. 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
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
. Upon completing his education, he entered the law office in Cornwall of John Sandfield Macdonald* and John Ban Maclennan. Although as
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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
architect George Edmund Street of London and for the well-known firm of William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain in Birmingham.
After reading a
. 1918 Wells, a Pentecostal, and another conscientious objector were sentenced by magistrate Sir Hugh John Macdonald* of the Winnipeg
ba from Acadia in 1858 he was articled in Halifax to the Conservative premier of Nova Scotia, James William Johnston*, and he
VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS, railway builder and official, capitalist, and artist; b
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Tupper had become involved in politics through the influence of James William Johnston*, the leader of the Conservative party in Nova
TUCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer and judge; b. 27 Feb. 1831 in Indiantown
. Harris. This trial lasted the unprecedented length of one month and featured bitter personal exchanges between Travis and opposing counsel William
, his younger brother.
As second chief, Tonené had raised the matter of his people’s non-participation in the treaty negotiated by William Benjamin
enlist three times for service in the South African War, but was rejected each time because of fallen arches, according to his sister. In 1899 he was apprenticed as a machinist to William Kennedy and Sons
or the Conservatives. As he explained to William Lyon Mackenzie King* in 1908 when the former deputy minister of labour asked
building. When another of McGill’s benefactors, Sir William Christopher Macdonald, suggested
United States in 1866. The Gleaner’s denunciations of the National Policy of Sir John A. Macdonald* reverberated
highly centralized school system was needed if the province was to adjust to the social and economic changes facing it, a view that reflected the policies of education minister George William Ross. Seath
SCOTT, Sir RICHARD WILLIAM, lawyer and politician; b. 24 Feb. 1825
. 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