. 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
. 17 Sept. 1849 in Tyn-y-groes, Wales, second of the seven children of William Critchlow Harris and Sarah Stretch; m
. 18 June 1843 in Norton Parish, N.B., youngest child of William Hay and Eliza Fahy; m. 20
children at home and thus sought to keep abreast of scientific discoveries. During the 1870s and 1880s she corresponded with geologist John William
material and pecuniary advantage of this Colony.” With Joseph William Trutch* and Robert William Weir
HERCHMER, LAWRENCE WILLIAM, farmer, businessman, office holder, and militia officer; b
one eye in an accident at age 9, James attended the common school there and William Wetherald
strengthened. Led by James McDonald and Senator William Miller, and abetted by Bishop John Cameron*, they prepared “a little conspiracy for the
. 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
an Anglo-French modus vivendi governing the lobster fishery [see James Baird; Sir William
to Montreal in September 1893 and considered Hébert’s masterpiece, and to Sir John A. Macdonald*, the model for which was
. 23 Jan. 1832 on Skeoch Farm near Bannockburn, Scotland, second son of William Jaffray and Margaret Heugh; m
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
Keefer was born to engineering. His father, through commercial association with William Hamilton Merritt*, was first president
KING, WILLIAM FREDERICK, surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant; b
. Macdonald*, and the “reluctant maiden” joined the confederation on
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
John Sandfield Macdonald*. Langmuir would hold the position through the critical years when the new province was developing its