régime, largely inaccessible to historians because they were unorganized, badly preserved, widely scattered, and uninventoried. Miles lobbied Sir Alexander Tilloch

Saint John by the Liberal government of Alexander Mackenzie*, a post he retained until he was removed by the Conservatives in 1879

ELMSLEY (Elmsly), JOHN, judge and politician; b. 1762 in the parish of Marylebone, London, England, eldest son of Alexander Elmsly

his initial success at Cobalt, Fasken had grasped other opportunities. Together with his youngest brother and law partner, Alexander, and William George Gooderham, he financed hotels, steamers, and

in 1879 to protect jobs for Protestants. In the 1880s Gaskin wrote regularly to such prominent Conservatives as Sir Alexander

, Jacob Silver, were chosen to seek suitable land. Assisted by Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton, land commissioner of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in Winnipeg, Klenman and Silver travelled to various

. On 4 May he was locked out of St Philip’s; nine days later, on the advice of Attorney General Christopher Alexander

society. In 1871 he formed a partnership with his brother, Featherston Osler, and William Alexander Foster*; that same year, at St

freighting contract with the HBC in 1843, and the following year Chief Factor Alexander Christie*, governor of Assiniboia, issued a proclamation

mid 1860s another sugar refinery had been established in Montreal to compete with Redpath’s. In 1859 Redpath had brought his eldest son, Peter, and his son-in-law, George Alexander

, he had served on the committee to examine “state insurance against unemployment, sickness, invalidity, and old age.” He was technical adviser to government delegate Walter Alexander

. The two magazines were none the less independent, since the Canadian Illustrated News was edited by Alexander Robinson and L’Opinion publique by Joseph-Alfred

attorney to administer his assets and business affairs. John, after a thorough education under Alexander Spark*, had been called to the bar on 20

constables’ assistant (1852), Robert Alexander Harrison*’s Common Law Procedure Act (1858) and New municipal

, he, Joseph Wesley Flavelle*, and John Alexander Murray were appointed liquor-licence commissioners for Toronto on 3 April 1905

 William Alexander’s projected colony at Port-Royal. Kirke may have stopped at Ferryland, the colony of Lord Baltimore [see

. In 1773 Lees had entered into partnership with merchant Alexander Davison. From the beginning the firm of Davison and Lees specialized in the import trade and in supplying the British troops in North

a second tory executive councillor, Alexander Stewart*, joined Johnston in acting for Sawers, while two leading liberal lawyers

Duart and conducted a college of piping on Mull. Neil Rankin, the last in this tradition, married a cousin of Alexander Maclean of Coll and became the resident piper at Breachacha Castle. Samuel Johnson

Settlement, son of Alexander Ross*, former chief trader of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Sarah, who may have been a daughter of an Okanagan Indian