. 24 May 1835 in Galt (Cambridge), Upper Canada, son of John Young and Janet Bell; m. 11 Feb. 1858 Margaret McNaught in Brantford

factor. He grew up in a literate family, and from his earliest days as a student in Edinburgh showed a keen interest in the publishing trade, which the houses of William Blackwood and Sons and Thomas

. In 1886 he split with William Ewart Gladstone over Home Rule for Ireland and became a Liberal Unionist. By this time, inspired by the theory of Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini for world

year arranged with Charles Fleetford Sise to buy all of Bell Telephone’s assets in Nova Scotia and New

arrangements with the Canadian Northern Railway [see Sir William Mackenzie*; Sir Donald

Columbia. At the end of March 1887 he and a Scottish financier, Robert William Gordon, bought two struggling newspapers in the infant city of Vancouver and amalgamated them into the Daily News-Advertiser

1846 in St John’s, son of William Lash and Margaret Fannon; m. in or before 1871 Elizabeth Ann Miller, and they had three sons and a

 June 1912: 9. William Campbell, “Scottish-Canadian poetry,” Canadian Magazine, 28 (November

*] and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company Limited’s interest in iron ore from Bell Island. The bank became a partisan of the colony’s union with Canada

corresponding secretary, William Henry Vander Smissen of University College, Boyle issued a circular to begin an inventory of archaeological sites in southern Ontario, solicited donations of specimens

, the Canada First organ founded in the previous year [see William Alexander Foster*]. He acquitted himself well, and so in

William Lucas* Hardisty, and they had one daughter; d. 21 Jan. 1914 in London, England