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

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

BEATTY, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and businessman; b. 10 Dec. 1833 in York (Toronto), son of James Beatty and Ann McKowen; m

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

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

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

BORDEN, Sir FREDERICK WILLIAM, physician, businessman

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

. Macdonald* appointed Bowell minister of customs, a portfolio he would retain until after the prime minister’s death. His principal task was the supervision of the main source of government revenue. As a

half-brother William Thornton Cust Boyd, and John Macdonald. In 1883–84 they produced nearly 16 million feet of sawlogs and in 1885 they shipped over 6 million feet of lumber by rail and canal to

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

 seats. While waiting for the official results of the soldiers’ vote and the resignation of Premier William John Bowser

branch of Ogilvy and Company for his brother, William Rees, who was a partner in the firm. From 1876 to 1877 he was manager of J. Gillespie and Company, a wholesale dealer in hats, caps, and furs

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

. 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

private secretary in 1868–71 to his father, whom Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone had appointed secretary of state for India. Lorne had a

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

London, producing a beer based on a recipe from his native Yorkshire. The brewery flourished and in 1849 Thomas Carling passed the firm on to his sons William and John. The W. and J. Carling

. Macdonald*’s Conservative governments. Cartwright earned a reputation for probity as a banker but his financial career suffered a severe setback in

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