27); m. there secondly 30 Oct. 1860 Margaret Grant Cook, eldest daughter of John
magazine, doing the pictures for a four-part article written by George Monro Grant entitled “The Dominion of
Tilley* of New Brunswick, called on Premier Charles Tupper* in Halifax to see if the New Brunswick company could be granted concessions which
questions of the Vancouver Island extension, which was now being downgraded to a secondary line, and the lands that the province had been obliged to grant Ottawa as a subsidy for the railway. Frustrated by
and frequently received prizes in the art section of the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition. In 1893, because she had been granted the exclusive right to photograph the exhibition grounds, her colleagues
United States frequently, and attended the International Congress of Women in London in 1899. At home, however, she began to encounter set-backs. Although her school had received the first provincial grant
early as 1886 he urged the New Brunswick assembly to grant the vote to all adult women; he introduced resolutions in support of female enfranchisement in at least 1889, 1894, 1895, and 1897. His rationale
involved the federal government in other matters concerning waterfronts and transport in southern New Brunswick by persuading it to commit funds or grant subsidies, particularly in the construction in the
Upper Canadian family. Both his parents were of United Empire Loyalist descent, and his great-grandfather George Playter was one of the original recipients of land grants in York (Toronto) in September
.”
George Dawson’s sudden death of bronchitis in 1901, only 15 months after the death of his father, shocked many who had come to take his awesome physical and intellectual accomplishments for granted. He
Charles William Grant, Baron de Longueuil.
The Roes had grown up in the Church of England and, as Henry later recalled, it was “settled some way or other
Greenway took office in 1888, the Free Press soon turned against it as well, reporting every sign of cabinet backsliding and perfidy, such as giving the CPR grants for the extension of
commissioner, along with Byron Moffatt Britton, to investigate mining in the Yukon, a commission established in response to resentment in the Yukon towards the exclusive concession granted by the federal
of a large block of territory extending from Penetanguishene to Batchawana Bay, each Ojibwa band was granted a reserve and other considerations. Dokis selected an island in the French River known as
alliance of industry and finance resulted in the establishment over the years of the bank policy of granting longer-term loans and loans against the collateral of warrants, which favoured industrialists
method of granting crown lands for grazing on the prairies of southern Alberta. In the United States grazing rights were usually granted once a particular tract was occupied, but Cochrane declared that in
though the British government, he strongly suspected, might find it impossible to grant their requests.
The imperial government also wanted Newfoundland
HALIBURTON, ROBERT GRANT, lawyer, author, and anthropologist; b
new buildings, but the department was not prepared to grant more funding to the experimental school. In 1879 Hunter charged its bursar, Walter Nicholl Hossie, with obstruction and with providing it with
Canada Works grant research paper, Yarmouth, 1977; copy at Yarmouth County Museum).