mla James Arthur Mathieu, an iconic lumberman in the Rainy River area and a grudging admirer of Backus’s, was able to acquire a string of timber licences while they were in power under terms so

. Toronto took little interest in contemporary First Nations matters in the late 19th century. Natives were a more distant people to its citizens than to Canadians in other urban centres. Unlike Montreal

influenced his contribution to the British Columbia Public Library Commission. Little is known about Mary’s life before September

little corporal.” The coadjutor and future bishop of the diocese of Rimouski, André-Albert Blais, having newly arrived in 1889, soon took him under his wing. Year after year, his studies were crowned with

. 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

the historic site. Walking through the ruins in the 1890s, he must have begun to envision himself writing a history of what was then a little-known vanished settlement. He was not alone in his

would expand it over the years and operate it on a large scale, using modern equipment and methods. The land would remain in the family until his son Arthur retired in 1948

McCarthy*, could do little to counter Oliver, who was subsequently involved in a gerrymander that favoured the Liberals in provincial ridings and the northern city over its southern rival. He was also

 Byng denied King a dissolution and then granted one to his successor, Arthur

, Robert Allan Pyne, as well as the deputy minister of education, Arthur Hugh

respect queen and country, worship faithfully in the Methodist Church, and work and save diligently with the hope of doing well in life. Little Joe left school at age 12 to serve as an apprentice to a

, which granted the Montreal branch a little more autonomy from the Université Laval in Quebec City, including the right to choose a vice-rector. In 1890 Bruchési became chaplain to the convent of the

sent him as a day student to the local private academy, Acacia Villa School, presided over by Arthur McNutt Patterson. Patterson’s mission was to “fit boys physically, morally, and intellectually, for

. By this time the Pellatts had moved from Toronto’s Cabbagetown district to the more fashionable Sherbourne Street. Harry was raised with three sisters and two brothers; there was little in his boyhood

be saved if we had the influence of a vote.” Another decade of petitions would elapse before there was any headway on the causes she championed. Only in 1916 did the provincial government of Arthur