position of provincial secretary and treasurer in the Liberal-Conservative administration formed by William Wilfred

serious art training under William Brymner* at the Art Association of Montreal. Brymner’s advocacy of outdoor painting and the Impressionist

enabled Owen, in partnership with William Welsh, to carry on much of Peake’s business under the name of Welsh and Owen; the partnership was sealed by the marriage in 1861 of Lemuel to Lois Welsh, William’s

the continent. Tired of the mounting expenses of the farm he estimated had cost him $120,000, he sold it in 1904 to Sir William Christopher Macdonald, who gave it to McGill University to form the

[Mistahimaskwa*], and One Arrow [Kāpeyakwāskonam*]. Two white men also appeared before him: Riel’s “secretary,” William Henry

. Macdonald*, who wanted a dependable Tory organ in Toronto to combat Brown’s Globe. The Conservative party had begun providing support to the Telegraph in 1869 at the behest of Cook and

. Macdonald*, and enjoyed cordial business relations with George Stephen*, who would become the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

SAUNDERS, WILLIAM, pharmacist, scientist, civil servant, and author; b

. Macdonald*. He appreciated the immense engineering challenges posed by the mountainous west, but felt that Canada could not prosper without additional steel. In June 1880 he replaced Fleming as chief

SCOTT, Sir RICHARD WILLIAM, lawyer and politician; b. 24 Feb. 1825

highly centralized school system was needed if the province was to adjust to the social and economic changes facing it, a view that reflected the policies of education minister George William Ross. Seath

United States in 1866. The Gleaner’s denunciations of the National Policy of Sir John A. Macdonald* reverberated

building. When another of McGill’s benefactors, Sir William Christopher Macdonald, suggested

Steele* and Anne MacIan Macdonald; m

or the Conservatives. As he explained to William Lyon Mackenzie King* in 1908 when the former deputy minister of labour asked

enlist three times for service in the South African War, but was rejected each time because of fallen arches, according to his sister. In 1899 he was apprenticed as a machinist to William Kennedy and Sons

, his younger brother. As second chief, Tonené had raised the matter of his people’s non-participation in the treaty negotiated by William Benjamin

. Harris. This trial lasted the unprecedented length of one month and featured bitter personal exchanges between Travis and opposing counsel William

TUCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and judge; b. 27 Feb. 1831 in Indiantown

. Tupper had become involved in politics through the influence of James William Johnston*, the leader of the Conservative party in Nova