Talk:Arthur Meighen

message: This statement should be clarified. He was for a time an MP from a Manitoba riding, but he was born in Ontario. The first paragraph makes it sound as though he was Manitobian by birth. --Ggbroad 22:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: From Manitoba

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message: Arthur Meighen was not the first Prime Minister of Canada to represent a riding in Western Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald began his second tenure as Prime Minister after the defeat of Alexander Mackenzie as the Member of Parliament for Victoria, with Amor de Cosmos, from 1878 to 1882. In the 1882 election, Macdonald ran and won in Carleton, but he was still a "Western-based" Prime Minister for a good four years.
To be fair, Macdonald's connection to Victoria is pretty feeble. However, it is there, and it disqualifies Meighen's claim to be the first Western Prime Minister. Therefore, I've modified that sentence to emphasise his role as the first and to date only Prime Minister to represent Manitoba. Lord Bob 15:21, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Meighen as the first Western Prime Minister?

message: The article currently reads:  "As Minister of the Interior, Meighen steered through Parliament the largest piece of legislation ever enacted in the British Empire - creating the Canadian National Railway Company, which continues today."  What does "largest piece of legislation" mean?  The longest act by words?  The biggest budget?  The most important?  Without some clarification this sentence is meaningless.  24.222.119.169 19:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CNR: "largest piece of legislation"? 

message: Meighen is sometimes cited as an early supporter of the Zionist project in Palestine. It would be interesting if we could source this and add it to the article. ADM (talk) 20:53, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Support for the Zionist project

message: Do I read the article right that Meighen twice lost his seat while PM?  This is pretty significant, and should be noted explicitly in the article if true. — ˈzɪzɨvə (talk) 22:25, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lost seat as PM 

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message: On 3 January 2008, an editor added a sentence claiming that Meighen attended Osgoode Hall Law School. I recently removed it as unsourced, and contrary to what appears in the scholarly work on Meighen. Another editor returned it with a source, a newspaper article from 2012. The problem is this: Roger Graham's meticulously researched three-volume biography of Meighen makes it clear that Meighen never attended law school. Meighen lived in Manitoba at the time that he decided to pursue a career in the law. "In those days there was no law school in Manitoba. The student prepared himself by being articled to a lawyer, gaining such experience as he might and reading for the examinations set by the  Law Society of the province. Meighen's new career got under way with the new century. On January the second, 1900 he took out articles as a student-at-law with Edmund L. Taylor, Q.C., of Winnipeg." (Roger Graham, Arthur Meighen, vol. 1, p. 28) John English's shorter biography of Meighen says the same thing (John English, Arthur Meighen, p. 8) The same information appears in Larry A. Glassford's article on Meighen in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (). Clearly these sources, all based on extensive research and the result of years of work, are more reliable than a short newspaper article that was probably penned in a day or two. In fact, the newspaper article is likely an example of citogenesis: the author probably found the information on Osgoode Hall in this very Wikipedia article. I have removed the reference to Osgoode Hall again, but would be happy to return it if someone can find a source written by a reputable historian or written before the Wikipedia first made the Osgood Hall claim in 2008. Instant Comma (talk) 16:13, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Kudos to you for rooting out this longstanding error.  --  Zanimum (talk) 04:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Osgoode Hall