to return home in early 1873. This illness incapacitated him until 1875 when he accepted President David Allison
play in it. The officers of the Manitoba branch of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada were opposed to professional sport and wanted to punish those who had fostered it. Winnipeg lawyer Robert Allison
man of his generation. In 1874 he opened his own practice in Montreal. Except for a short period (1893–95) when he was in partnership with John Charles Allison Heriot, he managed his firm by
construction of the Provincial Building, designed by David Stirling*. Upon his death in 1870
campaign for reshaping the curriculum. In sharp contrast to his predecessor, David Allison, he favoured improved
June 1846 in Stornoway, Scotland, son of John Paterson and Jane Balfour Allison; m
” (m.ed. thesis, St Mary’s Univ., Halifax, 1983). The author is grateful to historical demographer David
Corporation, to provide rental accommodation for war widows and orphans. He was granted an honorary lld that year by Mount Allison College in Sackville, N.B., and in
David Russell and James Naismith Greenshields* of Montreal. They, in turn
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