I he offered his services to Samuel Hughes, the minister of militia and defence, who wired back
colonel by Samuel Hughes, minister of militia and defence, and he served on the cadet committee of the adjutant
attempted to form a second Glengarry regiment in which the officers were to be only landed gentry and professional men. His vanity was assuaged in 1912 when the minister of militia and defence, Samuel
family affair, with his father, his brothers (James Hector, John, and Wallace), and eventually his son (Hugh John) working on it. It emulated the local papers founded by John Ross
Strange. The camp fled, only to face another encounter, with NWMP scouts under Samuel Benfield
accompany a local physician, Samuel Muir, on his rounds and to assist him in his office. On vacations in Newfoundland, he helped Dr Charles Hugh Renouf, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. Influenced
John Norquay*, Aikins had not played a public role in politics. In 1900 he was asked by Premier Hugh John
Regiment (Royal Rifles) and had raised two companies during the South African War. Promoted lieutenant-colonel, he was appointed by Samuel
the minister of militia and defence, Major-General Samuel Hughes
, metal fabricator Drummond, McCall and Company [see George Edward Drummond*], newspaper proprietor Hugh
Samuel Hughes and the Reverend Richard Henry Steacy, the
conference. He was a relentless critic of Macdonald’s Conservative government and, after 1878, the provincial Conservative administrations of Simon Hugh
. London was one of the first major centres where the leaf grown in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin entered the dominion, and it was there and in Montreal [see Samuel
specialist Thomas Stewart Lyon, and economics analyst Samuel Thomas Wood*. In December
fund in September may have forestalled IAM action. He had been re-elected president of the AIC, where he got on well with vice-president Robert Samuel