HANNA, WILLIAM JOHN, teacher, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b
Harris’s extensive experience in illustration, John Gordon Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe, commissioned him to go to Lucan, Ont., where on 4 Feb. 1880 James
Sept. 1835 in Paisley, Scotland, son of John Hart, a stationer and bookseller, and Jean Mason Semple; m. 16 Aug. 1872 Isabella Margaret
1892. Her column focused on recipes, household hints, and garden advice, but contained inspirational tales of career women and assertive wives and mothers as well. During John Stephen
, Guelph, and Aurora, Ont., respectively, searched their files for material. Particular thanks are extended to Jacquie Brown of the Huron County Pioneer Museum, Goderich, Ont., for thoroughly checking the
Oxford House (Man.), third child of John Isbister and Frances Sinclair; m. 1 Jan. 1859 Margaret Bear at “Nepowewin Station” (Nipawin, Sask.), and they had at least 16
wound, he gave his friend Jaffray a directorship in the Globe Printing Company. In 1882, two years after Brown’s unexpected death and the appointment of his brother, John Gordon, as managing editor
Franciscan friary in Trois-Rivières. Wearing a wretched skimpy brown coat, fasting and sleeping on the ground, Father Frédéric went from parish to parish and from house to house, braving inclement weather, bad
, Johnson was native by birth, her father being a Mohawk of the wolf clan. The great-granddaughter of Tekahionwake (Jacob Johnson), whose name she would later adopt, and the granddaughter of John “Smoke
of 1812; m. first John F. Brown (d. in or before 1871); m. secondly 9 Jan. 1877 Alexander C. Bailey (d. 1886) in Halifax; m. there thirdly 4 Feb. 1911 George Washington
LABATT, JOHN, businessman; b. 11 Dec. 1838 in Westminster Township
LANGMUIR, JOHN WOODBURN, businessman, politician, and civil servant; b
of the 1st Infantry Brigade, was assigned to capture the advance Blue and Brown lines. Despite fierce German resistance, the operation was crowned with success
LINEHAM, JOHN, businessman and politician; b. 21 March 1857 in Mitchell, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Lineham
LOWE, JOHN, newspaperman, civil servant, and farm developer; b. 20 Feb. 1824 in Warrington (Cheshire
some of Dunsmuir’s friends. Then, in September 1901 Dunsmuir named John Cunningham Brown, an ally of Martin, to his cabinet. McBride immediately resigned on a point of principle, that Dunsmuir had
McLAUGHLIN, JOHN JAMES pharmacist and manufacturer; b
was called to the bar of the North-West Territories within four weeks of his arrival, and became the junior partner of Thomas Brown Lafferty. Since Lafferty’s brother James D. was the mayor of