20-641: James Whitney may refer to: James Whitney (politician) (1843–1914), Canadian politician in the province of Ontario James Whitney (filmmaker) (1921–1982) James Amaziah Whitney (1839–1907), United States patent lawyer and writer James Pounder Whitney (1857–1939), British historian Jim Whitney (1857–1891), baseball player James Scollay Whitney (1811–1878), American business executive and politician James Lyman Whitney (1835–1910), American librarian James Whitney (criminal) (c.1660–1694), highwayman from Stevenage [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
40-750: A Private in a volunteer company during the Trent Affair and then a Sergeant with the Cornwall Volunteer Infantry during the Fenian Raids . He continued to serve in the militia, being appointed a Lieutenant Colonel in the Dundas Reserve Militia, an appointment he held until his death. Whitney was elected to the Ontario legislature in 1888. He became leader of Ontario's Conservative Party in 1896. His mentor
60-744: A suspected heart attack during his convalescence in New York City in 1913 and returned to Toronto staying at Toronto General Hospital . A 1920s government building across from Queen's Park is named the Whitney Block after him. A statue of him stands on the Queen's Park grounds. Whitney Hall, a residential building at nearby University College , of the University of Toronto , is also named after him. George William Ross Sir George William Ross (September 18, 1841 – March 7, 1914)
80-529: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Whitney (politician) Sir James Pliny Whitney KCMG KC (October 2, 1843 – September 25, 1914) was a Canadian politician and lawyer in the province of Ontario . He served as Conservative member of the legislature for Dundas in Eastern Ontario from 1888 and as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 until his death in 1914. He
100-601: Is the only premier of Ontario to have died while in office. Whitney was born in Williamsburgh Township in 1843 and attended Cornwall Grammar School before articling at the law office of John Sandfield Macdonald in the 1860s, but did not resume his legal studies until 1871. He was called to the bar in 1875, and practised law in Morrisburg . Whitney was active in the Militia at Cornwall , serving as
120-576: The Canada Temperance Act , which favoured the "local option" approach for implementing prohibition . He was initially declared re-elected again in the 1882 election , but his victory was challenged, and the next year the vote was declared void. Rather than run again, Ross moved to provincial politics when he was offered the position of Minister of Education for Ontario in the Liberal government of Sir Oliver Mowat in 1883. He oversaw
140-648: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario , with Sir Adam Beck as its chairman and driving force. His government created the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board in 1906 and also passed significant temperance and workmen's compensation legislation. Early in his premiership, Whitney sought to remedy the troubled University of Toronto by improving its finances and finding a successor to its unpopular president James Loudon . According to his biographer, "The legislation for
160-518: The Orange Order in his caucus (such as George Howard Ferguson ) by passing Regulation 17 , which banned the teaching of French in schools beyond the first three years of school. The measure inflamed French-Canadian opinion across Canada, particularly in Quebec , and divided the country as it entered World War I . Whitney died in office shortly after he had won the 1914 election . Whitney had
180-461: The provincial election of 1902 , the Liberal majority was cut to one seat, but at a time when parties lacked the discipline over their members they would later develop, that was not enough for a secure government. The Ross administration was rocked by a series of controversies in its second term: Leading a stagnating and drifting government, Ross called an election for January 25, 1905, in which
200-631: The Liberals lost 22 seats and the Conservatives under James P. Whitney won 69, making Whitney the new Premier. Ross remained Liberal leader until 1907, when Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier recommended him for an appointment to the Senate of Canada . In 1910, Ross received a knighthood from King George V for his years of public service in both Federal and Provincial politics. He wrote two books about his life in politics, and died in 1914. Ross
220-477: The University of Toronto has to be ranked as one of the major achievements of Whitney's entire period as Premier of Ontario. It provided the institution with a foundation for growth in the twentieth century and it represented a complete break with almost every aspect of Liberal policy towards the University of Toronto." He also supported the anti- Catholic and anti- French-Canadian sentiments of supporters of
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#1732791281232240-484: The desire to keep the school grounds attractive as well as a sense of patriotism. With regard to this latter, under his ministry, both Canadian history and military training became part of the curriculum in high schools in Ontario. This mandatory cadet training became controversial with the general public after the two World Wars, and was finally phased out entirely in 1944. The Conservative opposition protested against
260-591: The federation of a number of smaller colleges with the University of Toronto . He also, controversially, established an oligopoly for the supply of textbooks to Ontario schools that was in effect from 1885 until 1907. Ross implemented a system of gradated education from kindergarten (a new innovation that Ross was the first to recognise as part of the provincial school system) to university, unifying what had been separately organised systems. During his time as Minister of Education (1883–99), Ross established both Arbor Day and Empire Day, in order to inculcate in students both
280-525: The possibility of increased support for the Catholic Church 's Separate school system, while the Catholic minority agitated for the same high schools and other facilities that the public (Protestant) school system enjoyed. The Protestant Protective Association was formed by Orangemen in the 1890s to oppose the expansion of Catholic rights, and to attempt to exclude Catholics from public life in
300-415: The province. After Mowat's retirement as Premier , and a short interregnum triggered by Arthur S. Hardy , Ross became Premier (and Provincial Treasurer) on October 21, 1899. Nicknamed as the "Father of New Ontario", he was present in the development of Northern Ontario : The Liberal government was tired, however, after almost thirty years in office, and Ross could do little to revive its fortunes. In
320-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Whitney&oldid=1154634741 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
340-404: The transformation of former mechanics' institutes into more than 300 public libraries, the expansion of the kindergarten system, and the creation of a provincial School of Pedagogy for the training of school inspectors and masters. Ross increased grants to the education system, expanded the authority of the provincial Department of Education, and oversaw the expansion of the university system and
360-525: Was Scottish Gaelic . He, along with his fellow Canadian Gaels, held a lifelong love for the language. As a tribute, a short biographical account of Ross was printed in Gaelic in Ontario in the year following his death. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal in the 1872 election , and was re-elected in the 1874 and 1878 elections . During his time as an MP, he actively defended
380-409: Was William Ralph Meredith , who deeply influenced many of Whitney's later measures as premier like worker's compensation and dealing with the University of Toronto. In the 1905 election , he led his party to victory for the first time in 33 years by defeating the tired Liberal government of George William Ross . Whitney's government laid the basis for Ontario's industrial development by creating
400-583: Was an educator and politician in the Canadian province of Ontario . He was the fifth premier of Ontario from 1899 to 1905. Born near Nairn, in Middlesex County , Upper Canada , Ross worked as a school teacher, a school inspector and a newspaper publisher before he got into politics. Ross's parents had emigrated from Tain in the Highlands of Scotland in 1831 and the language of his youth
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