the Black Creek near Sebringville. Black Creek was initially a cooperative factory where the farmers provided the capital, but cooperation soon gave way to sole proprietorship. In 1868 the price of

., and a sleigh built in Orillia. He also successfully transported live black bass from Muskoka to Paris, Scotland, and England. Throughout the 1880s

BLACK, JOSEPH LAURENCE, businessman and politician; b

BLACK, THOMAS REUBEN, farmer, builder, and politician; b

). Biographies include: Sir Alfred Lyall, The life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (2v., London, 1905); C. E. D. Black, The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

company, whose head office he quickly transferred to 61 Rue Saint-François-Xavier in Montreal, had two factories in Ontario: one for black powder in Cumminsville and one for nitroglycerin near Kingston

signed by Robert Chambers, mayor of Quebec and chairman of the shareholders’ meeting, the bank’s balance sheet was in the black. In the last fiscal year, it had a paid-up capital of more than $990,890 and

$200 salary increase. Her years as teacher in one of the two publicly funded elementary schools still maintained for blacks – the other was

“zealous exponent of socialistic principles.” After black children had been barred from Halifax public schools in 1876, Bulmer was active in the campaign which succeeded in reversing this decision in 1884

 L. Macdonald Library at St Francis Xavier Univ., Antigonish, N.S. It is reproduced in black and white in Waite, Man from Halifax

between the two over the seating of black members of the congregation: Macfie wanted them separated as a group while Clarke believed that they should be integrated. His stand was unpopular and Macfie led a

.” At the heart of the matter was DeWolf’s dispute with Amos Black, the steward of the hospital. DeWolf intimated that Black was engaged in sexual irregularities with patients, observing that he “persists

(Vancouver, 1969). H. K. Ralston, “John Sullivan Deas: a black entrepreneur in British Columbia salmon canning,” BC Studies, no.32 (winter 1976–77): 64–78; “The 1900 strike of Fraser River

promotion to chief justice in 1892, Gwynne’s refusal to attend judicial conferences induced Strong (calling the kettle black) to complain of his “extreme senile irritability.” From 1894 on the government

. unmarried 25 Aug. 1904 in Avonport, N.S. William Hall grew up on the banks of the Avon River. His father, one of the black refugees

black emancipation, Stowe had become a strong proponent of equity, and her political work would be infused by a commitment to ensuring that women received the same services as men. When she returned to

, headed by Welsh-born James Thomas and his African-Nova Scotian wife, Hannah Saunders. McKerrow not only married the eldest daughter of the Thomases, but also established a hat, cap, and fur business

unions defeated by mechanization, the order viewed craft and social distinctions as divisive. Ontario workers, male and female, Catholic and Protestant, skilled and unskilled, black and white, joined the

. 1885, the day after Riel was hanged, L’Électeur appeared with a black border. Pacaud was a member of the Comité National de Québec and amongst those who wanted to transform the