. 24 May 1835 in Galt (Cambridge), Upper Canada, son of John Young and Janet Bell; m. 11 Feb. 1858 Margaret McNaught in Brantford
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
,” appointed on 7 Oct. 1878, after the defeat of the Mackenzie government and two days before power was handed back to Sir John A
.
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
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
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
. 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
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
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
ROBERTSON, JOHN ROSS, journalist, publisher, philanthropist, historian, and sportsman; b
, John William Ritchie* and Sir William Johnston Ritchie*, both
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
Suppliant at the Cross.”
In 1874 another turning-point occurred when the Reverend John Semmens
wins and 12 losses. In 1884 he played with the St Louis Browns of the American Association. He pitched in 17
. 10 Dec. 1827 in Bandon (Republic of Ireland), son of John Keeffe (O’Keefe) and Mary Russell; m. 23 Jan. 1862 Helen Charlotte
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
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
McLAUGHLIN, JOHN JAMES pharmacist and manufacturer; b
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