partnership with William Marshall Matheson.
During the first decade and a half of Strong’s career, his work was centred in the Court of Chancery, where he
qualification. Around 1878 Tarte bought a farm at Sillery, “equipped with all the latest implements and machines,” and he and his brother worked it. According to Charles-Edmond Rouleau, a journalist at Le
the Legislative Council by the anti-confederate government of Charles James Fox Bennett*. He was prominent in the St John’s
VALLÉE, LOUIS-PRUDENT (baptized Louis-François-Charles-Prudent), photographer; b. 6 Nov
the hapless victims of leprosy, a malady rife in the region since the second quarter of the 19th century [see Charles-Marie
Gault, Charles Ross Whitehead*, and others, he got the
WALKEM, GEORGE ANTHONY, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 15 Nov. 1834 in Newry (Northern Ireland), son of Charles Walkem
Belleisle (Belleisle Creek), N.B., son of William Walker and Patience Taylor; m. 30 July 1876 Eliza Ruth Marsh in Saint John, N.B., and they had five children; d. there 21 April
the 1860s by Congregational minister Charles Carroll Carpenter, and were active in the Queen’s Road church in St John’s. William was chosen a delegate to the second International
WHITEWAY, Sir WILLIAM VALLANCE, lawyer and politician; b. 1 April 1828 at Buckyett, near Totnes, in Devon, England
, house leader Dr William MacKay*, and the party’s most articulate spokesman, Charles Elliott Tanner. Wilcox unexpectedly found himself
newsboy. At age 16 he became a printer’s apprentice to his cousin William McDougall, managing editor of the
WITHROW, WILLIAM HENRY, Methodist minister, journalist, and author; b. 6 Aug. 1839 in Toronto, son of James Withrow, a
London, England, son of William Wood and Anne Aston Key; d. unmarried 26 Sept. 1909 in Montreal.
Edmund Wood was educated at Turrell’s School
into a legal partnership with Charles-Joseph Coursol*, Désiré Girouard
. 7 April 1840 in Crosby Township, Upper Canada, son of the Reverend William Young and Amanda Waldron; m. 25 Dec. 1867, in Toronto, Elizabeth Bingham of Bradford, Ont., and they had eight
YUILE, DAVID, businessman; b. 20 Feb. 1846 in Glasgow, second son and third child of William Pollock Yuile