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                  the railways themselves suffered, as in Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ont., where the town council, itself providing a municipal telephone service in competition with Bell, retaliated by barring Bell
                  BELL, ROBERT, scientist, professor, and civil servant; b
                   
                  . Hogg’s non-domestic activities included charitable work with homeless children and writing fiction. An early story, “Belle Marie,” based on a tale told by the Micmac, was published in the July 1899
                  Boyd and Chief Justice William Glenholme Falconbridge, whose forceful abilities may
                   
                  TUCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and judge; b. 27 Feb. 1831 in Indiantown
                  William* were well-known sealing captains from Renews, Nfld. Educated in St John’s by the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland, Jackman in 1880 was apprenticed as a tailor there, and he
                   
                  Norval, Ont. Two years later, accompanied by his brothers William and David, he travelled to the North-West Territories and applied for a homestead in what later became known as the Red Fox district, about
                  Ellen Bielby Reeve, sister of William Albert Reeve*, in Toronto, and they had
                   
                  19th-century Saint John [see John William Dering Gray*], where small alterations in ministerial vesture or church ornament
                   
                  .” Meeting with some success, in 1875 White formed the Forest City Machine Bolt and Nut Works in partnership with Lucius George Jolliffe and William Yates, an inventor-machinist with an interest in steam
                  personally contribute, they were forced to bring in outside shareholders, including wealthy merchants and financiers from Pictou County and Halifax such as James William
                  . Unaccountably, the brothers were persuaded to sell their American patents in August to a patent dealer, William Henry Cox. The only authoritative commentary on the failure of the company – Edward’s obituary
                  apparently taught school briefly until he could pursue the career he desired. Howell was articled in Belleville to John Bell and continued afterwards in
                   
                  MOORE, JOHN THOMAS, accountant, businessman, and politician; b. 3 July 1844 in Markham Township, Upper Canada, son of William
                  James’s frontier image as a fighter and man of adventure. He first came to Fort William (Thunder Bay) in 1872 to work at the sawmill of Adam
                   
                  . Harris. This trial lasted the unprecedented length of one month and featured bitter personal exchanges between Travis and opposing counsel William
                  Executive Council (March–June 1864), and then to provincial secretary William McDougall* from November 1864 to confederation. Morgan
                  period, which was based on Victoria’s tight-knit business community of merchant houses with strong commercial ties to San Francisco. In the early 1870s Rithet had formed a close association with William
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