John Norquay*, Aikins had not played a public role in politics. In 1900 he was asked by Premier Hugh John

included on a list of potential commanders of the division being mobilized at Valcartier, Que. If Colonel Samuel Hughes

. 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

the minister of militia and defence, Major-General Samuel Hughes

and finance a 50-man machine-gun company, a contribution for which he would be awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel by the minister of militia and defence, Samuel

Duhamel, and then to his successor, Charles Hugh Gauthier

 Samuel Hughes and the Reverend Richard Henry Steacy, the

damning critics of Robert Laird Borden*’s government. A favourite target was the minister of militia and defence, Samuel

conference. He was a relentless critic of Macdonald’s Conservative government and, after 1878, the provincial Conservative administrations of Simon Hugh

Hughes* and William Houston*, he formed a small band

colonel by Samuel Hughes, minister of militia and defence, and he served on the cadet committee of the adjutant

Conservative victory in the federal election of 1911 gave Gwatkin a new political master, Colonel Samuel Hughes, a

 Hugh Allan*], he recruited new settlers, especially from the war

 John’s, son of Hugh William Hoyles* and Jean Liddell; m. 27 Nov

HUGHES, Sir SAMUEL, teacher, militia officer, newspaper proprietor, and politician; b. 8

Conservatives for militia appointments. His battle with Samuel Hughes, a Conservative mp

spent by Colonel Samuel Hughes, the flamboyant minister

Alderson. Even before the war Lessard’s differences with Samuel Hughes, the minister of militia and

and defence in the absence of Samuel Hughes