mla James Joseph Foy, but his career path soon changed direction, in part because of an illness, possibly meningitis, that left him partially deaf. In 1902 William Thomas

for English-speaking physicists was the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1874 and presided over by the remarkable Joseph John Thomson. Rutherford gained a coveted 1851

interest in sport. For the 23-year-old, who had begun to enjoy travel to Europe, 1882 also marked his social arrival. In May he visited with Oscar Wilde after the Irish author’s Toronto lecture on aesthetics

. Joseph Marks devoted his life to the cause of labour. As a tinsmith in the Grand Trunk Railway shops in London, he was a member of the sheet-metal workers’ union; he helped found the London Trades and

Taylor Hill and Eleanor A. Carty; m. 16 April 1895 Elsie Annette Kent in Granby, Que., and they had at least one son and two daughters; d. 17 July 1934 in Outremont (Montreal) and

BREDIN, MARK, baker, businessman, and politician; b. 2 July 1863, probably in Dublin, son of John Bredin and Mary Graham; m