record among the native peoples of British Columbia, two problems complicate their use for historical reconstruction. His idiosyncratic use of the English language, grammar, and punctuation frequently make

(MG 14, C1). An album entitled “A book of flower paintings; water colors of English and Manitoba wild flowers painted between 1842 and 1854

sold at Lampson’s. The class-conscious English society provided a strong market for the Cherry Island farm. Although Dalton and Oulton were secretive

duties. Using earlier English writers on magisterial law, he produced a valuable work, condensed and in particular made applicable to the special circumstances and customs of Newfoundland. Known popularly

.” Scott was honoured by Ontario’s English-speaking Catholics as the champion of their educational rights, but on the national stage his most famous legislative accomplishment was the Canada Temperance Act

his father, a historical novel about a young Cree chief, and many articles on the west. McDougall claimed to be more at home in the Cree language than in English, and with the Reverend Ervin Bird

English-speaking Canada’s fear of French Canadian and Catholic domination was moving it closer to the United States. Respected by associates as a “master

., Toronto, 1880–81), 4. RSC, Trans., 3rd ser., 8 (1914), proc.: vii-ix. M. B. Taylor, Promoters, patriots, and partisans: historiography in nineteenth-century English Canada (Toronto

, from all appearances by the mid 19th century it was thoroughly acculturated to English Quebec. Coutlée’s father was a miller, a militia officer, and sheriff of the district of Ottawa. William and his

(Ottawa), 21 Sept. 1867. Ramsay Cook, The regenerators: social criticism in late Victorian English Canada

 High Street where his father carried on business as a pawnbroker. In his Vancouver years he was described as “scholarly” and “well-read in the English classics,” and he was known for the breadth and

changes to enable the church to fulfil its responsibilities more efficiently, the promotion of moral reform, the preservation of Canada as a predominantly Protestant and English-speaking nation, and the

Roman Catholic clergy, respected by the English-speaking community, and able to rally the ultramontanes [see François-Xavier-Anselme

Milton. Of Irish-English parentage, Sarah Bowes was raised near Milton on the family farm, Maplehill. During her early life she lived at home

unequivocally advised him against giving it any business: “Of all the English banks it has the lowest cash reserve against the circulation and deposits.” He also took exception to the charges banks levied to

equal facility for the use of the English and French language.” In fact, while Devlin was indeed political, he was never a party man. Educated in French institutions, and married to a member of a

most popular English-language poem of the war. It caught the mood of a British public horrified by stories of atrocities, the German use of poison gas, the Zeppelin raids, and the German torpedoing of

the Acadian commission, which examined how best to teach English in the province’s French districts. McKay’s emphasis on the practical, his

, receiving ba and llb degrees and a number of honours. Called to the Irish bar in 1885, he practised for four years in Dublin. Anti-English and an

agricultural society and board of trade. In January 1896 he formally entered municipal politics by winning a seat on council for the predominantly English-speaking ward of McCormick. He served three terms as