. There he and two other merchants, Alexander Wood* and William Allan*, became the

suffered a back injury and decided not to take up farming but to pursue a profession. His father could not pay for his education, but the generosity of Alexander Bartlet, a local police magistrate, enabled

, which had hinged on Parsons’ claim that his publication of an assembly report was privileged and not subject to the courts. In June 1840 Robinson had been appointed, with Hugh Alexander Emerson and

to Washington. Upon his return, he served with the British army as a lieutenant at Sandwich (Windsor) for a year. He subsequently took up law, articling with Christopher Alexander

mutiny. He was cleared on all counts at a trial in Halifax that lasted from 27 May to 8 June 1812. Under the command of Alexander Halkett, Shore led one of the six companies of the regiment

asking the citizens of Upper Canada to join the Patriot forces and free the land “from Tyranny” and promising them “all the blessings of freedom.” When the Patriots’ schooner, commanded by Edward Alexander

the position of clerk of the peace, of George Rolph, an ardent reformer and John’s brother; the alleged violations of judicial principles by Judge Christopher Alexander

UMWA to issue a new charter to District 26, which was officially reorganized on 1 May 1919. With the encouragement of Charles Alexander

20 April 1860, less than three months before his death, he settled a substantial annuity upon his wife and each of his five children (John, George Elsdale, Alexander, Samuel Elsdale, and

a few men under orders of Alexander MacKay* to “keep an eye” on them. Delorme prudently went from Grand Portage to Rainy Lake over American

?” If the governor had proved irresolute in selecting the capital, he now created the impression of being negligent of his duty. In the colony, Douglas confided to Alexander Grant

League of Nations’ first, and largest, World Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. This appointment brought Crerar into contact with future luminaries such as civil servants Norman Alexander

address to the free-holders of Stormont and Glengarry, the Roman Catholic bishop, Alexander Macdonell*, acknowledged “having received from

he supported Smith in 27 of 38 votes, a record at variance with the opinion of his contemporary Alexander Fraser that he voted with Smith “sometimes,” but “only from blunder and mear want of sense

discouraged consideration of his motives. Late in the century Ernest Alexander Cruikshank* broke with the tradition and for the first

bill passed. But the “gagged” opponents had their revenge. The Senate rejected the Naval Aid Bill at the end of May [see Sir James Alexander

whom, Alexander Mackenzie*, was to become his closest supporter. The elections were over by early January 1852, but parliament did not

that he considered abandoning the project. He wrote to Alexander Tilloch Galt on 9 August that he could not believe the Canadians could be so “discourteous to the delegates” as to leave them cooling

houses of the Coast Salish on the Songhees reserve in Victoria’s inner harbour. She had read Alexander Pope’s Essay on man (London, [1733–34]), which celebrated native peoples for what he and his

to cheat by cutting prices below agreed-on minimum rates, and thereby grab a greatly enlarged share of the market. This incentive explains why New Brunswick industrialist Alexander