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                  . 1 Aug. 1849 in Pictou, N.S., son of John William Dawson* and Margaret
                  government appointments were secured through the influence of his brother William McDonell Dawson, superintendent of the woods and forests branch of the Crown Lands Department and later a member of the
                  . When the station closed the following year, Penhallow’s life took another unexpected turn. At the same time John William Dawson
                  KÁA GOOX (Charlie, Dawson Charlie), Tagish; b
                  -Est), Lower Canada, son of William Harrington, a merchant, and Laura Seymour; m. 7 June 1876 Anna Lois Dawson, eldest daughter of John William
                  William Dawson*, principal of McGill College. While in Montreal, Whiteaves had lacked a suitable reference library and research materials; he
                  Canadian News Company Limited) in association with William Walter Copp* and Henry James Clark of Copp, Clark and Company and with several
                  Dawson until a church was erected. Named St Andrew’s in honour of a group of Scottish Catholic workers on the Dawson Road who had contributed $100 toward its construction, the church was
                  . 1874 Jennie Morrison Lamont, and they had one adopted daughter; d. 12 Dec. 1903 in Dawson City
                  disagreement over the survey’s priorities. Before leaving Australia in March 1869, Selwyn accepted an offer from Sir William Edmond
                  experimental garden there. Hind’s lectures on agricultural chemistry were published in 1850, but they were soon overshadowed by John William Dawson
                   
                  . Robert Adam Lyon emigrated with his family from Scotland to Esquesing, in Halton County, in 1832. Raised on a farm, he attended local schools until the mid 1840s, when he and his elder brother, William
                  , 1900–1911 (Toronto, 1980). R. MacG. Dawson and H. B. Neatby, William Lyon
                   
                  [Elliot*] and Lady Minto on a trip from Whitehorse to Dawson, for which exploit he later proudly wore a monogrammed pin presented to him by the governor general
                  region was clouded by the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute [see Simon James Dawson], and the area’s resources remained largely undeveloped. In the spring of 1881 Mather reported to Ottawa’s
                   
                  consolidated statutes of New Brunswick. He also prepared an index of the statutes in force as of 1878, and he was co-author, with William Pugsley
                   
                  . 1822 in Penryn, England, son of Robert Blenkinsop, an excise officer, and Mary —; m. first July 1846 Helen McNeill, daughter of William
                  . He served the John Street Presbyterian Church in Maryport, England, to be succeeded there by his younger brother, William. Accepting a call, Moses and his wife, Sarah, emigrated to Newfoundland. They
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