efforts at improving secondary education in Newfoundland came to fruition when several students received top honours in matriculation examinations at the University of London. In 1891 Slattery opened a

world” first appeared in monthly instalments in Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (New York and London), September 1899–March 1900, and was then published in monograph form (New York

call for the Ontario government to take over the college. The Farmer’s Advocate and Home Magazine (London, Ont.) deplored in 1901 that graduates required another year of study in order to

Austin*, he relocated in London and in 1849 established a thriving wholesale and retail grocery business, Frank Smith and Company. Innovative and wise in his investments, he acquired a fortune, largely

, that it had “wrought a great revolution,” he never fully understood Charles Darwin’s hypothesis. Smith spent the late 1840s in London and in travels

([Fredericton], 1969) [republishes the N.B. section of The wood industries of Canada (London, 1897), with a new introduction].

Lords Record Office, London, contain no pre-1903 correspondence with Stairs, and Beaverbrook appears to have destroyed his diaries for 1904 and 1905 and any 1904 Stairs correspondence

consisted of Stairs, his sons John Fitzwilliam, James Wiseman, and Edward, and Robert Morrow’s son Geoffrey. Stairs was also a director of the United Fire Insurance Company of London, England, and the Halifax

. 15 Jan. 1841 in London, England, second son of Edward George Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and Emma Caroline Wilbraham; m

in Quebec City. In 1851 the Stewart family moved from New York to London, Upper Canada, where George Stewart

Red line. House of Lords Record Office (London), Beaverbrook papers, ser.G1

(London), 437–44, esp. 442. Reid, Mount Allison, vol.1. George Stewart

elders travelled to Ottawa, where they met Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier*, and then on to London. Although they had no arrangement for

. 19 Nov. 1834 in London, England, son of John Sweatman, a physician, and Anne —; m. 30

. During the conference on confederation held in London in 1866–67, Archbishop Connolly had attempted to secure constitutional guarantees for denominational schools in all the colonies entering the

breaking ties with London, which provided protection against the machinations of English-speaking Canadians. For the time being, faced with the failure of confederation, Tardivel fought vigorously against

and Recreation] ([Vancouver], 1988). Vanity Fair (London), 16 June 1909.

(Charlottetown, 1901), 118. Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War (London, 1979), 299–342

. In London to attend the first Colonial Conference in 1887, Thorburn, with assistance from Shea and Des Vœux, obtained imperial assent to the bait bill. It had far less impact on the fishery than had

(London) and the Canadian Grocer (Toronto). Tillson took ill at Annandale on 29 Jan. 1902 and a physician was brought to the home. After