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

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