successful were Grey’s bizarre manoeuvres from 1906 to force Newfoundland into confederation. Disappointed with Laurier’s caution on the question, Grey entered into a secret scheme devised by Harry Judson

he take up land instead, Taylor, then only 19, helped oversee work on the prosperous farm of Robert Christie, father of David*, in South

Charles Newcombe came to their home to buy. In 1896 Charles and Isabella’s only living son, Robert, was drowned in a swimming accident, a terrible blow to

[A fine portrait in oils of Anna Harriette Leonowens, executed by Robert Harris about 1905, was held by her

. 12 Sept. 1834 in Port de Grave, Nfld, fourth of the seven children of Robert Prowse and Jane Woodley; m

. A lifelong Liberal, Cox was one of the group that had bought the Toronto Globe in the 1880s [see Robert

 Horne, was replaced by a vigorous protégé, Harry Braithwaite Abbott. Superintendence of the western division was entrusted to the aggressive John Egan, another former Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul

. 10 April 1890 Margaret Simpson, only daughter of Robert Simpson

Premier John Herbert Turner*’s program of “Progress and prosperity,” McBride won the seat. When Lieutenant Governor Thomas Robert McInnes