Two months later, Mulroney entered Parliament as the MP for Central Nova in Nova Scotia, winning a by-election in what was then considered a safe Tory seat after Elmer MacKay stood down in his favour.

* Georgia congressman and environmental advocate James MacKay was born in Fairfield.

A second bridge, the A. Murray MacKay Bridge was opened in 1970 and the Highway 111 Circumferential Highway was built around Dartmouth to Woodside at this time.

She was built in 1846 in New York by Westervelt & MacKay and owned by E. E. Morgan.

The company was unable to attract sufficient capital to carry out its original business plan to build four ships and instead ordered two ships from Westervelt & MacKay, Washington and Hermann ( 1848 ).

Ironically, given the attacks he had sustained as Premier from Alexander Grant MacKay, he was part of the federal delegation that finally negotiated the transfer of resource control from the federal to the Alberta provincial government in December 1929.

MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ( PC Party ).

MacKay was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

He graduated from Horton High School in Greenwich, Nova Scotia, and then went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Acadia University / Carleton University in 1987, MacKay then studied Law at Dalhousie University and was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in June 1991.

MacKay has publicly stated that the major impetus for his entry into federal politics was his frustrations with the shortcomings in the justice system, particularly his perception that the courts do not care about the impact crime has on victims.

MacKay was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the June 2, 1997 federal election for Pictou — Antigonish — Guysborough, a riding in northeastern Nova Scotia.

MacKay was the Tory member of the Board of Internal Economy and the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

MacKay was re-elected in the 2000 federal election and was frequently touted by the media as a possible successor to PC Party leader Joe Clark.

MacKay was appointed House Leader of the new PC-DR Parliamentary Coalition Caucus when it was formally recognized as a political body on September 10, 2001.

MacKay was largely seen as the assumed victor of the race from the outset of the leadership contest.

For much of the race, MacKay was the clear front-runner.

Orchard was prepared to speak with either MacKay or Prentice to determine if a deal could be reached over some of the issues that he raised during the leadership campaign.

In July, MacKay struck up a " Blue Ribbon PC Policy Review Panel ", made up of Tory MPs, Senators, and Orchard himself, that was to be chaired by Tory MP Bill Casey, in order to reexamine the party's policies on NAFTA.

While MacKay was roundly criticized in some Red Tory circles for permitting a union under his watch, MacKay's efforts to sell the merger to the PC membership were successful: 90. 4 % of the party's elected delegates supported the deal in a vote on December 6, 2003.

There was speculation that MacKay would return to the province to pursue provincial politics and enter the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia leadership race to become the Premier.

Following the Conservative victory in the 2006 election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named MacKay as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ; he was also tasked to be the political minister for both his home province, and for neighbouring Prince Edward Island, just as his father Elmer had done between 1988 and 1993.

MacKay responded to critics saying that the process was slow, that the boats ( those which were used to evacuate ) had limited capacity.

A US tour followed with Rosewall and Laver, Gimeno, Ayala and two Americans: Butch Buchholz and Barry MacKay ( Hoad was not chosen because there would have been too many Australians ).

Later that year, he was chosen to lead the Ontario Liberal Party, despite not having a seat in the legislature, after incumbent leader Alexander Grant MacKay was forced to resign shortly before the beginning of that year's election campaign.

Her novel No Crystal Stair, was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2005, championed by Olympic fencer Sherraine MacKay.

In addition to being a stop on most Canadian federal election campaigns, the museum hosted meetings from the 1995 G7 Summit, as well a September 11 commemorative event in 2006 attended by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay and United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

Examples include Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd's ( JACOS ) project, Suncor's Firebag project, Nexen's Long Lake project, Suncor's ( formerly Petro-Canada's ) MacKay River project, Husky Energy's Tucker Lake and Sunrise projects, Shell Canada's Peace River project, Cenovus Energy's Foster Creek and Christina Lake developments, ConocoPhillips ' Surmont project, Devon Canada's Jackfish project, and Derek Oil & Gas's LAK Ranch project.

She is the wife of Peter MacKay, Canada's Minister of National Defence.

Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QC, MP ( born September 27, 1965 ) is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada.

MacKay has been voted the " sexiest male MP in the House of Commons " by the Hill Times ( a Parliament Hill newspaper ) for six years in a row.

