This incident contributed to Mackenzie's decaying faith in Great Britain.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

It was unusual for a man of Mackenzie's humble origins to attain such a position in an age which generally offered such opportunity only to the privileged.

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.

When an election was held at the conclusion of Mackenzie's five-year term, the Conservatives were swept back into office in a landslide victory.

" However, the British weekly magazine Punch immediately disparaged Mackenzie's efforts, noting in August 1891 that the title of the song actually was " Jim Collins " and that Mackenzie otherwise inaccurately quoted and characterized the song.

Chloe was Sarah ' Mac ' Mackenzie's ( Catherine Bell ) Little Sister, through the Big Sister, Little Sister program.

The attack stalled when Mackenzie's men had to wait for storming ladders to arrive, and there was a lull in the battle.

Mackenzie's name was then officially announced, but Eccles appears to have induced some people to believe in him.

In 1787 this company merged with the rival North West Company. Mackenzie's mother died when he was at the age of 10 and he and his father went to NYC to live with his uncle.

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.

It was there that he met Edward Lesslie and his sons James and John, who would play a large role in Mackenzie's life.

Mackenzie's mother arranged for him to apprentice with several tradesmen in Dundee, but in 1814, he was able to secure financial backing from Edward Lesslie to open a general store and circulating library in Alyth.

The boy was raised by Mackenzie's mother.

However, Mackenzie's relationship with the Lesslies soured and the partnership was dissolved in 1823.

Although there was speculation that Mackenzie would be elected speaker, that honour went to Mackenzie's former lawyer, Marshall Spring Bidwell.

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.

Mackenzie's reform proposals resulted in no action, however, since Sir Francis Bond Head, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1836, received instructions from the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, to disregard the Seventh Report on Grievances.

Mackenzie's only action that day was seizing the mail coach bound for Toronto.

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.

In May, he launched a new newspaper, Mackenzie's Gazette, which was initially successful because the Rebellions of 1837 had created American interest in Canadian affairs.

The trial for Mackenzie's violation of American neutrality laws in January 1838 was finally held in June 1839.

* July 20 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792 – 1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.

Mackenzie's expulsion helped him to recreate his reputation as a martyr for Upper Canadian liberty.

Mackenzie's stint in prison seems to have soured him on the United States.

In May 1846, Mackenzie's friend Horace Greeley asked him to travel to Albany to report on the state constitutional convention for the New York Tribune.

* July 20-Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792 – 1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.

His support for Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals in the 1874 federal election, won him a patronage appointment with the Canadian Pacific Railway, a position he held for five years.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mackenzie's professional prominence brought him many honours from universities and learned societies in Britain and abroad.

It was customary at the time to commend officers cleared at a court martial, but Mackenzie's court martial made very clear it was not commending him.

Following Mackenzie's 1829 trip to the U. S., his political attitudes became increasingly pro-American and anti-British.

* Mackenzie's early 19th century home in Queenston, Ontario has been restored and is now the Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum.

It may be noted that the national Progressive Conservative Party had a weak organization in Ontario during this period, and that Mackenzie's vote totals were well above the party's provincial average and that in both 1997 and 2000, the right wing vote was split between the Progressive Conservatives and Reform who later became the Canadian Alliance.

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.

Powell managed to kill one of Mackenzie's men and then escape back to Toronto, where he warned the government of the impending rebellion.

After this sensational episode in his career, the remainder of Sir Morell Mackenzie's life was uneventful, and he died somewhat suddenly in London, on February 3, 1892 and was buried in the churchyard at Wargrave in Berkshire where he had a house in the country.

According to Mackenzie's theory, the Persians ( or Proto-Persians ) occupied the province of Fars in the southwest ( proceeding from the assumption that the Achaemenids spoke Persian ), the Baluchis ( Proto-Baluchis ) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds ( Proto-Kurds ), in the wording of G. Windfuhr ( 1975: 459 ), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan.

In 1819, three Owyhees joined Donald Mackenzie's Snake expedition, which went out annually into the Snake country for the North West Company, a Montreal-based organization of Canadian fur traders.

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.

During the recession which followed the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, Mackenzie's store in Dundee went bankrupt and he had to travel to seek work, first returning to Dundee ; then going to Wiltshire in 1818 to work for a canal company ; travelled briefly to France ; and then worked briefly for a newspaper in London.

One of the first victims of Mackenzie's ire was Robert Baldwin, who was forced to resign as Co-Premier in 1851, partially because of Mackenzie's report on the Court of Chancery in which he revealed that William Hume Blake had used the 1849 reorganization of the Court of Chancery to line his own pockets.

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.

Kingussie is mentioned in Compton Mackenzie's book The Monarch of the Glen, on which the BBC TV series is based.

A humorous probable allusion to Leschetizky occurs in the " Stella in Oxford " Chapter ( Book Three, Chapter 10 ) of Compton Mackenzie's 1913-1914 novel Sinister Street, which mentions a notable piano teacher in Vienna " with a perfectly impossible name beginning with L ".

Their most recent release is the soundtrack to David Mackenzie's The Last Great Wilderness ( Geographic, 2003 ), which, made for film or not, is one of the most completely realised Pastels albums.

Monarch of the Glen is loosely based on Sir Compton Mackenzie's Highland Novels, which are set in the same location but in the 1930s and 1940s.

The television adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's novel Monarch of the Glen, centered around a modern day Clan MacDonald, has numerous references to the Battle of Culloden, at which they supposedly fought, including relics of the battle and clan disputes remaining fresh to this day.

After a few months of municipal operation was transferred to William Mackenzie's Toronto Railway Company, which replaced the horse-drawn streetcars with electric ones between 1892 and 1894.

The opera closed on 24 April 1897 and was sent on tour with two D ' Oyly Carte companies until September 1897, during which Mackenzie's autograph score was stolen.