instituted by the Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald* in 1879. Their discontent first manifested itself in the
Croix; m. 28 Sept. 1858 Helen Leith Boyd Emslie in Saint John, N.B., and they had three children; d. 14 Oct. 1903 in
grocery business on Rue Saint-Paul. Opened in 1850, the store was small and in 1858 had a stock in trade valued at between £500 and £750. After the death of Charles in 1859, Robert and his brother William
ranks of Sir John A. Macdonald*’s Conservatives. He also tried his luck on the provincial scene. Defeated in 1867, he was
: Maritime Baptists and their world, ed. R. S. Wilson (Saint John, N.B., 1988), 83–107.
. 5 Feb. 1873 Alice E. Maxwell in Saint John, N.B., and they had at least six children; d. 18 Feb. 1908 in
fell: a history of theatre in Saint John, 1789–1900 (Fredericton, 1981), 108, 147. R. C. Toll, Blacking up: the minstrel show in nineteenth century America
charitable endeavours; she received financial support from Geneviève Walsh, a local philanthropist. She repeated the exercise in 1893 in Saint John, N.B., at the invitation of Bishop John
student. He then visited Florence and studied at the Academy in Rome, before going to Paris in 1875. That year Capello arrived in Montreal, where John
, as well as for the CPR and the Quebec and Lake Saint John Railway. The connection seems to have lasted at least until McGreevy’s death in 1897. As a member of the Quebec Harbour Commission from 1891 to
CARD, CHARLES ORA, colonizer and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon church); b
theology and philosophy in Raiano, Rome, and Penne and from 1854 at the Irish Franciscan college of St Isidore’s in Rome. There he met Bishop John Thomas
. 1873 the government of Sir John A. Macdonald* resigned, and in the election of January 1874, the Conservatives were
Christ of Latter-day Saints, Geneal. Soc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), International geneal. index (copies at the Toronto branch of the church’s Geneal. Library). PRO, WO 25/753: ff.65–65v. St John’s
rapidly to $80,000 five years later. The factory, at the corner of Rue Latour and Rue Sainte-Geneviève, had 300 men and women as employees and an annual output worth $200,000. At the time it was one of the
at Saint John, N.B., on 28 Aug. 1870; he was the first native of the parish of Memramcook to become a Catholic priest.
Cormier
: comprising a full and authentic account of the great coal mining explosion at Springhill mines, Nova Scotia, February 21st, 1891 . . . (Saint John, N.B., [1891]).
the parish of Saint-Roch, and they had 13 children; d. 30 Sept. 1904 at Quebec and was buried 3 October in the Saint-Charles
Taché*; he did all the carpentry, the carving, and a statue of John the Baptist, the patron saint of French Canadians. With its rich decoration, the vehicle bore eloquent witness to the religious and
Saint John.
Appointed university librarian in 1896, Davidson followed the dictum that a library is the best university. His first innovation was to