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Nipiwan Park was a Victory tanker built by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood, Ontario. She was completed on 28 November 1942. [ 78 ] Built for Park Steamship Co., Montreal, she was operated under the management of Imperial Oil Co. [ 75 ] Torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 44°20′N 63°00′W / 44.333°N 63.000°W ...
The Tweed Forest Fire District was founded by the former Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (now the MNR) in 1922 as one of 17 districts to help protect Ontario's forests from fire by early detection from fire towers. The headquarters for the district were housed at Hungerford Road in town.
The site of the hillfort known as Oliver Castle is to the north of the village of Tweedsmuir, although the site of the tower house is less certain. Mentioned in a document of c.1200, it was originally part of the line of peel towers along the Tweed Valley. It was replaced in the seventeenth century by a house, which was itself replaced in the ...
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (d.1987) August 2 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1943) August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, author (d.1954) August 22 – François Blais, politician (d.1949)
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1935–1940) Region Geographic locations Civil structures Schools Buildings AB: Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Okotoks; BC: Buchan Creek [104] Buchan Inlet [105] Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park [106] Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area [107] Tweedsmuir Peak [108] Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary ...
William Chaffey. Rio Vista, former home of W.B. Chaffey and his family in Mildura, Victoria, Australia.. William Benjamin Chaffey, CMG (21 October 1856 – 4 June 1926) was a Canadian engineer and irrigation planner who with his older brother George Chaffey developed what became the cities of Etiwanda, California, Ontario, California, and Upland, California in the United States of America, as ...
George Chaffey. George Chaffey (28 January 1848 – 1 March 1932) was a Canadian engineer, inventor and entrepreneur who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California, including what became the community of Etiwanda and the cities of Ontario, and Upland.
Governor General – John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir (until February 11) [2] then Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (from June 21) [3] Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King; Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia) Parliament – 18th (until 25 January) then 19th (from 16 May)