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    Sir Ambrose Shea KCMG (17 September 1815 – 30 July 1905) was a political and business figure in colonial Newfoundland who later served as Governor of the...
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  • by acclamation as a supporter of Ambrose Shea, who led the Catholic-Liberal party in a highly sectarian contest. Shea was re-elected as an independent...
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    The Sir Ambrose Shea Lift Bridge is a lift bridge located in Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is named after Ambrose Shea, a political...
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    Newfoundland had not been invited to Charlottetown. Those delegates, Ambrose Shea for the opposition, and Frederick Carter, for the government, did not...
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    demand, such as Marine Nautica, Marine Atlantica, Marine Evangeline, Ambrose Shea, and John Hamilton Gray. With the abandonment of the railway, extensive...
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  • Lees, Governor (1882–1884) Henry Arthur Blake, Governor (1884–1887) Ambrose Shea, Governor (1887–1895) William Frederick Haynes Smith, Governor (1895–1898)...
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    Edward Island Yes Yes No John William Ritchie Nova Scotia No No Yes Sir Ambrose Shea Newfoundland No Yes No William H. Steeves New Brunswick Yes Yes No Sir...
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  • by his brothers William Richard Shea and Ambrose Shea. He married Gertrude Corbett in 1849. Shea and his brother Ambrose became Conservatives in 1865 and...
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    Henry Pope. The two Newfoundland delegates were Frederick Carter and Ambrose Shea, who were not government members. Overall Nova Scotia had five members...
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    Newfoundland and Labrador. It has a unique lift-bridge named the Sir Ambrose Shea Lift Bridge that spans the tumultuous tides of 'the gut' (the narrow...
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