and his second wife, Mary Hamilton; m. first 1794 Anna Todd (d. 1805); m. secondly 1815 his cousin Lady Katherine Douglas, sister of Thomas

Hamilton as attorney general, David Henry Wilson as minister of public works, and Joseph Burke, an Irish Catholic, as provincial secretary and representative of the French element in the assembly. Harrison

city’s revenue base, involved amending provincial legislation. Invariably – at least until 1872, when Luther Hamilton Holton* of

Baillie Hamilton, and the new colonial secretary, Sir George Grey, viewed as unsuitable for Newfoundland because of the religious divisions in the colony [see Edward Mortimer

 Aberdeen [Hamilton-Gordon*], lord lieutenant of Ireland, and Lady Aberdeen

 Dec. 1876. Evening Telegram (Toronto), 7 Oct. 1910. Hamilton Spectator, 2 Sept. 1868. Appletons

in Great Britain. Luther Hamilton Holton*, a powerful Montreal Liberal, persuaded Huntington not to step down as the cabinet’s

June and July he went on a tour of Quebec, Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, London, and Detroit, and then, when it proved to be highly successful, on another that included Quebec, Rimouski, Halifax

. and Research Coll., Hamilton, Ont. Letters to lawyer Arthur Henry O’Brien and some manuscript poems are in the Lorne and Edith Pierce Coll. of Canadian mss at QUA

thesis, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., 1977). W. H. Cole, “The local history of the town of Brockville,” OH, 12 (1914): 33–41. E. M. Richards [McGaughey], “The Joneses of Brockville and

Dorion late in 1863 to succeed the faltering Bank of Upper Canada as the government’s fiscal agent [see Luther Hamilton

), Ontario (Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Berlin (Kitchener), and Cobalt), and Quebec (Montreal), delivering dozens of lectures. When he was not coping with a hectic travel schedule

Sir David wrote a description of Newfoundland based on a visit of uncertain date, and on 13 Nov. 1637 he was made co-proprietor of that island with the Marquis (later Duke) of Hamilton and the

 – loyalist,” OH, XLV (1953), 97–108. M. W. Hamilton, “Sir William Johnson’s wives,” New York History (Cooperstown), XXXVIII (1957), 18–28. Jean Johnston, “Ancestry and descendants

Railway, of Guelph and Hamilton. Laidlaw did not take part in the construction of the two lines but transferred his attention to the Fenelon Falls region

[Marjoribanks], wife of Lord Aberdeen [Hamilton-Gordon

.] Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Ont. Arch. (Kingston), Group 11, John Stuart papers. AO, ms 35 (mfm. at McMaster Univ. Library, Hamilton, Ont.); MU 2923, ser.A

obtained the lucrative lease of the king’s posts for 16 years at £400 a year [see Henry Hamilton*]. The acquisition was made

Liberals were dumbfounded: Mackenzie and Wilfrid Laurier* privately condemned Letellier’s action, and Luther Hamilton

attending the Vatican Council in Rome. (As a result of Lynch’s appointment, the diocese of Toronto became a metropolitan see with the bishops of the dioceses of Kingston, Hamilton, and London as suffragans

McCarthy* at Hamilton in 1834 nicely demonstrate Macaulay’s good sense and his understanding of human failings. A deep-seated concern for the orderly regulation of justice and for prison conditions is

Willson, switched his vote for chairman to a shareholders’ representative, William Hamilton Merritt*, who thus won

on 15 April 1812 he appointed him provincial aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the militia. In his memoir of the war William Hamilton

scheme to send a trading expedition to Baie des Esquimaux (Hamilton Inlet), Labrador. Trade was being conducted on different parts of the Labrador coast by such merchants as Adam

Andrew Allan*, co-founder of the Allan steamship line, and of Mathew Hamilton Gault

