is known about how these events affected young Andrew. He was nine or ten years old when Mathew took over as head of the family. He attended the High School of Montreal, but may have been forced to
brothers followed for all or part of their careers. Harvey began his as a junior clerk with the mercantile firm of Robert Sprott McCurdy, and he later advanced to manager
father. He fished as a boy for cod in local waters and as a young man of 22 in the days of sail commanded schooners at the seal fishery. His
day a young man named Albert Mercer marched down Water Street, carrying two flags and calling on sealers to come out with him and his fellow sealers on the Ranger, since it was rumoured that
. 18 Dec. 1872 Catherine Wallace Bell, eldest daughter of Robert Bell
SEDGEWICK (Sedgwick), ROBERT, lawyer, educator, politician, civil servant, and judge; b. 10 May 1848 in Aberdeen, Scotland
. 1836 in Staffordshire, England, youngest daughter of Robert Walker, a civil engineer, and Anna —; m. 29 Jan. 1884 Harry Coghill (d
HALIBURTON, ROBERT GRANT, lawyer, author, and anthropologist; b
pledge himself and St George’s Temperance Society and the Band of Hope for young people were soon organized. As well, Temperance House was established in Verdun for the care and cure of inebriates
address given at the opening of the local Young Men’s Christian Association and he appears to have gained attention outside the Island as a preacher because in that year
REID, Sir ROBERT GILLESPIE, railway contractor; b
and stylistic knowledge of American architecture, especially of the Chicago School. In the field of residential architecture, Raza’s house on Rue Saint-Marc and that of flour and grain merchant Robert
MACHRAY, ROBERT, Church of England clergyman, archbishop, and educator; b
he had built near the Lachine Canal beside the Saint-Gabriel lock, and he put another brother-in-law, James Goudie, in charge of it. Young Alexander helped with the chores on the farm and went to the
GOWAN, Sir JAMES ROBERT, lawyer, judge, and senator; b
minister, the Irish members wanting an Irish minister. The church was first served by Robert Irvine and then by William Elder*, both of whom
Columbia River caused William Ladner to switch his partner and his focus. He and Robert Thompson Smith, a former partner of Francis Jones
. En route, one of the young men killed George McIvor, a recent immigrant, near Saskatchewan Landing in a bungled attempt to trade a gun for
1875 Nolin was appointed minister of agriculture by Premier Robert Atkinson Davis, a crucial post during the period of Métis land claims and increasing immigration from Europe and the rest of Canada
. O’Neill (5v. in 7 parts to date, Halifax, 1985– ), 2. An inventory of the somewhat smaller collection in the Cartographic and Audio-Visual Arch. Div. of the NA, compiled by Robert