, offering an acclamation, but Hepburn refused to take the bait. Yet behind the scenes he acted to have Sinclair replaced as house leader by the party whip, George Alexander McQuibban, on the eve of the 1934
by the misadventures of his elder son, Charles Alexander, for whose forays into business and politics he had had high hopes. In March 1978 news of Sandy Best’s sudden death at the age of 46
Alexander Brymner and Elizabeth Fairlie; m. there 1853 Jean Thomson, and they had nine children; d. 19 June 1902 in New Westminster, B.C., and was buried in Ottawa
British currency. The judges objected and on the advice of Hoyles petitioned the governor, Sir Alexander Bannerman*, to suspend the
fisherman according to the circumstances of the times,” he wrote to the society.
Described by Archdeacon John Alexander
BANNERMAN, Sir ALEXANDER, merchant, banker, manufacturer, politician, and
, working through Samuel George William Archibald, the speaker, and Alexander
1773 he received a few bushels from a merchant in Varennes as payment for dry goods. Five years later he bought 2,600 bushels, and in 1786 he went into partnership with William Maitland and Alexander
of systematic theology and apologetics there, succeeding Alexander McKnight*. Though Gordon was never an original scholar, he brought to
Academy. After his schooling, he read law in the Brantford office of his uncle, Henry A. Hardy, and with the Toronto firm of Robert Alexander
April 1858 on a farm in Westminster Township, Upper Canada, son of Alexander McCallum and Nancy (Annie, Anna) McAlpin (McAlpine, Macalpine); m. 28 Dec. 1881 Minnie Isabella Bruce in Cornwall
area of grim natural hazards, menacing and unpredictable Indians, and rival American traders. After an initial expedition sent out under the direction of Alexander Ross, Ogden himself took charge of the
experience as a midshipman serving with his uncle in the 1818 search. The expedition’s two ships Isabella and Alexander sailed from the Thames in April, with John Ross’ second-in-command
.
When Alexander Mackenzie* formed a government in Ottawa in November 1873, following the Pacific Scandal, he called Scott to be the Irish
left Quebec for the Upper Canadian missions; the London merchant Alexander Ellice, for whom Lester negotiated
, and in the session just ended he had explicitly endorsed the general positions of Alexander Rae, then the acknowledged leader of the Reformers in the house. Huntley had first approached Rae with the
politics in the operations of the board, the commissioners covered up these findings. The government responded to popular dissatisfaction by revamping the board and, under Alexander Stirling
Thompson had arrived at his momentous decision to leave the HBC for the NWC, and on 23 May 1797 he set out from Bedford House to walk to Alexander
Bliss*, Uniacke, and Alexander Stewart*, the leading lawyer-assemblymen, he “still bellows on, nothing daunted by the array of talent
Printing Office at 21 Rue de la Montagne, Jones having imported the press and equipment from Alexander Young of London and engaged a journeyman printer from Britain. In August 1794 Jones and