Stephenson immigrated to St Catharines in April 1826, and opened a livery stable connected with Luther Dyer’s hotel, the St Catharines House, previously William Hamilton

berth any where else.” Within months of Benedict’s appointment, he had brought into his department several American engineering friends, including Ira Spaulding, with whom he shared a house in Hamilton

the Toronto Baptist and Woodstock colleges. In 1930 the university moved to Hamilton. The Toronto Baptist College became McMaster University’s faculty

Kirke. Kirke and his associates, the Marquis of Hamilton and the earls of Pembroke and Holland, were the new proprietors of the island under a charter granted in November 1637, in

. Caroline Knott came to Upper Canada with her family from England in 1856 or early in 1857. Shortly after their arrival in Hamilton, Caroline’s mother died, leaving her in charge of seven brothers and sisters

Captain Kenneth Macaulay, a mariner, and Margaret Noble; m. 18 Aug. 1859 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, Barbara Maria Reid of Edinburgh, and they had one son; d. 27 Sept. 1915 in

 1880 he succeeded his wife’s uncle, John Gamble Geddes, as rector of Christ’s Church Cathedral in Hamilton, where he became known as a powerful and aggressive speaker. He was popular with his

interest was the Desjardins Canal Company, of which he was an original promoter in 1826. The canal was designed to link Dundas to Burlington Bay (Hamilton Harbour) and thus enhance the village’s commercial

Butler*, Robert Hamilton, Benjamin

four sons and eight daughters; d. 16 July 1849 in Hamilton Township, Upper Canada. Robert Wade was born to a farming family involved in

, Diamond Glass obtained two glassworks in Ontario, the Hamilton Glass Company, a producer of bottles and telegraph insulators established in 1864, and the Burlington Glass Company, a leading innovator in

’) College in Hamilton, also becoming its professor of mental and moral science, logic, evidences, and higher English literature. He was now a figure of some eminence in academic circles. He had received an

Hamilton Spectator Marathon. Run over the famous 19-mile 186-yard “Around-the-Bay” course, it served as the Canadian trial for the upcoming Olympic games. Despite his accent and brief residence, he was

 1821 at Springfield Lake, N.S., son of James Fenerty and Elizabeth Lawson; m. Ann Hamilton, of Falmouth Village (Upper Falmouth), N.S.; they had no children; d. 10 June 1892 in

had worked in other branches of their father’s business, established a wholesale and retail store in Hamilton, Upper Canada. Branch stores, superintended by resident partners, were soon set up in five

, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Frood, a farmer, and Barbara Forrest; m. first 18 Aug. 1865 Mary Matilda Biggar (d. 1886) in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had two daughters; m. secondly 14

Hamilton*, by whom he was “bred up” according to John Graves Simcoe*, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. When Hamilton was appointed

), Scotland, only son of Simon Kemp, a teacher, and Grace Ferrie; d. 3 May 1884 in Hamilton, Ont., and was survived by his wife and three children

), one of three sons of Thomas Larkin and Ann—; m. 21 Jan. 1861 Ellen Maguire in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had eight children; d. 31 Aug. 1900 in St Catharines

, Ont. At age 14 Lawrence Lawrason became a clerk for the dry goods merchants James Hamilton and John Warren, working at the mouth of the Grand River

Merritt and Amy Purdy; brother of Nehemiah; m. 27 July 1781 Mary Hamilton in Charleston, S.C., and they

AGNES, secretary and athlete; b. 22 Aug. 1906 in Hamilton, Ont., daughter of Margaret Edith Crowe and Bernice Lavelle (Val) Springstead; d. there unmarried 27 March

Dover with Hamilton and Otterville from 1840 to 1848. Following the closure of the Houghton furnace, Van Norman moved to Tillsonburg, probably in 1863, where he manufactured bricks, lime, and shingles

returned to Canada with his bride and settled in Hamilton, Ont., where they took a large house on the outskirts of the city and “cut a wide swath in society.” John evidently had a “deep interest in public

pursuits.” The following year he settled in Barton Township near Hamilton and reputedly became involved in the grain trade, in addition to other business enterprises. He was made a director of the Gore Bank

minister of education, Robert Henry Grant, ordered Carson to conduct a special report on the Hamilton Public

