May 1841 in Toronto, son of William James Loudon and Elizabeth Ericssen Farrell; m. 29 Aug. 1872 Julia McDougall, daughter of John
architect George Edmund Street of London and for the well-known firm of William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain in Birmingham.
After reading a
classmate, William Osler, professor at McGill College, who persuaded him to study medicine. Mills entered the medical
. Upon completing his education, he entered the law office in Cornwall of John Sandfield Macdonald* and John Ban Maclennan. Although as
[Mistahimaskwa*], and One Arrow [Kāpeyakwāskonam*]. Two white men also appeared before him: Riel’s “secretary,” William Henry
MERRITT, WILLIAM HAMILTON, mining engineer, teacher, author, and militia officer; b
Jan. 1833 in New London, P.E.I., eldest child and only son of William Cundall and Sarah Louisa Haszard; d. unmarried 16 July 1916 in
experience, his educational and cultural background, and the Presbyterianism he shared with the university’s principal, Sir John William Dawson
BORDEN, Sir FREDERICK WILLIAM, physician, businessman
to Montreal in September 1893 and considered Hébert’s masterpiece, and to Sir John A. Macdonald*, the model for which was
. Macdonald*, and the “reluctant maiden” joined the confederation on
material and pecuniary advantage of this Colony.” With Joseph William Trutch* and Robert William Weir
departmental business to the northwest and Manitoba in 1877. The company of his friend William Watson Ogilvie* had shipped its first load of
moment to botany and the development of a herbarium. His exhaustive fieldwork, study, and contacts with leading botanists in Canada and abroad, among them Sir William Jackson Hooker, Louis-Ovide
Collegiate Institute. After working briefly for the architectural firm Darling and Curry, he switched to art and in January 1890 began studies with Toronto artist William Cruikshank. The following year he
highly centralized school system was needed if the province was to adjust to the social and economic changes facing it, a view that reflected the policies of education minister George William Ross. Seath
practices in Queens County, N.B. On 10 March in the Globe Ellis levelled a blast against judge William Henry
one eye in an accident at age 9, James attended the common school there and William Wetherald
the continent. Tired of the mounting expenses of the farm he estimated had cost him $120,000, he sold it in 1904 to Sir William Christopher Macdonald, who gave it to McGill University to form the
Laurier wanted so badly would become his after the election of 23 June 1896, which brought him to power in Ottawa. The next day William