PRICE, Sir WILLIAM, businessman, industrialist, officer, and politician; b. 30
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Henry Whitney grew up in comfortable circumstances in Conway. He and his brother William Collins (who would become secretary of the navy in Stephen Grover Cleveland’s first administration) graduated from
-Jacques, in the heart of the city’s business section. His enterprise was called Henry Birks and Company and he immediately instituted new business practices for customers: cash sales only and the same price
ALLOWAY, WILLIAM FORBES, businessman, politician, banker, and philanthropist; b
Jan. 1873 near Windsor, Ont., second son of William McGregor and Jessie Lathrup Peden; m
cents an issue, a comparatively high price but the same as that of such American models as Scribner’s
, Richardson persuaded federal finance minister Sir William Thomas White* to allow
children born to Harry Staveley and Barbara Black, Harry Lorn and Edward Black also pursued careers in architecture. The former worked for the Montreal firm of William Tutin Thomas, but the latter entered
public schools in Ottawa and arrived in Winnipeg in 1875. He worked briefly for his uncle William Ogilvie at the Dominion Lands Survey. A restless young man, Burrows tried and abandoned both legal studies
, businessman, and politician; b. 23 March 1865 in Oswego, N.Y., son of William Weston
Feb. 1869 at Quebec, only son of William Watson, a rigger of sailing ships, and Jane Grant; m
candidates, which effectively meant Liberal candidates. He suggested that the agreement would not only increase prices of agricultural products, but by expanding north-south trade would force the railway
1905 Susan Isabella Stairs, daughter of Edward Stairs and granddaughter of William James Stairs
introducing steam power, adding a malthouse, and building a storage cellar; distribution was extended through a sales outlet in Dundas operated by his brother William. He added a porter to his father’s ale and
the early 1920s, after Snider’s death, the introduction of an effective, reasonably priced combine harvester on the prairies threatened the company’s future even more; it replaced both the tractor and
the price of mismanagement, a lesson Osler carried with him when he joined with fellow employee Henry Pellatt to launch a firm in Toronto that offered stockbroking, investing, and insurance services
were easy winners. His party paid a price, when William Wilfred Sullivan
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