BLACK, JOSEPH LAURENCE, businessman and politician; b
, headed by Welsh-born James Thomas and his African-Nova Scotian wife, Hannah Saunders. McKerrow not only married the eldest daughter of the Thomases, but also established a hat, cap, and fur business
$200 salary increase.
Her years as teacher in one of the two publicly funded elementary schools still maintained for blacks – the other was
the Black Creek near Sebringville. Black Creek was initially a cooperative factory where the farmers provided the capital, but cooperation soon gave way to sole proprietorship. In 1868 the price of
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At the heart of the matter was DeWolf’s dispute with Amos Black, the steward of the hospital. DeWolf intimated that Black was engaged in sexual irregularities with patients, observing that he “persists
“zealous exponent of socialistic principles.” After black children had been barred from Halifax public schools in 1876, Bulmer was active in the campaign which succeeded in reversing this decision in 1884
. unmarried 25 Aug. 1904 in Avonport, N.S.
William Hall grew up on the banks of the Avon River. His father, one of the black refugees
company, whose head office he quickly transferred to 61 Rue Saint-François-Xavier in Montreal, had two factories in Ontario: one for black powder in Cumminsville and one for nitroglycerin near Kingston
jewels, and wore only a plain black dress; she went out wrapped in a long cloak, with a small black veil covering her face. As she set about her work, she lived in constant communication with God, to whom
Ottawa, together with John Black*, president of the General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia, and Alfred Henry
Mary Black-Rogers for her comments on this biography, and the subject’s grandson Chief Thomas Fiddler for details concerning the family
1903.
A slight, bright-eyed man with bushy eyebrows and a black beard, Pearse valued the company of women. In 1900 he reflected that “the
signed by Robert Chambers, mayor of Quebec and chairman of the shareholders’ meeting, the bank’s balance sheet was in the black. In the last fiscal year, it had a paid-up capital of more than $990,890 and
between the two over the seating of black members of the congregation: Macfie wanted them separated as a group while Clarke believed that they should be integrated. His stand was unpopular and Macfie led a
., and a sleigh built in Orillia. He also successfully transported live black bass from Muskoka to Paris, Scotland, and England.
Throughout the 1880s
(Vancouver, 1969). H. K. Ralston, “John Sullivan Deas: a black entrepreneur in British Columbia salmon canning,” BC Studies, no.32 (winter 1976–77): 64–78; “The 1900 strike of Fraser River
L. Macdonald Library at St Francis Xavier Univ., Antigonish, N.S. It is reproduced in black and white in Waite, Man from Halifax
promotion to chief justice in 1892, Gwynne’s refusal to attend judicial conferences induced Strong (calling the kettle black) to complain of his “extreme senile irritability.” From 1894 on the government
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