Arts. His first formal instruction came in 1892, when he travelled to New York City to study with William Merritt Chase, a member of the

instruction in Franco-Ontarian schools. When the Ottawa separate-school board refused to implement the directive, the succeeding government of William Howard

BLACK, DAVIDSON WILLIAM, physician, anatomist, university professor, and anthropologist; b. 25 July 1884 in Toronto, son

shown statistically to be.” Of the 1,537 students with records, nearly 25 per cent were dead, and at the school in the File Hills Colony run by William Morris

region, with its high, rugged plateaus, rock-strewn hillsides, and stands of wind-blown trees, gained a firm grip on his imagination. “Woods, sea and hill,” he would write in his autobiography, “were the

I’m counting on here.” The next morning the party arrived in Ottawa and was greeted on Parliament Hill. William Lyon Mackenzie King

CAVENDISH, VICTOR CHRISTIAN WILLIAM, 9th Duke of DEVONSHIRE, governor general; b. 31 May 1868 in London, England, eldest

Coaker, Sir William Ford, clerk

known as the Huron and Erie Savings and Loan Society), and a chancellor of the diocese. His mother, Sophia, was a daughter of William Hume Blake

CURRIE, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM, teacher, insurance salesman, militia officer, real-estate developer, army officer, office holder, and

. Writing in his History of the county of Annapolis (Toronto, 1897), William Arthur Calnek observed that “one leading lawyer” was helping to honour the name of Samuel Harris, a New England Planter

HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM, marble cutter, sculptor, and teacher; b. 8 May 1861 in Shipton (Danville), Lower Canada, son of George

Roberts*, and he published short stories in the Toronto Star Weekly and William Arthur

 1918, leading his troops in every major engagement fought by the Canadian Corps during that period – the Somme, Vimy Ridge (where he was slightly wounded), Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, and

Battleford in April [see Sir William Dillon

Bennet*; William Caven*]. His later concept of the United Church of Canada, according to which “all things work together for good to them that

he was appointed George Munro* professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, succeeding William John

Hill, for the construction of the CPR to the Pacific coast. Hill, the only member of the syndicate with practical experience in building railways, recruited William Cornelius

), artist, educator, and author; b. 12 May 1873 in Durham, England, son of William Henry MacDonald, a cabinetmaker, and Margaret Usher (Ussher); m. 12 May 1899 Harriet Joan Prior Lavis