John Freeman dubbed him, went down to defeat. His parliamentary career was marked by lengthy, sarcastic speeches, peppered with anecdotes and with biblical and gardening references. He
. 3 May 1845 in Amherst, N.S., one of the nine children of John Rhodes, a farmer, and Parmelia Parker; m
Greenock Township for three years (1884–86). He was postmaster of Cargill from 1880 to 1887. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald
St John’s, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 18 Nov. 1906 in Datchet, England.
Joseph Curling was educated at Harrow and
Grandin of St Albert for the building fund. In recognition of his financial assistance, Letendre was named godfather of the church bell, which was christened Marie-Antoinette
. 30 Nov. 1829 at Quebec, eldest son of John Thomson and Isabella Henry, natives of Scotland; m
widow, Mrs Helen Bell Stairs. Stairs’s correspondence with Sir John A. Macdonald, 1883–91, Sir John Joseph Caldwell
children. The church bells tolled and flags in Tilsonburg flew at half-mast to mourn his passing. Following in his father’s footsteps, E. D. Tillson, by successfully modernizing his interests to meet
CAMPBELL, JOHN, Presbyterian minister, educator, and author; b
. The bells were eventually installed in 1937 and dedicated as the John Jessop Memorial Chimes. They are his only public memorial
lakes Superior and Winnipeg and in 1873 the prairie lands between Winnipeg and the Rocky Mountains. In 1875, accompanied by botanist John Macoun
. 20 Feb. 1844 in Mount Hanly, N.S., son of John Slocum and Sarah Jane Southern; m
20, the eldest son in Montreal. His position became permanent after the death of Henry Stuart, the eldest of the children, in 1844 and that of John James, the second eldest, the following year
HUNTER, JOHN HOWARD, educator, civil servant, and author; b. 22 Dec
estate of John Elmsley* on the northern fringe of Toronto. Flannery, one of the
the Hincks–Morin ministry in exchange for Clear Grit representation in the cabinet (John Rolph* and Malcolm Cameron). The price, a postponement of
than 70 church commissions across Ontario and one as far east as Saint John, N.B
Langelier*, during the Fenian invasion of 1870 [see John O’Neill*] Pacaud set aside his legal work and joined the militia as aide-de-camp
to Nicolet, young Moreau was accepted as a candidate for the priesthood by Signay, who let him enter holy orders and tonsured him. That autumn Moreau accompanied his pupils into the fifth form (Belles