Gilbert Plains is a town in Manitoba, Canada.

The current mayor of Gilbert Plains is Lyle Smith.

Gilbert Plains railway station receives Via Rail service.

The first white baby born in the Gilbert Plains district was Myrtle McCurdy, while the first white boy was Gilbert Clifford Best in 1900.

The population is approximately 750, with an additional 1000 in the surrounding Rural Municipality of Gilbert Plains.

* Map of Gilbert Plains at Statcan

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In Manitoba's 1936 provincial election, Fox was elected as a Social Credit candidate in the riding of Gilbert Plains.

Mark accompanied his mother when she fled China in 1953, and subsequently settled with his family in the Manitoba community of Gilbert Plains.

The riding includes the towns of Dauphin and Roblin, as well as Gilbert Plains, Grandview and the Valley River Reserve.

Michael Kawchuk ( born April 23, 1931 in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba ) is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Michael Nicholas Hryhorczuk ( November 28, 1905 in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba – July 11, 1978 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Raymond Mitchell ( October 6, 1897 in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba – June 15, 1984 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

He first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1941 provincial election, but lost to Stanley Fox of the Social Credit League by over 600 votes in the Gilbert Plains constituency.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election, as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba ( UFM ) in the Gilbert Plains constituency.

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He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1915 provincial election, defeating Conservative incumbent Sam Hughes by 591 votes in the constituency of Gilbert Plains.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1910 provincial election, defeating his Liberal opponent by 105 votes in the constituency of Gilbert Plains.

Brown was a prominent local figure, who had served as Mayor of Gilbert Plains and was a member of the hospital board.

He worked as a farm implement dealer, and formerly edited the Gilbert Plains Maple Leaf newspaper.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.

* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

For Gilbert Ryle ( 1949 ), a category ( in particular a " category mistake ") is an important semantic concept, but one having only loose affinities to an ontological category.

Gilbert Ryle is often credited with emphasizing the distinction between knowing how and knowing that in The Concept of Mind.

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

In 1924, Gilbert Walker ( for whom the Walker circulation is named ) coined the term " Southern Oscillation ".

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful " topsy-turvy " worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion — fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.

Public performance followed, with W. S. Gilbert ( then writing dramatic criticism for Fun ) saying that Sullivan's score " is, in many places, of too high a class for the grotesquely absurd plot to which it is wedded.

Gilbert found a subject in one of his own short stories, " The Elixir of Love ," which concerned the complications arising when a love potion is distributed to all the residents of a small village.

Ida is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work with dialogue entirely in blank verse and is also the only one of their works in three acts.

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Gilbert notes that as the notion of a canon of jazz is developing, the “ achievements of the past ” may become "... privileged over the idiosyncratic creativity ...” and innovation of current artists.

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

Although the indigenous Gilbertese language name for the Gilbert Islands proper is Tungaru, the new state chose the name " Kiribati ," the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts ," as an equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of islands which were never considered part of the Gilberts chain.

He was instrumental in the discovery of Woodhenge, situated near Stonehenge, which had been the subject of a study by Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall.

It is situated on the Gilbert River, from which the town derives its name.

A childhood friend ( and distant relative ) of W. S. Gilbert, Beckett briefly feuded with Gilbert in 1869, but the two patched up the friendship, and Gilbert even later collaborated on projects with Beckett's brother.

Gilbert Ryle, for example, argued that traditional understanding of consciousness depends on a Cartesian dualist outlook that improperly distinguishes between mind and body, or between mind and world.

Many underground artists, notably Vaughn Bode, Dan O ' Neill, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman went on to draw comic strips for magazines such as Playboy, National Lampoon and Pete Millar's CARtoons.

Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil ( Alice Krige ).

* 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.

It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

* 1994: Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz By Coyne Stephen Sanders and Tom Gilbert ( author ) ( Whole life, and focuses prominently on the Business affairs of Desilu Productions )( PNT )

For his work on magnets, Gilbert became known as the " Father of Magnetism.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

Gilbert was born in London on 18 November 1836.

Gilbert developed his innovative theories on the art of stage direction, following theatrical reformer Tom Robertson.

Two of the male characters were played by women, whose shapely legs were put on display in a fashion that Gilbert later condemned.

Gilbert worked with Frederic Clay on Happy Arcadia ( 1872 ) and with Alfred Cellier on Topsyturveydom ( 1874 ), and wrote The Wicked World ( 1873 ) Sweethearts ( 1874 ) and several other libretti, farces, extravaganzas, fairy comedies, dramas and adaptations.

In 1874, Gilbert wrote a short libretto on commission from producer – conductor Carl Rosa, whose wife would have played the leading role, but her death in childbirth cancelled the project.

In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.

Gilbert oversaw the designs of sets and costumes, and he directed the performers on stage.

Building on the team he had assembled for The Sorcerer, Gilbert no longer hired stars ; he created them.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.