secretary to the Treasury in William Ewart Gladstone’s second administration. Privately educated in Penzance, Mortimer developed his own interest in banking and, like so many of his generation, he took his

children at home and thus sought to keep abreast of scientific discoveries. During the 1870s and 1880s she corresponded with geologist John William

James Robert Stratton, provincial secretary in the Liberal government of George William Ross, against bribery charges made in 1903 by Robert Roswell Gamey, a Conservative mla

. Macdonald*. Throughout the decade that followed, he continued to be employed in the department’s inside service, that is, the headquarters staff. On 1 July 1888 he was promoted to second-class clerk

ba from Acadia in 1858 he was articled in Halifax to the Conservative premier of Nova Scotia, James William Johnston*, and he

. Macdonald*’s Conservative federal government in the Riel affair [see Louis Riel*]. He opposed a motion to congratulate British

an Anglo-French modus vivendi governing the lobster fishery [see James Baird; Sir William

 T. King, a merchant and lumberman from Calais, Maine, he leased “sawmills, machines, water power and water privilege” on the Lepreau River from William Kilby Reynolds, “the finest and fastest mill in

Steele* and Anne MacIan Macdonald; m

the call for better terms was popular in British Columbia. Indeed, Liberal leader James Alexander Macdonald* had seconded a

United States in 1866. The Gleaner’s denunciations of the National Policy of Sir John A. Macdonald* reverberated

corresponding secretary, William Henry Vander Smissen of University College, Boyle issued a circular to begin an inventory of archaeological sites in southern Ontario, solicited donations of specimens

. 17 Sept. 1849 in Tyn-y-groes, Wales, second of the seven children of William Critchlow Harris and Sarah Stretch; m

. Macdonald*, William Ralph Meredith*, and Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

. Harris. This trial lasted the unprecedented length of one month and featured bitter personal exchanges between Travis and opposing counsel William

 John A. Macdonald* to get him a place accompanying Smith. In fact, he had his eye on the command of any expedition, and his very

reformer, and pamphleteer; b. 31 Aug. 1835 in Toronto, son of William Hume

profitable investments was in hydroelectricity. In 1902 he and local prospector William McVittie incorporated the Wahnapitae Power Company to develop generating sites. Two years later it won the contract to

. Macdonald*, and enjoyed cordial business relations with George Stephen*, who would become the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

or the Conservatives. As he explained to William Lyon Mackenzie King* in 1908 when the former deputy minister of labour asked