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WILLIAM STEVENS FIELDING (1848– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM STEVENS FIELDING (1848– )  ,
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Canadian journalist and statesman, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 24th of November 1848 . From 1864 to 1884 he was one of the staff of the
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Morning Chronicle, the chief Liberal paper of the province, and worked at all departments of newspaper
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life . In 1882 he entered the
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local legislature as Liberal member for Halifax, and from 1884 to 1896 was premier and provincial secretary of the province, but in the latter
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year became
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finance minister in the Dominion administration of
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and was elected to the House of
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Commons for Shelburne and Queen's county . He opposed Confederation in 1864–1867, and as Iate as 1886 won a provincial election on the promise to advocate the repeal of the
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British North
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America Act . His administration as finance minister of
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Canada was important, since in 1897 he introduced a new tariff, granting to the manufactures of
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Great Britain a preference, subsequently increased; and later he imposed a
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special surtax on German imports owing to unfriendly tariff legislation by that country . In 1902 he represented Canada at the Colonial
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Conference in
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London . FIELD-
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MOUSE, the popular designation of such mouse-like British rodents as are not true or " house " mice . The
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term thus includes the long-tailed field mouse,
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Mus (Micromys) sylvaticus, easily recognized by its white belly, and sometimes called the wood-mouse; and the two
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species of short-tailed field-mice, Microtus agrestis and Evotomys glareolus, together with their representatives in Skomer island and the Orkneys (see MousE and
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VOLE) .

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