(Man.). Young’s appointment marked the beginnings of an important shift in Methodist missionary operations in the west, from an emphasis on Indian

were as often political and even utopian as they were trade-unionist in the conventional sense. The Knights were more radical in their quest for the establishment of the brotherhood of man, and more

College. Father Wood, as he had been known for years, was a man who combined, unusually, a lack of prominence in the public eye with the appearance

church building but he would never enter it as a member. “A quiet, shy man, although capable of decided opinions,” he left his church shortly after the 1878 election, evidently as a result of an argument

claiming that the old man went voluntarily, others that he had been knifed. In any case, it did not take long for Whiteway to open hostilities once Bond became premier in 1900. He launched a lawsuit claiming

than 20 per cent of their deposits and with considerable resentment against the administration of a man who had long thought of himself as a francophile. Accordingly, numerous petitions were sent to the

temperance organizations, such as the Sons of Temperance. Webster was vigorous in advocating equal rights for women. In Woman man’s equal

Warden was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, Scotland, and after moving to Upper Canada as a young man began the study of law in Toronto. In 1863 he abandoned this project to enter Knox College

atmosphere of the time, however, his opponents continued to see him as a man not to be trusted. To Mr

Conservative convention at Moose Jaw (Sask.). Tweed died of heart failure in Montreal, after a holiday abroad. An attractive man with a commanding presence, he

his friend Crease put it, “Trutch still runs the mill . . . it’s a one man government still (in disguise).” But the defeat of the McCreight ministry late in 1872 led to

 yards of bullet-swept ground to reach a wounded soldier. On finding that the man had died, he walked back to his lines in defiance of the enemy fire

, and let no man rob me of my boasting.” Despite this unfortunate conclusion to his long and invaluable service, Sutherland left an important legacy

experience of others, referred to Strong’s “preeminent intellectual qualities,” but described him as a man of “violent and bullying temperament” and sometimes given to truculency. Borden’s assessment is apt

introduction obtained from American and Canadian literary friends, Stewart met most of the literary lions of the day and added to his name at home as a man of letters. In 1885 he became the first English

distinguish himself in debate, he was an excellent committee man. Stairs’s shortcomings as a constituency politician were revealed when he faced the

and Jane Austen, were little more than a reworking of secondary sources usually spiced up with a dose of his principles and prejudices. He was a man of letters, not a research scholar, and he also

, solidly built young man, with dark hair and a beard, a serious, almost sombre countenance, a dignified manner, and, as it would turn out, a store of persistence and sound business judgement

wide public respect. A political opponent, former premier Neil McLeod*, called him “a thrifty farmer and a shrewd business man” in 1891. These

mitigated when his brother Edward, one of the Ferryland members, was promoted in 1858. His omission may be explained in part by the demands of his business. Shea was never a wealthy man. He had neither