Wilson*, William Dawson LeSueur, William Henry

DAWSON, SAMUEL EDWARD, businessman, publisher, author, and civil servant; b. 1 June 1833 in Halifax, second son of Benjamin

Fort McPherson to Dawson, a distance of some 470 miles. Given the competitive spirit within the police, Fitzgerald undoubtedly saw this trip as an opportunity to break the time record set by an earlier

to mark the tercentenary of Samuel de Champlain*’s founding of Quebec. Fresh from his battlefield victory, he decided to transform the

. 20 Feb. 1846 in Hagle’s Corners, near Ingersoll, Upper Canada, second son of Samuel Hagle and Eliza Ann Tapley; m. 13 Sept. 1870

, England, eldest of the ten children of Samuel Lucas, a brewer, and Florence Davy; m. there 2 April 1892 William Henry Thompson, a customs clerk of Winnipeg, and they had one son; d. 4

a superintendent, Samuel William Wells, and about a dozen foremen. There were some 180 subcontractors or bench-hands, each of whom could recruit three or four workers, often women or children, as

unit was to be recruited in Canada but was to be part of the British army. Samuel Benfield Steele of the

STEELE, Sir SAMUEL BENFIELD, NWMP officer and army officer; b