serious art training under William Brymner* at the Art Association of Montreal. Brymner’s advocacy of outdoor painting and the Impressionist

[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

factor. He grew up in a literate family, and from his earliest days as a student in Edinburgh showed a keen interest in the publishing trade, which the houses of William Blackwood and Sons and Thomas

interest in the Perth business until 10 April 1909, when he gave his share to his surviving brother, William, and his nephews William and Robert

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM WILFRED, Church of England clergyman, poet, writer, and civil servant; b

KING, WILLIAM FREDERICK, surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant; b

strengthened. Led by James McDonald and Senator William Miller, and abetted by Bishop John Cameron*, they prepared “a little conspiracy for the

.” Meeting with some success, in 1875 White formed the Forest City Machine Bolt and Nut Works in partnership with Lucius George Jolliffe and William Yates, an inventor-machinist with an interest in steam

. Macdonald*, but he soon began advocating a non-partisan approach towards the redress of provincial grievances over the Canadian Pacific Railway’s monopoly, federal land administration, and the tariff

John Sandfield Macdonald*. Langmuir would hold the position through the critical years when the new province was developing its

, William Henry*, John James, and Thomas Joseph. Despite his father’s premature death two years later, he was able to study at the Royal Arthur School in that city. On completing his education, he

Allan*; Sir John A. Macdonald*], he ran as the Conservative candidate in his riding of Rouville, where he was soundly

. Macdonald*, Howell realized soon after his arrival that the policies of the national party and the circumstances of Manitoba were not in harmony. An unsuccessful candidate in a provincial by-election in

Professor William John Alexander, climbing Mount Washington, N.H. To his science and his students he gave most of his intense and blazing energy. He

departure in 1913 he was made deputy chief and on 9 Jan. 1914 he became chief. He appointed William McRae, another Islander, his deputy. (At this point Maritimers constituted roughly five per cent of

position of provincial secretary and treasurer in the Liberal-Conservative administration formed by William Wilfred

, his younger brother. As second chief, Tonené had raised the matter of his people’s non-participation in the treaty negotiated by William Benjamin

classmate, William Osler, professor at McGill College, who persuaded him to study medicine. Mills entered the medical

between Samuel and his brother William Valentine. Over the next 29 years they expanded their activities, acting as publishers, bookbinders, and news agents. They opened a branch bookstore on St