Hamilton*, frequently worked with emigrants from the Edinburgh area, including Richard Dobie*, and with the little group of Grants from
attended the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton, Ont. The curriculum of this institution placed a special emphasis on the arts, and as well as receiving a sound academic education, she learned to paint and
the Colonial Office refused, but Governor Ker Baillie* Hamilton (who had been supporting the council) was instructed to reconcile the
active career, he built over 100 vessels, more than any other Quebec shipbuilder except Thomas Hamilton Oliver, but their 55,000 tons was exceeded by the production of Pierre-Vincent
, when he was allowed by the American commander to journey to York (Toronto). He conducted services in a Lutheran church at York and also in Ancaster and in Barton Township (Hamilton) before taking
in Montreal, kept up an active correspondence with the national office, and frequently gave advice. Yet open hostility became apparent in 1906 when the standard bearer of the Hamilton chapter, while
funerals, he would have to be ordained and he would need a chapel. Prince William Sport and John Hamilton, deacons of the congregation, collected money to send him to England to be ordained and to raise
Smith*. Smith had close ties with the powerful merchants of the Niagara peninsula such as Robert Hamilton
first marriage, his second wife (his first wife’s sister), and the three children of that marriage. In 1836 the Shanly entourage moved through New York City, Toronto, and Hamilton to some improved acreage
for William Hamilton Merritt Jr (1850), a chancel and transepts for St John’s (now St Mark’s) Church (Anglican) at Port Hope (1851), St John’s Church (Anglican) in Thorold (1852
prominence when Robert Hamilton recommended him as justice of the peace in June 1796; he was commissioned the
the convention of separate school teachers in Hamilton, where he was elected recording and corresponding secretary as well as a member of the committees on the convention’s constitution and by-laws and
Tupper* as essential – Williams admitted to Arthur Hamilton Gordon*, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, that the omission had
Manners-Sutton* succeeded in forcing them out of office. In 1856 the Conservatives were back in power. In this short-lived administration led by John Hamilton
], “Historical sketches: no.45, Rev. E. F. Wilson,” Canadian Church Magazine and Mission News (Hamilton, Ont.), 4 (1890): 49–51. His life until 1893 is covered in detail in D. A. Nock
ability to do complex calculations in his head. By 1871 Abbott owned 42 houses, five vacant lots, and a warehouse, most of which were in Toronto, with others in Hamilton and Owen Sound. He helped
captain in the newly formed Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, financed by the Montreal millionaire Andrew Hamilton
Types of Canadian women . . . , ed. H. J. Morgan (Toronto, 1903) and in the Toronto Evening Telegram obituary of 11 April 1913. [I. M. Marjoribanks Hamilton
director of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada [see Mathew Hamilton Gault*]. He was also a director of the Canada Paper
Governor Henry Hamilton* in his efforts to meet the merchants’ needs. Antrobus also participated in advancing certain claims in economic and social
Pitt Archibald and Phœbe Ann Huestis; m. 25 Jan. 1893, in Hamilton, Ont., Captain Jessie Butler of the Salvation Army, and they had two daughters; d. 17 Jan. 1922 in Ottawa
, n.d.). C. G. Roland and Paul Potter, An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826–1975 ([Hamilton, Ont.], 1979). Neville Terry, The Royal Vic: the story of
Armstrong, supported by commissioners Augustus Toplady Freed, a journalist and the editor of the Hamilton Spectator since 1881, and Michael A. J. Walsh, clashed with the secretary of the
Hamilton*, and C. A. Low – to obtain a monopoly on exploitation of timber on the Gatineau River. This profitable partnership, in which each participant took out 2,000 sticks of red pine
and the Liberal-Conservative merger, Badgley decided to retire, but was prevailed upon to change his mind. He was then defeated in the Montreal riding by the Liberal candidate, Luther Hamilton
speak in the Ontario ridings of Brantford and Hamilton East. The Liberals narrowly held the former and lost the latter constituency, but won a comfortable majority nationwide. Afterwards, Bain
Esquimaux (Hamilton Inlet), a site Fornel had discovered in 1743 and renamed Baie Saint-Louis. At the time of his death he had been petitioning for a monopoly of its trade. Intendant Gilles
Hamilton Merritt* on domestic steel production, George Monro Grant
Vincent*’s pre-arranged plan, Bisshopp withdrew his troops from Fort Erie to join the main force at Burlington Heights (Hamilton). From this location on 6 June Lieutenant-Colonel John
major builders at Quebec. James and John Jeffery, John James Nesbitt, John* and David Gilmour, John Munn, and especially Thomas Hamilton Oliver
lucrative claims on Little Snowshoe.
About 1884 Vieth and Borland purchased the 150 Mile stopping-house on the Cariboo Road from Gavin Hamilton, a former
Smith*’s anti-confederation government fell later that month, Lieutenant Governor Arthur Hamilton Gordon* called upon Botsford to
costly and inefficient. He urged the appointment of an engineer from England “free from the trammels of local associations and interests.” Much to Boxer’s professed surprise Hamilton Hartley
served at churches in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, London, Cobourg, and Belleville.
By the late 1870s Briggs was at the height of a successful
).
Canadian Baptist Arch., McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, Ont.), Mrs I. C. [Ruth] Morgan, “Women’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario (West), 1876–1952” in “The B.W.M.S. story: a
Charlotte Saxton; m. first 11 March 1817 Jane Hamilton in London; m. secondly Mary Carne Vivian; d. 25 April 1855 in Penzance, England
. Methodist Church (Canada, Newfoundland, Bermuda), Toronto Conference, Minutes (Toronto), 1885: 14–15. Canada Christian Advocate (Hamilton, Ont.), 13, 27 March, 22 May, 12 June
, ff.210–10v; 101, ff.5–6v; 102, ff.9–11; 103, ff. 111–12v; D2C, 222, f.325; F3, 14, ff. 159v–60. Bougainville, Journals (Hamilton). JR (Thwaites), LXIX
National Library of Canada, Ottawa). Grand General Indian Council of Ontario and Quebec, Minutes (Hamilton, Ont.), 1870; (Sarnia, Ont.), 1874; (Hagersville, Ont.), 1882, 1884. B. M. Hall
according to M. W. Hamilton, “The Johnson portraits,” Johnson papers (Sullivan et al.), XIII, the one in civilian dress may be of his son William. Claus was author of
Hamilton*. That year they were elected members of the House of Assembly for the riding of 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lincoln; they were re-elected in 1804. Together they proposed legislation championing the
other relatives were Sir Thomas John Cochrane*, an early governor of Newfoundland, and Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton
Hamilton*, Ephraim Jones*, William Macomb, John McDonell*, Peter Russell, David William
the incorporation of a good number of companies in association with his business partners and such other Montreal luminaries as Luther Hamilton
(Hamilton, Ont.), Aylmer Baptist Church (Aylmer, Ont.), church minute-book, June 1848-January 1888; Biog. file, Reuben Crandall, especially certificate to Crandall, 9 April 1805. PAC, RG
lives, leaving only a memory behind, but an inspiring memory.”
Thomas Hamilton
Tilley*, and John Hamilton Gray, who made Saint John into a dynamic commercial city. He served in
1797. Danforth was, as he put it, “connected . . . in Settling” the townships of Haldimand, Hamilton, Percy, and Cramahe, and to demonstrate that the proprietors’ obligations had been met in
12 children; m. secondly 9 Feb. 1907 Rosa Bessie Talbot in Hamilton, Ont.; d. 21 March 1921 in Toronto.
A son of Baptist parents