at Adelaide and Victoria. Politically, Blake and Mackenzie, the latter still Liberal leader, were hardly on speaking terms, in part because Mackenzie had tried unsuccessfully to get Harvey William Burk

. Although he did not display the promotional verve of such northern advocates as Daniel Francis Burk and James Conmee

BURK, DANIEL FRANCIS, business promoter and politician; b

. Toronto retailing entrepreneur Robert Simpson* and prominent Baptists Daniel Edmund Thomson and Charles Joseph Holman were among Burke’s clients

, “schooled to hardships and adversity.” They shared his attitudes towards northern development and the exploitation of resources. He could claim credit, with Daniel Francis

. 25 Sept. 1843 in St John’s, son of Richard Howley and Eliza Burke; d

*, to hand the 3rd Division to his son, Garnet Burk*, the corps commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Hedworth George