a missionary in Fort William (Thunder Bay) and then in Toronto. It was there, as a student at Knox College, that he witnessed the realities of inner-city poverty and vice and began to see city

, which sought to maintain the Canadian Pacific Railway’s monopoly against the province’s determination to provide effective competition and reduce freight rates. It also marked what historian William Lewis

behind his friend William MacDonald, whose large frame – “he had shoulders as

SMITH, WILLIAM HARLEY, physician, army officer, and consular agent; b. 23

milling fields. He also dabbled in railway promotion, with the Waterloo Junction Railway, and the sugar-beet industry. Among his other interests were the Toronto Foundry (later the Anthes Foundry), the

SPENCER, JOSEPH WILLIAM WINTHROP, geologist, teacher, geomorphologist, and author; b. 26

missionary but, as this field was an exclusively white preserve, he was sent instead as a home missionary to the pastorless ABA churches of Granville Ferry and Inglewood (near Bridgetown) in Annapolis County

 Ottawa. William J. Stewart was the eldest son of a building contractor and officer in the Ottawa Field Battery. Raised in an Irish Anglican

active on the city council, the library board, and the cricket field. In his spare time, perhaps with an eye to broader political involvement, he learned to speak

Boas* was in British Columbia on an ethnographic field trip. He interrupted his train trip to the coast to spend a night at Spences Bridge. Someone there suggested that he contact Murray, who in turn

Christianity. They had heard that a Church of England missionary was heading there “to sow tares in our fields,” and wished to forestall him; the “race for souls” was intense in this era. Sometime in November

 small villages and they cultivated the surrounding fields. Under his leadership the number of villages grew to

 1911 announced the terms of the Taft-Fielding agreement [see William Stevens Fielding

 cent. The YMCA’s rapid expansion owed much to Warburton’s fund-raising abilities, initiatives in the field of educational programming, and support for the introduction of an employment agency

 Jan. 1859 in Dixie (Mississauga), Upper Canada, son of William Youle Watson and Mary Ann Aldred; m

 Feb. 1869 at Quebec, only son of William Watson, a rigger of sailing ships, and Jane Grant; m

. Henry Whitney grew up in comfortable circumstances in Conway. He and his brother William Collins (who would become secretary of the navy in Stephen Grover Cleveland’s first administration) graduated from

which Field-Marshal Earl Haig unveiled the memorial. Two months later Newfoundland was visited by the Special Service Squadron of the Royal

relationships.” Then came the party’s adroit imperial-preference budget [see William Stevens

Jennings*]. First elected as a senator of the University of Toronto in 1885, he joined its re-established faculty of medicine [see William Thomas