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

BELL, ROBERT, scientist, professor, and civil servant; b

BELL, WILLIAM ROBERT, militia officer, sportsman, farmer, and businessman; b

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

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

 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

James’s frontier image as a fighter and man of adventure. He first came to Fort William (Thunder Bay) in 1872 to work at the sawmill of Adam

19th-century Saint John [see John William Dering Gray*], where small alterations in ministerial vesture or church ornament

Norval, Ont. Two years later, accompanied by his brothers William and David, he travelled to the North-West Territories and applied for a homestead in what later became known as the Red Fox district, about

personally contribute, they were forced to bring in outside shareholders, including wealthy merchants and financiers from Pictou County and Halifax such as James William

. Hogg’s non-domestic activities included charitable work with homeless children and writing fiction. An early story, “Belle Marie,” based on a tale told by the Micmac, was published in the July 1899

. 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

. Unaccountably, the brothers were persuaded to sell their American patents in August to a patent dealer, William Henry Cox. The only authoritative commentary on the failure of the company – Edward’s obituary

apparently taught school briefly until he could pursue the career he desired. Howell was articled in Belleville to John Bell and continued afterwards in

William* were well-known sealing captains from Renews, Nfld. Educated in St John’s by the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland, Jackman in 1880 was apprenticed as a tailor there, and he

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

Boyd and Chief Justice William Glenholme Falconbridge, whose forceful abilities may