lies dimly at a distance and direct one’s energies to doing what lies clearly at hand. He was also imbued with the sceptical attitudes of Sir Thomas Browne while he was still a teenager. And he
. 10 Dec. 1827 in Bandon (Republic of Ireland), son of John Keeffe (O’Keefe) and Mary Russell; m. 23 Jan. 1862 Helen Charlotte
wins and 12 losses. In 1884 he played with the St Louis Browns of the American Association. He pitched in 17
Suppliant at the Cross.”
In 1874 another turning-point occurred when the Reverend John Semmens
ten as an apprentice, married a daughter of Daniel Woodley of St Mary Church, Devon, and by the 1830s was in charge of the Conception Bay operations of the St John’s firm Brown, Hoyles and
, John William Ritchie* and Sir William Johnston Ritchie*, both
ROBERTSON, JOHN ROSS, journalist, publisher, philanthropist, historian, and sportsman; b
John M. Browning, chair of the finance committee of Vancouver City Council and also a land commissioner for the CPR and the representative of the directors financing the refinery. Headed by a
rented a boarding-house where she lodged some of the escaped slaves. In the spring of 1858 the famous American abolitionist John Brown stayed with her in St Catharines, though by then Auburn had
. 5 Feb. 1867 in Lower Woodstock, N.B., seventh of the nine children of John William Scott and Sarah A. Teeling; d. 22 June 1918 in Augusta, Maine
Brown*, an mla and editor of the Globe, in the backwoods community of Huntingdon, Lower Canada. The first issue of his Canadian Gleaner appeared on 18
Sheppard and moved to the nearby Toronto Opera House, a vaudeville and melodrama theatre on the circuit of Henry R. Jacobs of New York and his Montreal partner John Bolingbroke
.
In 1858 Tupper had been unwilling to make a formal commitment to union with Canada but in 1860, when he spoke in Saint John on “The political condition of British North America,” he openly advocated it
,” appointed on 7 Oct. 1878, after the defeat of the Mackenzie government and two days before power was handed back to Sir John A
Douglass*, both single-taxers, he founded the Toronto Anti-Poverty Society around 1887. Wood was equally active in the Young Men’s Liberal Club in Toronto, where he met John Stephen
. 24 May 1835 in Galt (Cambridge), Upper Canada, son of John Young and Janet Bell; m. 11 Feb. 1858 Margaret McNaught in Brantford