VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS, railway builder and official, capitalist, and artist; b
ba from Acadia in 1858 he was articled in Halifax to the Conservative premier of Nova Scotia, James William Johnston*, and he
. 1918 Wells, a Pentecostal, and another conscientious objector were sentenced by magistrate Sir Hugh John Macdonald* of the Winnipeg
architect George Edmund Street of London and for the well-known firm of William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain in Birmingham.
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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
. Upon completing his education, he entered the law office in Cornwall of John Sandfield Macdonald* and John Ban Maclennan. Although as
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
. Macdonald*. Perhaps the most intellectually interesting of the plethora of Toronto newspapers of the 1870s, the National had been the vehicle for prominent radical Thomas Phillips