resistance are a point of minor historical controversy. A contemporary, Alexander Begg*, painted him as a peacemaker who suggested reasonable
case involving William Grant*, of Saint-Roch, and Alexander Gray by demonstrating that French civil law did not apply to natural-born
.
In early September 1832 Work went to the Bonaventura (Sacramento) valley of Mexican California which had first been penetrated for the HBC by Alexander Roderick
WRIGHT, ALEXANDER WHYTE, militiaman, journalist, labour leader, reformer, office holder, and political organizer; b. 17 Dec
asked his father to help the appointee, Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt*, socially, for there were problems. Lady Galt was the
followed the example of his predecessor Sir Alexander Bannerman in opposing any attempts to exclude the
neighbour Alexander MacRobert and, later, his far less sympathetic widow. The marquess died there in 1934 at the age of 86.
Obituaries mourned Lord
, Alexander Pope, and others, particularly Charles Churchill. The habit of expressing himself in verse stemmed from his early years. “A welcome home to the Twenty-Third Regiment,” written after the treaty of
him because he was very old, but nothing was done. After Hunter’s death in 1805 Alexander Grant was appointed
for her owners she was recaptured on 16 March and brought into Halifax, where Judge Alexander Croke* of the Court of Vice-Admiralty
associated with Thomas Talbot* and Alexander McDonell* had their origins during Hunter’s
, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
William Edmond Logan’s education was begun in Mr Alexander Skakel*’s
established an art studio at the YWCA, Henrietta taught and accepted portrait commissions from such important figures as businessman and mp Sir Donald Alexander
in January 1799 was, with Alexander Grant* and Thomas McKee*, temporarily appointed
1760 and 1776 by Alexander Henry* the elder (Toronto, 1901; repr. Edmonton, 1969); it is available as well in a 1901 Boston
Sir James Alexander Lougheed*, became known for the cold way in which it approached the medical treatment and pensioning of
Robinson*, to report on “dangerous and treasonable inclinations.” The next day Robinson met with Allan, Ridout, Alexander Wood*, Duncan
part of the trend to use female labour in factories, it hired young women to run new American screw-making machinery. In 1883 Birge formed a partnership with American industrialist Charles Alexander to
contemporaries the human achievement of the new society, as excerpts from the funeral sermon by Archdeacon Alexander Neil Bethune* and a
. When he threatened to withhold rations the formerly unwilling maroons finally began to work their lands. On 9 July 1798 Chamberlain was named superintendent of the maroons, replacing Alexander