passed a by-law in 1893 authorizing bonuses and a generous land grant for the establishment of an iron-smelting works and the subsequent erection of a steelworks, Wood and other leading Hamilton and

, however, he decided to enter the ministry of the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist New Connexion Church and was stationed at Waterford. Because of his father’s ill health, he was granted leave in 1862–63. It was

in eclipse, commercial union (and unrestricted reciprocity) was a dead issue in Canada. Ian Grant, Wiman’s closest student, records that he “failed to comprehend how determined Canadians had been

history of the Nova Scotia legislature, by denouncing the granting away of these lands in the previous two decades until only about 1,500,000 of an original 2,500,000 acres remained. The next year

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

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

 27); m. there secondly 30 Oct. 1860 Margaret Grant Cook, eldest daughter of John

settlers to obtain land grants and furnished them with information on agriculture and animal husbandry. The objective was not only to lead them back to an agricultural way of life but also to create new

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

though the British government, he strongly suspected, might find it impossible to grant their requests. The imperial government also wanted Newfoundland

government of John Sandfield Macdonald* announced the elimination of yearly grants to universities. These two developments reduced Queen’s

building of a synagogue. For two decades he urged the appointment of a city welfare officer to supervise grants to social agencies, a cause that succeeded in 1893 only after Smith agreed to pay the officer’s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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