village grew up bearing the name of Gibson (now part of Fredericton). There, across the Saint John River from the provincial offices and legislature, they were loaded onto lighters or rafts and taken to
. 1 Jan. 1839 in Northamptonshire, England, daughter of John Hayr; m. 13 June 1860 Robert Jack (d
Nelson and Sons dominated. He worked in publishing in Edinburgh and is said to have been given the opportunity to come to Canada and to enter the book business of John Cunningham Geikie in Toronto through
as a way of bringing pressure to bear on provincial governments that were slow to grant public lands to the country’s settlers.
Strategies for
. 25 Sept. 1843 in St John’s, son of Richard Howley and Eliza Burke; d
1892.
During these years as a back-bencher, Leblanc was involved in every battle. He defended the stance of Sir John A
Cormier*].
In 1885, with Peter John Veniot* and others, Landry founded the
possessions. In May 1868, under the leadership of Amor De Cosmos* and John Robson
included one of the earliest church amphitheatres in Ontario, together with a Sunday school made up of radial classrooms, modelled on the famous Akron plan devised by American bishop John Heyl Vincent
Mackenzie. During the same sojourn in England he also spent some time at University College, London, in the physiology laboratory of John Scott Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Albert Schafer. In 1881 he returned
. 13 July 1859 Sarah Anne Edleston Farrar in Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 27 Jan. 1914 in St John’s
lairds bearing the title Glenaladale. In 1772 he transported over 200 Highlanders to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where he had purchased 20,000 acres of farm land. His son Donald, who became a
, Johnson was native by birth, her father being a Mohawk of the wolf clan. The great-granddaughter of Tekahionwake (Jacob Johnson), whose name she would later adopt, and the granddaughter of John “Smoke
were no fires that year. An amendment to the fire act in 1906 authorized the department to appoint rangers on railways generally with the companies bearing the costs
.
From Fort Good Hope, Petitot made eight trips in the Great Bear Lake region between 1865 and 1879, including two unsuccessful missionary sojourns among the Mackenzie Inuit near the Arctic Ocean. He later
of his father in 1865, he lived for a time with his eldest half-brother, John Coucher Steele. The Fenian troubles
pathology, expanded his clinical activities, and again showed his remarkable capacity for promoting cooperation and inspiring disciples. By the time the new Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, began to look
anthropologist John Reed Swanton of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. For Swanton in 1901 Edenshaw made models of eight poles, two model houses (one of which had only the frame and interior post
,” and criticism of them by pro-labour oppositionists would eventually bring down the government of John Herbert Turner* in