FOSTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, barrister and essayist; b. 16 July 1840 at Toronto, Upper Canada, son of James Foster and Mary
response to public pressure by the government of Alexander Mackenzie*. Placed under the Department of Finance, the office administered the
trade, doing business with the American Fur Company, until 1853, when he retired to Faribault, the town founded by his son Alexander as a fur-trading post in 1826. He died there in 1860 at the home of his
sister, who, it was said, agreed because she “was so acutely overcome by his anguish.” Their home, Riverview (originally built by Charles Alexander
Alexander Purse, a tailor, and Isabel Blenshel; d. unmarried 8 April 1803 at Quebec, Lower Canada.
John Purss came to Quebec at the time of the
SMITH, ALEXANDER MORTIMER, soldier, businessman, militia officer, and politician; b. 8 May 1818 in Monymusk, Scotland; m
sobriquet “Big Thunder” was effective artillery against the Conservatives during the Pacific Scandal of 1873. But, despite his experience and ability, Wood was not selected to join Alexander
. Alexander Anderson, “An official view of Metlakahtla,” Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record, [3rd] ser., 6 (1881): 50–52. “Bishop Ridley and the North Pacific Mission,” Church Missionary
the Lady Aylmer, built in the port of Quebec in 1831. Hart made over his shares in the ship, amounting to 50 per cent, on 30 May 1833 to Alexander Thomas Hart, one of his adopted
Department, Alexander McKee*. On 2 July the district land board issued its first survey order to McNiff which he complained about as “so
Hoyles*, openly backed by the governor, Sir Alexander Bannerman*, to seize power. Carter became colonial secretary in the Hoyles
conflicts with his board of directors, which initially consisted of George William Allan as president, John Alexander Boyd
at Dogpound, north of Calgary, and kept on raising horses which he branded 9S. By 1899, the year he took his son-in-law Alexander Robertson into partnership, the herd of horses had grown large
College at Guelph that William Johnston deserves historical note.
Alexander M. Ross
(Glazebrook), 59, 65. HBRS, I (Rich), 31, 41, 222, 445; II (Rich and Fleming); III (Fleming). New light on the early history of the greater northwest: the manuscript journals of Alexander Henry
), son of Alexander McIntosh, a contractor; m. January 1881 Hermanse Magee in Ottawa, and a son and a daughter survived him; d. 23 June 1901 in Kamloops, B.C., and was buried in the Pleasant
Kamloops Museum (Kamloops, B.C.), HBC letters, 1879. In the Supreme Court of British Columbia; the Queen vs. Allan McLean, Archibald McLean, Charles McLean, and Alexander Hare
* and Alexander Henry* the elder, who wrote to Johnson in support of Roberts, Rogers was “permitting Rum to go out of this Garrison at
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, if he would undertake to reimburse Sedgwick for the cost of the conquest, nearly £1,800. This led La Tour to sell his rights to Sir Thomas
appreciated by both his pupils and their parents.
Despite his background in the Relief Church, Somerville was well received by Alexander