Several opponents, including former PC Party Treasurer Jim Prentice, social conservative candidate Craig Chandler, and Red Tory Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison, painted MacKay as a status quo or " establishment " candidate who could effectively question the Prime Minister.

On October 19, 2006, during a debate on the Conservative Party's clean air plan, MP Mark Holland said that a Liberal colleague, David McGuinty asked MacKay about the impact of pollution on humans and animals by asking, " What about your dog ?".

Respect for Orchard grew in the Red Tory wing of the PC Party: roughly one-quarter of the party membership supported him during the 2003 PC leadership campaign, including Joe Clark's wife, Maureen McTeer Orchard ultimately came in third on the third ballot in the 2003 PC convention, behind Nova Scotia Member of Parliament ( MP ) Peter MacKay and Calgary lawyer Jim Prentice.

In July, MacKay struck up a " Blue Ribbon PC Policy Review Panel ", chaired by Tory MP Bill Casey, in order to reexamine the party's policies on NAFTA.

Other prominent guests were NDP leader Jack Layton ; Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper ( now Prime Minister ); Green Party leader Elizabeth May ; then-Conservative MP Belinda Stronach ; Conservative MP Peter MacKay ; Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams ; Olympic gold medallist Kyle Shewfelt ; author Pierre Berton ; recording artists Jann Arden, Bif Naked, Rush bassist Geddy Lee and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, and Sarah McLachlan ; publishing mogul Conrad Black ; and former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Andrew James MacKay ( born 27 August 1949, Birmingham ) is a British Conservative Party politician, and was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bracknell, Berkshire from 1997 to 2010.

In August 1997, she married Andrew MacKay MP, the Conservative Member for Bracknell, and they have a son ( born October 2000 ).

* Andrew MacKay, Former Conservative MP for Bracknell

In the subsequent 1984 election, Mulroney moved to a Quebec riding, and MacKay was again returned to the House as Central Nova's MP.

Quebec Member of Parliament ( MP ) André Bachand withdrew his candidacy from the race due to financial concerns and backed Peter MacKay.

* The on-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David MacKay, contains chapters on elementary error-correcting codes ; on the theoretical limits of error-correction ; and on the latest state-of-the-art error-correcting codes, including low-density parity-check codes, turbo codes, and fountain codes.

* On-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David MacKay, gives an accessible introduction to Shannon theory and data compression, including the Huffman coding and arithmetic coding.

Fleet, prompting an excavation campaign under Sir John Hubert Marshall in 1921 – 22 and resulting in the discovery of the civilization at Harappa by Sir John Marshall, Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni and Madho Sarup Vats, and at Mohenjo-daro by Rakhal Das Banerjee, E. J. H. MacKay, and Sir John Marshall.

* The on-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David J. C. MacKay, discusses Bayesian model comparison in Chapters 3 and 28.

* Book: " Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ", by Charles MacKay

The actual excavations at Kish were led initially by E. MacKay and later by L. C. Watelin.

Other sources state that Westervelt and William MacKay ( not to be confused with Canadian shipbuilder Donald McKay ) established one of a few new yards at Corlear's Hook ( the block bounded by Third, Goerck and Houston Streets ) in 1841 and moved to Lewis and Seventh Street in 1844.

) The SS Winfield Scott built in 1850 by Westervelt & MacKay, wrecked on Middle Anacapa Island in 1853, and has been the object of numerous salvage operations since ; she currently rests underwater as part of the Channel Islands National Park and Marine Sanctuary.

MacKay is largely viewed by political analysts as a Blue Tory.

MacKay and MacCoy were both settlers in the area that were killed by Indians during the war.

* Gaussian Process Basics by David MacKay

On 15 October 2003, after closed-door meetings were held by the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party, Stephen Harper ( then the leader of the Canadian Alliance ) and Peter MacKay ( then the leader of the Progressive Conservatives ) announced the "' Conservative Party Agreement-in-Principle ", thereby merging their parties to create the new Conservative Party of Canada.

At the leadership convention, his campaign was dealt a crucial blow by John Herron who defected to the MacKay camp.

* Enhanced tidal lagoon with pumped storage and constant output as proposed by David J. C. MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.