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Alexander Mackenzie
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Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) was a Canadian politician, journalist, entrepreneur, and writer. Born in Logierait, he served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada and held the position of Prime Minister of Canada. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he worked in Ottawa and was a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada. Mackenzie was a Baptist who spoke English and had three children. He died in Toronto from a stroke.
His written works include *The history of the Highland clearances* and *The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883*. He is also associated with the text *Information for His Majesty's advocate, against Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, younger of Coul and others, pannels*. Mackenzie is described in the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 65
Top works
- The history of the Highland clearances
- The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883
- Information for His Majesty's advocate, against Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, younger of Coul and others, pannels
- Copy of Information
- Information for Pannels
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 303
- Total plays
- 1,726
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Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (22 August 1847 – 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces and works for the stage. Mackenzie was the son of an eminent Edinburgh violinist and conductor. On the advice of a member of Gungls band who had taken up his residence in Edinburgh, Mackenzie was sent for his musical education to Sondershausen, Germany, where he entered the conservatorium under Ulrich and Stein, remaining there from 1857 to 1861, when h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,599x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,004x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,497x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,789x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,509x
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Quotes
- “We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.”
- “How I wished for manhood and the opportunity to wreak my vengeance on my country's oppressors”
- “Loyalty to the Queen does not require a man to bow down to her manservant, her maidservant, her ox... or her ass!”
- “Walk into my parlour said the spider to the fly”
- “I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin”
- “We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people”
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Victoria
- Governor general
- The Earl of Dufferin
- Preceded by
- John A. Macdonald
- Succeeded by
- John A. Macdonald
- Constituency
- Lambton (1867–1882), York East (1882–1892)
- Born
- ( 1822-01-28 ) January 28, 1822, Logierait , Scotland
- Died
- April 17, 1892 (1892-04-17) (aged 70), Toronto , Ontario, Canada
- Resting place
- Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia , Ontario
- Party
- Liberal
- Spouses
- Helen Neil ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1845 ; died 1852 ) Jane Sym ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1853 )
- Allegiance
- Canada
- Branch service
- Canadian militia
- Years of service
- 1866–1874
- Rank
- Major
- Unit
- 27th (Lambton) Battalion of Infantry
- Battles wars
- Fenian Raids
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Mackenzie (January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892) was a Scottish-Canadian stonemason and politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878. The Liberal Party of Canada established the Indian Act of 1876 and Residential schools during his tenure.
Mackenzie was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland. He left school at the age of 13, following his father's death, to help his widowed mother, and trained as a stonemason. Mackenzie immigrated to the Province of Canada when he was 19, settling in what became Ontario. His masonry business prospered, allowing him to pursue other interests – such as the editorship of a pro-Reformist newspaper called the Lambton Shield. Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1862, as a supporter of George Brown.
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