Osler* and Ellen Free Pickton; m. first 1863 Caroline Smith (d. 1895); m. secondly 18 July 1897 Elizabeth Mary Ramsay in Hamilton, Ont.; he had no children; d. 5 Feb
he acted as treasurer in 1853 and as “moral and domestic governor” from 1854 to 1857. Serving next at Hamilton, he held various administrative posts from 1857 to 1862 before beginning his active
the Bay of Quinte and Lake Simcoe. Then in 1837 he worked under the supervision of Baird and Hamilton Hartley Killaly* on a survey
business interests broadened, he became associated with the Hamilton business community in the founding of the Gore Bank in 1835. In 1852, in company with his Hamilton associates, he became an incorporator
of the Free Church and took up his first charge at Martyrs’ Church, Paisley. In 1847 or 1848 he immigrated to Canada and on 22 Nov. 1850 was inducted as minister of Knox Church, Hamilton, Canada
to have attended schools not only in Williamstown but also in Cornwall and Kingston. From about 1839 to 1847 he followed a business career in Hamilton, being for a time a clerk in the dry-goods
had one son and one daughter; m. thirdly 25 Aug. 1898 Theobald Coleman in Washington; there were no children in the third marriage; d. 16 May 1915 in Hamilton, Ont
GAULT, MATHEW (Matthew) HAMILTON, financier and politician; b. 18 July 1822 in Strabane (Northern Ireland), eldest son of
departure from Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1752.
William B. Hamilton
; b. c. 1794 in Ireland; m. Ann (Hannah) –, and they had several children; d. 31 March 1835 in Hamilton, Upper Canada
was a Liberal. McCausland died in 1905 at his home at 18 Wood Street.
Alice Hamilton and
Hamilton and William Dickson*. The petit jury included the Niagara merchants James
.
Flora Hamilton Burns
PABC, John Sebastian Helmcken, “Reminiscences” (5v
brother Samuel’s widow, Catherine Askin. In 1785 she married Robert Hamilton, the leading merchant in the Niagara
Hamilton* and his associates to finance improvements of the Niagara portage by higher charges. Swayze emerged as a leader of the coalition of interests that challenged the commercial élite. He soon
gave two concerts in Hamilton, Ont. Here he met a delegation from Metropolitan Methodist Church in Toronto which offered him the position of organist and choir master. After at first declining for
Hamilton, lieutenant governor of Placentia, about Keen, “who Commits Soldiers when he thinks proper.” Hamilton himself had often advocated controls over the civil authorities, particularly
this time he took the name John Anderson. He later worked as a plasterer and labourer in Hamilton and Caledonia.
In 1854 the United States government
.
William B. Hamilton
[There are scattered references to Charles Dickson Archibald in PAC, MG 24, B29; MG 27, I, Hl; and
December, the insurgents retreated and fled; Jacob surrendered at Simcoe. Though the authorities released him, they sent his father to the Hamilton jail. Later, when Jacob discovered that he was to be
collector of excise. He was trained in business and worked as a clerk in Glasgow until about 1835 when he emigrated to Montreal. He then moved to Hamilton, where he worked for Isaac Buchanan and Company, and
.
Charles Blackman arrived in Newfoundland in 1819 as tutor to the son of Governor Sir Charles Hamilton*. When he decided to seek ordination
(Haldimand Rifles), resigning in January 1912 after he moved to Hamilton to work in a sheet-metal shop. He lived in Hamilton with his bride, a non-native woman from a farm near Hagersville who had attended the
Upper Canada he was markedly successful in the formation of Baptist congregations among the black communities of the Niagara peninsula, notably in St Catharines (1838) and Hamilton (1847). In 1847 he made
; m. 3 Aug. 1882 Elizabeth Smith in Hamilton, Ont., and they had four sons; d. 29 July 1926 near Olds, Alta.
Michael Clark was educated at Elmfield
DALY, THOMAS MAYNE, businessman, politician, and office-holder; b. 17 Feb. 1827 at Hamilton, Upper Canada, son of John Corry
seasons in Toronto and Hamilton as well as shorter stands in countless other towns. Anne Hill danced and acted, her husband served as manager and character actor, son Charles John Barton played romantic
Hamilton, in August 1752. As commandant of Annapolis Royal, Handfield was ordered to threaten with severe punishment “such Inhabitants as Communicate too much with the French” and to try to
vicinity of present-day Hamilton Harbour) where he opened a store, probably that same year. His intention was to become a miller and by 1798, in partnership with his brother Samuel, he had completed
operated the firms in partnership and, at different times, had branches in Tillsonburg, in Centreville, Oxford County, and in Hamilton, where he and John McPherson operated a wholesale shoe business. In 1876
United States with his parents at an early age. In 1857 or 1858 he settled in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and found employment with W. E. Tunis of Detroit, who controlled the sale of books and periodicals
1833 to another mission in the township of Hamilton, but again ill health forced him after a brief tenure to resign this, his last living. In spite of his physical frailties, however, he lived a long
AO, RG 22, ser.155, will of S. E. Mackechnie. Northumberland West Land Registry Office (Cobourg, Ont.), Abstract index to deeds, Cobourg, vol.1 (1802–1934) (mfm. at AO, GS 4712); Hamilton
MERRITT, THOMAS RODMAN, businessman and politician; b. 17 Oct. 1824 in Mayville, N.Y., youngest son of William Hamilton
Donald Montgomery and Nancy Penman; m. 6 Feb. 1834 Elizabeth Hamilton, and they had seven daughters and one son; d. 9 Jan. 1867 at Dalhousie, N.B
in railway construction. In 1852 he himself was one of the incorporators of companies in Canada West such as the London and Port Sarnia Railway Company, the Hamilton and Toronto Railway Company, and
), and Hamilton (1902). In 1882 the company had secured a dominion charter and within two years it was exporting to Britain, the West Indies, and Australia. Its rapid rebuilding after a fire in 1888 led
Willis, and he was active in the movement against the clergy reserves. From June 1851 to January 1854 he was in London, Canada West, after which he was transferred to Hamilton. Here he
following institutions: Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ont.), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton), Confederation Centre Art
in 1854 to seek his fortune. Settling first in Hamilton, Upper Canada, where he had relatives, Orr tried his hand at many different occupations both in Upper Canada and in the United States, notably as
set a new record for walking between Hamilton and Toronto, 9 hours and 26 minutes. In 1892, although he and Hanlan lost their double title to Gaudaur and American George Hosmer, he remained
in 1865 to allow Arthur Hamilton Gordon* to offer the post to the leader of the anti-confederate government of New Brunswick, Albert
Charles Hamilton*. His early career entailed some contact with the Beothuks but on a more positive level than that of his father. Nevertheless
. Richardson was appointed a district coroner for Niagara in 1824, Newcastle in 1828, and Home in 1830. In 1825 he organized the construction of the steamer Canada, designed for the York–Hamilton
district of Muskoka. His government assignments included surveys in the township of Hope (1845); park lots adjacent to the town plot of Lindsay (1846); surveys in the townships of Hamilton (1847
Buildings; in Hamilton, Ont., in the Art Gallery of Hamilton; in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; in the Winnipeg Art Gallery; and in private collections
with William Hendrie of Hamilton to form the cartage firm of Hendrie and Shedden. They were the cartage agents for the Great Western Railway and later became the agents for the Grand Trunk after its line
supplier was the partnership of Hamilton and Cartwright. In April 1786 Richard Cartwright* urged Beasley and Smith to take Robert Dickson
Hamilton (and later first Duke of Hamilton) – who was a partner of Sir David Kirke in 1637 – of high