What the Smithsons had really created, wrote Reyner Banham, an architecture critic who nonetheless admired the achievement, was just "a stretch of inviolate pavement, free from the swinging doors of Bentleys and the insolence of commissionaires".
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The Commissionaires Long Service Medal is a Canadian service medal for members of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires. The medal honours 12 years of exemplary service by members of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires. A Clasp is awarded for each additional period of 5 years service up to a maximum of 3 clasps. The medal is accompanied by a certificate.
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He ran the Scottish Corps of Commissionaires for 20 years after his 1958 retirement.
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They hired operatives, known as commissionaires, to negotiate prices with vine growers. These commissionaires were paid according to how low of a price they could negotiate and many employed adverse tactics to achieve this; including using violence and intimidation. Some commissionaires openly sought bribes, often in the form of extra grapes, from vine growers to which they would sell themselves for profit. The prices they were able to negotiate rarely covered the cost of farming and harvesting which left many Champenois vine growers in poverty.
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To meet its growing demands for personnel after the September 11 attacks in 2001, Commissionaires began accepting civilians. While in today's organization not all Commissionaires are veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces or Royal Canadian Mounted Police service, the organization's mandate still is to provide meaningful employment to veterans. A significant proportion of their current members are veterans and the Corps hires about 1,200 veterans every year. Today, Commissionaires employs over 23 000 people with offices operating in all ten provinces and three territories.
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People caught without valid fare are removed from the train and may be fined $173. Contracted commissionaires provide station attendant services and a security presence, even checking fares on occasion at stations. Commissionaires do not conduct enforcement. Enforcement of fares and other regulations is conducted by the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Police Service and Transit Security.
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In 1965 Sidney Culverwell Oland purchased and renovated the building to house the Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires.
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Several days later after a meeting of the three race commissionaires and the UCI, Wellens was disqualified and Boom was awarded the win.
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130-136 . With vineyard owners vastly outnumbering the producers, the Champagne houses used this dynamic of excess supply vs limited demand to their advantage. They hired agents, known as commissionaires, to negotiate prices with vine growers. These commissionaires were paid according to how low a price they could negotiate and many employed unsavory tactics to achieve their means-including violence and intimidation.
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Members of the Corps are often used as trained security guards in major companies and other organizations. The main role of a Commissionaire is the protection of people, property and information. Commissionaires are found in many Federal establishments across Canada guarding everything from museum pieces to live ammunition and government files. After 12 years service a member is eligible for the Commissionaires Long Service Medal.
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He later achieved the rank of corporal. He was forced to leave the army due to his wounds and joined the Corps of Commissionaires and then became a house-painter.
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Commissionaires Canada is a Canadian non-profit security firm, originally established to provide employment to ex-servicemen. Modeled after the British Corps of Commissionaires, the Canadian Corps was formed in 1925 with the opening of offices in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. A national organization was realized by 1950 with the opening of the St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1982, the Canadian Corps had grown to more than 10,000 employees, which virtually doubled the complement of its British parent.
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This monument was funded by donation through Veterans Affairs Canada, the Royal Canadian Legion Quebec Command, the Montreal division of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires and the ABN-AMRO Bank of Canada.
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The Corps of Commissionaires was founded in 1859 by Captain Sir Edward Walter KCB (1823-1904). Walter was the first to find an effective remedy to provide jobs for ex-servicemen who were willing and able to work after the Crimean War.Corps Security official website - Our History Retrieved 8 October 2014 Corps of Commissionaires reaches 150 year milestone at ifsecglobal Retrieved 8 October 2014 It is the oldest security company in the world. Currently trading as 'Corps Security', the head of the company has always been the British monarch.
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Sir Edward Walter (9 December 1823 – 26 February 1904) was a captain in the 8th Hussars of the British Army and the founder and commanding officer of the Corps of Commissionaires. He was knighted at Osborne in 1885.
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He was mentioned in the dispatches signed by Winston Churchill. In 1937, he organized the Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires. In 1965, he acquired and renovated the Black-Binney House to serve as the Headquarters for the Corps in Nova Scotia.
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This tradition began with Queen Victoria and continues through to the present day with Queen Elizabeth II. In 2009, the Corps celebrated its 150th anniversary with a reception hosted at St James's Palace by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at which 48 commissionaires formed a guard of honour.
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The RCMP detachment has a staff of four including one detachment commander of Corporal rank, two general duty constables and one full time clerk. Traffic enforcement is also provided by district-level units based in the adjacent larger communities. The dispatch centre is in Kelowna. The BC Corps of Commissionaires provides guard services.
