ALEXANDER, RICHARD HENRY, businessman; b. 26 March 1844 in Edinburgh

been re-elected in Bruce South, and fellow mla/mp Alexander Mackenzie* on 18 Dec. 1871 to mount a

mess.” The weeks of March 1916 had been, he said, “like a nightmare,” principally because, in the words of James Alexander Calder, the minister at the head of the party organization, the charges had

. Winnipeg’s mayor, Alexander Macdonald, became the company’s first president and Brock was its general manager. Initially, Brock had planned to supervise

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

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

CARTWRIGHT, Sir RICHARD JOHN, businessman, politician, and author; b. 4 Dec. 1835 in Kingston, Upper Canada, second son

the bank, Donald Alexander Smith and George Alexander

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

Douglas*. Dewdney immediately found work with Richard Clement Moody* and 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

. Ewart was also associated with farm leaders such as William Richard Motherwell

. 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

to Upper Canada, settling initially in Peterborough, where he secured employment with surveyor Richard Birdsall*. He later contracted with

educator; b. 25 Nov. 1842 in New Glasgow, N.S., son of Alexander Forrest and Barbara Ross McKenzie

Richard Reid Dobell*, the prime mover behind the establishment of a transatlantic steamship line. Like most of the city’s younger generation

exclusionary legislation passed by the government of Richard McBride and he went to great pains to arrange the tour of

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

Trading Company, commonly known as B.C. Mills. Hendry became the president, and Richard Henry Alexander