ROBERTSON, THOMAS

ROBERTSON, JAMES, Presbyterian minister; b. 24 April 1839 in Dull, Scotland, one of the eight children of

1961; the spirit of William McPhail continues to haunt the room in which he died. Ian Ross Robertson

evenings. Journalist John Ross Robertson*, who was fascinated with Wild, reported that the congregation cheered and burst into applause when

at Dogpound, north of Calgary, and kept on raising horses which he branded 9S. By 1899, the year he took his son-in-law Alexander Robertson into partnership, the herd of horses had grown large

, 1881). J. W. Robertson, “Care of milk for cheese-making,” [Ontario] Agricultural College, Bull

), 141. I. R. Robertson, “Religion, politics, and education in P.E.I.” Vital statistics from N

Ryerson*, Thomas Jaffray Robertson*, and Daniel Wilson

Robertson* and philanthropist Sir William Christopher Macdonald*. Improvements to school grounds – the planting of

Robertson*, the principal of Macdonald College at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que. Jamie Benidickson

Armstrong, in the spring of 1872. O’Donoghue and stonecutter Donald Robertson successfully lobbied Prime Minister Sir John A

Gibb Robertson* remained treasurer and Louis Archambeault* commissioner

Quebec as the eastern terminus of the transcontinental line. The provincial treasurer, Joseph Gibb Robertson*, who represented Sherbrooke

Robertson*. Like Mrs Jessop active in the Sunday school of the Church of St John the Divine, Robertson was provincial secretary in the newly elected government. In December 1871 he asked Jessop

., 1880–81: 257. P.E.I., House of Assembly, Debates and proc., 1867–69, 1871–72. Prince Edward Island illustrated (Charlottetown, 1897). I. R. Robertson, “Religion, politics, and

. (Toronto), 7 (1869–71): 77, 259. RCAA exhibitions (McMann). Robertson’s landmarks of Toronto. Judith St John, Firm foundations: a chronicle of Toronto’s Metropolitan

: past and present; a handbook of the city (Toronto, 1884; repr. 1970), 117–18. Robertson’s landmarks of Toronto, 6: 196–97. V. L. Russell, Mayors of Toronto

, Chapleau sent Würtele, rather than the provincial treasurer, Joseph Gibb Robertson*, to Paris, where he secured a $4

Robertson*, Boucherville decided to take on the Department of Agriculture and Public Works himself in order to manage railway policy more directly and to add weight to his own position. He moved Garneau