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                  GRAHAM, HARVEY, industrialist; b. 12 Aug. 1848 in Little Harbour, Pictou County, N.S., third of the four
                   
                  Graham*, one of the founders of the steel industry in Nova Scotia. It was the practice in this industry to give potential leaders experience of operations by having them perform subsidiary roles early
                   
                  one is completely average, but James Blair commands notice because he so nearly was. W. H. Graham
                  , he was second in command of the Western Department under his brother-in-law James Allan Grahame. He was promoted factor in 1872 and chief factor two years later. In July 1872 he had been sent
                   
                  . c. 1862 in Maitland, Hants County, N.S., son of Charles Cox, a shipbuilder, and Margaret Graham
                  . 24 Oct. 1878 Bessie Grant Graham in New Glasgow, N.S., and they had four sons and three daughters, including James Gibson Laurier and Margaret Marjory, who were killed in World War
                  Rosegill, near Dunnett, Scotland, son of Traill Shearer and Christian Simpson; m. 23 June 1848 Eliza Graham of Montreal, and they had five daughters and three sons; d. there 13 Sept. 1906
                  Jameses (1927), a humorous and affectionate tribute to the four worst poets of Canada writing in English. John Lennox
                  Eda’nsa* on a canoe trip there, from Masset around the east coast of Graham Island to Skidegate. Apparently Deans was himself under commission from Dr
                  supported him for the vacant post of minister of the interior and to fill the bill for a cabinet member from eastern Ontario. The prime minister, however, opted for John Graham
                  sold it to a foreign syndicate. When Graham Fraser* and George Forrest McKay, who had ironed ships in Carmichael’s yard, established the Nova
                   
                  Halifax’s city hall (1889), a house near Baddeck for Alexander Graham Bell* (1893), the administration building of the Presbyterian College
                   
                  written in the Graham system of shorthand) chronicles the adventures of the McCullochs in Delaware; and her “Notes by the way” describe the move to Michigan. The diaries reveal the ambitions and mobility of
                  same year Diamond Glass took over the Nova Scotia Glass Company of New Glasgow, N.S. [see Harvey Graham
                  Graham*, called a “many-sided genius,” and about whom it was said that “there is no man on the judicial bench in whom the public has greater
                  the Age (Strathroy, Ont.), 13 Feb. 1908. Billy Graham Center Arch., Wheaton College (Wheaton, III.), Coll. 215 (China
                   
                  , B.C., Fort Rupert (mfm. at BCARS). PAM, HBCA, A.11/78: f.96; A.12/7: ff.574–77; A.32/21: f.455; B.185/a/1; B.226/b/18; B.226/c/1: f.162; D5/44: ff.314–17; Fort Shepherd file, Blenkinsop to Grahame, 14
                  New Brunswick and their times was published posthumously in monograph form ([Saint John, 1907]), and has been reprinted with an introduction by David Graham Bell (Fredericton, 1983 [actually
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