Robert Thorburn and Alison Grieve; m. 1865 Susanna Janetta Milroy of Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had five children; d. 12 April 1906 in St John’s
Gallery of Hamilton, Ont., 1988). J. [A. J.] Helders, “How I make my exhibition prints: methods and ideals of well-known pictorial workers,” Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer
Buchanan tried to persuade Weir to leave Montreal and join him in business in Hamilton. The two were also united by a common view of society under the influence of industrialization. Both favoured the
and the preference: Canadian trade with Great Britain and the United States ([Toronto?, 1911]); City government by commission ([Hamilton, Ont.?, 1912]); Memorandum re metropolitan area
), Robert Hamilton* and Thomas Clark* (Niagara peninsula), Robert Nichol (Fort Erie and
unopened a letter from the bishop and then, strangely enough, he wrote a letter to his churchwardens requesting them to forward it to the bishop. As the Reverend Charles Hamilton (whose brother
and reinforcements. A further five weeks were required for outfitting but on 15 October the St Lawrence sailed for the Head of the Lake (the vicinity of present-day Hamilton Harbour
Hamilton* in the Legislative Council prevented it from passing. York’s life seems to have been spent in relative ease, tending to his master’s animals, possibly fathering children by a female slave
, son of Thomas Stirling Begbie and Mary Hamilton Baillie; d. 11 June 1894 in Victoria, B.C.
Until the age of seven Matthew Baillie
was in Hamilton when rebellion broke out and he volunteered under Allan MacNab*; 16 days later he resigned when he considered his
June 1771 on St Mary’s Isle (near Kirkcudbright), Scotland, son of Dunbar Hamilton Douglas and Helen Hamilton; m. 24 Nov. 1807 Jean Wedderburn in Inveresk, Scotland, and they had three
private tuition, William Henry Draper ran away to sea at age 15. He made at least two voyages to India with the East India Company and in the spring of 1820 emigrated to Upper Canada. Settling in Hamilton
hopes of retrieving his fortunes. His wife, a niece of Robert Hamilton*, had inherited 866 acres in Dereham Township, and her cousins, Thomas
Cambridge, Eng., 1937). W. L. Grant and [C.] F. Hamilton, Principal Grant (Toronto, 1904), repr. as George Monro Grant (Edinburgh and Toronto, 1905). C. F
was articled to the local law firm of Beaty, Hamilton, and Cassels, and in May 1881 he would be sworn in as a solicitor.
Following his return to
, announced an important change of policy, making the chairmanship of the Board of Works held by Hamilton Hartley Killaly* a non-political
promised compensation from the government, he left for Hamilton, where he was financially supported by Sir Allan Napier MacNab. The chief’s flair, however, never diminished. At a St Andrew’s Day
letters of introduction including one from Robert Hamilton*, the preeminent Niagara merchant, which stated that Randal possessed “very respectable
Bank of Upper Canada or of William Hamilton Merritt*’s proposed provincial bank. With Allan Napier
: with Robert Hamilton of the Niagara area on the encouragement of western commerce and with Richard Cartwright of
. For the next five years he worked for a variety of photo-engraving companies, including Legg Brothers of Toronto, possibly Reid Press of Hamilton, and, as of 1907 or 1908, Grip Limited in Toronto. As
commander at the first militia camp in the province in 1862. Lieutenant Governor Arthur Hamilton Gordon* was favourably impressed and
at Greek and Latin. Soon his instructor, James Henry Hamilton, also had him studying Hebrew. The classical poetry and literature stayed with Borden all his life. A volume in Latin or Greek, perhaps one
worth of an individual. Aleck began more formal schooling in 1857 when he was sent to Hamilton Place Academy; by his own admission, he was a poor student and lacked ambition. A brooding loner, he
.
Late in 1850 Galt and Montreal promoters such as Luther Hamilton Holton* and David Lewis
before sending troops overseas. The venue for his speech was not Bagot, but Hamilton, Ont., though he repeated the pledge in person and in French while campaigning for Fauteux. Unfortunately, the gambit
Mississauga Indians in the vicinity of Burlington Bay (Hamilton Harbour), which purchase the government confirmed, and he subsequently moved into a fine house he built there. Whites who knew him socially
William Hamilton Merritt*, a mill-owner with an ambitious plan to link lakes Ontario and Erie, persuaded him to purchase stock
Hamilton* when the authorities in London were on the verge of favouring François Baby and the Davison
Lynch*, and from a Protestant committee. But other bishops – James Joseph Carbery of Hamilton, James Vincent Cleary* of Kingston
Methodist Church, Minutes of the annual conference (Hamilton, [Ont.]), 1841. Canadian Wesleyan Methodist New Connexion Church, Minutes of the annual conference (Toronto), 1855. Methodist
been solved by the use of alternating current. In addition, Ontario, Toronto and Hamilton in particular, was becoming increasingly industrialized, but the province was coal-poor. Consequently
Hamilton; George Patterson]. Akins’s intention was to encourage the writing of local history before
Hamilton* and others. Allied with Deputy Postmaster General Hugh Finlay, Chief Justice William
, Hamilton Hartley Killaly* (whom Baillairgé had thwarted by refusing to endorse his choice of site for the custom-house), and architect
located in the Macmillan Company of Canada fonds in the William Ready Div. of Arch. and Research Coll., McMaster Univ. (Hamilton, Ont.). Several collections at LAC are also rich sources of material on Grey
. N. Bethune, rector of Cobourg, on the management of grammar schools ([York], 1829). Church (Cobourg; Toronto; Hamilton), 6 May 1837 to 1856. Church
owner Harry Hershman and Hamilton, Ont., alderman William Farrar, arrived soon thereafter and were taken in by Canadian families; one, an 11-year-old girl, was adopted by the Freimans, and Lillian’s
. C. Moore, “The late Bishop Binney of Nova Scotia,” Canadian Church Magazine and Mission News (Hamilton, Ont.), 2 (1887): 283–86.
Borden], an exclusive college-preparatory institution in Lower Horton that offered, according to historian Arthur Wentworth Hamilton
Bougainville at the time of his voyage. In 1964 Edward Pierce Hamilton translated and edited some writings by Bougainville in Adventure in the wilderness: the American journals of Louis Antoine de
1891. During Lord Aberdeen [Hamilton-Gordon*]’s term as governor general, Bourinot frequently gave advice both to him and to Lady
village. In 1871 he helped resurrect the defunct Elora Mechanics’ Institute library and oversaw its growth until it was the largest of its kind in Ontario outside Toronto and Hamilton. The library provided
Pardee*, he secured the superintendency of the Asylum for the Insane in Hamilton. He transferred the following year to the London Asylum for the Insane, having been chosen over Dr Stephen
of Henry Caldwell* and Ann Hamilton; m. 21 Aug. 1800 Jane Davidson at Quebec, and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 26
Alfreda Hamilton Burns, a freelance author – had helped shape her stories since the 1920s. But it was not until 1939 that the editorial skills and publishing contacts of Canadian Broadcasting
.
Cartwright also engaged in far-ranging personal business activities. In 1832 he sold a large tract of land outside Hamilton to Allan Napier MacNab
witness: a history of the Presbyterian Church in Canada ([Hamilton, Ont., 1974?]); “Forgotten giant of the church,” Presbyterian Record, 99 (1975), no.1: 14–15. Presbyterian
, Arthur Hamilton Gordon*,
In the fall of 1864, Chandler went as a New Brunswick