Mackenzie. During the same sojourn in England he also spent some time at University College, London, in the physiology laboratory of John Scott Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Albert Schafer. In 1881 he returned

the force sent to quell the trouble. His enthusiasm and characteristic interest in military preparedness were marked, in April 1885 prior to his leaving, by his petition to Prime Minister Sir John

* and Eliza Ann Phelps; m. 26 Jan. 1897 John Mill Treble in Toronto; they had no children; d

commission [see John McMillan*]. The commissioners urged all dairy farmers and cheese-factory managers “to read every word” of his

MACOUN, JOHN, teacher, botanist, naturalist, civil servant, and author; b

MACKASEY, JOHN A., commission merchant and labour leader; b. c. 1840; m. with two sons and one daughter who survived him; d

. William Macdonald’s paternal grandfather, John MacDonald* of Glenaladale, a Roman Catholic, was the last of a line of Scottish

, “Notes from the lecture on the Harbour Grace affray – one hundred years later” (typescript of lecture read before the Newfoundland Hist. Soc., [St John’s], 24 Nov. 1983; copy in

assessment of LeSueur’s part, John Reads would note in 1917 that he “recognized at once the significance of the new

LOWE, JOHN, newspaperman, civil servant, and farm developer; b. 20 Feb. 1824 in Warrington (Cheshire

, however, and there were few prospects in East Kilbride for ambitious young men. In the mid 1850s James and his elder brother John emigrated to Upper Canada. There James spent a year as a farm labourer in

he became a clerk with a merchant in Fogo. After his apprenticeship, he joined Ayre and Sons, St John’s largest retailer. He then worked successively for Rhodes, Curry and Company in Amherst, N.S

 1892. During these years as a back-bencher, Leblanc was involved in every battle. He defended the stance of Sir John A

awarded the Military Cross on 14 Aug. 1917. “Finding himself the senior officer of his battalion present after reaching the final objective of an attack,” the citation read, “he showed great skill in

federal election in the summer of 1872 did not, however, measure up to the hopes of the youthful members. Sir John A. Macdonald

LANGMUIR, JOHN WOODBURN, businessman, politician, and civil servant; b

leisure to his first passion, reading, and appreciated the new honours that crowned his career: knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England in 1912 and knight of the Order of St Michael

the department of history, which had been established in 1895, recognized his promise and sent him to Balliol College in Oxford, supported by the Flavelle Travelling Fellowship. There Edward Kylie read

again,” reads a letter dated 29 Sept. 1917, “but that does not prevent me from doing my duty at the front. We must fear only the Good Lord. Here we fear nothing, except God

, Johnson was native by birth, her father being a Mohawk of the wolf clan. The great-granddaughter of Tekahionwake (Jacob Johnson), whose name she would later adopt, and the granddaughter of John “Smoke