Regional Municipality of York Essays

  • Mitchell Mill Historical Background

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    Thomas' dad Thomas Sr. began the mill north of Second Lake and west of First Lake. The Mitchell's lived in Berkley Ontario a small town south of Owen Sound. Thomas Sr. (b 1855), an English immigrant, was an experienced mill operator and knew quite well that a mill by the planned CPR line could be lucrative. With the knowledge that CPR was expanding to Parry Sound he built the Mitchell Mill in 1898. When Thomas Jr. was ready, around 1920, the operations of the Foley mill would be his and he would

  • Elizabeth Macdonald's Role In Canadian Politics

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    “Among other roles, she became the president of the Elizabeth Fry Society - an organisation committed to providing a support system for newly released women prisoners. 61 In 1971, she was appointed the original executive director of the Committee for an Independent Canada. Much of her pre-legislative career, therefore, was spent as an official in the national office of the Progressive Conservative Party. According to Kornberg, stalwarts perform ‘memory, intelligence and communications functions on

  • Persuasive Essay On Free Trade By Evo Morales

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    Evo Morales, the current president of Bolivia once said "Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans". Morales is referring to how carelessly us humans can fill the Earth with pollution and toxic wastes, and even worse, the apathy that acquiesces our minds on creating proactive solutions to make our world a cleaner place; there

  • Annotated Bibliography On Racial Profiling

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    Isaiah Hart Jennings Eng 1020 11/7/16 Annotated bibliography Leder , Drew. "Guns and voices.": 82+. Academic OneFile. Web. 19 Mar. 2013 In this article, they don’t use the opinions of the people in the jail ,but they base it off the crimes they committed themselves. They ask about their different experiences that had with cops because of their situation. The inmates talked about how racial profiling came into play and other issues like that only came into play in lower income areas. They talked