in Perth, Scotland, son of William Robertson, weaver, and Catherine Sharp; m. c. 1820
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James Richardson immigrated to Canada in 1829 where he was employed as a farm labourer in Lachine and later as a teacher in Beauharnois County, near Montreal, before he was engaged by William Edmond
1845 she emigrated with her family and settled in Toronto. After two years of schooling there, Reford was apprenticed as a clerk with a grocer, William Henderson, at £10 a year. His responsibilities and
English poets: William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Fiona Macleod. “Two-Ears” and one of Pickthall’s poems won first prizes in the
England were factors in his being denied his place in the history of Canadian literature for nearly a century. A bibliography published in 1895 attributed the book to Susanna Moodie. William Renwick
throughout Upper Canada with power to appoint police constables and to charge salaries and travelling expenses to the government. Frederick William
America, probably that year, with William Miller, the son of another paper manufacturer, and Alexander and John Logan, brothers who were also trained apprentices. The four travelling companions became
1813 American general William Henry Harrison prepared to advance in the Detroit River region, Myeerah secretly informed the Americans that he would break from the British. At first he suggested coming to
geological survey of the united provinces and a principal aspirant to the directorship was William Edmond Logan* whose brother was associated
ventilation of dwelling-houses & schools, an address he had given to the Montreal Mechanics’ Institute. In 1862, as the representative of the Eastern Townships, he accompanied Sir William Edmond
agency at Fort Wayne, 1809–1815, ed. Gayle Thornbrough (Indianapolis, 1961). Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison, ed. Logan Esarey (2v., Indianapolis, 1922). U.S., Congress
MERRICK, JOHN, artisan, merchant, and architect; b. c. 1756 in Halifax, third son of William Merrick and Ann
William Edmond Logan*, met with Bailey and Matthew to discuss the work. Between
(Toronto, 1904), published by William Briggs
he was appointed George Munro* professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, succeeding William John
suggested reasonable courses to both Riel and his opponents as well as a significant calming force during the dispute. This view influenced others, most notably historian William Lewis
, with authority to distribute land, settle accounts, and recover debts on behalf of his employers. He was also to superintend Frederick Matthey, who was in charge of defence and public works, and William
married Maryanne, the eldest daughter of William James Stairs; she died after the birth of their first child
LOGAN, Sir WILLIAM EDMOND, geologist and geological cartographer, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada