ROSS, JAMES, railway engineer, businessman, and philanthropist; b
. In 1875 he sold his pharmacy to his brother William and left for the west to work for John Wright Sifton on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and especially on the CPR’s telegraph lines
educator; b. 25 Nov. 1842 in New Glasgow, N.S., son of Alexander Forrest and Barbara Ross McKenzie
candidacy placed Whitney under the leadership of William Ralph Meredith*, the party’s provincial chieftain, and into a noisy campaign where
LYNCH, WILLIAM WARREN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 30 Sept. 1845 in Bedford, Lower Canada, son of Thomas Lynch, a
. 30 Nov. 1842 in Canso, N.S., daughter of George Norris and Hannah Whitman; m. 31 Jan. 1874 the Reverend William Freeman
. The team emerged undefeated from the Group 1 series, but lost the championship and the John Ross
, Spence turned his attention once again to the provincial scene.
In 1899 George William
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A staunch party loyalist, Jaffray served as a vice-president and as president of the Toronto Reform Association during the early 1890s. In 1904 Ontario’s Liberal government, under George William Ross
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Frederick Brigden, with his two brothers and two sisters, grew up in an atmosphere that his brother William Henry later described as the “simple, unaffected, genuine religion” of Wesleyan Methodism. John
. 12 Aug. 1821 in Dublin, son of William Hodgins and Frances Doyle; m. first 22 Nov
ROBERTSON, JOHN ROSS, journalist, publisher, philanthropist, historian, and sportsman; b
founded along with Whitney, F. S. Pearson, and William Benjamin Ross, a Halifax friend and lawyer-promoter who was also involved in Dominion Coal. Its charter of incorporation in 1895 authorized it to
James Robert Stratton, provincial secretary in the Liberal government of George William Ross, against bribery charges made in 1903 by Robert Roswell Gamey, a Conservative mla
highly centralized school system was needed if the province was to adjust to the social and economic changes facing it, a view that reflected the policies of education minister George William Ross. Seath
settled his family at Pigeon Bay (Man.), just south of Berens River, and built one of the first log houses in the area. His son William later recollected that the family lived well on sturgeon, whitefish
VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS, railway builder and official, capitalist, and artist; b
opposition and indifference, she spoke at meetings, wrote articles, made presentations to the Hamilton Board of Education, and gained the support of Ontario’s sympathetic minister of education, George William
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