Toronto Island (1882), lent financial support to the Montreal winter carnival, and tried to make himself useful to the federal government of Sir John A
Wright*, a labour organizer and Tory stalwart, went so far in June 1886 as to warn Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald
, Sallis encountered legal prosecution from a new source when in 1879 the Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty [see John Naylor] charged him with horse maiming. His chagrin at this
Company, whose president, John Bellamy Miller, had become a major shareholder in the Polson Iron Works in 1888 and a director two years later. F. B. Polson showed a reciprocal interest in the
partnership on 4 April with his younger brother John, letting him have a third of the shares in the firm. They formed A. W. Ogilvie and Company, a milling operation with an estimated value of £5,000
. 25 Dec. 1832 in Earltown, N.S., sixth of the seven children of John William Murray and Christina Matheson; m
]. Grenier’s prestige made him the obvious candidate to succeed John Joseph Caldwell Abbott* as mayor of Montreal. In 1889 the first
20, the eldest son in Montreal. His position became permanent after the death of Henry Stuart, the eldest of the children, in 1844 and that of John James, the second eldest, the following year
, daughter of John Redpath* and Janet McPhee (Macphee), in Montreal, and they had five sons
regularly to Dr Thomas John Barnardo for work with destitute children in Britain and volunteered to find situations locally for child immigrants. His major commitment, however, was to support one mission in
Church, Lachine, Quebec, Canada, 1822–1947 ([Lachine, 1947]). W. H. Naylor, History of the church in Clarendon (St Johns [Saint-Jean-sur
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