| 词条 | Wilfrid Heighington |
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| name = Wilfrid Heighington | image = Wilfrid Heighington 1938.png | imagesize = 150px | caption = Capt. Wilfrid Heighington as he appeared in the RMC Review December 1938 | office = Member of Provincial Parliament | constituency = St. David | term_start = 1929 | term_end = 1937 | predecessor = Joseph Thompson | successor = Allan Lamport | birth_name = Wilfrid Laurier Heighington | birth_date = 1897 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1945|3|23|1897}} (aged 47) | death_place = Toronto, Ontario | party = Conservative | relations = | spouse = Alice Johnston | children = 3 | residence = Toronto, Ontario | occupation = Lawyer | religion = Anglican |nickname = |allegiance = Canada |branch = Canadian Army |rank = Major[1] |unit = 20th Battalion, CEF |commands = O.C. "A" Company Osgoode Hall C.O.T.C.[1] D.A.A.G. Atlantic Command, C.A.S.F.[1] |battles = Battle of the Somme, Battle of Vimy Ridge |serviceyears = 1915–45 |awards = Mentioned in dispatches }}Wilfrid Laurier Heighington[4], {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|KC}} (1897 – 23 March 1945) was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician.[2] BackgroundHeighington attended Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, leaving in 1915 to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I.[3] He was twice wounded in and twice mentioned in dispatches.[2][3] After recuperating from serious wounds he returned to France to fight at the Somme and Vimy Ridge.[2] He ended the war with the rank of captain.[1] He became a lawyer following the war, was called to the bar in 1920, and was appointed King's Counsel eleven years later. PoliticsHeighington was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1929 Ontario general election as the Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the St. David electoral district in Toronto, Ontario.[4] He was re-elected in 1934 despite the province wide landslide that brought the Ontario Liberal Party to power under Mitchell Hepburn.[4] He represented the Legislature as part of its official delegation on the pilgrimage to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial's official dedication ceremony in France.[5] He was a candidate in the 1936 Conservative leadership election,[6] placing fifth. The following year he narrowly lost his seat in the legislature in the 1937 Ontario general election. Despite being out of the legislature, Heighington ran again for the party leadership in 1938,[7] and came in third, but with fewer votes (only 41). George Drew won the leadership on the first ballot. Later lifeHeighington was a prolific writer authoring articles and poems for Saturday Night, The Star Weekly and other periodicals, many of which were reissued in a book, Whereas and Whatnot (1934). In 1943, he published the war novel The Cannon's Mouth.[8] He was still active with the military when he was hospitalized on 17 March 1945.[1] He died due to complications from pneumonia at St. Michael's hospital on the evening of 23 March.[8] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|title=Wilfrid Heighington Former M.P.P. dead|newspaper=Toronto Daily Star|date=24 March 1945|location=Toronto|page=28|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TkA8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=dysMAAAAIBAJ&dq=wilfrid%20heighington&pg=5049%2C18656501}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Heighington, Wilfrid}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web|last=Bigelow|first=S. T.|title=The Archive: Captain Wilfrid Heighington|url=http://www.kingandempire.com/heighington1.html|work=For King and Empire: Canada's Soldiers in the Great War|publisher=Breakthrough Entertainment Inc.|accessdate=2011-12-05|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/63i1VmACd?url=http://www.kingandempire.com/heighington1.html|archivedate=5 December 2011|year=1938|location=Toronto|deadurl=yes|df=dmy-all}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|title=Casualty Lists Are Shorter Than Usual|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OkMBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xykDAAAAIBAJ&dq=wilfrid%20heighington&pg=3263%2C6567393|accessdate=2011-12-05|newspaper=The Toronto World|date=22 November 1916|location=Toronto|page=10}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|title=Wilfred Heighington, MPP|url=http://ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1284|work=Parliamentary History|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Ontario|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/63i6vC8BB?url=http://ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1284|archivedate=5 December 2011|location=Toronto|year=2011|deadurl=yes|df=dmy-all}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Premier Promised|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Og8_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=jk4MAAAAIBAJ&dq=wilfrid%20heighington&pg=5900%2C1758332|accessdate=2011-12-05|newspaper=Windsor Star|date=4 April 1936|location=Windsor, Ontario|page=15}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Next Tory Chieftain Enveloped in Mystery|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pw8_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=jk4MAAAAIBAJ&dq=wilfrid%20heighington&pg=5914%2C3101790|accessdate=2011-12-05|newspaper=Windsor Star|date=10 April 1936|location=Windsor, Ontario|page=8}} 7. ^1 {{cite news|last=Clark|first=W.L.|title=Col. Drew Has Inside Track|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pw8_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=jk4MAAAAIBAJ&dq=wilfrid%20heighington&pg=5914%2C3101790|accessdate=2011-12-05|newspaper=Windsor Star|date=23 November 1938|location=Windsor, Ontario|page=2}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|title=Wilfrid Heighington, K.C.: Pneumonia Fatal to Former M.P.P. and Legal Leader|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=24 March 1945|location=Toronto|page=5}} 10 : 1897 births|1945 deaths|20th-century Canadian poets|Canadian male poets|Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs|Royal Military College of Canada alumni|Writers from Toronto|Politicians from Toronto|Canadian Queen's Counsel|20th-century Canadian male writers |
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