later years and would periodically come under litigation. Bearspaw, along with his fellow leaders, repeatedly lobbied the federal government to grant the Stoney tribe additional reserve land and to

McIvor’s row-boat. The murder resulted in Lucky Man’s exclusion from the amnesty granted in 1886 to most Indian participants in the violence of the previous year

.” Presented with “such an outrageous” letter, Langevin said that he “could no longer have any personal dealings” with him and gave up on this talented priest once and for all. He granted him his release from

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

the east. He granted tax exemptions to businessmen and industrialists, while ensuring that municipal finances remained sound. Parc Dézéry and a few other areas were beautified. Hochelaga became a lively

 – to be known as the Newfoundland Northern and Western Railway – within three years on the same terms, and to operate it for ten years in return for grants of 5,000 acres of land per mile operated

Canada Works grant research paper, Yarmouth, 1977; copy at Yarmouth County Museum).

Justice John Campbell Allen* arranged the defence, and the injunction was not granted. Throughout the controversy, Roberts led his flock with

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

monopoly granted to the syndicate headed by George Stephen* and asserted that “the people of Canada were willing to pay taxes to build the road

company, securing subsidies from towns in his region and supporting government land grants to the railway. While Ross embraced current ideas and

Court to bring some order into the profession. On 11 June 1879 they assembled 11 other accountants to form an association. The group was granted a provincial charter on 24 July 1880

him as a troublemaker. By 1874 he had provoked the anger of his ultramontane friends in Quebec by suggesting that Riel should withdraw from political activity until an amnesty could be granted

magazine, doing the pictures for a four-part article written by George Monro Grant entitled “The Dominion of

clerk, and was granted land. Having returned to Devon with Simcoe in 1796, he later became manager of Simcoe’s estate, but in 1818 he came back to Upper Canada and in 1821 brought his family to his home

difficulties at various times throughout his life. On 6 June 1882 the Canadian Pacific Railway sold a large portion of its land grant to a consortium

its gratitude and granted Sedgewick an honorary lld at its spring convocation. Sedgewick’s judicial career could not

again to the less certain system of annual grants. The act assigned new responsibilities in natural history and ethnology to the survey and created four assistant directorships, changes which invited

Little* replaced Kent as leader. Shea at first refused to toe the party line on two issues: the subdivision of the Protestant education grant and the redistribution of seats under a future responsible

denominational schools. Immediately after the election Premier Haythorne made a speech supporting a grant for the Roman Catholic college, St Dunstan’s, but Sinclair and three cabinet colleagues objected