Dawson*, the recently retired principal of McGill University, and Sir Donald Alexander Smith*, who had worked in Labrador with
. Cyclopædia of Canadian biog. (Rose and Charlesworth), vol.1. Alexander Fraser, A history of Ontario: its resources and development (2v., Toronto and Montreal, 1907), 2. E. C. Guillet, In
school run by Alexander McLeod. In December 1809 he returned to Upper Canada where he began to farm his father’s land grant and an adjoining 200 acres in Grantham Township. Merritt also opened a
federal government both in and out of the commons, even when his own party was in power in 1873–78 under Alexander Mackenzie*. As economic
became a minority shareholder (with one-quarter of the shares) in the Quebec Development Company Limited [see Benjamin Alexander
, Sangster was awarded an appointment at the Post Office Department in Ottawa on 20 March 1868. He was nominated by his neighbour, politician Alexander
having a bridge three-quarters of a mile long built across the Saint John River to link Fredericton to the villages growing up around the railway line and factories of Alexander
not have been made easier by the marriage in 1827 of his daughter Jane Eliza to the Reverend Alexander Neil Bethune*, an adherent of
. 1783 in London, England, second son of Alexander Ellice* and Ann (Anne) Russell; m. first on 30 Oct. 1809 Lady Hannah Althea
,” based on his experience there, appeared in the November 1885–April 1886 edition of the student-run Knox College Monthly (Toronto), of which he was for a time co-editor with James Alexander
1880 he obtained a scholarship and proceeded to Charlottetown for two years of study at Prince of Wales College [see Alexander
opposition led by James Alexander Macdonald*. McBride became the first premier in British Columbia to hold office under the
Clark*, clerk of the Legislative Council, Russell was unsuccessful in persuading President Alexander Grant* that Baldwin should succeed him
she was 21 months old, and her energetic but feckless father left his daughter to be raised by her maternal grandparents, Alexander Marquis and Lucy Ann Macneill, who had been born a Woolner and
caucus of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie*. His ambitions were turning elsewhere. In 1877 he remarried and began to pursue a growing
Mansfield, and especially of the law officers, James Marriott, Edward Thurlow, and Alexander Wedderburn, should not be depreciated. Besides, in several crucial respects the Quebec Act ran counter to
” the purpose of which, according to Smith, was to deprive parliament of its rights. On 6 November Macdonald resigned as prime minister to be replaced by Alexander
.
In November 1827 Carson was appointed district surgeon by his friend Chief Justice Richard Alexander Tucker*, administrator in
Alexander Foster*’s Canada First; or, our new nationality . . . (Toronto, 1871). This was a theme to