journalist Francis Joseph Nelson, but the Maple Leafs proved popular and helped

Francis Joseph Nelson], but the controversy soon died down

NELSON, FRANCIS JOSEPH, sports organizer and journalist; b. 1 May 1860 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, son of Edward Nelson, a

) in sports [see Francis Joseph Nelson] and supported the playground movement [see

this Government turns Sydney into a jungle.” Provincial attorney general Walter Joseph Aloysius O’Hearn, who had previously ordered raids on McLachlan’s home in search of “seditious” literature, had been

attest to his regard for the game, including his on-field medical missions, but his reservations about the politics of sports and insidious professionalism [see Francis Joseph

CREAN, FRANCIS JOSEPH PATRICK, timber-cruiser, civil engineer, civil servant, explorer, author, and army officer; b. 6

; b. 15 Sept. 1860 in Toronto, son of Ferdinand-Napoléon Belcourt and Marie-Anne (Marie-Anna) Clair; m. first 29 Jan. 1889 Hectorine Shehyn (d. 1901), daughter of Joseph

Mann. The new company dominated hydraulic gold mining in the Cariboo. Barnard also had large real-estate interests in Nelson, Vernon, Kamloops, Revelstoke, and Three Forks, among other