Department official, and politician; b. possibly c. 1770, probably in a Shawnee village on the Scioto River (Ohio), son of Alexander
,” OH, 99 (2007): 5–17. Eleven exiles: accounts of loyalists of the American revolution, ed. P. R. Blakeley and J. N. Grant (Toronto and Charlottetown, 1982). Alexander Fraser, Twenty
Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., first prime minister of the dominion of Canada (2v., Ottawa, [1894]). Margaret [Sharp
. Their brothers John, a merchant, and Alexander, a hosteller, as well as their cousins Finlay Fisher, a schoolmaster
McDougall, a lieutenant in the 84th Foot, and his wife, – Shaw; d. 25 Oct. 1818 at Fort Bas-de-la-Rivière (Fort Alexander, Man
(Macdonald papers), 82, pp.13184–85, 39678, 39679, 77048–49; RG 1, E14, 8–40. Queen’s University Archives, Alexander Mackenzie papers, pp.327–28, 329–30, 851–54. Can. parl. comp
McLACHLAN, ALEXANDER, farmer, poet, tailor, and emigration agent; b
* aboard the brig Alexander in an expedition led by John Ross* to Baffin Bay in search of a northwest passage. Having scientific as well as
his wife and two adult daughters until his death a decade later. A successor at the Normal School, Alexander Thom
. Holmes was there the next season and on 5 Feb. 1776 set out on an expedition with Alexander Henry* the elder to visit the winter
decidedly quiet and temperate high churchman, however, remaining aloof from the various battles waged by the church’s high and low wings. In the election of 1879 for a successor to Alexander Neil
FRASER, ALEXANDER, army officer, militia officer, office holder, justice of the peace, politician, and farmer; b. 18 Jan
Alexander Blaine of Carlisle, Pa. He continued to trade in the Ohio region during the winter of 1775–76, and in the summer of 1776 acted as an American emissary to invite the Shawnees and Delawares to a
.
In 1861, after Governor Sir Alexander Bannerman* dismissed the Liberal ministry led by John
. Even though federal Liberal leaders Alexander Mackenzie* and Edward Blake
merger of the New North West and the North West companies in 1804 [see Sir Alexander Mackenzie*], serving at various NWC posts
. Joseph Thompson) in the autumn of 1678, the Committee persuaded Walker to rejoin the Company, and in the following year he commanded the John and Alexander to and from James Bay. On this voyage
.
There is some indication that John McKay and Donald MacKay came from the valley of the Brora River, Scotland. They entered the fur trade by way of Montreal, and by 1788 John was working for Alexander Shaw
MORRIS, JAMES, politician, merchant, and banker; b. 1 Nov. 1798 at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, third son of Alexander