Baldwin* and Augustus Warren Baldwin* were uncles, and Robert Baldwin* was

connections to agriculture were thought to be unimpeachable. Nevertheless, despite the fact that moderate Conservatives supported him, he was defeated by John McNeill, a young farmer with no previous political

minister, the Irish members wanting an Irish minister. The church was first served by Robert Irvine and then by William Elder*, both of whom

, but as a young man he was associated with the Methodist church to which his wife belonged. His Scottish and non-conformist background, and early success in making his way in the world, led him to be

. 1822 in Penryn, England, son of Robert Blenkinsop, an excise officer, and Mary —; m. first July 1846 Helen McNeill, daughter of William

Anderson*, formerly bishop of Rupert’s Land, in which Anderson called for a volunteer to replace the ailing missionary Robert McDonald in the Yukon district of the CMS’s North West America mission. In a

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

the family farm. Instead of receiving formal schooling he was turned loose in his father’s immense library, where he consumed an eclectic intellectual diet, including, significantly, Robert Chambers’s

, publisher of the Pilot. In 1852 he started the Life Boat, a temperance monthly for young people, which he issued for over a year. He began medical studies at McGill College in December

*]. He was a co-founder of the Toronto branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association and during his first summer as a student missionary he worked among lumbermen. The following summer he organized

apologetics at Knox College, Toronto, where he had been lecturing in exegetical theology since 1864, following the resignation of George Paxton Young

* facetiously observed that the legislation would cause thousands of young men to leave the country. The bill died on the order paper at the dissolution of the house for the election of 1882. Charlton

Maskepetoon*, a great Cree chief and noted advocate of peace. He was given the name John by a missionary, probably Robert Terrill Rundle

, but he was much more active in this sphere than most of the bourgeoisie of the period. From 1857 he participated in the work of the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society of Montreal and the Young Men’s

partnership with Charles Cassils, a young Scottish immigrant to whom he gave the hand of one of his daughters in marriage in

, Okla. By the early 1860s the Crozier family had settled in Belleville, Upper Canada. Lief Crozier decided quite young to become a soldier. In

political life, in favour of a call to “Irish national sentiment” across religious lines. A broad appeal made sense for a young Irishman

Ann Young Mercer; d. unmarried 2 March 1901 in Ottawa

 April 1856 Robert McCulloch, and they had two daughters; d. 2 Aug. 1908 in Tuscola, Mich. Margaret Dickie was the daughter of a

ended on 31 Dec. 1867. Peter Redpath and Drummond continued alone until 1 Jan. 1872, when they acquired a new partner, Francis Robert Redpath