By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev predicted its existence and some of its properties based on its position on his periodic table and called the element ekasilicon.

The other major contributors were John Rogers Herbert, finishing in 1864 but having had some commissions cancelled, Charles West Cope who worked until 1869, Edward Matthew Ward until 1874, Edward Armitage, George Frederic Watts, John Callcott Horsley, John Tenniel and Daniel Maclise.

The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869 and 1969, although in some places children were still being taken until the 1970s.

A man pours some whisky into a flask in this 1869 oil painting by Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. After the English Malt Tax of 1725, most of Scotland ’ s distillation was either shut down or forced underground.

The 132-page volume was published in 1869, and brought Tubman some US $ 1, 200 in revenue.

The chapel contains some fifteenth-century glass, but most was cast by Clayton and Bell, Hardman, and Wailes, in around 1869.

He became one of the Heralds overseas correspondents and, in 1869, was instructed by Bennett's son to find the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who was known to be in Africa but had not been heard from for some time.

From 1869, some European nations began to develop new multi-purpose sword bayonets suitable for mass production and for use by constabulary ( police ), pioneer, and engineer troops.

This vineyard is home to some of the oldest Zinfandel vines on Earth, with proof of existence dating to 1869 when it was listed as a descriptor on a deed from the U. S. Geological Survey.

Professor Dmitri Mendeleev published the first Periodic Table of the Atomic Elements in 1869 based on properties which appeared with some regularity as he laid out the elements from lightest to heaviest.

In 1869, Perkin found a method for the commercial production from anthracene of the brilliant red dye alizarin, which had been isolated and identified from madder root some forty years earlier in 1826 by the French chemist Pierre Robiquet, simultaneously with purpurin, another red dye of lesser industrial interest, but the German chemical company BASF patented the same process one day before he did.

After spending some years in other California locations, he eventually arrived in San Diego aboard the ship " Orizaba " with one hundred and ten colonies of bees on November 28, 1869.

) The town was known for its sheep farming and other agrarian pursuits in its early years, with some industry along the South River which was washed out in a dam break in 1869.

After Lemaire finished the libretto, Saint-Saëns began actively composing act 2 of the opera, producing an aria for Dalila, a duet for Samson and Dalila, and some musical pieces for the chorus ( some of which were later assigned to act 1 ) during 1867 – 1869.

" As the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads approached their historic meeting place at Promontory Summit early in 1869, a group of former Union Army officers and some determined non-Mormon merchants from Salt Lake City decided to locate a Gentile town on the Union Pacific line, believing that the town could compete economically and politically with the Saints of Utah.

Todmorden has the look of a Victorian mill town and has some notable buildings including Dobroyd Castle ( completed in 1869 ), now used as a residential activity centre for schoolchildren ; the Edwardian Hippodrome Theatre ; an imposing Greek Revival town hall ( built 1866 – 1875 ) that dominates the centre of town ; the Grade I listed Todmorden Unitarian Church ( built 1865 – 1869 ); and the 120 ft Stoodley Pike monument ( built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854 ) atop the hill of the same name.

They were: Alfred Bayes ( 1832 – 1909 ), painter ; Walter Bayes ( 1869 – 1856 ), painter ; Gilbert Bayes ( 1872 – 1952 ), sculptor ; and Jessie Bayes ( 1876 – 1970 ), painter ( some of her work can be see at Lumbutts Methodist Church, Lumbutts, Todmorden ).

Despite some considerable local opposition, the park was formally opened on Saturday 7 August 1869.

The violent tone of some of his printed manifestoes about this time, especially of his Lob des Königs u. des Volkes, led to his being deprived of the venia legendi ( 1868 ) and also to a criminal process, which, however, resulted in his acquittal ( May 1869 ).

After he served for some years in a home command, Niel became minister of war and held the position from 1867 to 1869.

* Texas v. White ( 74 U. S. 700 ), 1869, in which he asserted that the Constitution provided for a permanent union, composed of indestructible states, while allowing some possibility of divisibility " through revolution, or through consent of the States ";

The year 1869 in literature involved some significant new books.

At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan.

They were noticed by Paul Langerhans, a German medical student, in 1869 ; these clusters throughout the pancreas serve several functions.

The Reconstruction Constitution of 1869 repealed these acts and restored the names of Jones County and Ellisville.

A number of events contributed to the development of the city ; amongst these were its ultimate declaration as the leading port of Greece, the completion of the Athens-Piraeus Railway in 1869, the industrial development of the area in the 1860s, and the creation of the Corinth Canal in 1893, all of which left Piraeus more strategically important than ever.

Among these early settlers were Timothy Reagan ( c. 1750-1830 ), John Ownby, Jr. ( 1781 – 1869 ), and Henry Bohanon ( 1760 – 1842 ).

" his 1869 report of the Cascades mountain range, Frank's father, Samuel, wrote: ' these forests of trees — so enchain the senses of the grand and so enchant the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am to depart — surpassing the woods of all the rest of the globe ...' Like many writers of that time, Samuel indulged in hyperbole, but his love of the Cascades seems very genuine.

Added to these professional troubles were the death of his father in June 1869, and the financial responsibility for his younger sisters resulting from it.

In further books and articles published in his periodical, the Revue Spirite, Kardec kept addressing these and other criticisms until his death in 1869.

Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.

Production of these notes was taken over by Sveriges Riksbank in 1869, with the notes issued until 1873.

In these the tendency of the Syllabus towards obscurantism and papal despotism, and its incompatibility with modern thought, were attacked ; and the evidence against papal infallibility, resting, as the Letters asserted, on the False Decretals, was marshalled for the Vatican Council ( 1869 – 1870 ).

In 1869, the line's first double Fairlie articulated locomotive was introduced and these double-ended machines have since become one of the most widely recognised features of the railway.

The elections of May 1869, which took place during these disturbances, inflicted upon the Empire a serious moral defeat.

Concessions had to be made to these, so by the senatus-consulte of September 8, 1869 a parliamentary monarchy was substituted for personal government.

The results of these travels were published in several important works: Inscriptiones Hispaniae Latinae ( 1869, supplement 1892 ), I. H.

The name " Alaskan Range " appears to have been first applied to these mountains in 1869 by naturalist W. H. Dall.

During one of these concerts, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 24, 1869, he collapsed from having contracted malaria.

During 1869, in the course of these writings, Kertbeny coined the word " homosexual " as part of his system for the classification of sexual types, as a replacement for the pejorative terms " sodomite " and " pederast " that were used in the German-and French-speaking world of his time.

The Gate ( dated 1869 ) was one of these, and still stands on the corner of Smedley Street and Bank Road, opposite Smedley's.

After overcoming initial hostilities, all these groups were able to unite in 1869.

In 1869, the Congregation of the Propaganda further permitted such marriages but only under condition of grave necessity fearing the faithful " expose themselves to the grave dangers inherent in these unions ".

The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).

Until 1952 the town was served by the Bishop's Stortford-Braintree Branch Line a line between these stations, which opened to passengers on 22 February 1869 and closed on 3 March 1952.

Although intended for the Egyptian Navy, these ironclads had to be delivered to the Ottoman Navy in 1869.

Among these were Gladwyne, formerly " Merion Square " ( which was given its new name in 1891 in order to imitate the stylish Welsh names of adjoining towns, although the name is meaningless in Welsh ), and Bryn Mawr, formerly " Humphreysville " ( which was renamed in 1869 ).