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For the municipality in Quebec, see Wentworth-Nord, Quebec
Wentworth-Nord, Quebec
Wentworth-Nord is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality.Its communities include Saint-Michel, Laurel, and Montfort...

Wentworth North was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

represented in the Canadian

Canada

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House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1867 to 1896. It was located near the city of Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

in the province

Provinces and territories of Canada

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of Ontario

Ontario

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. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. The "North Riding of Wentworth" consisted of the Townships of Beverley, Flamborough East and Flamborough West, and the Town of Dundas

Dundas, Ontario

Dundas is a formerly independent town and now constituent community in the city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. It's nickname is the Valley Town. The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley...

.

The electoral district was abolished in 1892 when it was merged into Wentworth North and Brant

Wentworth North and Brant

Wentworth North and Brant was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1892 to 1904. It was located west of the city of Hamilton in the province of Ontario....

riding.

Electoral history

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Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

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Liberal Party of Canada

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Thomas Bain

Thomas Bain was a Canadian parliamentarian.Bain was born in Scotland, the son of Walter Bain, and migrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. They settled on a bush farm in Wentworth County near Hamilton, Ontario.He was elected to the County Council in the 1860s and became...

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Liberal Party of Canada

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Thomas Bain

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Liberal Party of Canada

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Thomas Bain

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Liberal Party of Canada

|BAIN, Thomas

Thomas Bain

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|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|BAIN, Thomas

Thomas Bain

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|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

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Liberal Party of Canada

|BAIN, Thomas

Thomas Bain

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Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

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Electoral history

See also