these inventions made possible a market for ready-made clothing of good style, and Sanford and his partner Alexander McInnes seized the opportunity to pioneer the manufacture of men’s apparel in Canada
considerable skill, especially to the benefit of the Liberal administration of Alexander Mackenzie*, which came into power some 16 months after
, helped in the rapid development of the Muskoka district [see Alexander Peter Cockburn*]. In 1870 Carling boasted that “greater
Caron, but soon consoled himself when, on 5 Feb. 1875, he was appointed to the Senate by the Liberal government of Alexander
the most important partisan divisions. He absolutely refused to follow Alexander Rae and other reform leaders into their alliance of convenience with Huntley, who had fallen out with the family compact
regional manufacturing concerns in which Stairs was interested were the Robb Engineering Company Limited of Amherst, N.S., of which he became a director, and the Alexander Gibson Railway and Manufacturing
Wales College, headed by Alexander Anderson*, in Charlottetown, where he earned a second
an academic in Nova Scotia except for the provincial government’s decision to centralize senior engineering instruction at the new Nova Scotia Technical College [see Alexander Howard
Dupéront, and William Robertson* were merchants, and Alexander McKee* was an
arbitration tribunal, Ensign H. Kellogg, fatuous and bibulous, and chairman Maurice Delfosse’s sympathy for the Canadian member, Sir Alexander Tilloch
been re-elected in Bruce South, and fellow mla/mp Alexander Mackenzie* on 18 Dec. 1871 to mount a
. Nehemiah Walker. Two days later, by torchlight and attended by the officers of the ship John and Alexander in which he had returned to London, Bayly was buried at the Company’s expense in
Government or Legislation.” Blowers maintained a sense of his position as president, and when in 1808 a junior councillor, judge Alexander
, where he secured 52.5 per cent of the vote. Coalescing with farmers and reform-minded businessmen under the banner of the Provincial Party, the rebels were led by Alexander Duncan
, that spurred commercial activity by such entrepreneurs as Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
.
Princess Louise never forgot Canada. She had encouraged her friends Donald Alexander Smith* (later Lord Strathcona) and George
the university’s German-born professors. Osler and his fellow governors concurred but President Robert Alexander
John Alexander Macdonald, g.c.b., first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada (2v., Ottawa, [1894]; repr. in 1v., Toronto, 1930