BEARE, JOHN, farmer and mill-owner; b. 14 Nov. 1820 in Bideford, England, son of Joseph Beare and Anne
Low*.
Bell officially retired from the survey at the end of November 1908. He spent two years (1912–14) in Europe before settling down to a
.
In 1872 Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* offered the young but accomplished Blake the position of junior vice
a large central training base near Petawawa, Ont., and in 1909 it was from this base that John Alexander Douglas
government of Sir John A. Macdonald*. He opted for the Manitoba Rights League, which protested against the monopoly and called
Sutherland of Walkerton, Ont., and Abraham Beverley Walker* of Saint John had qualified before him
Dawson and Elizabeth Gardner; m. 16 Oct. 1858 Annie M. Bent in Saint John; d. 9 Feb. 1916 in Westmount, Que.
Samuel E
Limited, and until its purchase by John Thomas Hawke in 1887 had a financial interest in the Moncton Transcript, a partisan Liberal newspaper. During the course of his career he was president of
FITZGERALD, FRANCIS JOSEPH, RNWMP officer and soldier; b. 12 April 1869 in Halifax, second son of John Fitzgerald, a
everything artificial, hollow, or low in tone and aim.” Inevitably clashes would occur.
Gordon’s influence derived from the fact that he represented the
with Weatherbe and Graham in 1874–78 and returned as a partner when John Sparrow David Thompson* went to the bench in 1882
years, was a long-time friend of John A. Macdonald
commitment, he took out American citizenship on 18 Oct. 1880, three days before the syndicate signed a contract with the government of Sir John A
. 10 April 1885 in Point Alexander, Ont., youngest son of John Hollinger, a schoolteacher, and Sarah Sutherland; m
portrait by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster* was unveiled there during a ceremony
education in the village and at the grammar school in neighbouring Gagetown. He then went to the provincial Normal School in Saint John, where he received his first-class teacher’s licence in 1850. He began
Oxford House (Man.), third child of John Isbister and Frances Sinclair; m. 1 Jan. 1859 Margaret Bear at “Nepowewin Station” (Nipawin, Sask.), and they had at least 16
and Company of Brantford [see John Harris*], as a traveller and repairman, and he later became a partner. After a railway was