. 1852), eldest daughter of James William Johnston*; m
Assiniboia. In that month James, his elder brother, George William, and other young men of the Portage la Prairie district joined the militia group under Charles Arkoll
himself. At the age of 14, according to some oral sources, he took a job as an errand boy at photographer William
, and he worked under William Froude on the staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous railway and shipping engineer. He also became interested in identifying mineral specimens and published two small
, Alfred Charles William and Harold Sidney, became more interested in the prospects for a mill in the Humber valley, and the Reids failed to secure a large block of additional timber land in the Exploits
Carter* and Sir William Vallance Whiteway between 1874 and 1882. During the election in the
. 1822 in Penryn, England, son of Robert Blenkinsop, an excise officer, and Mary —; m. first July 1846 Helen McNeill, daughter of William
within a year he was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a clerk in the freight department at Winnipeg. Here he joined the 90th (Winnipeg) Battalion of Rifles, formed by William Nassau
five of her companions to succour the hapless victims of leprosy, a malady rife in the region since the second quarter of the 19th century [see Charles-Marie
HINGSTON, Sir WILLIAM HALES, physician, surgeon, professor, author, and politician; b
faubourg Des Récollets, in partnership with his brother-in-law William Watson
thirdly 7 Sept. 1886 Elizabeth S. McKeagney, daughter of James Charles McKeagney*; d. 20 Jan. 1907 in
school and a course in business college, he worked for his brother William M., a
Tilley* of New Brunswick, called on Premier Charles Tupper* in Halifax to see if the New Brunswick company could be granted concessions which
. 26 June 1843 in Saint John, N.B., son of William Jack, a lawyer, and Emma Carleton Kenah; d
FLANNERY, WILLIAM, Roman Catholic priest, Basilian, teacher, and journalist; b
born” to seek a new home in Upper Canada, only to end up “digging their grave by so doing.” His Scottish Presbyterian father, who worked a marginal farm in East Williams Township, conveyed few advantages
. c. 1862 in Maitland, Hants County, N.S., son of Charles Cox, a shipbuilder, and Margaret Graham