Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis CMG (19 October 1820 – 7 July 1885) was a Canadian surveyor, militia officer, and civil servant, born in Kingston...
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general John E. Dennis (born 1939), mathematician John N. Dennis (born 1933), American politician in the New Jersey General Assembly John Stoughton Dennis (1820–1885)...
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named in 1916 by Alexander MacKinnon Burgess for Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis (1820–1885), a Canadian surveyor who proposed the Dominion Land...
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to the Red River Colony. On the orders of survey party leader, John Stoughton Dennis, he organized a group of volunteers to try to put down an uprising...
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Rebellion and J. S. Dennis, 'Lieutenant and Conservator of the Peace'". Manitoba History (3). Read, Colin (1982). "Dennis, John Stoughton (1820–1885)". Dictionary...
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was planned. At the same time, John Grubb, who had already founded Thistletown, hired land surveyor John Stoughton Dennis to plan a community at the intersection...
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Dysart and Longford. At first, Gossage was in partnership with John Stoughton Dennis and later with Vernon Bayley Wadsworth. As many as sixty or seventy...
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back to Fort Erie and fought a battle against a detachment led by John Stoughton Dennis. With overwhelming numbers of Canadian forces closing in, O'Neill...
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compass. The Dominion Land Survey system was proposed in 1869 by John Stoughton Dennis. The initial plan, though based on the square townships of the American...
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Red River Rebellion (category Premiership of John A. Macdonald)
government that such surveys would precipitate unrest. Headed by Colonel John Stoughton Dennis, the survey party arrived at Fort Garry on August 20, 1869. The...
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