Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Canadian English" ¶ 2
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Geikie and Canadian
The term " Canadian English " is first attested in a speech by the Reverend A. Constable Geikie in an address to the Canadian Institute in 1857.
* 1967 North Face, VI 5. 9 A3, Mount Geikie, Canadian Rockies, first ascent with John Hudson.

Geikie and be
A portrait and some reminiscences of W. W. Smyth will be found in the Memoir of Sir A. C. Ramsay ( 1895 ), by Sir Archibald Geikie.

Geikie and for
The gorge was named in honour of Sir Archibald Geikie, the Director General of Geological Survey for Great Britain and Ireland when it was given its European name in 1883.
The gorges of central Kimberley known for their fossils and for their large colonies of bats include Windjana, Tunnel Creek, and Geikie Gorges.
* Wollaston Medal for Geology: Archibald Geikie
He was known as the Abb Renard ; but, as remarked by Sir A. Geikie, as years passed, the longing for mental freedom grew ever stronger, until at last it overmastered all the traditions and associations of a lifetime, and he finally separated himself from the church of Rome.

Geikie and by
Theory of the Earth ; with proofs and illustrations, vol III, Edited by Sir Archibald Geikie.
The name of the kingdom is preserved in the etymology of the Dalradian geological series, a term coined by Archibald Geikie because its outcrop has a similar geographical extent to that of the former Dál Riata.
* Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney, by Geraldine Edith Mitton and John Cunningham Geikie, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
Geikie Gorge National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, ( great circle distance ) northeast of Perth and approximately east of Broome by road.
* Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney, by Geraldine Edith Mitton and John Cunningham Geikie, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
* Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney, by Geraldine Edith Mitton and John Cunningham Geikie, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
As remarked by Sir Archibald Geikie, the doctrine of the origin of valleys by the erosive action of the streams which flow through them was first clearly taught by Desmarest.
** Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie
Geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, April 30, 1897, following the George Huntington Williams Memorial Lectures delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie at Johns Hopkins University.
The term " erratic " is commonly used to refer to erratic blocks, which Geikie describes as: " large masses of rock, often as big as a house, that have been transported by glacier-ice, and have been lodged in a prominent position in the glacier valleys or have been scattered over hills and plains.
With Murchison some of his earliest work was done on the complicated regions of the schists of the Scottish Highlands ; and the small geological map of Scotland published in 1862 was their joint work: a larger map was issued by Geikie in 1892.
File: Geikie Powell Walcott in Harpers Ferry 1897. jpg | Sir Archibald Geikie, John Wesley Powell, and Charles Doolittle Walcott on a geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, May 1897, following the George Huntington Williams Memorial Lectures delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie at Johns Hopkins University
* The Birds of Shakespeare by Sir Archibald Geikie
* The Story of a Boulder ; or, Gleanings from the notebook of a field geologist by Sir Archibald Geikie, 1858
* Memoir of Edward Forbes, by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie ( MacMillan and Edmonston co., 1861 ); Google Book Search
See The Founders of Geology, by Sir A Geikie ( 1897 ).
Sir A. Geikie has shown that the puy type of eruption was common in the British area in Carboniferous and Permian times, as abundantly attested in central Scotland by remains of the old volcanoes, now generally reduced by denudation to the mere neck, or volcanic vent, filled with tuff and agglomerate, or plugged with lava.

Geikie and from
Geikie was Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society from 1890 to 1894, Joint Secretary from 1903 to 1908 and elected President in 1909 and awarded their Royal Medal in 1896.
Sir Archibald Geikie is in the top row, second from the left, wearing a light-colored jacket.

Geikie and Britain
See Sir A. Geikie, Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain ( 1897 ).

