Board of Works [see Hamilton Hartley Killaly*]; their report led to a reorganization of the department. His middle-of-the
Elizabeth Labatt in Hamilton, Ont., and they had a daughter and a son; d. 26 Aug. 1929 near Prescott.
John Dowsley Reid’s mother came from a
. Horticultural Studies (Hamilton, Ont.), Coll. of Canadian nursery and seed catalogues, William Rennie Co. Ltd., catalogues, 1882–1920; William Rennie
. PRO, CO 42/467, 42/468, 42/497; CO 43/98, 43/101, 43/102, 43/144–45 (copies at PAC). Wentworth Land Registry Office (Hamilton, Ont.), Alphabetical index to deeds, Ancaster Township (mfm. at AO, GS 1394
, 1866). W. H. Withrow, Barbara Heck: a tale of early Methodism (Toronto, 1895). J. W. Hamilton, “Address at the unveiling of the monument to Barbara Heck,” Christian
of the Province of Canada to replace Luther Hamilton Holton* who had resigned to seek a seat in the assembly. As a legislative
.
Trained as a surveyor and engineer in England, Collingwood Schreiber immigrated to Toronto with his family in 1852 and joined the engineering staff of the Hamilton and Toronto Railway. In 1856 he entered
1747, the president of the New Jersey Council, John Hamilton, received word from Schuyler that the Jersey troops had mutinied and threatened to quit “if they do not Receive his Majesty’s Pay that was
, whose own sons evidently had died young, was also entrusted with the guardianship of Finlay’s three minor sons, Hamilton, Charles, and George, and later with the trusteeship of Morrogh’s boy, Robert
schools in Peterborough, Hamilton, Stratford, and North Bay in 1906 and later in raising the requirements for university admission. Not all of Whitney’s major measures, however, were devised or condoned by
and shopkeepers in Victoria on 17 Sept. 1878. When Shakespeare’s assistant was accused by Tai Sing of illegally seizing and selling his property, justice John Hamilton
Feb. 1913, 8 May 1915. Globe, 9-10 May 1915. Hamilton Spectator, 5 Sept., 7 Nov. 1913. News (Toronto), 8, 10 May 1915. Toronto Daily Star, 27
president. Ironically, these steps paved the way for the Americanization of the game and the competitive decline of the small-town clubs. After 1886, when Toronto and Hamilton joined the International League
Small, he consolidated his holdings by buying theatres in such centres as Hamilton, Kingston, Toronto, St Thomas, and Peterborough. In the process Small, who in 1906 was elected president of the
governors of McMaster University [see William McMaster*] in Hamilton, Ont., which was chaired by Toronto businessman Albert Edward
place during the last session of the provincial parliament (Hamilton, [Ont.], 1857; 2nd ed., Toronto, 1858).
PAC, MG 24, D16, 56; RG 5, C1
. . . , comp. T. S. Shenston (Hamilton, [Ont.], 1852). E. D. Tillson, Record of George and Nancy Tillson’s family, chronological history of the ancestry and posterity of Edwin D
J. H. Todd. Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1893, no.10c. Canada Christian Advocate (Hamilton, [Ont.]), 8 March 1854. Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle
[I. M. Marjoribanks* Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of] Aberdeen [and Temair], The Canadian journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893
shipbuilder except Thomas Hamilton Oliver, who constructed a total of 88,000 tons.
From 1848 to 1859 Valin built, or had ships built, at three locations
Michael’s, even before he was named provincial in 1874, Vincent had been exercising a supervisory role. The community’s only other house in 1865 was in Owen Sound, in the diocese of Hamilton. In 1867 Vincent
hotel-keeper, also built organs, including one locally for St James Lutheran Church, which appointed Augustus organist at age 12. After studying in Hamilton, in 1878 he
century town” (phd thesis, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., 1983), 98–102, 138, 140–43, 146, 151.
