WHITEWAY, Sir WILLIAM VALLANCE, lawyer and politician; b
and the west. Friends and associates in the agricultural community from Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ont., to the Pacific coast valued Waugh for speaking out and promoting dairying, mixed farming, and
persuaded to stay until his replacement, William Ogilvie, arrived. Walsh’s retirement may have been in part due to ill health. He returned to Brockville and remained there until his death
rectangular building in red brick that housed the municipal offices and a concert hall, brought in revenue enabling the village to balance its budget. Tax exemptions for manufacturers and certain public
architects, such as Howard, Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane*, William Thomas*, and
initiative in forming a partnership with George Benson Hall*, a lumber merchant in Beauport, in 1870, while he was still handling the
THOMPSON, GRACE SARAH HALL (Fletcher), businesswoman and social reformer; b
*].
Strong, like other aspiring students-at-law of his generation, kept term at Osgoode Hall in Toronto in order to participate in the required program of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and to attend court
status of a native woman, Suzanne Connolly*, who had married fur trader William
1892, Stanley noted that there was a meeting in Halifax on the subject. He thought that Premier Sir William Vallance
STAIRS, WILLIAM JAMES, merchant, banker, and politician; b
. 2 March 1843 in Drumcree (Republic of Ireland), son of William Somerset; m
Ireland, eventually to become the mayor of Cork. The Newfoundlander was taken over by his brothers William Richard* and Ambrose as
Local 1064 of the United Steelworkers of America erected a monument in front of the union hall in Sydney listing the names of 304 individuals who had lost their lives at the steel plant. Impressive in its
-power. Two years later, 26-year-old Bennett entered his father’s business. In 1862 he and his brother William took over the Victoria Woolen Mills from the elder Rosamond and began an ambitious program of
youth he worked on the family farm at Chebogue Point, and in 1840, after a year at sea and another teaching, he entered into partnership with William H
Halifax’s city hall (1889), a house near Baddeck for Alexander Graham Bell* (1893), the administration building of the Presbyterian College
. 12 Oct. 1842 in Coupar Angus, Scotland, son of William Robertson Reid and Catherine Gillespie; m
committees of council. The resignation of William Henry Boulton* as mayor led to Read’s election on 11