arrival of the railway. Initially, he and his brother William settled in Portage la Prairie; they then homesteaded in the Qu’Appelle valley in 1882. Charles moved to Winnipeg in 1883, working briefly as a
BOWMAN, WILLIAM, mechanical engineer, businessman, and politician; b. 20 March 1820 in Liverpool, England
Breton. Bourinot received his early education under the Reverend William Young Porter, who was amazed by his pupil’s “quickness of perception, and the intellectual grasp which he exhibited.” Encouraged by
BOMPAS, WILLIAM CARPENTER, Church of England clergyman, bishop, and missionary; b. 20 Jan. 1834 in London, England, son of
. 1818 in Newburyport, Mass., third child of William Boardman, a merchant, and Esther W. Toppan; m. 19 Dec. 1843 Mary J. Hill in Milltown (St Stephen-Milltown), N.B., and they had
Blenkinsop, an excise officer, and Mary —; m. first July 1846 Helen McNeill, daughter of William Henry McNeill*, in Sitka (Alaska
Conception Bay, he participated in the rescue of members of the crew of the ill-fated Polaris expedition [see Charles Francis
by the Liberal press, notably William Elder*’s Daily Telegraph in Saint John, John Valentine
impartiality with a temperate defence of the Mackenzie government’s position, and so to some extent appeased British Colombian anger [see Andrew Charles
Weatherbe as editor in 1867 and held the position until his death. When Hugh William became postmaster of Halifax in 1874, Henry assumed the proprietorship and with his younger brother Charles Coleman ran the
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When in 1884 Sir Charles Tupper*, mp for Cumberland, resigned to become Canadian high commissioner in
, and within a year he was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a clerk in the freight department at Winnipeg. Here he joined the 90th (Winnipeg) Battalion of Rifles, formed by William Nassau
Scobie*’s book and stationery shop in Toronto on the recommendation of William Darling*, a Montreal merchant originally from Edinburgh. In
lay teachers, the École Doran. Founded in 1854 and named after its former principal William Doran, the school under Archambeault became the Catholic Commercial Academy of Montreal in 1860
ALMON, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, physician and politician; b. 27 Jan. 1816 in Halifax, eldest son of William Bruce
ALEXANDER, CHARLES, confectioner, caterer, philanthropist, politician, and jp; b. 13 June 1816
Braithwaite, subsequently a famous hunter, trapper, and the first non-native guide in the province, and Lieutenant William Smythe Maynard Wolfe, who painted water-colours of hunting trips with Gabe and other