until his death. He also gained control of Gooderham and Worts, and soon applied to parliament to have it transformed into a joint-stock corporation; letters patent were granted on 2 December with
on imports of cotton textile machinery was waived from 15 March 1879 to 1 Oct. 1881. The Gaults were ideally situated to take advantage of the heightened protection granted the industry
. 24 Oct. 1878 Bessie Grant Graham in New Glasgow, N.S., and they had four sons and three daughters, including James Gibson Laurier and Margaret Marjory, who were killed in World War
faithful and pay homage to the power that has graciously granted it all the benefits of independence.”
The activities of Fabre the diplomat can be
property mortgages or life-insurance policies, on strictly limited quantities of goods. The Eaton business seems to have weathered the depression better than most and mortgage accommodation granted by the
Tilley* of New Brunswick, called on Premier Charles Tupper* in Halifax to see if the New Brunswick company could be granted concessions which
chaired meetings that drew up petitions to the government asking for representation on the Council of the North-West Territories, farming assistance, schools, land grants, and confirmation of ownership of
alliance of industry and finance resulted in the establishment over the years of the bank policy of granting longer-term loans and loans against the collateral of warrants, which favoured industrialists
, England, rather than the competing Allan Line, much to the discomfiture of the Conservatives. With an annual grant of $750,000, paid jointly by Canada and the British government, the firm undertook to
(5v., New York, 1938–47), 3: 1–127. J. N. Grant, Black Nova Scotians (Halifax, 1980
introductory essay on Canadian poetry (Montreal, 1864), has been reprinted with an introduction by Douglas Grant Lochhead (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1973
missed his date with fame, when permission to participate in the St Louis games was refused him by the Montreal police. Although his superiors would not grant him an unpaid leave of absence, he went
.”
George Dawson’s sudden death of bronchitis in 1901, only 15 months after the death of his father, shocked many who had come to take his awesome physical and intellectual accomplishments for granted. He
standing committee formed to lobby for the bridge and a grant of land for the railway extension. The return of the federal Conservatives under Prime Minister Sir John A
provincial government of James Pliny Whitney*. Responsible for supervising the granting and renewal of liquor licences and the enforcement of
1858 thanks to a grant he obtained through George-Étienne Cartier*. Côté has to his credit as well works by Arthur
method of granting crown lands for grazing on the prairies of southern Alberta. In the United States grazing rights were usually granted once a particular tract was occupied, but Cochrane declared that in
it had failed to keep its promises on such matters as prohibiting the granting of land, timber, and mineral rights to mps and friends, an issue that had claimed his
task of theological reconstruction that might face the church. “The Church started out with a revelation of truth,” he told Donaldson Grant in an interview in 1902, “which could not be disproved and