NELSON, FRANCIS JOSEPH, sports organizer and journalist; b. 1 May 1860 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, son of Edward Nelson, a

Hamilton, a leading timber merchant, but proposed by Shirreff, was adopted in 1832. It permitted lumbermen to make an application to the commissioner of crown lands for limits, with a description

the mill buildings shortly after his son’s birth. Young Joseph was educated in Dundas, but in 1867 he and his mother moved to Hamilton, where he worked for two years for druggists T. Bickle and Son

Thomson and Isabella Henry, natives of Scotland; m. first 18 May 1853 at Quebec Henrietta Hamilton, George Hamilton*’s eldest

the Fields Medal; b. 14 May 1863 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, son of John Charles Fields and Henrietta (Harriet) Bowes; d. unmarried 9 Aug. 1932 in Toronto and was buried two days

loyalists and disbanded troops compiled by Robert Hamilton in 1787. He was married with one daughter and had cleared

Scarth, a merchant, and Lane Geddes; m. 27 April 1869 Jessie Stuart Franklin Hamilton, sister of the wife of Alexander Begg

of £7,315 and its debts of £5,256. Unlike Robert Hamilton and Richard

ILWRAITH, JEAN NEWTON, author, journalist, and editor, b. 29 Dec. 1858 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, daughter of Thomas McIlwraith

Hamilton* to set up Crooks and Company, they were joined by James’s brother William. As a result of British plans in 1795 to improve the defensive works at Fort Niagara, the company’s premises were

for the Insane in Hamilton, where he was assistant superintendent until 1890. While in Hamilton he participated as a botanist in the activities of the Hamilton Association, serving as vice-president

copartnership which also included William Hamilton and Francis Ridsdale; the copartnership operated in Leeds (West Yorkshire), England, as Francis Ridsdale and Company and in London as Ridsdale, Hamilton, and

 1817 and making her way back to Drummond Island. With “strong recommendations in her favour,” she was hired as a “waiting woman” to Elizabeth Ann Hamilton, also of Drummond Island, and they left almost

1857 to return home but her retirement from her profession lasted only four years. In the autumn of 1861 she became the first principal of the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton. During her seven years

Ottawa valley owned by George Hamilton, for example, those around Quebec, such as the ones operated by

Cartier* of which Galt had been a member. Cassels’ government connections crumbled. Luther Hamilton Holton* from Montreal, who became

Hamilton*, had made difficult by his anti-Liberal partisanship. In March 1855 Hamilton was told of his transfer to Antigua, and Grey remarked that Darling would “have the advantage of meeting the new

lived in Barton (Hamilton); he then moved to a farm he owned in Grimsby Township, where one of his seven churches was established. During his career Eastman performed some 3,000 marriages, thus greatly

, York, Hamilton, and Sandwich (Windsor) newspapers indicating their readiness to furnish pig-iron and, at the opening of navigation, castings. They claimed that their products – stoves and hollow

and patience. A confidant, Charles Frederick Hamilton*, believed that only

rental property in and around Kingston and as far west as Hamilton. He erected a large sawmill on land purchased at Trenton and produced more than 700,000 board feet of lumber per year, most of it for

metaphysics and epistemology, he initially pursued a mediation of common sense realism and Kantianism as envisioned by his Edinburgh mentor, Sir William Hamilton, but moved progressively closer to a form

Toronto. After it was moved to Hamilton in 1897 as the Ontario Normal College, McLellan served as principal and professor of the psychology, history, and philosophy of education for the rest of his career

prominent but slightly deranged Peter Stevens Hamilton* accused Naylor of being an embezzler, a bigamist, a rake, a dangerous social climber