ALLISON, DAVID, professor, educational administrator, and author; b. 3 July 1836 in Newport, N.S., son of James Whidden

Athletic Union of Canada were opposed to professional sport and wanted to punish those who had fostered it. Winnipeg lawyer Robert Allison Coyne Manning argued that Breen and others who had played

Lang*) and completing the construction of the Provincial Building, designed by David Stirling*. Upon his death in 1870, Samuel assumed

man of his generation. In 1874 he opened his own practice in Montreal. Except for a short period (1893–95) when he was in partnership with John Charles Allison Heriot, he managed his firm by

lld that year by Mount Allison College in Sackville, N.B., and in 1918 he was made a knight bachelor. Gage was much sought after

West Durhams to get militia appointments for his Tory comrades. Hughes supported Sir John Sparrow David

campaign for reshaping the curriculum. In sharp contrast to his predecessor, David Allison, he favoured improved

Jane Balfour Allison; m. first 5 Jan. 1876 Christina Dick Riddell in Toronto, and they had three sons and a daughter; m. secondly Mary Allan; d. 13 May 1930 in Toronto

their rights to all the unclaimed crown land held by the company to David Russell and James Naismith

. thesis, St Mary’s Univ., Halifax, 1983). The author is grateful to historical demographer David W. States for helping to reconstitute the Reverend States’s branch of the extended States family

1875 when he accepted President David Allison’s offer of a professorship in mathematics and political economy at