candidacy placed Whitney under the leadership of William Ralph Meredith*, the party’s provincial chieftain, and into a noisy campaign where
VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS, railway builder and official, capitalist, and artist; b
Laurier to levy an export duty on nickel and the determination in 1899 of the provincial Liberal administration of George William
.
Tupper had become involved in politics through the influence of James William Johnston*, the leader of the Conservative party in Nova
opposition and indifference, she spoke at meetings, wrote articles, made presentations to the Hamilton Board of Education, and gained the support of Ontario’s sympathetic minister of education, George William
, Spence turned his attention once again to the provincial scene.
In 1899 George William
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
of 1878. Based in part on the work of a select committee chaired by George William Ross, which reported
ROSS, JAMES, railway engineer, businessman, and philanthropist; b
ROSS, Sir GEORGE WILLIAM, educator and politician; b
ROBERTSON, JOHN ROSS, journalist, publisher, philanthropist, historian, and sportsman; b
. The team emerged undefeated from the Group 1 series, but lost the championship and the John Ross
under the influence of William Leslie Hooper, head of the college’s new department of electrical engineering. In the summer of 1884, for instance, he worked as a consultant at a gold-mine in Virginia
founded along with Whitney, F. S. Pearson, and William Benjamin Ross, a Halifax friend and lawyer-promoter who was also involved in Dominion Coal. Its charter of incorporation in 1895 authorized it to
. 30 Nov. 1842 in Canso, N.S., daughter of George Norris and Hannah Whitman; m. 31 Jan. 1874 the Reverend William Freeman
LYNCH, WILLIAM WARREN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 30 Sept. 1845 in Bedford, Lower Canada, son of Thomas Lynch, a
1846 in St John’s, son of William Lash and Margaret Fannon; m. in or before 1871 Elizabeth Ann Miller, and they had three sons and a
Canadian control. In September 1874 Laird, Lieutenant Governor Alexander Morris*, and William Joseph
James Robert Stratton, provincial secretary in the Liberal government of George William Ross, against bribery charges made in 1903 by Robert Roswell Gamey, a Conservative mla
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