The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

In 1946, Philéas Côté, a Quebec member of the House of Commons, introduced a private member's bill to rename Dominion Day as Canada Day.

Following the death of his Quebec lieutenant, Ernest Lapointe, in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for the government to have a strong, well respected member of cabinet to serve as a new deputy for Quebec to help deal with the volatile conscription issue.

Gretzky made his first international appearance as a member of the Canadian national junior team at the 1978 World Junior Championships in Montreal, Quebec.

Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan are the Canadian provinces with provincial licensing bodies ; in these provinces, it is illegal to practice the profession of Respiratory Care without first being licensed as a full or practicing member with the provincial licensing body.

In the 2011 federal election, in the wake of a surge of support for the New Democratic Party, the Bloc received less than a quarter of the popular vote in Quebec ( less than 6 % of all the total votes in the elections ), lost 44 of the 47 seats it held at parliament's dissolution, and only added one seat, which had been vacated by a Bloc Québécois member six months prior to the election.

Michel Gauthier, once Bloc's leader, was a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 until 1988.

The current party leader Daniel Paillé was also a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996, and a BQ member of Parliament from 2009 to 2011.

Turner practised law, initially with the firm of Stikeman Elliott in Montreal, Quebec, and was elected as a member of Parliament in 1962.

The Avalanche were founded in 1972 as the Quebec Nordiques as a member of the rival World Hockey Association.

In 1898, Fairbanks was appointed a member of the United States and British Joint High Commission which met in Quebec City for the adjustment of Canadian questions, including the boundary dispute about Alaska.

In recent years, some participating governments, notably the governments of Quebec and Canada, pushed for the adoption of a Charter in order for the organization to sanction member States that are known to have poor records when it comes to the protection of human rights and the practice of democracy.

Each province has its own unicameral legislature, with each member usually known as a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ), although in certain provinces they carry other titles: Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in Ontario ; Member of the National Assembly ( MNA ) in Quebec (); or Member of the House of Assembly ( MHA ) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Born in Neufchâtel, Quebec, Bédard learned marksmanship as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets ' 2772 cadet corps, which she joined at the age of 15, and participated in her first biathlon event at age 15.

Laporte was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party, and considered to be a leading member of the party's left wing.

After Lesage announced in 1969 that he would step down as party leader, Laporte ran to succeed him, but lost the 1970 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election to fellow cabinet member Robert Bourassa.

In 1960, Lévesque entered politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1960 election as a Liberal Party member in the riding of Montréal-Laurier.

Founded in 1969, it is a member of Canadian University Press ( CUP ), and is the largest CEGEP newspaper in Quebec.

As a result, Cartier was both a member of the Parliament of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

In 1808 Papineau was elected member of parliament for Kent ( now Chambly, Quebec ) before being admitted to the Bar of Lower Canada in 1810.

Charles Daudelin was awarded the Quebec government's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas in 1985, and was made a member of the Ordre national du Québec in 1998.

Born in Louiseville ( Mauricie ), Quebec, she was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas's Automatistes art movement.

Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took MEPs from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group Independence and Democracy ( IND / DEM ).

In 1999, a member of the government said that ' Independence is an option open to the Island if the circumstances should justify this ' but the government ' does not believe independence is appropriate in the present circumstances and does not see the circumstances arising in the foreseeable future when it would be appropriate '.

Prior to Independence, Thomas Mifflin was a member of Pennsylvania's Provincial Assembly ( 1772 – 1776 ).

Adams ' grandfather, also called Gerry Adams, had been a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) during the Irish War of Independence.

It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, after whom Montgomery County ( and similarly named counties in many other states ) were named.

However, the Majority Caucus which controls 12 seats in the 15-member Legislature includes one member of the New York State Conservative Party and one member of the New York State Independence Party.

The Political makeup of the 2012-2013 Board is 19 Republicans, 3 Democrats, and 1 Independence Party member.

One of them, Igaal Alon and Kibbutz Artzi member Shimon Avidan were the two most important commanders who won the War of Independence, and numerous kibbutz members were Cabinet Ministers who largely shaped Israeli politics form 1955 to 1977.

That changed in 2003 with the election of Democrats Theresa Egan as Town Supervisor and Dan Plummer, along with Independence Party member Tim Gordon, creating a new majority on the town board for the first time in recollection.

Messina, a member of the Independence Party ( and former member of the Democratic Party ), ran on the Republican line.

Although not known if he was actually a member of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), he was very active in the Irish War of Independence as a supporter, financially and otherwise, of the East Clare Brigade of the IRA and its legendary leaders, Michael and Conn Brennan.

He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, although he was recalled by his state before he could sign the final version of the document.

In 2010, Durenberger endorsed his former chief of staff, Independence Party member Tom Horner, for governor.

He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1919 when aged 15, and was an active member during the Irish War of Independence.

He is regarded as one of the U. S. Founding Fathers since he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the Virginia delegation.

He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U. S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U. S. Senator from Delaware and Chief Justice of Delaware.

One of his first duties as a member of Congress was to affix his signature to the Declaration of Independence, which he did on August 2, along with most delegates.

Davíð Oddsson was a member of a group of young conservative-libertarians within the Independence Party who felt that the party should support more strongly attempts to extend economic freedom in the heavily regulated Icelandic economy.

* Jonathan Brewster Bingham ( 1914 – 1986 ), member of the House of Representatives for Riverdale and other sections of the Bronx from 1965 to 1983, for whom a segment of Independence Avenue north of 5000 Independence Avenue, his home with June Rossbach Bingham ( later June Bingham Birge ,) has been named.

As a member of the Sicilian Independence Movement, Giuliano actively pursued efforts aimed at achieving the independence Sicily from the Italian government.

Garland was appointed to the Provisional Confederate Congress and was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives in the First Confederate Congress in 1861, where he was a member of the Committees on Public Lands, Commerce and Financial Independence, and the Judiciary.

He was grandson of Wade Hampton ( 1754 – 1835 ), lieutenant colonel of cavalry in the American War of Independence, member of the U. S. House of Representatives, and brigadier general in the War of 1812.