works; James Mitchell, surveyor general; and Robert John Ritchie, solicitor general. Overall three of the nine members of the executive were supporters of the Macdonald Conservatives, as were several

canning process. But another important factor was the financial backing of a firm of Victoria commission merchants associated with the name of Robert Ward. Ewen dealt first with a partnership that included

-election of February 1903. His opponents were a Liberal, Robert George Macpherson, and, running as an independent Liberal, former lieutenant governor Thomas Robert McInnes. The by-election caused bitterness

. 1906), daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie*, and they had four sons and three

LYON, ROBERT ADAM, merchant, lumberman, and politician; baptized 4 Oct. 1829 in Barony (Glasgow), son of John Lyon and

of the progress of liberty. Having witnessed the burning of Montgomery’s Tavern north of Toronto during the rebellion of 1837 [see William Lyon

wording offensive to Catholics. His Catholic supporters – including Shea and Robert John Kent* – were forced into opposition, but