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
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
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