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1152:"CONSERVATIVES CHOOSE GUTHRIE AS HOUSE LEADER: Meighen's Resignation Accepted By Dominion-Wide Party Caucus And National Convention Ordered Selection of Former Liberal From South Wellington Is Made on Third Ballot Following All-Day Conference Behind Closed Doors Will Guide Opposition Through Coming Session PERMANENT CHIEF LEFT FOR FUTURE Resolutions Extol "Great Services Rendered to Party and People of Canada" by Retiring Leader, and "Deplore His Announced Intention to Retire" Committee to Arrange for National Conclave".
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or federal election on the issue. Meighen raised the issue on the floor of the convention but
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Liberal-Conservative Party to the principle of loyalty to the Crown, and the maintenance of that integral connection of Canada with the
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1241:. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 47–48.
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1156:. October 12, 1926.
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1277:April 24,
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573:Lord Byng
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866:highways
648:Victoria
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475:Winnipeg
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333:Winnipeg
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