in his canoe, Gabe was hailed by the prince, who asked for a ride. Against the remonstrances of equerries and household, Gabe paddled the future king across the river and into the mouth of the Nashwaak

BLACK, JOSEPH LAURENCE, businessman and politician; b

members joining him, was carried 22 to 18; one of the defectors, Gaius Samuel Turner, would be made a member of Blair’s Executive Council. Joseph

. Brainerd subsequently worked in the iron business and then in the manufacture of blasting powder. In 1867 he joined the Laflin Powder Company, whose president was his father-in-law, Joseph Milton Boies; from

. James Ratchford DeWolf received his early education in Horton. The son of a merchant shipper and mha for Kings County, he prepared himself at an early age for a medical

retail district of King Street, Eaton was now established in the line that would serve as the advance guard of the retail industry in the changes it was undergoing. Furthermore, by directing his appeal to

and mla. In the Legislative Assembly Eddy played a minor role, supporting the governments of Pierre-Joseph-Olivier

. In the spring of 1856, with only modest capital and limited credit, Fearman set himself up as a commission merchant and produce dealer on King William Street. The following year he relocated on Hughson

active career in business and in the service of his church and his community, Fitz Randolph died in May 1902. A letter of 1848 from his loyalist grandfather Joseph Fitz Randolph had admonished the

. 28 March 1852 in Ash, near Rochester, Kent, England, second son of Joseph Flitcroft Fletcher and Mary Ann Hayward; m

. Gooderham’s other great Toronto monuments were his business headquarters – the flat-iron building of 1892 at Front and Wellington, also by Roberts – and the King Edward Hotel on King Street

in nearby Ancaster and in 1863, with Robert Ellis, they purchased it. In 1864–65, in partnership with Joseph Ellis, they built a second mill, the Cold Springs Woollen Mill at Brantford. By 1868 they

political destiny owed much to those of Joseph Howe*, whom he considered Canada’s greatest political leader. Grant was convinced, however, that Howe

, was seldom as a winner. Observers commented that, if perseverance and good humour counted, he deserved to win, but most of the racing glory in Ontario went to Waterloo distiller Joseph Emm

several other scions of the Anglican gentry in preferring charges against the institution’s first lay, and first non-Anglican, president, Joseph R. Hea, accusing him of ungentlemanly conduct in his

relatives, and they had often sent their children, specially daughters, south to study. It is also likely that Emily sought homoeopathic training. Her mother had long taken part in herbal healing, and Joseph

dcl from King’s College in Windsor, N.S

-Joseph Robichaud. King had long been one of Leonard Tilley’s men. They shared a common Saint John perspective; both participated in the moderate reform

KING, JOSEPH GOODWIN, businessman and politician; b. 29 Feb. 1844 in Stowmarket, England, son of Benjamin Owen King and Emma