. Upon completing his education, he entered the law office in Cornwall of John Sandfield Macdonald* and John Ban Maclennan. Although as
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
WALBRAN, JOHN THOMAS, master mariner and toponymist; b. 23 March 1848
Temagami band of Ojibwa, who now regard themselves as a non-Ojibwa “border people” called the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. Probably born on White Bear (Cassels) Lake, Tonené entered the Euro-Canadian accounts in
of his father in 1865, he lived for a time with his eldest half-brother, John Coucher Steele. The Fenian troubles
Rosebrugh, of uel descent and a Wesleyan Methodist, began medical studies at the age of 18 at John
District Grammar School, Hugh was admitted to Osgoode Hall as a student in 1842 and read law with John Wilson*. He was called to the bar in November
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
. 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
.
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
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
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
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
brought the critical spirit to bear with the rigour of an intellect that rivalled some of Europe’s finest minds. From 1871 to the turn of the century he was active in the Ottawa Literary and Scientific
1892.
During these years as a back-bencher, Leblanc was involved in every battle. He defended the stance of Sir John A
liaison was the most famous in Canadian political history. Their letters bear witness to a genuine love, but was it platonic? No one knows for certain. It was rumoured at the time, though never confirmed
Cormier*].
In 1885, with Peter John Veniot* and others, Landry founded the
public works in the Baldwin*–La Fontaine* government, and John
French Canadian soldier to be given this honour. Streets, buildings, and even a mountain still bear his name and keep his memory alive