exclusionary legislation passed by the government of Richard McBride and he went to great pains to arrange the tour of
troops & I can have much opportunity for learning how to handle men,” he wrote to his brother Richard
the business in Toronto, and Ross was to assist with the consignment of goods on the vessels he ran from London to Montreal. Reford left his other business in the hands of his brother Lewis and Richard
rallying against Rose’s attempts to reform Canada’s banking system. In a departmental reorganization that would preoccupy Courtney for much of a year, on 1 Aug. 1878 Richard John
. Macdonald* as a Conservative party organ in March 1872. In December 1873 he was appointed an immigration agent in Ireland by the Liberal government of Alexander
Richard Reid Dobell*, the prime mover behind the establishment of a transatlantic steamship line. Like most of the city’s younger generation
Rupert (near Port Hardy), where the company had a coalmining operation. While there he received the first appointment made by the first governor of Vancouver Island, Richard
surveyor general Lindsay Alexander Russell. He later worked with Édouard-Gaston Deville* and Otto Julius
, Sir RICHARD, lawyer and politician; b. 15 Dec. 1870 in
ideas of British architect Richard Norman Shaw. Burke compressed Shaw’s grand, flexible plans into orderly rectangles that conserved heat and oriented each room to catch sunlight. On the exterior
Douglas*.
Dewdney immediately found work with Richard Clement Moody* and a
to Upper Canada, settling initially in Peterborough, where he secured employment with surveyor Richard Birdsall*. He later contracted with
been re-elected in Bruce South, and fellow mla/mp Alexander Mackenzie* on 18 Dec. 1871 to mount a
lecture-circuit activities. After Emperor Alexander II of Russia was assassinated on 13 March 1881, the Youth’s Companion, a popular Boston weekly, contracted Leonowens to cover the story
with other countries, and having its own representative in London might put this idea off. He asked his father to help the appointee, Sir Alexander Tilloch
. 6 Nov. 1835 in Ayrshire, Scotland, son of Alexander Ralston Langmuir and Jane Woodburn; m
, Ross’s newspaper work had confirmed his interest in politics. He was nominated to run for the House of Commons in 1867, and in the provincial election of 1871 he campaigned in Middlesex West for Alexander
Campbell; Lucius Richard O’Brien*], but he also received his first commission for a commemorative monument in bronze. His
became the party’s most effective critic of the Liberal government of Alexander Mackenzie*. It is easy to make fun of Tupper’s “reputation