funds for the construction of a building at McGill for the Young Men’s Christian Association which took the name Strathcona Hall. He provided $100,000 to the minister of militia and defence for officers

Brown*, publisher of the Globe, hired Robertson in 1865 as city editor, responsible for court and city hall news. Here Robertson developed what was to become his foremost journalistic

 29th. After lying in state in the hall of the Legislative Assembly, he was given a funeral befitting his rank; it was held in Notre-Dame basilica at Quebec, where Archbishop Paul

study law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, in 1876. Until that time he may have signed Colin C. Campbell, but on entering law school he changed his middle

Hall law school, a position he held in addition to his practice. Four years later, on the recommendation of Edward

” Indians, a view he confirmed with some satisfaction after an outburst of unseemly religious enthusiasm followed the preaching of the newly arrived Reverend Alfred James Hall at Metlakatla in

. Even before the end of 1883, Taché had given Quebec a new symbol of its coming of age in a third building, the Drill Hall. Here he kept the heraldic iconography and the symbolism of the fleur-de-lis and

dedication of Stephens Hall, Crookston, Minn., September 17, 1908 ([Crookston, 1908]); Address delivered at the Chicago convention of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association

store with a capacious upper-storey hall which also served as a Methodist meeting-house until January 1873, when an elaborate new church was dedicated. This “little edifice,” standing on a hill

(regal, sociable, and active in good works) dispensed their legendary hospitality from two residences, Stadacona Hall in Ottawa, the large stone house formerly occupied by Sir John A

. 3 Jan. 1855 Ann Jane (Jean) Hall (d. 1888) in Peterborough, Upper

’ notice. Gordon assumed complete control of the situation, commandeering schools, halls, and the custom-house and arranging for bedding and stoves. The troops were transported to Quebec by horse and sleigh

: interpreting Ontario’s history . . . , ed. Roger Hall et al. (Toronto and Oxford, 1988), 206–37. Ont., Commission appointed to enquire into the prison and reformatory system of

owner and president, taking as partners John Dillon, Thomas Bingham Hall, Donald William Ross, and William Ross. For several years he had lobbied the government to encourage domestic milling by dropping

. John Boyle, like his blacksmith father before him, greatly valued education, and saw to it that young David attended Mason’s Hall School in Greenock and, later, St Andrew’s School in Birkenhead

Economics. Macdonald provided for construction of a building, together with a residence for the women students named Macdonald Hall, and the government of Ontario undertook to operate the buildings and supply

. A sociable creature, he had an irrepressible love of company, of talk and argument. He was an early secretary of the St John’s Athenæum (a subscribers’ club, library, lecture hall, and theatre

gathering in Massey Music Hall in Toronto, but the electorate rewarded him handsomely at the polls. Though he began to show some of his old vigour that summer, his body could not sustain his demands on it and

Music Hall in Toronto, for example, there was “a constant din of meaningless interruptions,” but he still spoke for two hours and ended with a ringing declaration that “we must do right” even if it meant