he moved to Toronto in 1878 as editor of the National, Wright used it to promote the National Policy of Prime Minister Sir John A

WALBRAN, JOHN THOMAS, master mariner and toponymist; b. 23 March 1848

costs were relatively low, were needed to pay for the high anticipated costs of construction in the Rocky Mountains. In addition, the company could expect to carry little through freight, hence its

* and Miriam Lowe, née Lockhart; m. 8 Oct. 1846 Frances Amelia

1902 he was awarded the degree of d.mus. by the University of Toronto. A portrait of him painted in 1899 by John Wycliffe Lowes

THEAKER, JOHN WESLEY, streetcar conductor, union leader, and letter carrier; b. 21 Sept. 1866 in Glanford Township, Upper

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

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

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

. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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