he was appointed George Munro* professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, succeeding William John

, which sought to maintain the Canadian Pacific Railway’s monopoly against the province’s determination to provide effective competition and reduce freight rates. It also marked what historian William Lewis

throughout Upper Canada with power to appoint police constables and to charge salaries and travelling expenses to the government. Frederick William

stubbornly anti-union employer by drawing not only on the arbitration law but also on the personal mediation of Premier William Stevens