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The Corps of Commissionaires is a British security firm that has regional offices around the UK. It is the oldest security company in the world. Currently trading under the name Corps Security, it is a supplier of specialist security solutions and also owns a monitoring facility in the UK, the Corps Monitoring Centre or CMC.
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He remained with this unit until October 1959, when he went to the Ministry of Aviation, Controller of Aircraft, as SAdO. He retired in January 1963 and settled in Australia, where he formed an air charter company. In August 1967 he returned to British Columbia in retirement as a member of the Corps of Commissionaires.
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The name Münch first appeared in an official document from the year 1185. Thereafter Hugo I Münch was mentioned repeatedly in official documents or in public records, alternatively as named Hugo cognomento Monachus, Hugo cognomine Monachus or Hugo Monachus. The Münchs rose to commissionaires of the bishop of Basel. During this period the bishops' mentors and consultants were a privileged society.
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The Far Reaches was the domain of Grim Tuesday. Originally, the Far Reaches was a Grand Cavern, and in the Cavern was a steady spring of Nothing. Tuesday used the Nothing to create items, such as Commissionaires and Not-Horses, which he sold to other demesnes of the House. His avarice, however, drove him to deepen and widen the spring in an effort to find more Nothing.
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After retiring from the Canadian Army, he worked for Halifax Insurance Company, and Toronto Brick and Associates. He was active with Royal Life Saving Society of Canada, the Gurkha Appeal, the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires and was chairman of the National Ballet of Canada.Graham, pp. 275–276. He criticized the government for seeking closer ties with the United States, and opposed the reliance on nuclear weapons, advocating strong conventional forces.
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Corps Security specialises in providing corporate security and has over 5,000 licensed security staff working in the UK. These staff are managed from 14 regional offices around the UK. Over 40% of the Corps Security staff have spent some or all of their careers in the military, police or fire services. Corps Security also has regional offices in Papua New Guinea. It also retains strong links with its offshoot, The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires.
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As part of a process that would take more than two years to complete, the radar station, a ground-air transmitter receiver (GATR) site, and recreational and living facilities would be completely removed and the land returned to its natural state. By 1988, CFS Lowther had become somewhat forsaken. Though there were still buildings and radar towers present, only three commissionaires remained to guard the once vibrant station. By 1992, everything was gone including the guards.
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The first municipal public transport in Dundee was operated by Dundee and District Tramways. From 1877, these were generally horse-drawn, but by June 1885 steam cars with green and white livery were introduced. Unusually, the tram lines were publicly built and owned, although initially leased by police commissionaires to private companies.Whitley, Swinfen & Smith (1993) All routes came under direct municipal control in 1893, which allowed the city to adopt overhead electric lines to power the trams.
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Hollowell was about 34 years old, and a private in the 78th Regiment of Foot (later The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's)), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 26 September 1857 at the Siege of Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the VC: He later achieved the rank of lance-corporal. He joined the Corps of Commissionaires and is buried in an unmarked grave in their plot in Brookwood Cemetery.
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The Société des Gens de Lettres decided to disregard the commission to Rodin and not accept the sculpture. Regardless of rejection from his commissionaires, contemporaries such as Paul Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Claude Monet supported Rodin in his point of view. A backlash against the rejection along with a petition signed by supporters in the artistic community proceeded, yet in the end, Rodin decidedly declined any bids for the work and placed the plaster artwork in his home at Meudon.
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Livingstone was born in Hamilton. He is a 22-year veteran of the Canadian Army and has served overseas in Germany and the Golan Heights, where he saw two tours of duty with the United Nations Disengagement Observer force. He was fifty-two years old at the time of the election, and was operations director for a local branch of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires. Before joining the Green Party, he volunteered for the Liberals (Hamilton Spectator, 13 January 2006).
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Billy Butlin, and Sergeant John Caffrey, VC, one of the Commissionaires at Filey Holiday Camp After the war, it became apparent that most holiday camps in Britain had been damaged by troop occupation, and the situation was so bad that questions were raised in parliament.Cormack 1998, p. 96. Other than Clacton, the Butlins camps were relatively unscathed, and even Clacton, which had been damaged by troop occupation, re-opened in early 1946. In the post-war boom Butlin saw opportunities on foreign shores.
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Willium "Mate" Cobblers, working-class cockney idiot, who played all sorts of roles, including soldiers, policemen and various menial servants. He was often included in stories that called for a generic extra person that did not require too much character development in his own right. His catchphrase, "You can't park 'ere, mate", was a Goon in- joke that took a swipe at officious BBC commissionaires. (Sellers used a similar voice for trade union leader Fred Kite in the movie I'm All Right Jack).
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Davies then became Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1972, Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe in 1974 and Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command in 1977. His final appointments were as Director of the International Military Staff at NATO in Brussels in 1978, Head of the RAF Support Area Economy Review Team in 1981 and Co-ordinator for Anglo-American Relations in 1984. He retired in 1984. In retirement he became Chairman of the Corps of Commissionaires.
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The Lower House was the domain of Mister Monday. Due to Monday's affliction with sloth, its bureaucratic affairs became impossibly inefficient until Monday's loss of power, after which Dame Primus, as the Steward of Arthur's regime, has attempted to make the Lower House manageable. The remaining Morrow Days have attempted to impede this effort by swamping the Lower House with paperwork. The Lower House is guarded by the Corps of Inspectors, by the robots known as Metal Commissionaires, by Denizen Commissionaire Sergeants, and by Midnight Visitors.
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HMS St. James After World War II on 13 February 1946 Stuart-Menteth became first lieutenant on , followed by on 4 September 1946, before being entrusted to the Royal Australian Navy in 1949. There he commanded his last two ships, the destroyers and . He went on to work with Lord Mountbatten in Malta, and in 1958 he retired, moving to Scotland. He did, however, operate the Scottish Corps of Commissionaires for close to 20 years, and was chairman of the Edinburgh World Wildlife Fund for 10 years.
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Passport to Pimlico was released into UK cinemas on 26 April 1949; the film was financially successful. For the US release on 23 October 1949, soil was imported and placed in front of the cinema; commissionaires in the uniform of a British policeman would hand out mock passports and invite passers-by to step onto English soil to see the film. The film was shown at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival, although it was not entered into the competition. Critics warmly praised Passport to Pimlico on its release.
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Major-General Forand retired from the Canadian Forces in August 2000 after 33 years of honorable services. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hydro-Québec from 2000 to 2004. He was Colonel Commandant of the Canadian Infantry from August 2001 to October 2004, Honorary Colonel of the 4th Intelligence Company-LFQA and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel 4e Bataillon Royal 22e Régiment until summer 2009. He is a member of the Board of the Corps of Commissionaires Montreal Region and member of the board of IInterloge Montreal.
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In the 2005 edition of the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse, Wellens kicked a spectator who was allegedly throwing beer at him. Wellens went on to win the event after Boom slipped in the final lap and initially was awarded the win despite the threat of disqualification. Several days later after a meeting of the three race commissionaires and the UCI, Wellens was disqualified and Boom was awarded the win. Later Wellens was served with a ban from racing during the first month (September) of the following season (2006/07).
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On 7 August Pétion suggested to Robespierre to contribute to the departure of Fédérés to appease the capital.Max Gallo (2007) Robespierre, p. 169 The Council of Ministers suggested arresting Danton, Marat and Robespierre if they visited the Jacobin club.R. Cobb, p. 150 On 9 August, when the Assembly refused to impeach LaFayette, the tocsin called the sections into arms.N. Hampson (1978) Danton, p. 72 In the evening the "commissionaires" of several sections (Billaud- Varenne, Chaumette, Hébert, Hanriot, Fleuriot-Lescot, Pache, Bourdon) gathered in the town hall. At midnight the municipal government of the city was dissolved.
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On one occasion in 2012, city commissionaires ejected him from council chambers for deviating from the pre-approved version of his speech on the stadium. On January 27, 2014, Novak once again disrupted a city council meeting, this time by shouting from the visitors' gallery and using a gestural obscenity to heckle a city councillor. Mayor Michael Fougere moved to expel Novak, and when the latter refused to leave, he was escorted from the building by the police. This was the latest in a series of incidents that led city hall to upgrade its security system in March 2014.
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Andrew Cordier, the American UN representative in the Congo, used his position to block communications by Lumumba's faction and to prevent a coordinated MNC-L reaction to the news. Both chambers of Parliament, however, supported Lumumba and denounced Kasa-Vubu's action. Lumumba attempted to dismiss Kasa-Vubu from his position, but could not get support for this, precipitating a constitutional crisis. Ostensibly in order to resolve the deadlock, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu launched a bloodless coup and replaced both Kasa-Vubu and Lumumba with a College of Commissionaires-General (Collège des Commissaires-généraux) consisting of a panel of university graduates, led by Justin Bomboko.
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From 1989 to 1993, he was chairman of the Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal. As of 2005, he is the chairman of the Corps of Commissionaires(Great Lakes Division), which employs some 1,200 former Service personnel. He is also the vice-chairman of the Last Post Fund (Ontario Branch) which attends to the funerals and burial of veterans without financial resources. He was the chairman of the German Pioneer's Day Committee locally in Kitchener-Waterloo for four years, and has been a Deputy Judge in the Small Claims Courts of Kitchener, Cambridge, Woodstock, Stratford and Hamilton since 1993.
