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Subject: [Q-R] Happy Birthday
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:58:50 -0400 (EDT)
March 12,1795
(http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/images/otd.98.03.12.b.lg.gif) William
Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861
journalist, printer and political reformer, born on this day at
Springfield, Angus, Scotland in 1795; dies in Toronto August 28, 1861. Mackenzie was
Toronto's first mayor; he fought the Family Compact, and led the
unsuccessful revolt against the government in 1837, for which he fled into exile in
the US. He was the grandfather of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King.
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