Canada, most had little good to say about any of their chaplains except O’Leary. Almond took a parish in Grand-Mère (Shawinigan), Que., until 1904, when

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

with a series of publishing ventures. At Albert College he had been joint editor of the Temperance Union, of which little record remains. In 1879

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

Ovide-Arthur Rocque*]. Belcourt was elected its first

. In 1927 the Conservative Party of Canada planned its first-ever leadership convention in Winnipeg to choose a successor to Arthur Meighen

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

], an exclusive college-preparatory institution in Lower Horton that offered, according to historian Arthur Wentworth Hamilton

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

he had little sympathy. In 1912 he boasted of having “completely smashed” the Industrial Workers of the World whose members went on strike against the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, then under

, 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

). Byng’s principal duty was, ultimately, to work with the government of the day. Though he had several meetings with Arthur Meighen after his arrival, Byng had little time to become acquainted with the prime

. W. Caldwell came from generations of farmers on both sides of his family. Little is known about his early life, other than that as a young man he emigrated to the United States, where he remained for

minister of militia and defence Sydney Arthur Fisher* and condoned by Borden, in the selection of officers for the 13th (Scottish) Light

police magistrate in 1908 to become keeper of the military documents at the Public Archives of Canada (PAC), headed by Arthur George

CURRIE, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM, teacher, insurance salesman, militia officer, real-estate developer, army officer, office holder, and

DAWSON, ARTHUR OSBORNE, industrialist, philanthropist, and lay preacher; b. 28 March 1864 at New Bandon, Gloucester County

. Fred Dixon was born on an estate near Reading, west of London, to a rural labouring family. Little is known of his early life. He apprenticed as a gardener, but finding himself unemployed he followed his

members was a promising group of new parliamentarians who included Doherty and Arthur Meighen

EATON, ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON, Protestant Episcopal clergyman, educator, scholar, aesthete, and littérateur; b. 10 Dec