novel of Charles William Gordon* (Ralph Connor). As an athlete, Hugh McKinnon epitomized one aspect of the attempt by late-19th-century

. 2 Nov. 1842 in Studholm Parish, N.B., son of William Augustus Wiggins Stockton and Sarah Oldfield; m

Gault, Charles Ross Whitehead*, and others, he got the

. 23 Aug. 1851 in Belleisle (Belleisle Creek), N.B., son of William Walker and Patience Taylor; m

. 7 April 1840 in Crosby Township, Upper Canada, son of the Reverend William Young and Amanda Waldron; m

Desbarats*, the son of George-Paschal, and William Augustus Leggo* Jr were

Norquay* authorizing the building of railway lines within the province, Killam ran as a Provincial Rights candidate in the election of January 1883. He defeated the Conservative candidate Charles

Ottawa occasioned by the resignation of prominent Roman Catholic politician Richard William Scott*. A nomination meeting chose O’Donoghue

Maunsell] and the other in Toronto [see Sir William Dillon Otter*], he was sent to England in the summer of 1883 to

WHITEWAY, Sir WILLIAM VALLANCE, lawyer and politician; b

committees of council. The resignation of William Henry Boulton* as mayor led to Read’s election on 11

. Jessop left Oshawa on 25 April 1859 in company with Elijah Duff of Belleville and four other adventurers. They travelled by steamer to Fort William (Thunder Bay), where they purchased a north

since 1867. He was elected for the ruling Conservatives with a majority of 777 over his Liberal opponent, Charles Leduc, but his political career would be short. Running as an independent in 1875, he lost

Ireland, eventually to become the mayor of Cork. The Newfoundlander was taken over by his brothers William Richard* and Ambrose as

Edgar*, and John Hoskin. Under the name of Strong and Matheson, he also worked in partnership with William Marshall Matheson. During the first

received his early education under the Reverend William Young Porter, who was amazed by his pupil’s “quickness of perception, and the intellectual grasp which he exhibited.” Encouraged by this assessment, in

, Ont.), where he was briefly in partnership with William L. Baker, a local merchant, to supply goods for CPR contracts. McLennan himself contracted

and the grain-elevator owners [see William Watson Ogilvie*]. Within little more than a year the organization had disappeared

Braithwaite, subsequently a famous hunter, trapper, and the first non-native guide in the province, and Lieutenant William Smythe Maynard Wolfe, who painted water-colours of hunting trips with Gabe and other

. 27 Feb. 1830 in London, England, son of William Wood and Anne Aston Key; d. unmarried 26