ADAMS, JOHN GENNINGS CURTIS, farmer, dentist, and reformer; b. 16

continuing reputation for impartiality had been shown in his participation in 1908 in a board of conciliation (which also included the political economist Adam

  ADAM, manufacturer, horseman, politician, office holder, and philanthropist; b. 20

Cobourg, Upper Canada, son of John Walton Romeyn Beck and Georgiana Boulton; grandson of George Strange Boulton

the same combative tactics, Carvell joined New Brunswick Liberal organizers Edward S. Carter and Peter John Veniot* in forming the

industrial sites in Ashbridges Bay [see Sir John Alexander Boyd*; John Irvine

 April 1867 Anne Isabella Scovil in Portland (Saint John), N.B., and they had three sons and five daughters; d. 30

, and celebrated the triumph of science and material progress with an enthusiasm worthy of Adam Smith or Horatio Alger. In another context and, perhaps, with a less developed rebellious streak, Drummond

 Sept. 1876 Hester Rankine (d. 1928) in Saint John, and they had four daughters and one son; d. 23

protectionism of Sir John A. Macdonald*’s

FLEMING, ROBERT JOHN, businessman, temperance crusader, politician, and civil servant; b. 23

 May 1873 near Simcoe, Ont., son of John Forster, a farmer, and Rosanna Harvey; d

then became a bookkeeper with a Toronto publisher, Adam Miller and Company. After Miller’s death in 1875, he continued as a partner in the firm, which he took over in 1879 and renamed W

GIBSON, Sir JOHN MORISON, militia officer, lawyer, office holder, politician, and businessman; b. 1

bookselling firm of United Editors Limited and secured two historical experts, civil service commissioner Adam

and other friends. After enrolling in law at the Montreal branch of the Université Laval in 1881, he obtained his llb in 1884. He was articled in Montreal to John Joseph

accepted the nomination for Carleton, an old Conservative constituency, and ran a solid, if understated, campaign. Grant accused his Tory opponent, fellow farmer Adam Holland Acres, of blind party loyalty

HENDRIE, Sir JOHN STRATHEARN, engineer, businessman, militia officer, politician, and office holder; b. 15

KENNEDY, Sir JOHN, engineer; b. 26