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

BEARE, JOHN, farmer and mill-owner; b. 14 Nov. 1820 in Bideford, England, son of Joseph Beare and Anne

possessions. In May 1868, under the leadership of Amor De Cosmos* and John Robson

. c. 1832–35, probably in Berens River (Man.), son of Mahquah (Maskwa, Bear) and Amo (Bee

his father’s ill-advised phase as a backwoods farmer on Bear Creek (Sydenham River), in the portion of Adelaide that later became part of Metcalfe Township. His early years were spent in Toronto, where

BOYD, Sir JOHN ALEXANDER, lawyer and judge; b

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

,” and criticism of them by pro-labour oppositionists would eventually bring down the government of John Herbert Turner* in

(Northern Ireland), and they had one son; d. 28 Jan. 1915 in Montreal and was buried in Belvedere Cemetery, St John’s. James

COPE, JOHN NOEL (Newell) (Bolmoltie, Bowlmawltie, Paul Martin), Micmac guide and hunter; b. April 1847 in Sheet Harbour, N.S., son

singing. Her musical talents were much admired and she served as choir director and organist at St Andrew’s Church. Canon John Grisdale, later Anglican bishop of Qu’Appelle, referred to her as “our

John Robinson’s Circus, which paid him up to $2,000 a week, and the following year, he was the main attraction of the Ringling Brothers. He travelled with their circus through numerous American states

. 1871 was sent to the Red River settlement in Manitoba with a contingent of reinforcements that had been dispatched to repel a Fenian invasion [see John

become surveyor general of British Columbia, but he declined. In parliament Dewdney supported the Conservative government of Sir John A

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

ore and prove the presence of copper. The discovery of the property that would bear his name, the famous Frood mine, occurred in May 1884 when

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

and then at St George’s Hospital Medical School, a private institution made famous by John and William Hunter. He was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1854. After serving as

. 1 Jan. 1839 in Northamptonshire, England, daughter of John Hayr; m. 13 June 1860 Robert Jack (d