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MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (he further used McKenzie and MacKenzie), merchant, correspondent, politician, gift rebel; b. 12 March at Metropolis, Dundee, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland, the one child accord Daniel Adventurer, a oscine, and Elizabeth Chalmers, née Mackenzie; d. 28 Aug. at Toronto, Canada West.
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Canada in the Second World War
W.L. Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King, born in Berlin (now Kitchener, Ontario) December 17, , died in Kingsmere (Quebec) July 22, Leader of the Liberal Party from to , Prime Minister of Canada from to , from to , and from to
Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King,
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The son of a lawyer, King was the grandson, on his mother’s side, of William Lyon Mackenzie, one of the leaders of the rebellion in Upper Canada. He studied law and economics at the University of Toronto (graduated in ), then at the University of Chicago (M.A., ). He went on to graduate studies at Harvard. In , he becomes Deputy Minister in the newly created Department of Labour and entered the House of Commons in as Liberal Member of Parliament for North York. The following year, Sir Wilfrid Laurier appoints him Minister of Labour. Defeated in the elections, King works as a consultant in industrial relations, as well as for the Rockefeller Foundation. He publishes Industry and Humanity in , a book in which he presents his vision of a government which, acting in the name of society as a whole, takes an active part in the peaceful solution of labour disputes.
At their congress, the Liberals choose King as leader. An experienced neg
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William Lyon Mackenzie
Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician (–)
For the fireboat, see William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat). For the high school, see William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute. For the prime minister (Mackenzie's grandson), see William Lyon Mackenzie King.
William Lyon Mackenzie[a] (March&#;12, &#;&#; August&#;28, ) was a Scottish Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify elite members of Upper Canada. He represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and aligned with Reformers. He led the rebels in the Upper Canada Rebellion; after its defeat, he unsuccessfully rallied American support for an invasion of Upper Canada as part of the Patriot War. Although popular for criticising government officials, he failed to implement most of his policy objectives. He is one of the most recognizable Reformers of the early 19th century.
Raised in Dundee, Scotland, Mackenzie emigrated to York, Upper Canada, in He published his first newspaper, the Colonial Advocate in , and was elected a York County representative to the Legislative Assembly in York became the city of Toronto in and Mackenzie was elected its first mayor; he decline