former agriculturist, developed sympathy for the economic complaints of Manitobans. From shortly after his arrival, he urged Macdonald to accede to some of their demands by granting better financial terms

 120 to 30, Ballantyne sold his farm and, with the help of a provincial grant

 Catharines office, at King’s College in Toronto, which granted him a ba ad eundem in 1845, and at Harvard University Law School, from which he received an

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

northern Ontario to avoid the alienation of rich land grants to speculators. Bertram’s interest in transportation led Laurier in 1903 to appoint him a

Blair was settled in 1885; in December the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council announced its decision, on the McCarthy Act reference, that the power to grant liquor licences vested in the provinces as

, [1929]). DNB. A. C. Garrioch, A hatchet mark in duplicate (Toronto, 1929). J. W. Grant, Moon of wintertime: missionaries and the Indians of Canada in encounter

of a grant of £500 to the Hôpital de Saint-Boniface and his support of a bill to incorporate the diocese of St Boniface which permitted it unlimited landholding were hurled against him. His

the period had yet to grant patients the same degree of freedom, but similar practices would soon be adopted by Drs

become an mla) and George Jr as junior partners. By this time Burchill had vastly increased his timber limits. His holdings represented 3.7 per cent of the total leases granted in New Brunswick in 1880 and

affiliation which would assure it university status and degree-granting powers. The school became the medical faculty of Bishop’s College and opened its doors on 4 Oct. 1871. Campbell was appointed

British practice. He was rewarded in 1882 when the Macdonald government introduced conditional grants for this purpose. To qualify, cities had to have local boards of health and salaried health officers

task of theological reconstruction that might face the church. “The Church started out with a revelation of truth,” he told Donaldson Grant in an interview in 1902, “which could not be disproved and

it had failed to keep its promises on such matters as prohibiting the granting of land, timber, and mineral rights to mps and friends, an issue that had claimed his

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

1858 thanks to a grant he obtained through George-Étienne Cartier*. Côté has to his credit as well works by Arthur

provincial government of James Pliny Whitney*. Responsible for supervising the granting and renewal of liquor licences and the enforcement of

standing committee formed to lobby for the bridge and a grant of land for the railway extension. The return of the federal Conservatives under Prime Minister Sir John A

.” 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

missed his date with fame, when permission to participate in the St Louis games was refused him by the Montreal police. Although his superiors would not grant him an unpaid leave of absence, he went