12-943: Joseph McNamara may refer to: Joseph McNamara (Ontario politician) (1888–?) Joseph McNamara (Rhode Island politician) (born 1950), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Joseph McNamara (Virginia politician) (born 1963), member of the Virginia House of Delegates Joseph A. McNamara (1892–1972), Vermont attorney and politician Joseph D. McNamara (1935–2014), police chief of Kansas City, Missouri, and San Jose, California Joe McNamara , property developer and protester in Ireland Kevin McNamara (politician) (Joseph Kevin McNamara, 1934–2017), British Labour Party politician [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
24-807: A member of the Royal North-West Mounted Police from 1914 to 1915, and prior to this had served four years in the United States Artillery in Wyoming. On September 24, 1915, McNamara enlisted with the 38th Battery, CFA in Regina, Saskatchewan , serving as a sergeant-major. He lost his right arm due to a shell explosion at Vimy on March 28, 1918. This article about an Ontario MPP is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vimy Vimy ( / ˈ v iː m i / or / ˈ v ɪ m i / ; French pronunciation: [vimi] )
36-582: A threat to their ability to afford farm workers. McNamara did not run for re-election in 1923. A quarter-century later, he attempted to return to politics by contesting Riverdale in the 1948 provincial election as a Liberal but placed third behind the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Progressive Conservative candidates. McNamara was born in Preston , England , the son of Thomas McNamara, and came to Canada in 1902. He served as
48-685: Is a commune in the French department of Pas-de-Calais . Located 3.8 kilometers (2.4 mi) east of Vimy is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Canadian soldiers who were killed during the First World War. The Memorial is also the site of two Canadian cemeteries. Vimy is a farming town, situated some 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Arras, at
60-667: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Joseph McNamara (Ontario politician) Joseph McNamara (June 18, 1888 – July 14, 1957) was an Ontario political figure. He represented Riverdale in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1923 as the only member of the Soldier Party and supported the United Farmers of Ontario - Independent Labour Party government of E.C. Drury that took office following
72-542: The 90th anniversary of the battle. A new $ 10 million visitor center was completed before the 9 April 2017 commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the battle. The event was anticipated to be attended by as many as 30,000 people. The official ceremony included comments by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , Governor General David Johnston as representative of the Monarchy of Canada , Prince Charles as representative of
84-508: The Germans in 1914, it was the subject of a French assault in 1915. In 1917 the Battle of Vimy Ridge took place southeast of Vimy and was an important battle of the war for Canadian military history. The town was practically destroyed during the fighting in the area. Set on the highest point of Vimy Ridge, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial is the largest of Canada's war monuments. In 1922, use of
96-581: The election. However, McNamara remained independent and, in 1921, made an alliance with M.M. MacBride , a dissenting member of the Independent Labour Party who had left the governing caucus, to move a Bill which would have introduced an eight-hour day . This was seen as an attempt to embarrass the rest of the ILP who opposed the measure in deference to the farmer base of the United Farmers who saw it as
108-559: The junction of the D51 and the N17 roads. It is situated on the crest of Vimy Ridge, a prominent feature overlooking the Artois region. The town was first mentioned in 1183 as Viniarcum and was the scene of much fighting during the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among the French, English, Dutch and Spanish forces. The ridge was the scene of fierce fighting in the First World War. Seized by
120-521: The land for the battlefield park which contains the memorial was granted, in perpetuity, by the French nation to the people of Canada in recognition of Canada's war efforts. 100 hectares (250 acres) of the former Vimy Ridge battlefield is preserved as part of the memorial park which surrounds the monument. The grounds of the site are still honeycombed with wartime tunnels, trenches and craters, closed off for public safety. The project took designer Walter Seymour Allward 11 years to see built. (The total cost
132-409: 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=Joseph_McNamara&oldid=1075245023 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732844403930144-399: Was $ 1.5 million, which is over $ 20 million in present terms.) King Edward VIII unveiled it on 26 July 1936 in the presence of French President Albert Lebrun and a crowd of over 50,000 including over 6200 Canadian veterans and their families. Following an extensive multi-year restoration, Queen Elizabeth II re-dedicated the monument on 9 April 2007 at a ceremony commemorating
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