’ Bank of Halifax. Since obtaining a federal charter in 1869, it had cautiously built up a network of 25 branches throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Bad loans to Nova Scotian
Reverend Edward Ahenakew* recorded Thunderchild’s stories of his early life
* and Thomas Robert Edward MacInnes.
Pickthall’s career began in earnest when prizes launched her into the magazines. “The greater gift
.
A slight, delicate youth not much given to sports, Joseph had been put to work in 1870 as a clerk for Prince Edward Island’s treasurer, his grandfather Joseph
board of directors were William Price, Henry Edward Price, Robert Ritchie, Gustavus George Stuart, and Andrew Thomson
Laurier dismissed Henry Robert Emmerson*, New Brunswick’s member in cabinet. Both George Robertson, one of the provincial members for Saint
Nov. 1866 in Sydney (Australia), eldest son of Robert Gillespie Reid
one up in Quebec as soon as possible after returning home. Steeped in the theories of two Germans, Hermann Brehmer and Peter Dettweiler, and an American, Edward Livingston Trudeau, as to the therapeutic
promoted Canada at exhibitions in Glasgow, London, Wolverhampton, and Cork. He also supervised the erection of the great arch of Canadian grain in Whitehall for the coronation of Edward
would retain his seat in the general elections of 1886, 1890, 1894, and 1898. He became leader of the opposition after the election of 1894, largely in consequence of Robert
he gave on his deathbed to his successor, Edward Wentworth Beatty
in achieving the government’s overall goals. The Geological Survey of Canada [see George Mercer Dawson*; Robert
Wolseley*. From the 1890s onwards, Stephen delegated management of most of his investments in Canada to his brother-in-law Robert
attendant, or non-resident, physician, a position he had actively pursued. In a letter dated 21 Dec. 1893 to Newfoundland’s colonial secretary, Robert
settled on the Shetland island of Fetlar in the 12th century. As he would explain in a letter to his uncle Robert Tait in 1905, “[Teit] is the real old original and proper way of spelling the name
Townshend*, an early collector of customs in Prince Edward Island. His father served as rector of Christ Church, Amherst, for over 60 years, and through his mother, a daughter of
. Turgeon in the Quebec Legislative Council reviews and explains the progress made in the work: monument to King Edward
before moving to Charlottetown, where he became a merchant. Moderately successful, he returned to England in 1860 to marry Elizabeth Eilbeck and then brought his wife to Prince Edward Island. News of the