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Clay's period in office that the medical and dental branches of the Canadian Forces were united to form a single administrative body, the Canadian Forces Health Services. During the period of amalgamation from 1995 to 1997, Maj.-Gen. Clay's staff authorities were elevated from those of Director General Medical Services to Chief Health Services. After retiring, she moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where she served on several boards and committees, including the St. John's Ambulance Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, the Board of Directors for the Broadmead Care, and the Victoria Symphony.
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Some commissionaires openly sought bribes from vine growers, often in the form of extra grapes which they would sell themselves for extra profit. The prices they were able to negotiate barely covered the cost of farming and harvesting which left many Champenois vine growers in poverty. With the constant threat of Champagne houses ignoring the law and using more "foreign" grapes, tensions were already high between vine growers and Champagne houses when the late 19th century and early 20th century brought with it the devastation of the phylloxera epidemic and a string of poor weather and poor vintages. The tensions culminated in the Champagne riots of 1910 and 1911.
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Running north-south, Merivale Road is the retail centre of Nepean, offering many smaller shops as well as big box stores. Colonnade Road Business Park is to the west of Merivale Road and south of Borden Farm, supporting many businesses along its two branches, including some federal offices such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, and an OC Transpo bus depot. The boulevard of Hunt Club West hosts a large auto mall, big box stores, PetSmart, and Costco's Canadian headquarters, as well as a retail location. Further south is the Bentley Avenue industrial park where many independent auto shops are located, and a precast concrete factory.
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In the United Kingdom, the Service Medal comes after the Solomon Islands Independence Medal and before the Badge of the Order of the League of Mercy in the order precedence. In Canada, the medal comes after the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot and before the Commissionaires Long Service Medal.Canadian Orders, Decorations and Medals - Precedence In Australia, the Service Medal should be worn as a long service medal after all other Imperial long service awards. In New Zealand, the Service Medal is worn after Commonwealth Independence Medals instituted by the Sovereign, and before Commonwealth Awards instituted by the Sovereign as Head of State, other than those of New Zealand or the United Kingdom.
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Calgary Police Service supplied 150 volunteer police officers a week before the summit. According to an early estimate by The Globe and Mail, 25,000 uniformed police officers, 1,000 security guards from Commissionaires Great Lakes, and several Canadian military forces were to be deployed during the summit. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted Amalgam Virgo exercises on May 6 and 7 across the Greater Toronto Area using CF-18 Hornet jets, CH-124 Sea Kings, and CH-146 Griffon helicopters at low altitudes. The total cost for security at both the G8 and the G20 summits was determined to be , paid entirely by the federal Crown-in-Council, excluding the costs of any possible damage to local business.
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He joined The Pictou Highlanders in 1951 and has served in various leadership positions in the Canadian Forces including as Deputy Commander and Area Commander of the Atlantic Militia Area in 1980, Senior Reserve Advisor to the Commander Force Mobile Command, and as Special Projects Officer on the Chief of Reserves Council at National Defence Headquarters. He was invested as an Officer in the Order of Military Merit in 1979 and a Commander in the Order in 1988 and has been awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration with three clasps. Grant retired from military service in 1989. He has been a Governor of the Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires since 1986, serving as Vice Chair and Chairman of numerous committees.
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The navy had no police organization comparable to the C Pro C or the AFP but relied upon Dockyard Police, Corps of Commissionaires, local Civil Police and shore patrols to maintain security of establishments and maintenance of discipline. Field inquiries in support of the security program were conducted by the RCMP. The initial amalgamation of all police and security elements of the CF was first effected in October 1964 by the formation of the Directorate of Security at Canadian Forces Headquarters. With the introduction of the forces Functional Command structure in April 1966, the security staffs and PMs in existing single service command organizations were eliminated, the command and base security officers were appointed at the newly formed HQs and the various investigative elements of the Services were amalgamated into a single organization called the Special Investigation Unit (SIU).
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In 2019, a class action lawsuit was formed on the grounds of alleged gender and sexual orientation-based discrimination and harassment within the RCMP. While the RCMP has not admitted liability, they have settled with compensation of $10,000 - $220,000 for public-identified females who experienced harassment (including sexual harassment, physical assault, bullying based on gender or sexual orientation, sexual assault, and intimidation or abuse based on gender or sexual orientation) from September 16, 1974 (the first year women were welcomed into the RCMP) to July 5, 2019 by RCMP personnel. This is the second $100 million settlement in 3 years. Eligible class members include publicly- identified females that “worked or volunteer in an RCMP controlled workplace supervised or managed by the RCMP” including but not limited to: public service employees, commissionaires, volunteers, contractors, and municipal or regional district employees.
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