William Lyon Mackenzie King.
When Premier Angus L. Macdonald died in 1954, Connolly became the province's premier and the Liberal party's interim leader.
Angus and PC
John Angus MacLean, PC, OC, DFC ( 15 May 1914 – 15 February 2000 ) was a politician and farmer in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Angus John " Gus " Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston, CBE, PC ( born 1940, Larkhall, Scotland ), is a member of the House of Lords, taking the Labour Party Whip.
Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon PC ( 8 September 1912 – 9 November 1993 ), was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981.
Angus was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's chief fundraiser throughout Brian Mulroney's period as party leader being chairman of the PC Canada Fund from 1983 to 1983.
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