the field. His reputation was enhanced by the publication in 1898 of a gracefully written text on the subject, the first by a Canadian author. That same year he became professor of international law and

 Sept. 1851 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, son of William Lister Newcombe, a railway manager, and Eliza Jane Rymer; m

. In 1898 Blain returned to the Collège de Saint-Boniface as prefect of studies and teacher of natural science and mathematics. His competence in these fields was recognized and appreciated by the

they chronicled in a book written largely for insiders. The “gentlemen of Canada” had embarked “to learn upon the English cricket fields by the lesson of experience the best features of the good old game

, such as Frederick William Field of the Monetary Times (Toronto), took the precaution of having Chambers screen letters. Heartily endorsed by the chief censor were innocuous selections such as

BARKER, WILLIAM HENRY, businessman; b. 24 June 1853 in Manchester

Upper Canada Veterinary School (later the Ontario Veterinary College) in Toronto and to teach materia medica there. The two men also did their best to promote their field of study among farmers and

peaks became Outram’s passion. He began with routine climbs in the Swiss Alps and, in 1900 with his brother William, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where significant numbers of serious

, his love of flying led him to undertake a new career in the emerging field of civil aviation. Quigley had some dealings with the Air Board, a

Calgary Herald, which was owned by William Southam*, secured an option on the Edmonton Evening Journal in 1909 and brought Jennings

William Stevens Fielding’s controversial initiative for the repeal of confederation. Undeterred by his

*, and William Joseph O’Connor*), and team sports such as

Jennings*]. First elected as a senator of the University of Toronto in 1885, he joined its re-established faculty of medicine [see William Thomas

scientists visited their home and as a youth he joined his father and brothers in botanical and geological field observations. He was educated at schools in Maryland and Rhode Island before entering Harvard

. Henry Whitney grew up in comfortable circumstances in Conway. He and his brother William Collins (who would become secretary of the navy in Stephen Grover Cleveland’s first administration) graduated from

1901 and 1903 he had tangled with finance minister William Stevens Fielding over budgets and railways

. The chair of the city’s fire and light committee, Alderman William T

KENNEDY, WILLIAM COSTELLO, businessman and politician; b. 27

, received the authority to send two ministers – William Stevens

 Aug. 1848 in Yorkville (Toronto), son of William Arthur