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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.

Bliss Carman was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1861. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick (B.A. 1881; M.A. 1883; LL.D. 1906) and later studied at Edinburgh and Harvard Universities. In 1890 Carman went to New York to work as a journalist. He became an editorial writer for a religious weekly, the Independent, and then wrote for various literary magazines. From 1895 to 1900 he contributed a weekly literary column to the Boston Transcript. In 1925 he was elected corresponding member of the Royal Society of Canada, and in the same year was awarded the Lorne Pierce medal by the Society for distinguished service to literature. The medal of the Poetry Society of America was awarded posthumously. In his later years he was acclaimed Canada's "poet laureate". In addition to writing poetry, Carman was also the author of several volumes of essays. He died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1929.

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John Solomon Cartwright (1804-1845) was born in Kingston, Upper Canada. He was the son of the Hon. Richard Cartwright and the twin brother of Rev. Robert Cartwright. John Cartwright studied law at York (Toronto) and later at Lincoln's Inn, London, England. He became president of the Commercial Bank of Kingston in 1831. In 1836 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and, in 1841, to the Legislative Assembly of United Canada for Lennox and Addington. He was opposed to the Union of 1840 and to responsible government. In 1842 he was offered the position of Solicitor General by Governor General Sir Charles Bagot. Cartwright declined the offer on the grounds that he refused to hold office subject to the verdict of a popular majority. He strongly believed that responsible government was inconsistent with Canada's status as a British colony.

Clergyman and rector of St. George's Church, Kingston, Ont.

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.

A Conservation Authority is a corporate body, formed by municipal request, under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario. Its purpose is to further the conservation, restoration, development, and management of natural resources (excluding gas, oil, coal and minerals) in their areas. Conservation Authority powers are set out in the Conservation Authorities Act, Revised Statutes of Ontario, Chapter 85. An authority’s jurisdiction is based on a watershed (an area of land drained by one stream or river) rather than by political boundaries, since all municipalities through which a river or stream flows, share its resource problems. The Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority was formed, at the request of our member municipalities, in December 1964 by order-in-council and has jurisdiction over 3,506 sq. km (1,354 sq. miles) of land, from Greater Napanee in the west to Brockville in the east. In all, there are ten watersheds in our jurisdiction, the largest ones being the Cataraqui and Gananoque Rivers. Smaller systems include the Collins, Millhaven, Wilton, Little Cataraqui, Lyn, Golden, Buells, and Butler Creeks. The Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority has 17 members appointed by the councils of the 11 municipalities that lie either wholly or partly within the watershed. The CRCA has three Advisory Boards: the Administration and Finance Advisory Board, the Conservation Lands Advisory Board, and the Water Management Advisory Board. Ad hoc committees have been established for Lemoine Point and Parrott's Bay Conservation Areas because they are funded by a special municipal levy. From time to time, the CRCA sets up special sub-committees to study specific issues and provide recommendations to the Board. An Annual General Meeting of the Full Authority is held in January of each year, at which time the chair and vice-chair of the Authority are elected and the members of the Advisory Boards are elected. The Authority’s budget is reviewed at this meeting and is passed at the Full Authority meeting in February. The Full Authority normally meets once per month.

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George F. Chipman was born at Nictaux West, Nova Scotia, on 28 January, 1882, the son of F. Miles Chipman, a member of the first directorate of the United Fruit Companies. Chipman attended the Provincial Training School for teachers at Truro for one year and at the age of eighteen went to River Herbert, Cumberland County, as the principal of the high school. He held this post for three years before moving to Alberta to teach school in the fall of 1903. In 1905 he joined the editorial staff of the Free Press and in 1909, when the farmers of Manitoba united to form the Grain Growers Association, he became involved in the publication of the Grain Growers' Guide. Two years after he joined the Guide he was promoted to editor. Chipman was active politically in the formation of the National Farmers' platform in 1918 and supported T.A. Crerar and the Progressives in the 1920's. From 1923 on, Chipman also investigated the growing of hardier fruits for western climates. In 1923 he was also appointed, by the Manitoba government, to examine the provincial educational system. Chipman died in 1935.