educated at Calday Grammar School, West Kirby (his family having moved to nearby Hoylake), and later in London. At age 17 he left England to work in business at St John’s, Nfld. There, he was influenced
journals such as Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the London Quarterly and Holborn Review.
One of Bourinot’s favourite
received his education in mechanical engineering in Liverpool and London. Upon graduation he obtained employment in the engineering department of the London and Northwestern Railway. In 1853 he immigrated to
wrote to his brother Thomas in England expressing concern that the natives would not trap furs during the troubles and that he would be ruined. He owed £4,000 to the London forwarding firm of Frederick
established a powder plant in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, his first in the Canadian west.
In 1900 the Nobel-Dynamite Trust Company of London acquired a
*. Unlike most Island lawyers, who were content with a colonial education, he then spent two years at Lincoln’s Inn and the Inner Temple in London. Following his return to Charlottetown, he was called to the
, based in Connecticut, the London and Lancashire Life Assurance Company, the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, and the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company of Aberdeen. Each brother held life
Canadian Entomologist (London, Ont.) and the Canadian Bee Journal (Beeton, Ont.). A chronological listing of these and several other contributions is available in Science and technology
respectability in Victorian Halifax,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Hist. (London), 20 (1991–92): 169–95. j.f
suffer another set-back, perhaps of greater magnitude: the ship transporting approximately two hundred of his works for exhibition in Toronto, Hamilton, and London sank off Île d’Anticosti on 8
transferred to Ottawa. Nothing would match the size or significance of this acquisition for many years to come.
Brymner went to London in 1873 and knocked
. 7 Sept. 1865 Jessie Maria Gurd in Mooretown, Upper Canada, and they had five sons and three daughters; d. 19 Feb. 1902 in London
visit to Britain in 1873. While touring in 1867 he had discovered George Henry Primrose, a bellboy at the Tecumseh House in London, Ont., and pointed “the infant clog dancer” to fame as Canada’s second
Elizabeth Southerden Thompson in London, England, and they had three daughters and two sons; d. 7 June 1910 at Bansha Castle (Republic of Ireland
. 30 Sept. 1869 Elizabeth Millar in London, Ont., and they had one son and four daughters; d
1855 and graduated in 1860, whereupon he left for further study in Europe. In 1861 he earned the diploma of the Royal College of Physicians of London
, Ont.
John Campbell’s family moved to London, England, in the early 1840s when his father became an agent there for the publishing firm
the City of New York, completed his medical degree, and served as a house-surgeon in New York until the spring of 1855. He studied next at St Thomas’s Hospital in London, England, and qualified for
professionalism. The confrontation between Luard and Caron stemmed from two different points of view: the imperialist concept, coming from London, of what the Canadian militia ought to be, and the attitude of