June 1850 in Halifax, eldest son of William Hudson Creighton and Anna Fairbanks; cousin of folklorist Mary Helen

Christianity. They had heard that a Church of England missionary was heading there “to sow tares in our fields,” and wished to forestall him; the “race for souls” was intense in this era. Sometime in November

COLLISON, WILLIAM HENRY, Church of England missionary and clergyman; b. 12

a year later they fielded candidates in some 50 constituencies. To the surprise of many, the Patrons captured 17

 Dec. 1849 in Chilvers Coton (Nuneaton), England, son of William Reader and Mary Ann Hill; m

Field. About 1890 Trounce left the partnership, and William and John formed Hull Brothers and Company. By 1891 they were the largest

Denison, William Alexander Foster*, and Robert Grant

active on the city council, the library board, and the cricket field. In his spare time, perhaps with an eye to broader political involvement, he learned to speak

SMITH, WILLIAM HARLEY, physician, army officer, and consular agent; b. 23

. Eliza Ann, who supported commercial reciprocity with the United States [see William Stevens Fielding

a missionary in Fort William (Thunder Bay) and then in Toronto. It was there, as a student at Knox College, that he witnessed the realities of inner-city poverty and vice and began to see city

BRYMNER, WILLIAM, artist and educator; b. 14

, Frederick William Borden*, supported the general’s efforts to promote military service, reorganize the headquarters staff, improve

SPENCER, JOSEPH WILLIAM WINTHROP, geologist, teacher, geomorphologist, and author; b. 26

. Though a long-time Conservative, Grant joined the United Farmers of Ontario, the agrarian movement formed in 1914. When it fielded candidates in the provincial election of October 1919, he reluctantly

staff duties to develop plans and procedures for a militia that was becoming an army [see Sir Frederick William

which Field-Marshal Earl Haig unveiled the memorial. Two months later Newfoundland was visited by the Special Service Squadron of the Royal

figureheads. For more than a year he was employed as a carver at a number of workshops in lower Manhattan. He was first taken on as an assistant by William Boulton, a marble carver from London, England, who

from the Fraser valley to Barkerville [see William Barker*], where he teamed up with three other prospectors. Despite a few lucrative

February 1863 he entered into partnership with William Henry Beatty*, who by the turn of the century would use his marital connection to the