introductory essay on Canadian poetry (Montreal, 1864), has been reprinted with an introduction by Douglas Grant Lochhead (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1973

(5v., New York, 1938–47), 3: 1–127. J. N. Grant, Black Nova Scotians (Halifax, 1980

, England, rather than the competing Allan Line, much to the discomfiture of the Conservatives. With an annual grant of $750,000, paid jointly by Canada and the British government, the firm undertook to

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

chaired meetings that drew up petitions to the government asking for representation on the Council of the North-West Territories, farming assistance, schools, land grants, and confirmation of ownership of

Tilley* of New Brunswick, called on Premier Charles Tupper* in Halifax to see if the New Brunswick company could be granted concessions which

property mortgages or life-insurance policies, on strictly limited quantities of goods. The Eaton business seems to have weathered the depression better than most and mortgage accommodation granted by the

faithful and pay homage to the power that has graciously granted it all the benefits of independence.” The activities of Fabre the diplomat can be

. 24 Oct. 1878 Bessie Grant Graham in New Glasgow, N.S., and they had four sons and three daughters, including James Gibson Laurier and Margaret Marjory, who were killed in World War

on imports of cotton textile machinery was waived from 15 March 1879 to 1 Oct. 1881. The Gaults were ideally situated to take advantage of the heightened protection granted the industry

until his death. He also gained control of Gooderham and Worts, and soon applied to parliament to have it transformed into a joint-stock corporation; letters patent were granted on 2 December with

GRANT, GEORGE MONRO, Presbyterian minister, author, and educator; b

railway policy and the granting of subsidies in lieu of provincial control of lands. The faltering economy and slowing pace of immigration to the prairies in the 1880s caused widespread dissatisfaction that

HALIBURTON, ROBERT GRANT, lawyer, author, and anthropologist; b

Dunsmuir*, but became disillusioned by the looseness with which it granted land to railway companies. In May 1902, under the influence of “four or five good-sized jolts of Scotch,” he played an

Canada. Howlan simply called on the colony’s Catholics to vote for any candidate who favoured grants for Catholic schools. On election day the liberals polled a respectable majority but, in reality, to

outspoken men such as Brown and Cartier. According to Donald Grant Creighton*, Howland, with Sicotte, stormed out of their meeting with the

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

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