. Henry Whitney grew up in comfortable circumstances in Conway. He and his brother William Collins (who would become secretary of the navy in Stephen Grover Cleveland’s first administration) graduated from

, businessman, and politician; b. 23 March 1865 in Oswego, N.Y., son of William Weston

 Feb. 1869 at Quebec, only son of William Watson, a rigger of sailing ships, and Jane Grant; m

 June 1829 near Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, son of William Stephen, a carpenter, and Elspet Smith, a crofter’s daughter; m. first 8 March

children born to Harry Staveley and Barbara Black, Harry Lorn and Edward Black also pursued careers in architecture. The former worked for the Montreal firm of William Tutin Thomas, but the latter entered

the early 1920s, after Snider’s death, the introduction of an effective, reasonably priced combine harvester on the prairies threatened the company’s future even more; it replaced both the tractor and

introducing steam power, adding a malthouse, and building a storage cellar; distribution was extended through a sales outlet in Dundas operated by his brother William. He added a porter to his father’s ale and

boy, who struggled in school, dreamed of going west to follow in the footsteps of his grandmother’s brothers Charles and William Bent, pioneer western fur traders. In 1880, just before his 16th

, Richardson persuaded federal finance minister Sir William Thomas White* to allow

PUGSLEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 27

PRICE, WILLIAM

PRICE, Sir WILLIAM, businessman, industrialist, officer, and politician; b. 30

the price of mismanagement, a lesson Osler carried with him when he joined with fellow employee Henry Pellatt to launch a firm in Toronto that offered stockbroking, investing, and insurance services

 May 1860 in Toronto, son of Daniel Augustus Nanton, a barrister, and Mary Louisa Jarvis, daughter of William Botsford

 Jan. 1873 near Windsor, Ont., second son of William McGregor and Jessie Lathrup Peden; m

1905 Susan Isabella Stairs, daughter of Edward Stairs and granddaughter of William James Stairs

MACKENZIE, Sir WILLIAM, railway contractor and entrepreneur; b. 17

pioneers of Puslinch, south of Guelph. The family moved to a farm in Waterloo County near Fisher’s Mills in 1853. An able student, John received a thorough education at William

1875 he took a second wife, the daughter of Harvey William Burk, a well-to-do farmer who was also the Liberal mp for Durham West. Mary and Sam moved to Toronto, where his