daughter of John Laird, the village schoolmaster and a classical scholar and mathematician of local repute. Robert was born in 1854 and was followed by a brother, John William, a sister, Julia Rebecca, and

implemented female suffrage in New Brunswick. In 1922 he declined to prosecute for a sixth time the accused child murderer John Paris, who had been conditionally discharged after the jury failed to reach a

and Catherine Amelia Clawson, née Valentine; m. 14 June 1881 Mabel Shaw (1860–1940) in Portland (Saint John), and they had three sons and one daughter; d. 15 Oct. 1931 in

HAZEN, Sir JOHN DOUGLAS, lawyer, university administrator, politician, and judge; b. 5 June 1860 in Oromocto, N.B

of John Juchereau Kingsmill and Ellen Diana Grange; m. 17 Oct. 1900 Frances Constance Beardmore (23 Nov. 1875–27 March 1956) in

, GEORGE, businessman; b. 21 July 1853 in Saint John, son of Thomas McAvity and Isabella Sandall; m. 1 Feb. 1887 Ida Marguerite Mills (1866–1928) in New York City, and they had

initiative of Hazen’s premiership), the Saint John school board, and the city’s public-health centre – a unique innovation for the early 1920s – as well as acting as a member of Mount Allison’s board

brought him to the attention of the federal Department of Marine and Fisheries, whose minister was John Douglas

to Manitoba at the encouragement of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott*, a family friend and future Conservative prime minister. Like

SHAW, LORETTA LEONARD, teacher, missionary, lecturer, and author; b. 19 July 1872 in Saint John, daughter of Arthur Neville

STANFIELD, JOHN, businessman, politician, and militia and army officer; b. 18 May 1868 in Charlottetown, eldest son of

, when the post went to John Douglas Hazen. Partisan politics may have also