working-class issues, he presented cooperatives of consumers and producers as “the only remedy for strikes and low wages” and “the ultimate peaceable solution of the labour problem.” Jury served in 1877–88

LABATT, JOHN, businessman; b. 11 Dec. 1838 in Westminster Township

, would express a low opinion of his financial abilities. The fall of the Joly government relegated Langelier to the opposition benches. At Quebec he was spoken of as a replacement for Joly, but his

at Queen’s Park in 1904 for Loudon’s dismissal. Already at a low ebb, the president’s stock plummeted further in 1905 when John Cunningham

LOWE, JOHN, newspaperman, civil servant, and farm developer; b. 20 Feb. 1824 in Warrington (Cheshire

assessment of LeSueur’s part, John Reads would note in 1917 that he “recognized at once the significance of the new

. William Macdonald’s paternal grandfather, John MacDonald* of Glenaladale, a Roman Catholic, was the last of a line of Scottish

perception of Isabel King comes from the idealized version of her created by W. L. M. King. He was what she made him, and he acknowledged her role. Her portrait by John Wycliffe Lowes

Kincardine, on Lake Huron, and entered John Watson’s furniture business as a partner is unknown. A connection may have come through Robert Malcolm, an employee of Watson’s, but there is only the nominal

on 4 June the following year. After serving briefly in Norwich and Seaforth, he went to the diocese of Montreal, where he was rector in St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) (1875–82) and at

McCREIGHT, JOHN FOSTER, lawyer, politician, and judge; b

Soulerin*, the Basilians’ superior general, who lived in Annonay, took notice and later instructed O’Connor to join Vincent in talks with Bishop John

resolve: the precarious situation of the college in the absence of support personnel essential to its smooth operation; the Acadians’ low level of education; and the lack of institutions for young women

serious handicaps in his profession. He had difficulty expressing himself in public. This disadvantage he overcame by practising law in partnership, first with Joseph-Évariste Prince in 1882–83, John

company became one of the largest manufacturing enterprises in the country, and Dominion Coal’s single largest customer. Dominion Coal continued to experience difficulties, however, in part because of a low

. 13 July 1859 Sarah Anne Edleston Farrar in Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 27 Jan. 1914 in St John’s

ROBERTSON, JOHN ROSS, journalist, publisher, philanthropist, historian, and sportsman; b

SPARROW, JOHN BOLINGBROKE (baptized John), merchant, theatre manager, and impresario; b

. 8 Dec. 1846 in Drakes Cross, England, son of John Studholme and Hannah —; m