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  Family Compact: William B. Powell, cousin to S. P. Jarvis and W. M. Powell
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Family Compact: William Benjamin Robinson (b. 1797; d. 1873)
Brother of J. B. Robinson and P. Robinson, Postmaster of Newmarket, represented Simcoe in the Legislative Assembly in 1830-1840, and again in 1845-1857. Justice of the Peace, Colonel of Militia, Government Contractor....
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Family Compact: William Dummer Powell (b. 1755 at Boston; d. 1834)
Came to Canada in 1799. Between 1816 and 1825 he was Chief Justice. Speaker of the Legislative Council....
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Family Compact: William Henry Draper (b. 1801 at London, England; d. 1877)
Came to Canada in 1820. The Solicitor General, a Chairman of the Constitutional Society, Executive Councillor, a director of the Bank of U. C., 1833-1834 and 1838-1839. ...
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Family Compact: William M. Powell, brother of G. Powell. High Sheriff of Gore District
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James Buchanan (b in Cove Gap, Franklin, Pennsylvania 23 Apr 1791, d near Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1 Jun 1868)
Elected five times to the House of Representatives; then, after an interlude as Minister to Russia (1832), served for a decade in the Senate. He became Polk's Secretary of State and Pierce's Minister to Great Britain. The fifteenth Preside...
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John Henry Dunn (b. 1794, d.1854)
Came to Upper Canada in 1820 as receiver general after a stint in the East India Service in London. He was receiver general until 1843. Member of the Executive Council in 1836 and the Legislative Council, 1822-1841. He was at times preside...
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Le "Family Compact", une définition
Family Compact: popular name for a small clique of wealthy, powerful men who dominated Upper Canada from the late-18th to mid-19th cent. They controlled the government, monopolized political offices, and strongly influenced banking, land gr...
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 Leader réformiste: Anthony van Egmond (1771-1838)
A veteran of the Napoleonic wars, a major land owner and a baron in one of the oldest Dutch noble families, Van Egmond would appear to have more in common with the Family Compact than the small farmers who made up most of the reform movemen...
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Leader réformiste: Dr. Charles Duncombe (1792-1867)
Main rebel leader in the western part of Upper Canada. He was born in 1794 in Connecticut and received his license to practise medicine in 1819. He moved to Upper Canada and practised medicine in the Talbot Settlement for 6 years. He reloca...
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