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Paterson personally accompanied the disastrous Scottish expedition to Panama in 1698, where his wife and child died and he became seriously ill. On his return to Scotland in December 1699, he became instrumental in the movement for the Union of Scotland and England, culminating in his support of the Act of Union 1707.
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The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the provincial election of 1999, although Gilleshammer was personally re-elected in Minnedosa, defeating New Democratic Party candidate Harvey Paterson by 903 votes.
Paterson and accompanied
There, Paterson ( soon to be front man in The Orb ) spun Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, and 10CC songs at low volume and accompanied them with multiscreen video projections.
Paterson and disastrous
The original suggestion for the South Sea scheme has sometimes been credited to Daniel Defoe, but it is more likely the idea originated with William Paterson, one of the founders of the Bank of England and the Darien Scheme, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Scotland agreeing to Unite with England.
Paterson and Scottish
* Au ( album ), a 2010 release by Scottish rock band Donaldson, Moir and Paterson
One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.
* July 27 – The Bank of England is founded through Royal charter by the Whig-dominated Parliament of England following a proposal by the Scottish merchant William Paterson to raise capital by offering safe and steady returns of interest guaranteed by future taxes.
The Scottish artist James Paterson, a founder member of ' The Glasgow Boys ', settled in Moniaive in 1884 and stayed for 22 years.
This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Don Paterson, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie and Carol Ann Duffy.
Sir William Paterson ( born April, 1658 in Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland-died 22 January 1719 in Westminster, London ) was a Scottish trader and banker.
Paterson relocated to Edinburgh, where he was able to convince the Scottish government to undertake the Darién scheme, a failed attempt to found an independent Scottish Empire in what is today Panama.
* William Paterson ( banker ) ( 1658-1719 ), Scottish trader, a founder of the Bank of England,
* William Paterson ( explorer ) ( 1755-1810 ), Scottish soldier, and botanist ; former lieutenant governor of Tasmania
* Bill Paterson ( footballer born 1898 ) ( 1898-1980 ), Scottish footballer
* Bill Paterson ( footballer born 1930 ) ( born 1930 ), Scottish footballer
* Bill Paterson ( actor ) ( born 1945 ) Scottish actor
Don Paterson, OBE, FRSL ( born 1963 ) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.
In the late 17th century, there was a Scottish colonization project in the Isthmus of Panama, specifically in Darien, from which emerged the figure of the visionary William Paterson as the centerpiece of the unsuccessful attempt.
* Donaldson, Moir and Paterson, a Scottish rock group originally formed in 1985
During his seven and a half years as manager, from the summer of 1995 to December 2002, Paterson succeeded in taking the club to the Scottish Football League First Division.
Colonel William Paterson, FRS ( born 17 August 1755 and died 21 June 1810 ) was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania.
He is currently playing for the Irish province Ulster, struggling to regularly break into the Scottish first-fifteen due to competition from the likes of the Lamont brothers and Chris Paterson.
* Chris Paterson ( b. 1978 ), the youngest ever Scottish rugby player to earn 50 caps
Paterson started his rugby career with hometown club Gala, the highlight being a solo try that won Gala the 1999 Scottish Cup at Murrayfield.
From 2000-2002 Paterson played in the Scottish / Welsh League, the predecessor to the competition now known as Pro12 ( prior to the addition of Irish teams ).
Until his record was overtaken by Chris Paterson on 7 June 2008, Hastings was the all-time record points scorer in the Scottish national rugby union team, with 667 points in test matches.
Bill Paterson ( born 3 June 1945 ) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor.
Paterson and expedition
In July 1698 it launched its first expedition, led by William Paterson, who hoped to establish a colony in Darien ( on the Isthmus of Panama ), which could then be used as a trading point between Europe and the Far East.
The area around Beaconsfield was first explored by Europeans in 1804 when William Paterson led an expedition to Port Dalrymple and established a settlement at York Town.
He led an expedition to the Hunter Valley in 1801 and up the Paterson River ( later named in his honour by Governor King ) and in 1804 led an expedition to Port Dalrymple, in what is now Tasmania, exploring the Tamar River and going up the North Esk River farther than anyone previously had managed to do.
Paterson and Panama
With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.
Scots born trader and financier William Paterson had long been promoting a plan for a colony on the Isthmus of Panama to be used as a gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific — the same principle which, much later, would lead to the construction of the Panama Canal.
Paterson and where
" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.
In August 2001, Mihdhar and Hazmi made several visits to the library at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, where they used computers to look up travel information and book flights.
Around 1910, he started his grocery store, called Dominic Conti's Grocery Store, on Mill Street in Paterson, New Jersey where he was selling the traditional Italian sandwiches.
Hazmi moved to Paterson, New Jersey where he lived with Hani Hanjour.
Here they may have passed the Combo Waterhole, where Macpherson may have told this story to Paterson.
The Gladesville cottage Rockend, where Paterson lived in the 1870s and 1880s
The route comes to an interchange with the southern terminus of County Route 503 ( Washington Avenue ) and Paterson Plank Road, where Route 120 becomes a four-lane divided surface road that merges with Paterson Plank Road as it heads northwest along the border of Carlstadt to the northeast and East Rutherford to the southwest.
The new Route 6 would share the alignment of Route 5 from Paterson to west of Hackensack, where it would turn southeast onto a new alignment to Little Ferry, then run with Route 5 again to east of Ridgefield and split onto its own alignment to the George Washington Bridge.
He retired from active performing and touring in late 1996, after having performed his last concert at William Paterson College on November 10, 1996, then choosing to stay at his home in Indianapolis where he could indulge his passion of composing and arranging music with computers and MIDI.
In 2005 Madison Street, in the Sandy Hill section of Paterson, where Costello was born, was renamed Lou Costello's Place.
The road goes west over the Passaic River into Paterson, and east into Paramus where it becomes Century Road.
Duva was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 1998 and currently lives in Wayne, New Jersey, just a few miles from where his poor family once lived in Paterson, New Jersey.
Literary critic and political writer Isabel Paterson had urged the move to Connecticut, where she would be only " up country a few miles " from Paterson, who had been a friend for many years.
A reference was made to Henry Dundas and his role in the frustration of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the motion picture ' Amazing Grace ' ( 2006 ) where he was played by Bill Paterson.
The first significant colonial settlement in the region dates from 1804, when the commandant of the British garrison Lt. Col. William Paterson, and his men set up a camp where George Town now stands.
Pre-1927 Route 10, which was legislated in 1917, continued east on Market Street on the other side of Paterson to Edgewater, where it connected to the Fort Lee Ferry across the Hudson River.
Route 6 was redefined in 1929 to use none of the old road east of Paterson ( it had formerly been planned to use Market Street west of roughly where Route 17 now crosses it ), and Route 5 was cut back to run only east from Ridgefield.
After about two years of living in and around Melbourne they became outlaws, stealing from settlers around Dandenong before heading to Bass River and then Cape Paterson where members of their group murdered two whalers at Watsons hut then shot and injured other settlers around the area.
Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Sumner graduated from Yale College in 1863, where he had been a member of Skull and Bones.
The river flows northeast into the city of Paterson, where it drops over the Great Falls of the Passaic.
From Paterson, Highway 22 goes north for 11 km ( 7 mi ) to Rossland, where it meets Highway 3B.
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