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However, his term was marked by economic depression that had grown out of the Panic of 1873, which Mackenzie's government was unable to alleviate.
The Tetons, as well as the valley west of the Teton Range known today as Pierre's Hole, may have been named by French speaking Iroquois or French Canadian trappers that were part of Mackenzie's party.
Compton Mackenzie's novel Sinister Street makes use of the type as a phase through which the protagonist passes as he is influenced by older, decadent individuals.
Although many in Scotland were delighted it soon became clear to the directors of the Darien company that Mackenzie's charges were not supported by any kind of valid proof and it seemed that the men would be released.
John Mackenzie's spy thriller The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 ), derived from a script by the original novelist Frederick Forsyth, featured Michael Caine as British intelligence agent John Preston and Pierce Brosnan as bad-guy Russian agent Maj. Valeri Petrofsky.
Daniel allegedly died three weeks after William Lyon Mackenzie's birth ( though historians have been unable to find a record of his burial ) and Mackenzie was raised by his mother.
The boy was raised by Mackenzie's mother.
A group of 15 young Tories, perhaps led by Samuel Peters Jarvis, took advantage of Mackenzie's absence to exact revenge for the attacks on the Tories printed in the Colonial Advocate.
He admired the small size of the American government ; the spoils system ( whereby a party that wins an election can distribute government jobs to its supporters – unlike in Upper Canada, where those jobs remained controlled by the lieutenant governor no matter who won the election to the Assembly ); and Jackson's opposition to the Second Bank of the United States, which corresponded to Mackenzie's feelings towards the Bank of Upper Canada.
On March 23, Catholic Irish apprentices in York, furious at Mackenzie's attack on Bishop Macdonnell, pelted Mackenzie and Ketchum with garbage ; riots broke out in York later that day and Mackenzie might have been killed by the crowd, but for the intervention of Tory magistrate James FitzGibbon.
In Mackenzie's absence, the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada voted to expel him a third time ; on this occasion, he was re-elected by acclamation.
Rather, Mackenzie's management style provoked frequent quarrels on the City Council, and by summer 1834, it was apparent that the Reformers would be able to accomplish nothing in the municipal government.
If things had gone according to Mackenzie's plan, it appears that on November 29, he would have called for a provincial constitutional convention, with a provisional government headed by John Rolph administering the colony in the meantime.
Andrew Drew of the Royal Navy and Canadian volunteers led by Col. Allan MacNab bombarded Navy Island, in the process destroying the SS Caroline, an American ship that was supplying Mackenzie's and Rensselaer's forces.
Mackenzie waited for Bond Head's force of about 1000 men and one cannon, led by Colonel James FitzGibbon, which outnumbered Mackenzie's approximately 400 rebels.
In contrast the eastern half, despite being dominated by marshland and large lakes, provides only about 25 % of the Mackenzie's discharge.
Logan tried to prevent by law the reprinting of Bruce's poems ( see James Mackenzie's Life of Michael Bruce, 1905, chap.
He was originally a Reformer in the same vein as Robert Baldwin, but was attracted by William Lyon Mackenzie's more radical reform movement.
A satirical presentation of the island's lesbian colony is made in Mackenzie's 1928 novel Extraordinary Women ( unrelated to the Dominican film of the same name ), inspired by the affairs of American painter Romaine Brooks ( in the novel, under the pseudonym of Olimpia Leigh ).
" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians says that although Mackenzie's music was eclipsed by the works of later composers, " he and his contemporaries may be regarded as having laid the foundations of the musical renaissance in 19th-and early 20th-century Britain ".
Mackenzie's operas began in 1883 with Colomba, first produced by the Carl Rosa Company.
Critics observed that Mackenzie's operatic and choral music was generally ill-served by his librettists: " Much of his best work ... is neglected, partly because unlike his contemporaries, Parry and Stanford, Mackenzie went for the texts of his larger vocal works to such librettists as Joseph Bennett and Hueffer, instead of to the vital things of English poetry and literature.
The Times commented, " Mr Burnand's experience as a librettist of comic opera, and Sir Alexander Mackenzie's inexperience in this class of composition might lead the public to expect a brilliant book weighed down by music of too serious and ambitious a type.
" Burnand's libretto was judged dull and confused, but Mackenzie's music was " marked by distinction as well as humour.
* 1904: The Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power Company was founded by Mackenzie's group

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