Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion
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The Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion was a Canadian military unit consisting of volunteers within the XV International Brigade, fighting on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. Except for France,
Monument to the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion in Victoria, B.C.
Ilkka Machine Gun Company of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, composed of Finnish Canadian volunteers of the XV International Brigade.
Mackenzie-Papineau plaque in Victoria, BC
Mackenzie-Papineau monument in Ottawa
William Lyon Mackenzie
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William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify the establishment of Upper Canada.
Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion
…Canadian battalion began to take shape. It was formally mustered into the XVth Brigade on 1 July 1937 at Albacete. The Canadian soldiers named it after William Lyon Mackenzie and Louis-Joseph Papineau, who led the rebellions of 1837–1838, and who were noted 19th century politicians, standing for a responsive, reform-minded…
Mackenzie c. 1851–61
A portrait of Isabel Mackenzie (née Baxter), Mackenzie's wife, painted in 1850
John George Howard's painting of the third Parliament Building in York, built between 1829 and 1832 at Front Street
Emanuel Hahn's "Mackenzie Panels" (1938) in the garden of Mackenzie House in Toronto. The panels are dedicated to Reformers who argued for responsible government in Upper Canada.