LUCAS, SAMUEL BRIGHAM, Indian agent; b. 15 July 1844 in Aylmer, Lower
Mowat].
Upon the promotion of Samuel Henry Strong
Powell*, a former chief justice of Upper Canada; John became legal adviser to the Powell family and their relations, the Jarvises. Samuel Peters
Thompson* in 1894. In the election of 1896 he won the urban vote in his constituency but lost his seat thanks to strong rural dissatisfaction engendered by a quarter-century of distress and depopulation
Wilfrid Laurier*’s popular transcontinental railway policy and the emergence of a strong labour vote in Fort William
partnership with James Samuel Brierley and Edmund Ernest Sheppard*, established the first daily paper in St Thomas, the Evening
identified by its eight-foot sign in the form of a fiddle. Lumber exporter Samuel Robert Briggs was president of the former with R. S. Williams as managing director. The new company failed within two
. However, as a strong Conservative, Sedgewick got no commissions from the Liberals provincially or federally. He was virtually bankrupt by 1878, when his partner, John James
enterprise benefited from this occurrence as well as from the effects of the National Policy [see Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
diarist; b. 4 July 1827 in Half-Way River (Hantsport), N.S., daughter of Samuel Dickie and Sarah (Brothers?); m. first 4 Jan. 1849 Simeon Michener; they had no children; m. secondly 9
Charlotte without a representative on the Executive Council. Premier Samuel Leonard Tilley* and Attorney General Albert James
. In 1830 the family took up residence in Montreal. Two years later Henry Joseph and his eldest son, Samuel, died of cholera. Jacob then took the additional first name of Henry in honour of his father
Scarborough Township, just east of Toronto. The family was associated with the local Presbyterian church where Alexander, who possessed a strong baritone voice, served as precentor; he had little musical
. 27 Dec. 1847 in Toronto, second daughter of George Black Wyllie and Mary Ann Reid; m. there 1 June 1865 Samuel Fenton McMaster
every parish where he ministered, Tanguay earned a reputation as a builder, a man of action who along the way sometimes aroused strong opposition. In Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski, for example, the plan to
the 1860s he joined with his brother Sheldon Samuel Stephens to oversee the vast property holdings amassed by their family. He obtained a law degree from McGill College in 1863, was admitted to the bar
.
Although no longer directly engaged in the mining business, in the early 1890s Macfarlane took particular notice of the emerging copper and nickel industry in the Sudbury basin [see Samuel J
contributions to posterity.
Although Haliburton found colonial politics unattractive, he had strong concerns and opinions, which were voiced through his
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