1846 in St John’s, son of William Lash and Margaret Fannon; m. in or before 1871 Elizabeth Ann Miller, and they had three sons and a

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

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

 May 1841 in Toronto, son of William James Loudon and Elizabeth Ericssen Farrell; m. 29 Aug. 1872 Julia McDougall, daughter of John

departmental business to the northwest and Manitoba in 1877. The company of his friend William Watson Ogilvie* had shipped its first load of

the terms of union with Canada. They did, Macdonald, G. W. Howlan, and William Wilfred Sullivan

MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER, militia and army officer; b

MACDONALD, Sir WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER (until 1898 he spelled his family name

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

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

MERRITT, WILLIAM HAMILTON, mining engineer, teacher, author, and militia officer; b

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

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

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

politician; b. 20 Sept. 1839 near Mabou Bridge, N.S., son of William MacKeen and

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

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

Tupper, Charles Hibbert* and William Johnston. McDonald began political

. 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