interests took precedence on 23 March when a vote was taken on the location of the capital, the parliament house in Fredericton having burned the previous month. Blair and nine members of the opposition

BURNS, NELSON, teacher, Methodist minister, holiness preacher, author, and editor; b

Burns*, brought forward several proposals prepared by Sweeny. They asked that Catholic children be allowed to attend schools outside their districts, that members of religious orders be trained and

*; m. first 7 Jan. 1854 in Montreal Julia Nelson (d