DAVIS, JOHN FREEMAN

DAVIS, DELOS ROGEST, teacher and lawyer; b. 4 Aug. 1846 in Maryland

 John. Alice Davis Hart and her husband are considered the founders of the Saint John Jewish community. After their marriage they had moved to

DAVIS, ADELINE (Chisholm; Foster, Lady Foster), temperance reformer and author; b

. 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

Sullivan on the resignation of the government of Louis Henry Davies*. In the election which was called within days, he won easily in

; Davis), also known as Moses, fugitive slave and “conductor” on the Underground Railroad; b

, son of John Douglas and Euphemia Moffat; m. 6 Aug. 1861 Jane Smith of Darlington Township

anglophones from Ontario [see Sir John Christian Schultz*]. Although Riel was prevented from coming home by the dominion

Taylor, the 12th president of the United States and also the great-grandnephew of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. His father, John Taylor Wood, was

.” Beginning as a student, Bishop had published poetry, travel accounts, and fiction in periodicals as varied as the Messenger and Visitor (Saint John), the Maritime Baptist (Saint John

Davie* administration (1894) and the John Herbert Turner* administration (1898), and finally in opposition to Joseph

*, John Robson, and Theodore Davie* – Beaven saw resolved many of the issues that

included one of the earliest church amphitheatres in Ontario, together with a Sunday school made up of radial classrooms, modelled on the famous Akron plan devised by American bishop John Heyl Vincent

singing. Her musical talents were much admired and she served as choir director and organist at St Andrew’s Church. Canon John Grisdale, later Anglican bishop of Qu’Appelle, referred to her as “our

Davies*, put Wakeham in command of an expedition charged with reassessing the span of time during which the strait was free of ice and with asserting Canadian rights over Baffin Island and the Arctic

partisanship was evident in 1894. The Davie government tended to favour the federal Conservatives. A staunch Liberal, Smith ran in North Nanaimo against John

jeweller and watchmaker, and Ann Eliza Gage; m. 22 Dec. 1869 John Calder (d. 1901) in Buffalo, N.Y., and they had seven sons and two daughters; d. 16 March 1914 in Hamilton

in the “nine hour” movement for a reduction of working hours. In the aftermath of the movement’s failure and the printers’ strike of 1872 [see John