agreed with Alexander Tilloch Galt* and the French-speaking Liberals that the continuing diplomatic tie with Great Britain was hindering
son of Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane and his wife Maria Shaw, widow of Captain Jacob Wheate; m. on 6 Jan. 1812 to Mathilda Ross by whom he had two sons and two daughters
readers yearn for, it retains an important position in the province’s historiography. Published at a time when little was being written about the Island’s past – Alexander Bannerman
the high church theology of the Oxford Movement, and in 1857 it supported Alexander Neil Bethune* for bishop of the new “western
to trade from Michilimackinac. A map in his hand of the country around present Lake Winnipeg, the Saskatchewan River, and the upper Churchill was probably copied when Alexander
McRAE, JOHN C., policeman and chief of police; b. 4 March 1859 in Carleton County, Upper Canada, son of Alexander McRae, a
1834, he practised in partnership with Robert Hunter Gairdner until the latter was appointed to the bench in 1844. He took Frederick Vannovous as a partner from 1850 to 1869, and then David Alexander
: 16–19. J. [C.] McDougall, Parsons on the plains, ed. Thomas Bredin (Toronto, 1971). Alexander Morris, The treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West
last spike was driven instead by Donald Alexander Smith*.
Macdonald and his
forgotten. In 1876 the government of Alexander Mackenzie* summoned him to the Senate to represent the division of Lauzon. Pozer continued to
ARMSTRONG, Sir ALEXANDER, surgeon, naval officer, explorer, naturalist, and author; b. 1818 in County Donegal (Republic of Ireland
).
Caldwell was a proponent of organizing farmers to take collective action that would promote their interests [see Edward Alexander
, Upper Canada, son of Alexander Caldwell and Mary Ann Maxwell; m. first 1868 Ida Virginia Cauldwell, his second cousin (d. 1869); m. secondly 1871 Katherine Smith Falconer, and
*. These measures, which had been enacted by Alexander Christie*, governor of Assiniboia, included a proclamation requiring traders to declare
mla and the owner-publisher of the Globe. In 1874–77 Jaffray held an appointment from Liberal prime minister Alexander
, Scotland, son of Alexander Jardine, mason, and Helen Davidson; m. 30 Oct. 1834 at Saint John, N.B., Euphemia Reid, formerly of Kildonan, Scotland, and they had four daughters; d. 16 June
the settlement. For two years he taught school in Shelburne and then became established as a merchant there in connection with his only brother, Alexander, of Portsmouth, England. Their firm, known as A
BURNS, ALEXANDER, Methodist minister and educator; b. 12 Aug. 1834 in Castlewellan (Northern Ireland), son
distasteful he came to Victoria in 1867 to join his father, who had settled there five years earlier. Like his brother Alexander Edmund Batson