BELL, GORDON, physician, professor, bacteriologist, and sportsman; b. 22

revenue available from new timber and mining operations, especially the iron-ore mines on Bell Island, which had opened in 1895 under Canadian auspices to meet the needs of the blast furnaces at Sydney, N.S

*, a notary. Damase first attended an English school in Montreal, boarding with his uncle Gordon Forbes, who inspired in him a taste for construction and architecture. He thus acquired a good knowledge

firm, now Mackelcan, Gibson, and Bell, as solicitor for Hamilton. Gibson would be named a qc

throat in Vienna, he became the first ophthalmologist to practise in western Canada. From about 1893 to 1897 he would be associated in a private ophthalmological practice with Gordon

* Gullen, and Dr Margaret Blair Gordon, founders of the campaign for woman suffrage. In 1906 she became secretary of the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association, which was

Bell*] was partially reoriented from a largely scientific entity to a body expected to locate mineral deposits and aggressively encourage their exploitation. National parks were developed to attract

, businessmen, and clergy who were his patrons. In addition to the standard antiquarian fare of history, biography, and belles-lettres, the company offered more explicit and “realistic” works, principally