MACDONALD, Sir WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER (until 1898 he spelled his family name McDonald)
the terms of union with Canada. They did, Macdonald, G. W. Howlan, and William Wilfred Sullivan
MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER, militia and army officer; b
Tupper, Charles Hibbert* and William Johnston.
McDonald began political
London, producing a beer based on a recipe from his native Yorkshire. The brewery flourished and in 1849 Thomas Carling passed the firm on to his sons William and John. The W. and J. Carling
. Macdonald* proved unsympathetic to approaches by the bishops orchestrated by Anglin. Costigan, however, was a government supporter, in a position to influence Macdonald and his ministers – or at
BEATTY, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and businessman; b. 10 Dec. 1833 in York (Toronto), son of James Beatty and Ann McKowen; m
. Macdonald*’s Conservative governments.
Cartwright earned a reputation for probity as a banker but his financial career suffered a severe setback in
. Macdonald* appointed Bowell minister of customs, a portfolio he would retain until after the prime minister’s death. His principal task was the supervision of the main source of government revenue. As a
control of Macdonald, a split acknowledged publicly in January 1886. Combining his own anti-clericalism with the anti-Catholic and anti-French views of Christopher William
. Macdonald*, which had brought his province into confederation on generous terms. He remained loyal to the Conservative leader after the Liberal victory in 1874 and grew increasingly critical of Alexander
branch of Ogilvy and Company for his brother, William Rees, who was a partner in the firm. From 1876 to 1877 he was manager of J. Gillespie and Company, a wholesale dealer in hats, caps, and furs
private secretary in 1868–71 to his father, whom Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone had appointed secretary of state for India.
Lorne had a
seats. While waiting for the official results of the soldiers’ vote and the resignation of Premier William John Bowser
SCOTT, Sir RICHARD WILLIAM, lawyer and politician; b. 24 Feb. 1825
HERCHMER, LAWRENCE WILLIAM, farmer, businessman, office holder, and militia officer; b
.
Tupper had become involved in politics through the influence of James William Johnston*, the leader of the Conservative party in Nova
enlist three times for service in the South African War, but was rejected each time because of fallen arches, according to his sister. In 1899 he was apprenticed as a machinist to William Kennedy and Sons
half-brother William Thornton Cust Boyd, and John Macdonald. In 1883–84 they produced nearly 16 million feet of sawlogs and in 1885 they shipped over 6 million feet of lumber by rail and canal to
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