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

.” Meeting with some success, in 1875 White formed the Forest City Machine Bolt and Nut Works in partnership with Lucius George Jolliffe and William Yates, an inventor-machinist with an interest in steam

TUCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and judge; b. 27 Feb. 1831 in Indiantown

. Harris. This trial lasted the unprecedented length of one month and featured bitter personal exchanges between Travis and opposing counsel William

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

the railways themselves suffered, as in Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ont., where the town council, itself providing a municipal telephone service in competition with Bell, retaliated by barring Bell

Ellen Bielby Reeve, sister of William Albert Reeve*, in Toronto, and they had

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

period, which was based on Victoria’s tight-knit business community of merchant houses with strong commercial ties to San Francisco. In the early 1870s Rithet had formed a close association with William

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

Executive Council (March–June 1864), and then to provincial secretary William McDougall* from November 1864 to confederation. Morgan

MOORE, JOHN THOMAS, accountant, businessman, and politician; b. 3 July 1844 in Markham Township, Upper Canada, son of William

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

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

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

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

. 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

. 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

. 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

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