. Of English parentage, George Cox was educated in the public and grammar schools of Colborne. He went to work there in 1856 as an operator for the Montreal Telegraph Company, which made him its

beginning of the 20th century he would be one of the most widely known missionaries in the English-speaking world. Duncan grew up in the shadow of the

, chrétiens (known in English as O holy night) by the French composer Adolphe-Charles Adam, and then over the question of plainchant harmonization. These debates took the form of a series of

] and exacerbation of French-English tensions in Canada meant that the idea of compulsory military service in peacetime was unlikely to be acceptable to any political partet, given the era in which

government from the English parishes of the settlement. Smith’s pleas for clemency were not successful, however, in averting the execution of Scott on 4 March. Smith and Hardisty left Upper Fort Garry 15

his francophone parliamentary colleagues, he usually made his speeches in English, with a slight accent, in order to be understood by mps from the other provinces

scrutinized the affairs of the companies over which he presided. He personally prepared meetings of the directors, during which he addressed members equally well in English or French. That he was so successful

illustré claimed that he was “handsomely” paid for the pamphlet, which was translated into English as Gold mines of Beauce in the same year. In 1883

,” Canadian Courier (Toronto), 22 June 1912: 10–11. M. M. Sotiron, “From politics to profit: the commercialization of Canadian English-language

 Horne, after his move to Montreal, began to acquire art in a serious way, as did other CPR builders and financiers. His collection of old Dutch and Flemish masters and important French, English, Spanish