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Simon James Dawson (June 13, 1818 – October 30, 1902) was a Canadian civil engineer and politician. Career Born in Redhaven, Banffshire, Scotland, Dawson emigrated to Canada as a young man and began his career as an engineer. In 1857, as a member of a Canadian government expedition, he surveyed a line of road from Prince Arthur’s Landing (later Port Arthur, now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) to Fort Garry and further explored that area in 1858 and 1859. His report greatly stimulated Canadian interest in the West. In 1868, he was placed in charge of construction of a wagon and water route following his earlier survey by the newly formed federal Department of Public Works. The Dawson road was traversed in 1870 by the Wolseley Expedition under the command of Colonel Garnet Wolseley sent to preserve order during the first Riel uprising, the Red River Rebellion.Dawson represented Algoma in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1878 and Algoma in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1891. As a politician, he was a consistent advocate for native rights. In 1875, he proposed that the riding of Algoma, then the only riding in the region of northern Ontario, become a separate territory, until it had enough population for provincial status. As a Scottish Roman Catholic, he was an anomaly in Protestant Ontario where most Scots were Presbyterian. His brother William McDonell Dawson served as Crown Lands agent at Ottawa and was superintendent of the woods and forests branch in the Crown Lands department from 1852 to 1857. In 1858, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Trois-Rivières; he was defeated there but elected for the County of Ottawa in the 1861 general election. Another brother was the Roman Catholic priest Aeneas McDonell Dawson. He died in Ottawa in 1902, virtually forgotten. Electoral Record References Archives Simon James Dawson fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Archival reference number R4465. Further reading Elizabeth Arthur, Simon J. Dawson C.E. (Thunder Bay, Ont. : Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1987) 36 pages. Janet E. Chute and Alan Knight, "Taking up the torch : Simon J. Dawson and the Upper Great Lakes' Native Resource Campaign of the 1860s and 1870s," in With Good Intentions : Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada (Vancouver : UBC Press, 2006), 106-131. Irene J. Dawson, "The Dawson Route 1857-1883 : a Selected Bibliography with Annotations," Ontario History, LIX (no. 1, March 1967), 47-54. Jack Munroe, "Mr Dawson's Road," Beaver, 71 (1) 1991, 6-11.External links Arthur, Elizabeth (1994). "Dawson, Simon James". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Simon James Dawson – Parliament of Canada biography Ontario Legislative Assembly parliamentary history Ontario Plaques – Simon James Dawson Plan of Mr. Dawson's Road from Thunder Bay to Lake Shebandowan 1871. Discover the Simon Dawson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Simon Dawson books.
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Surface With Daring
Douglas ReemanHiding, lying in wait on the sea bed, is EX16.Though one of the most important ships in the Royal Navy, she's not much to look at; she's only 54 feet long, with no defensive armame...
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A Dancer in Wartime
Gillian LynneLondon during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne – a budding ballerina – it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from wartorn Lond...
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Politics is Murder
Nick Tyrone'A hilarious political satire bursting with black humour with an unforgettable antiheroine' 5 Review'A fastpaced, witty and entertaining political thriller' 5 ReviewCharlotte Heard...
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Dead Idol
Nick Tyrone'Read this after I'd read Tyrone's brilliant "Politics is Murder" and while it is very, very different from that book... "Dead Idol" gripped me equally. It's another instant classi...
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Pigs in Clover
Simon DawsonThis is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and becomes selfsufficient, with a few...
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You Deserve the Truth
Erica Williams SimonFrom a millennial media maker and awardwinning social critic, an accessible, straightforward, and remarkable guide that “invites us beyond the old stories we’ve told about ourselve...
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Document control
Simon DawsonControlling documentation within a manufacturing process is a vital piece of the manufacturing process that can be highly under rated as to its importance. This book is designed to...
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Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology
George MacBeathGenerations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the midnineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and uni...
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Teaching Portfolio
Simon DawsonThis is a teaching intervention designed for the ISEKI Pilot Training Programme. The portfolio focuses on the use of Blended Learning as a modern teaching technique designed t...
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Shadow of a Doubt
Michelle Davies'Pure suspense, where past and present collide with chilling results' Erin Kelly'A hugely entertaining, fastpaced thriller' Caz Frear'It's a pitchperfect blend of ghostly terror an...
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Kill Me Once
Jon OsborneNathan Stiedowe is seeking perfection and he has been learning from the best. Recreating some of the most sickening murders in history, his objective appears chillingly simple, bu...
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Found Her
NJ MackayThe most gripping, emotional and redemptive psychological thriller of 2021 for fans of Erin Kinsley, Lisa Jewell, Louise Jensen, Phoebe Morgan, CL Taylor, Cara Hunter and KL Slate...
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The Guilty Wife
Elle CroftTHE TOP 10 EBOOK BESTSELLER 'A gripping tale of betrayal, deceit, and duplicity. Fabulous.' Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You 'Relentless and intense...I loved the final ...
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
Elle Croft'Utterly absorbing and thoughtprovoking' Caz Frear'What a premise, and packed with suspense' Victoria Selman'A dark, delicious triumph' Niki MackayIf what they said was true, then ...
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Wild Flowers
Carol KleinWild flowers are a great passion for Carol, and for the TV show this year she’s travelling the length and breadth of the country to find the most exquisite flora occurring naturall...
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The Funny Farm
Jackie EllisHow often have you thought you might like to chuck it all in, leave the steaming metropolis and its noise and dirt behind and make for pastures new, to begin your life again? We of...