MACOUN, JOHN, teacher, botanist, naturalist, civil servant, and author; b
school in Scotland and in Canada. Later he would claim to have largely educated himself through reading and study. In April 1850 Clark and others from the Port Dover area decided to try their luck in the
text, and Gates’s reading of it, led to unmeasurable good.
At the Johns Hopkins school of medicine Osler helped introduce a new emphasis on bedside
. 27 Dec. 1823 in Rickinghall, England, son of John Bowell and Elizabeth Marshall; m. 23
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Beginning as a student, Bishop had published poetry, travel accounts, and fiction in periodicals as varied as the Messenger and Visitor (Saint John), the Maritime Baptist (Saint John
moved his practice in 1863. In 1872 he was successful in the dominion election in Pictou.
McDonald was liked by Prime Minister Sir John
would earn him a place in Canadian agricultural history: he decided to import Holstein-Friesian cattle. Cook’s decision has traditionally been attributed to his reading of American farm periodicals, which
he became a clerk with a merchant in Fogo. After his apprenticeship, he joined Ayre and Sons, St John’s largest retailer. He then worked successively for Rhodes, Curry and Company in Amherst, N.S
. 4 Nov. 1882 in Ottawa, one of at least three sons of John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Crotty; d. unmarried 16 Sept. 1916 near
daughter of a shoemaker from the north of England who came to New Brunswick around 1819, was well read in religious matters and provided constant instruction and some solace for her son, the youngest of her
McCREIGHT, JOHN FOSTER, lawyer, politician, and judge; b
, “Notes from the lecture on the Harbour Grace affray – one hundred years later” (typescript of lecture read before the Newfoundland Hist. Soc., [St John’s], 24 Nov. 1983; copy in
. 1844 John Tubman (d. 1867); m
proficient as a teacher. He was able to read, write, and speak English, French, Gaelic, Latin, and Greek as well as teach calculus. Such was his interest in calculus that he corresponded with professors of
to read and write served him well, especially in the operation of the work-yards and commissarial stores he was to set up for his co-workers. His rise through the hierarchy of railway builders was
. 21 Jan. 1830 in Indiantown (Saint John), son of Barnes Travis and Elizabeth Stevens; m. 24
HELMCKEN, JOHN SEBASTIAN, physician, politician, and HBC chief trader; b
. 10 Nov. 1835 in Baie Verte, N.B., fourth of the nine children of John Carey and Caroline Chappell; m
. 25 March 1833 in Auchtermuchty, Scotland, son of the Reverend John Taylor and Marion Antill Wardlaw; m