: W2/14. Wentworth Land Registry Office (Hamilton, Ont.), Abstract index to deeds, Ancaster Township (mfm. at AO). Documents relating to the invasion of Canada and the surrender of Detroit, 1812
James Jones in Hamilton, and later with Archibald Gilkison of Brantford. Through the influence of Jones, he was appointed clerk of the county court and deputy clerk of the crown in Brant County in 1853
. Elected about 1890 as vice-president for Ontario of the American Pomological Society, he also wrote for its reports. He was a corresponding member of the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of
Mechanics’ Institutes of Ontario, read at the annual meeting at Hamilton, on 22nd September, 1880 (Toronto, 1880); Our national future, being five letters by Hon. James Young
every subsequent contest until elevated to the bench. He served as solicitor general in John Hamilton Gray*’s short-lived
., Hamilton, Ont.
Bengough’s major publications, other than Grip (1873–94), include: The Grip cartoons, vols. I and II, May
General Lord Aberdeen [Hamilton-Gordon*] now had a difficult choice. The cabinet had been held together, disciplined one might
acquisition of steamers for the run from Hamilton, Canada West, to Oswego, N.Y. Territorial acquisition in the southwestern traffic area was, in contrast, vital. His British committee assumed that absorption of
John McAlpine Cameron of Inverness-shire, Scotland, and Nancy Foy of Northumberland, England; m. 1 Dec. 1851 Charlotte Ross Wedd (d. 14 Jan. 1868) of Hamilton, Canada West, and they
, and strove to minimize the disintegrating effects of factionalism. It is clear why Senator John Hamilton*, in a letter to Campbell in
managerial position with his growing firm, Aikins, Culver, and Hamilton. Campbell explained to his sweetheart that if he remained in Ontario it would simply take too long “to make that progress which ambitious
western portions of the diocese were separated into two new bishoprics, Hamilton and London, and three months later John Farrell* and Pierre-Adolphe
encourage better farming in Canada West through the holding of regular agricultural exhibitions. In August he was delegate to a meeting at Hamilton which set up the Provincial Agricultural Association. This
Côte-Saint-Paul (Montreal), and was buried first in Hamilton and then in Goderich, Upper Canada.
William Dunlop, the son of a local banker, was
photographed. In addition to the centre’s collection of his art, important holdings are those of the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ont.); the National Gallery of Canada and the NA, Documentary Art and
(Ottawa); the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ont.), the Art Gallery of Ontario, the CTA, and the Hist. Picture Coll. of the
*. Persisting in their opposition when Lieutenant Governor Arthur Hamilton Gordon* prorogued the legislature after dismissing Albert James
the passing of his mother and father. He soon set to work writing his father’s biography, co-authored with journalist Charles Frederick Hamilton. The South African War (1899–1902) was then making
the firm of E. and J. Stinson in Hamilton. Hodgins showed promise as a businessman, but he nevertheless enrolled in the Methodist Victoria College at Cobourg in 1841. He quickly became one of
Mackenzie* to be erected on Parliament Hill. For the latter, in order to spare sensitivities, the contract was signed jointly with the English Canadian sculptor Hamilton Thomas Carleton Plantagenet
Blake*, Luther Hamilton Holton*, and Antoine-Aimé Dorion*, he said
others. It is likely that he had a hand in alterations made about that time to Dundurn, the Hamilton mansion of Sir Allan Napier MacNab
. Private arch., Duke of Hamilton (Lennoxlove, Scot.), Hamilton muniments, Brown papers (National Reg. of Arch. (Scotland) (Edinburgh), Survey no.2177), bundle 1515, Macdonald of Boisdale to Robert Brown, 1
Women’s Christian Association in Hamilton, and in 1896–97 she instigated the Women’s Institute movement. In 1900, largely as a result of her efforts, the Ontario Normal School of Domestic Science and Art
hospital practices. Among his patients were members of the family of Governor General Lord Aberdeen [Hamilton