Geikie and .
Geikie in 1884 coined the term thrust to describe this special set of faults.
" Archibald Geikie 1884, Nature.
The rocks are the same as the ones found at Tunnel Creek and Geikie Gorge.
Sir Archibald Geikie, John Wesley Powell, and Charles Doolittle Walcott on a geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, May 1897.
This led to a position in the Edinburgh office of the Geological Survey of Scotland, as keeper of maps and correspondence, where the director, Sir Archibald Geikie, encouraged his research.
These include pioneers of geology Buckland, Sedgwick, Murchison, Lyell, De la Beche, T. H. Huxley, Prestwich, Geikie and Lapworth.
Some of the features are Tunnel Creek, Windjana Gorge and Geikie Gorge.
Individuals in photo include ( starting at top ): Cleophas Cisney O ' Hara, Sir Archibald Geikie, Frederick Haynes Newell, Henry Barnard Kummel | Henry Barnard Kümmell, George Burbank Shattuck, Rollin D. Salisbury, Arthur Clifford Veatch, Louis Marcus Prindle, Harry Fielding Reid, Charles R. Van Hise | Charles Richard Van Hise, Cleveland Abbe, Jr., George Willis Stose, Thomas Leonard Watson, Edward Vincent D ' Invilliers, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Frederick James Hamilton Merrill, Louis Agricola Bauer, Arthur Coe Spencer, William John McGee, William Bullock Clark, Rufus Mather Bagg, Frank Hall Knowlton, Robert T. Hill | Robert Thomas Hill, Heinrich Ries, Frank Dawson Adams, Arthur Philemon Coleman, Timothy William Stanton, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Samuel Franklin Emmons, George Ferdinand Becker, Albert Berthold Hoen, George Otis Smith, James Furman Kemp, Bailey Willis, David White ( geologist ) | Charles David White, Edward Bennett Mathews, Charles Doolittle Walcott, John Wesley Powell, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Joseph Austin Holmes, Charles Willard Hayes, Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, Henry Shaler Williams.

Scottish-born and Canadian
* John Young ( seigneur ) ( c. 1759 – 1819 ), Scottish-born Canadian land entrepreneur, jurist, and politician
* November 30 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
Sir Sandford Fleming, ( January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor.
Thomas Clement " Tommy " Douglas, ( 20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986 ) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister, and Canadian democratic socialist politician.
Norman McLaren, CC, CQ ( 11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ).
George Brown ( November 29, 1818 – May 9, 1880 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
* James Stephen Smith ( born 1963 ), Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player
), Scottish-born Canadian politician
His maternal grandfather was Scottish-born Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, who is widely credited for bringing universal health care to Canada.
Sir Hugh Allan, KCMG ( September 29, 1810 – December 9, 1882 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist.
* Alan Gordon ( historian ) ( born 1968 ), Scottish-born Canadian historian
* George Brown ( Canadian politician ) ( 1818 – 1880 ), Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician
* John Kerr, Sr. ( 1943 – 2011 ), Scottish-born Canadian soccer player
It was created in 1900 for the Scottish-born Canadian financier and politician Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, with remainder in default of male issue to his only daughter Margaret Charlotte.
* John Ferguson ( Canadian politician ) ( 1840 – 1908 ), Scottish-born farmer, lumberman and political figure in Ontario, Canada.
* James Ross ( Canadian businessman ) ( 1848 – 1913 ), Scottish-born civil engineer and businessman
* William Lyon Mackenzie ( 1795 – 1861 ), Scottish-born journalist & rebel in Upper Canada ; grandfather of Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
Donald Ewen Cameron ( – ), commonly referred to as " D. Ewen Cameron " or " Ewen Cameron ," was a 20th-century Scottish-born psychiatrist who was involved in the United States Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA's ) unethical and ultimately, " useless ," research on mind control and who served as President of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry during the 1950s.
* George Scott ( wrestler ) ( born 1929 ), Scottish-born Canadian wrestler
Douglas was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Irma May ( née Dempsey ) and Tommy Douglas ( 1904 – 1986 ), the Scottish-born former Canadian statesman and Premier of Saskatchewan.
* Douglas Campbell ( actor ) ( 1922 – 2009 ), Scottish-born Canadian actor and director
Scottish-born Canadian poet of the Yukon Robert W. Service wrote the poem, The Ballad of the Ice-worm Cocktail, in which a fake ice worm made of spaghetti is the subject of a bar bet.
Sir Daniel Wilson ( January 5, 1816 – August 6, 1892 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author.

0.285 seconds.