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The origin of Canada Steamship Lines lies with the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, founded in 1845. One of the largest fleets existing in Canada in the nineteenth century, the company prospered, expanding to eighteen vessels operating between Toronto and Quebec.

In 1912-1913, the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, Canada Interlake Lines, Ontario and Quebec Navigation Company, Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte Steamboat Company, the Quebec Steamship Company, the Inland Lines and the Wolvin Lines came together under the leadership of Messrs. Anglin, Wolvin, Norcross and Enderby resulting in a mixed fleet of passemger ships and freighters which included such well-known vessels as the Noronic, Toiler and Turbinia. A peaceful corporate adjustment to the merger was not to be. Just one year after its formation participation in World War I cost the firm sixteen ships.

Under the stewardship of W.H. Coverdale, the firm regrouped after the war and was revitalized by the acquisition of both the Montreal Transportation Company and the Davie Shipbuilding and Repair Company and in 1925-1926 the Playfair company and the vessels of George Hall Shipping Ltd. were also acquired, creating a world-class fleet. By 1927 the CSL fleet consisted of 115 ships including twenty-three passenger vessels. The corporation then changed direction and abandoned ocean trade in favor of concentration on lake shipping. Many of the company's vessels and personnel were retired as a result of the Depression and throughout World War II the company lost six of its fleet. The War, however, also allowed the firm an expanding role in shipping iron ore from upper Lake Superior to to the steel mills and munition plants of central Canada and the United States.

After the war the company's passenger service was discontinued in favor of a concentration on freight alone. Under the leadership of T.R. McLagan, an engineer, a major fleet overhaul was begun, with an emphasis on technical innovation and efficiency rather than fleet expansion. With the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, this technological refit was given new impetus and a twenty year building program was begun. Under the aegis of Power Corporation (1975) and L.R. Desmarais innovation continued to be the company's hallmark. In 1981 Power Corporation sold CSL to Paul Martin Jr., who consolidated his holdings in 1988 as Paul Martin Passage Holdings.Today CSL is one of the world's leading inland shippers.

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The Canadian Political Science Association was founded in 1913, to encourage and develop political science and its relationship with other disciplines, and was incorporated under the Canada Corporation Act in 1971. The Association has an elected Board of Directors, nominations to which are received by an appointed Nominating Committee. The Executive is made up of a President, President-Elect, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, as well as a representative of the members-at-large elected by the Board. The Association has a permanent Secretariat currently housed in Ottawa. Among affiliations the Association is a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, the International Political Science Association and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Established at the beginning of the nineteenth century as a village burial ground, the Charter of the Cataraqui Cemetery Company was handed down on August 10, 1850, by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The cemetery was developed in a rural garden theme, after the pattern of Mount Auburn in Boston and Mount Hope in Rochester, New York. With winding roadways through rolling terrain, ponds and watercourses throughout the 100 acres of ground, it is truly a beautiful resting place. The earliest list of lot holders is a veritable Who's Who of Kingston and includes Sir John Alexander Macdonald, the Father of Confederation, Thomas Kirkpatrick, First Mayor of the Town of Kingston, John Counter, First Mayor of the City of Kingston, and Sir Alexander Campbell, a Father of Confederation and a former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

Comité organisateur des Jeux Olympiques de 1976 (COJO 76) was established in September, 1972, to organize the 1976 Olympic Games. The Yachting Division had its offices in Kingston.

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The Committee for an Independent Canada (CIC) was created in 1970 to further the cause of economic nationalism in Canada. The Committee was the brainchild of former Liberal Finance Minister Walter Gordon, University of Toronto economist Abe Rotstein, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star Peter C. Newman. The CIC endeavored to mobilize a strong show of public support to force the government to take a firm stand against the flow of foreign capital into the Canadian economy. The means to this end was a national petition drive under the direction of Flora MacDonald, who conducted a national tour to establish local chapters to gather signatures. The petition in the spring of 1971 was a major success leading to an audience with Prime Minister Trudeau. The original trio soon expanded and the creation of the Committee was formally announced in September, 1971, with publisher Jack McClelland, and the editor of Le Devoir Claude Ryan as Co-Chairmen. The Committee was solidified as a national organization at their first national conference in Decenber, 1971.By the late spring of 1972 the organization had upwards of thirty-five local chapters.After the creation of the Foreign Investment Review Agency the CIC faced a crisis of the future in terms of direction and finances. Eventually the CIC was unable to sustain itself and after 1975 began to flag. Several attempts were made, unsuccessfully, to revive the organization which finally ceased operation in August 1981.

The Progressive Conservative Party, a political party, began as a coalition of Liberals and moderate Conservatives in 1854. Brought together under the leadership of Sir Alan MacNab and the active direction of John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier, this Liberal-Conservative coalition was regarded at first as just another of the shifting alliances of the period. The party was broadened at Confederation by the addition of the Conservative parties of the Maritime Provinces. The Party retained the name "Liberal-Conservative" from its inception in 1854 until its national convention in 1938. At that convention the name was changed to "The National Conservative Party". At the convention of 1942 in Winnipeg the name was changed to "Progressive Conservative Party". At no time from 1854 to the present has the single name "Conservative" ever been used as the official designation of the Party.

In 1810, Stephen Miles, who had been a printer's apprentice, established the Kingston Gazette. Only two other papers were in existence then in Upper Canada, one published at York, the other at Niagara. But during the War of 1812 the Kingston Gazette remained the only paper in the province to continue publication. A weekly, consisting of four pages, it was distributed widely in the Bay of Quinte area, and delivered twice a month to York, where subscribers could pick it up at a certain store. In 1818, Miles sold his paper to Messrs. Pringle and Macaulay who changed its name to Kingston Chronicle. Later the name was changed once again to Chronicle and Gazette.

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