the Almonte Knitting Company in 1882. By 1866 he had met his cousin Donald Alexander Smith*, a chief factor in the Hudson’s Bay
. 1770 at the Moss, near Huntly, Scotland, son of Alexander Allan and Margaret Mowatt; m. 24 July 1809 Leah Tyrer Gamble in Kingston, Upper Canada; d. 11 July 1853 in Toronto
admitted as a solicitor in 1876. He practised in Toronto with Alexander Leith, a specialist in real-property law, and eventually succeeded Leith as a local authority on that subject. For most of his career
will forbade his children to bother their mother with demands for an inventory. When she did authorize an inventory in 1800, the estate totalled about £24,570, most of it invested with Alexander
, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s ships Isabella and Alexander for the purpose of exploring Baffin’s Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west
intended to buy. In October, however, they leased the property back to Dunière, and in 1806 it was sold from the Beatsons’ bankrupt estate to shipbuilder Alexander
Grand Trunk Railway, and on opening up the area west of Ottawa, and strongly supported Ottawa’s claim for the seat of government. In 1866, however, he became the centre of a bitter controversy. Alexander
pranks.” In 1803 his father obtained a post for him as clerk in the New North West Company (sometimes called the XY Company) under Sir Alexander
Archibald and others, she promoted the children’s playground concept advocated by Alexander McKay* and the appointment of women to the
became affiliated with the Royal Edward Institute. After the institute’s first president, Sir George Alexander Drummond*, died in
highlighted by a close association with Alexander Croke*, who had become judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court in 1801. The two men, both English born
addition the lieutenant governor of Manitoba, Alexander Morris, regularly consulted him on important criminal
Alexander Tilloch Galt*, Cassels became chief cashier (general manager) of the faltering Bank of Upper Canada, succeeding Thomas Gibbs
Richard Alexander Tucker*, but he quickly won a reputation as “an attentive & intelligent man of business, & a straight forward
,” he sold his waterfront holdings to the firm of Alexander Murray and James Newbigging. After a long
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Though he was only 32, Cross was named attorney general when Alberta’s first cabinet was announced by Premier Alexander Cameron
York North. During his four years in the House of Commons, in the administration of Alexander Mackenzie*, he advocated an extension of the
Scotia; b. 1 Oct. 1845 in Brooklyn (Plymouth), Pictou County, N.S., eighth child and fifth son of Alexander Fraser (Alasdair an Ceannaiche) and Ann Chisholm; m. 24 Oct. 1878 Bessie
Cocking, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s master at Cumberland House (Sask.), noted in his journal after a visit by Joseph Frobisher and Alexander