ALLOWAY, WILLIAM FORBES, businessman, politician, banker, and philanthropist; b
1845; a daughter, Louisa, was born in 1847, followed by two sons, George and William. In a move typical of his venturing spirit, Jacob suggested relocating his company closer to the projected line of the
growth. At the same time the protective tariff promoted monopoly and increased prices unnaturally. George’s alternative, what Bengough would call “The Whole Hog Solution,” was obvious: a single tax on
cents an issue, a comparatively high price but the same as that of such American models as Scribner’s
-Jacques, in the heart of the city’s business section. His enterprise was called Henry Birks and Company and he immediately instituted new business practices for customers: cash sales only and the same price
guarantor) entered into an agreement with the prominent St John’s lawyer William Vallance
William E. Greening reports that as a child he “spent his spare time building miniature mills and bridges along the tiny rivulet that flowed through his father’s farm.” Whatever his early interests, it
candidates, which effectively meant Liberal candidates. He suggested that the agreement would not only increase prices of agricultural products, but by expanding north-south trade would force the railway
public schools in Ottawa and arrived in Winnipeg in 1875. He worked briefly for his uncle William Ogilvie at the Dominion Lands Survey. A restless young man, Burrows tried and abandoned both legal studies
were easy winners. His party paid a price, when William Wilfred Sullivan
coal prices were reviving and the company was conspicuously prosperous. As bank boss, Drummond was in a good position to investigate the merits of the company’s case, and he publicized the unflattering
1875 he took a second wife, the daughter of Harvey William Burk, a well-to-do farmer who was also the Liberal mp for Durham West. Mary and Sam moved to Toronto, where his
pioneers of Puslinch, south of Guelph. The family moved to a farm in Waterloo County near Fisher’s Mills in 1853. An able student, John received a thorough education at William
MACKENZIE, Sir WILLIAM, railway contractor and entrepreneur; b. 17
1905 Susan Isabella Stairs, daughter of Edward Stairs and granddaughter of William James Stairs
Jan. 1873 near Windsor, Ont., second son of William McGregor and Jessie Lathrup Peden; m
May 1860 in Toronto, son of Daniel Augustus Nanton, a barrister, and Mary Louisa Jarvis, daughter of William Botsford
the price of mismanagement, a lesson Osler carried with him when he joined with fellow employee Henry Pellatt to launch a firm in Toronto that offered stockbroking, investing, and insurance services
PRICE, Sir WILLIAM, businessman, industrialist, officer, and politician; b. 30