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    Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB (16 February 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a 19th-century British politician and diplomat. Head was born at Wiarton...
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    Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016. "HEAD, Sir EDMUND WALKER". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of...
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    honour of his wife, Lady Anna Maria Head (Nee Yorke) (1808-1890). Lady Anna Maria Head (née Yorke) Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet The township includes...
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    through a baronetcy patronage by Sir Edmund Walker Head in July 1856, the action was nearly entirely the result of Head's "sympathetic recommendation" over...
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    reforms in opposition to the Compact government. Lieutenant Governor Edmund Walker Head appointed Gray to the Executive Council causing the reform opposition...
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    remains a point of tension between London and Beijing. All zodiac animal heads from the Summer Palace that have been found have been returned to Chinese...
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  • Governor Head may refer to: Edmund Walker Head (1805–1868), Governor General of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1861 Francis Bond Head (1793–1875)...
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    Uprising of 1839 in Wales, suppressed by Sir Francis Bond Head's cousin, Sir Edmund Walker Head. There were two types of rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada...
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    Earl of Elgin, Edmund Walker Head Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling Governor of New Brunswick — Edmund Walker Head, John Manners-Sutton...
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    John River, the settlement was renamed Edmundston in 1851 after Sir Edmund Walker Head, who was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick from 1848 to 1854 and...
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    the entries were narrowed down to three, then Governor General Sir Edmund Walker Head was approached to break the stalemate and the winner was announced...
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    Colvile 1856–58  John Shepherd 1858–63  Henry Hulse Berens 1863–68  Sir Edmund Walker Head 1868–69  John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1869–74  Sir Stafford...
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    aboard HMS Hero near Percé Rock; the group included Governor General Edmund Walker Head and Joint Premiers George-Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald. Arriving...
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  • Province, Superintendent – John Williamson Province of Canada – Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet (1854–1861) Cape Colony – Sir George Grey (1854–1861)...
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  • Governor-General of Angola (1854–1860) Province of Canada – Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet (1854–1861) Jamaica – Charles Henry Darling (1857–1863)...
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    Uprising of 1839 in Wales, suppressed by Sir Francis Bond Head's cousin, Sir Edmund Walker Head. Rather than view each rebellion in isolation, the Newport...
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    decide whose design should win the contest. Governor General Sir Edmund Walker Head was approached to break the stalemate and the winners were announced...
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    as well as the first not to be elevated to the peerage since Sir Edmund Walker Head in 1854. There was some trepidation about this departure from tradition...
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    government was defeated. Macdonald resigned, and the Governor General, Sir Edmund Walker Head, invited opposition leader George Brown to form a government. Under...
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    legislature rejected Ottawa as the new permanent capital of the province. Edmund Walker Head, the governor-general of Canada, asked Brown to form a new administration...
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    submitted entries were narrowed down to three, Governor General Sir Edmund Walker Head was approached to break the stalemate, and the winner was announced...
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  • Cumberland initially designed a Gothic structure, but Governor General Edmund Walker Head disliked the style and suggested Italian instead, later changing his...
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    Highway 541. The mountain was named in 1859 by John Palliser to honor Edmund Walker Head (1805–1868), the Governor General of the Province of Canada who had...
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    brother-in-law William Augustus Baldwin persuaded Governor General Sir Edmund Walker Head to offer Macleod a commission in the British army. His father insisted...
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  • Munroe, Governor of Bermuda (1859–1860) Province of Canada – Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet (1854–1861) Jamaica – Charles Henry Darling (1857–1863)...
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    Sir Byron Edmund Walker, CVO (14 October 1848 – 27 March 1924) was a Canadian banker. He was the president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce from 1907...
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    an act to establish the line between it and Canada. February 16 – Edmund Walker Head, Governor General (d.1868) August 26 – Joseph-Bruno Guigues, first...
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    August 6, 1858 – May 24, 1862 Monarch Victoria Governors‑General Edmund Walker Head The Viscount Monck Joint Premier John A. Macdonald Preceded by Étienne-Paschal...
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  • (1811–1863) 30 January 1847 19 December 1854 7 years, 323 days 6 Sir Edmund Walker Head, Baronet KCB (1805–1868) 19 December 1854 25 October 1861 6 years...
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  • the Governor of New Brunswick William MacBean George Colebrooke. Edmund Walker Head became governor in April 1848. In May 1848, the governor formed what...
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