(Hamilton Harbour) in the spring of 1813. In December the unit was made a company under the Royal Engineers and assigned to help rebuild Fort George and begin constructing Fort Mississauga (Niagara-on-the

Gazette, and Ancaster, Hamilton, Dundas and Flamborough Advertiser (Ancaster, [Ont.]), April–June 1828. Among secondary sources

. For the next two years Mills served as resident physician at the City Hospital in Hamilton, Ont. His musical interests inspired him to specialize in laryngology, which he studied in England under Morell

married Harriet Ussher and his granddaughter Elizabeth Ann Hamilton married Captain Thomas Gummersall Anderson*. At about this

she set out on a tour which took her through the southwestern part of the province – Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Hamilton, London, Port Talbot – and to Detroit – then by steamer to

Hamilton* and later by scandal within the commission itself. At the end of June 1838 he was informed that the government would supply no further funds for the project and that the works were to be

Hamilton, the former American secretary of the Treasury, expressed doubts about the legality in the United States of the Indian deeds. Henry wrote to his partners, “We have lost a fortune of at least one

represented. In 1882 Osler broke with his partner, Henry Pellatt, and founded, with Herbert Carlyle Hammond, secretary of the Bank of Hamilton, the firm Osler

Darwinian revolution: the responses of four Canadian scholars” (phd thesis, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., 1976). [A. H.] Reynar, “Samuel

: 139–449. W. D. Hamilton, “Indian lands in New Brunswick: the case of the Little South West Reserve,” Acadiensis (Fredericton), 13 (1983–84), no.2: 3–28.

[see Mathew Hamilton Gault*], the federal government made a loan of $300,000, of which $100,000 was guaranteed personally by

. After the war Peters returned to Niagara to practise law. In 1816 he moved to Thorold and then to Hamilton, where he was the first lawyer in the new Gore District. By November 1819 he was back in

smaller steel firms in Montreal and Hamilton, Ont. He ended up antagonizing Plummer by luring away his manager and a key customer, the Montreal Rolling Mills Company, and by creating a less indebted and

drew funds through him. As Robert Hamilton* had earlier done at Niagara, St George could use this exchange to sustain his payments and

prisoner, the young militia officer William Hamilton Merritt*, described him as “very brave, near sighted, rather short, but

” (ma thesis, Univ. of N.B., 1970). Prominent men of Canada, 1931–32, ed. Ross Hamilton (Montreal, [1932?]). Edward Pulker, We stand on their shoulders: the growth of social concern in

Brown and the Globe; he maintained this connection until September 1864, when he accepted a position with the Hamilton Spectator which he held until the spring of 1865. At

battle of Moraviantown, and he retreated to Burlington Heights (Hamilton) lest he be cut off by American forces from the west. Rottenburg expected and indeed ordered Vincent to retire on York (Toronto) and

commission of the peace for the Niagara District. Supported by his long-time friend William Hamilton

Hamilton*, that the women should be returned to their people with presents as speedily as possible. In July Peyton left them at the mouth of Charles Brook with provisions and a small boat to make their

Presbyterian Church in Hamilton. Shearer soon became active in nation-wide efforts to keep Canada morally “pure,” in which cause he demonstrated

., ms 167 (John Hamilton McNeely papers), Corr. concerning the Mexico Northwestern Railroad. Globe, 5, 6 Feb. 1935. Toronto Daily Star, 1903–36. Christopher Armstrong and H

, ed. J. G. Hodgins (28v., Toronto, 1894–1910), 18–21, 23–24, 27. W. L. Grant and [C.] F. Hamilton, Principal Grant (Toronto, 1904). Life and work of D. J

 years Sutherland held pastorates in Hamilton (1864–66), Toronto (1867–72), and Montreal (1873–74), building a reputation as “one of the clearest and most forcible” preachers in the church. His theology

the British position. He refused to participate in any further military actions, but he attended the conference at Burlington Heights (Hamilton) in April 1815 at which Indian agents announced that