Mary, England, eldest son of Edward Mott Alderson and Catherine Harriett Swainson; m
active in political life at both the national and the municipal levels. In 1900 he won election to the House of Assembly as a member of Robert
ARMOUR, EDWARD DOUGLAS, lawyer, educator, journalist, and poet; b
, Bailey found his prime duty was to teach, which he did with enthusiasm, skill, and devotion for 46 years. One of his early students, George Robert
, he formed a partnership with Edward Corrigan Emery. Beck’s strength lay in litigation, but as was common in the profession his firm also handled mortgage moneys and worked with real-estate agents, in
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In 1867 tragedy struck the family, now in London, when Aleck’s younger brother, Edward Charles, died of tuberculosis. That same year his father published his landmark treatise, Visible speech: the
Company Limited in Saint-Henri with butchers Edward Charters, William Morgan, and Robert Nicholson, leather manufacturer Pierre Claude, soap and oil maker William Strachan, and cattle dealer Robert J
ROBERT, politician and country gentleman; b. 25 Feb. 1857 in St
additional capital. In 1867, with the backing of the Bank of British North America and on the advice of his cousin Robert R. Booth of Pembroke, he bought the valuable pineries on the Madawaska River
BORLAND, ROBERT, businessman and miner; b. 28 Aug. 1839 near Bowmanville, Upper Canada, son of Hiram Borland and Ann Frank; m. 23 Feb
public tastes, Briggs provided opportunities for Canadian authors, offering them encouraging editors such as Edward Samuel
administrative skills made him far more useful than did his lacklustre oratorical ability. During World War I he ably served Albert Edward
. In October he enrolled at the Académie Julian, studying with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. Newly committed to painting, he continued at Julian’s until 1880 with Tony Robert-Fleury and
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Sometime after the demise of his newspaper, Buote who had long been interested in fox ranching, then at the height of its development [see Robert Trenholm
BURKE, ALFRED EDWARD, Roman Catholic priest, church society administrator, editor, and army chaplain; b. 8
Rome, where together they spent eight months making the most of the connections they had built up over the years with Father Brichet, Monsignor Zitelli, Bishop Ignazio Persico, and Edward Henry Cardinal
Laurier* was defeated in 1911, Carvell was a minor figure in Liberal affairs in Ottawa. Henry Robert