William Muirhead died in 1884, the Acadian élite, which had become more aggressive as a result of its first two conventions, was determined not to miss its chance. Landry subtly threatened Macdonald with a

Macdonald* and mathematical physics under James Gordon MacGregor. Women generally shunned these subjects

enabled Owen, in partnership with William Welsh, to carry on much of Peake’s business under the name of Welsh and Owen; the partnership was sealed by the marriage in 1861 of Lemuel to Lois Welsh, William’s

. Macdonald*. Perhaps the most intellectually interesting of the plethora of Toronto newspapers of the 1870s, the National had been the vehicle for prominent radical Thomas Phillips

BUTLER, WILLIAM FREDERICK, carpenter and architect; b. 22 June 1866 in St John’s, son of Thomas Butler, a farmer, and

. 13 Oct. 1833 in Adelaide Township, Upper Canada, son of William Hume Blake

. In 1871 he founded in Montreal, with William Warren Hastings Kerr, Louis-Amable Jetté, John Adams Perkins, and Henri-Félix Rainville, La Revue critique de législation et de jurisprudence du

building. When another of McGill’s benefactors, Sir William Christopher Macdonald, suggested

BELL, WILLIAM ROBERT, militia officer, sportsman, farmer, and businessman; b

. H. Tupper’s election to the House of Commons in 1882 removed him from much day-to-day business, but Borden contributed so substantially to the firm that in 1885 or 1886 William Frederick Parker was

. In the meantime, Sir William Christopher Macdonald, tobacco magnate and benefactor of

. Macdonald*, who wanted a dependable Tory organ in Toronto to combat Brown’s Globe. The Conservative party had begun providing support to the Telegraph in 1869 at the behest of Cook and

SAUNDERS, WILLIAM, pharmacist, scientist, civil servant, and author; b

1846 in St John’s, son of William Lash and Margaret Fannon; m. in or before 1871 Elizabeth Ann Miller, and they had three sons and a

Cockburn patented 6, which he transferred to two speculators from Pembroke, John H. Metcalf and William Balmer McAllister. Typical of most prospectors, Frood lacked the capital to develop properties and

. 1918 Wells, a Pentecostal, and another conscientious objector were sentenced by magistrate Sir Hugh John Macdonald* of the Winnipeg

TUCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and judge; b. 27 Feb. 1831 in Indiantown

. 23 Jan. 1832 on Skeoch Farm near Bannockburn, Scotland, second son of William Jaffray and Margaret Heugh; m

[Vail], the subject was introduced into Ontario schools on an optional basis in 1885, part of the moral thrust being introduced by education minister George William

. Macdonald*. He appreciated the immense engineering challenges posed by the mountainous west, but felt that Canada could not prosper without additional steel. In June 1880 he replaced Fleming as chief