, University of Halifax (which would ultimately fail in 1881). It also awarded, in 1875, a degree of bachelor of science and English literature to Grace Annie Lockhart, who thus became the first woman in the
Feb. 1860 in Newark, N.J., son of Benjamin Smith and Mary Ann Codmer; m. 3
thought to have won a prize for English literature. She adored the French language, but also mastered English, which she would sometimes use in her private diary and in public lectures. Arthur
tight rein on instruction by retaining the office of prefect of studies (until 1873 and again from 1879 to 1883), by continuing to teach courses in literature, history, and English, and by serving as
June 1884 Benjamin Gordon Hobson Wright in London South (London), Ont., and they had four sons; d
GOHIER, ÉDOUARD (baptized Benjamin-Édouard), businessman, politician, and philanthropist; b. 27
, ‘. . . poverty should be for none while there is prosperity for any. Caste is the heaviest curse civilization has to carry.’” The Reverend Benjamin Fish
Alexander McNutt* and Planter settlement in peninsular Nova Scotia (1911–12), on loyalist regiments in the revolution (1904), on Benjamin
with W. D. Reid, Henry Melville Whitney of Boston, and Benjamin
primarily by English capital, assisted by subsidies of $10,000 each for 20 years from
support of English-Canadian nationalism and believed in the importance of the country’s ties to Britain and its membership in the empire. But unlike other imperialists active in the historical movement
first cousin Métis leader Louis Riel*, who spoke English. It seems likely that Nault played a significant role on this occasion
Laval, sent him to Rome to study at the Roman College (Pontifical Gregorian University), along with the brothers Louis-Honoré and Benjamin
*]. Traffic, which began in January 1905, was intensified by mining booms at Cobalt, Porcupine, and Kirkland Lake [see Benjamin Hollinger
in education: school attendance became compulsory, English was made the sole language of instruction in public schools, and the government took greater control over, and provided more money for, the
relationship with powerful spiritual guardians. He eventually assumed the surname Pine, an English translation of Shingwauk, although he remained known locally as Menissino. A much older individual with this
excellence in history, geography, French, and English (which he had learned as a child), and graduated in
Fielding spoke no French and the French negotiators spoke no English. This mission was successful; it marked a decisive step forward in trade relations between Canada and foreign countries. In August
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