Robert was almost totally preoccupied with drawing, copying the illustrations from English magazines as soon as they arrived. Sarah encouraged her son and had painting materials sent from Liverpool

Great Northern in Idaho. In 1898 these pieces were merged into the Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company, controlled by an English syndicate but financed by Hill. At the same time, he tied up the other

Nasr*; Francesco Glionna]. How’s school acquired the task of teaching English to these newcomers as part

autumn of 1870, the young man tried his hand at farming, and then decided to go to the United States to learn English. Home again a few months later, he became a travelling salesman, but apparently with

instrumental music, the use of English at services, and the segregation of men and women in the synagogue. Throughout his tenure he would be forced to act as peacemaker between the two groups. Although himself a

the University of Toronto. In 1901 he graduated with a ba, having studied classics, English, and history, engaged in student politics, and edited the student newspaper the

the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal demonstrate, Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle was a French Canadian nationalist, but he enjoyed the respect of his English-speaking compatriots. The

material had been removed to satisfy the demands of a New York publisher. He threatened to prepare a French-language version to set the record straight in the province of Quebec. The book came out in English

House of Assembly to represent the mainly English-speaking riding of Westmorland, becoming the first mha of Acadian origin in New Brunswick. Pierre

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

institutions and personnel in the archdiocese and thus was Taché’s likely successor. By mid December he had also been named pastor of Winnipeg’s first and largely English-speaking parish, St Mary’s. Taché’s

removed him from the school in Saint-Lin and sent him to one in New Glasgow, a few miles from his home, where the English language and British customs prevailed. Here Wilfrid became immersed in a culture

English. Legal arrived in St Albert (Alta) in August 1881 and was sent to minister to the Peigan in October. He spent the winter of 1881–82

Edinburgh) on 20 May 1915, he complained about English tobacco. On its appearance in the News, the Imperial Tobacco Company Limited of St John’s (maker of Mayo brand cakes of tobacco

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

English-Blackfoot dictionary for a trader at Fort Calgary, and in 1884 he wrote “Ethnological notes on the astronomical customs and religious ideas of the Chokitapia or Blackfeet Indians, Canada.” The

purposes. He took little interest in his urban, Catholic, French-speaking workforce; from his days on the Island his affinities were with rural, English-speaking people. Furthermore he disliked his company’s

(Saskatoon, [1964]). Patricia Saidak, “The inception of the home economics movement in English Canada, 1890–1910: in defence of the cultural importance of the home

Edson*, portraits by English artist John Hoppner, and landscapes by French artists Adolphe Monticelli and Léon Lhermitte. Meighen assumed

] 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