responsible for raising a portion of school funds. When that amount was in place, the Executive Council would provide a grant for teachers’ salaries. The Victoria school district, whose residents had balked at

during the 1860s and 1870s, Mackenzie’s letters to Jones evince considerable solicitude towards Nova Scotians. Thus the Liberal attack of 1870 on the method of granting “better terms” to Nova Scotia was

excellent connections with the Conservative party, he also urged the federal government to grant the bands more control over their own administration. After he failed to obtain sufficient power for them, he

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

secured by law; the school system should be as simple as possible; and there must be freedom of conscience. Support would be provided in part by provincial grants, in part by a general county assessment

establishment of a school separate from the university but associated with it for the teaching of the sciences and the granting of degrees [see John Robinson

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

separate French-speaking parish in Alexandria. The bishop refused to grant the request, going so far as dismissing both Poitras and his successor when the petitions did not cease

or elimination of certain grants and over the trust left by James Leith* added to the church’s problems. The hoped-for funding from central

told as a thrilling adventure story. During his first furlough Mackay had been granted an honorary dd by Queen’s College

records and memorabilia held by Vincent Massey Tovell of Toronto, a grandson. Mr Tovell granted the author access to his collection, and provided

of the school inspector Valentin-Auguste Landry* he also obtained provincial grants for the convent school

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

 1898. Her high-spiritedness is much in evidence in a lively attack on the social privilege granted married people in her essay “Is marriage

Sicotte* was defeated in the legislature and Sandfield was granted a dissolution. Anxious to strengthen his hand at the general election, he consulted Brown and Mowat, both of whom now accepted that no

a direct grant, opted for a special relief commissioner and fund. Murray was appointed in mid March 1895; he arrived in Newfoundland in early April. Working in conjunction with committees already

Grant. He wrote the section on Prince Edward Island and co-authored those on Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Murray also became known as an author of hymns. In later years he took a railway

of public lands, uniform decimal currency, secularization of the clergy reserves, abolition of legislated privileges to religious bodies, public grants to improve agriculture, and improvements in

community, however, he had gained sufficient status among Orangemen – only Orangemen were admitted to the IOF – to have a special dispensation granted

set down the principles of a new railway policy. The government established priorities, ending land grants to railway companies in order not to harm the colonization movement, but giving them subsidies