, son of John Blue, a farmer, and Mary McTavish; m. first 11 Feb. 1869 Mary Black of Yarmouth Township, Ont., and they had two sons; m. secondly 5 June 1883 Elizabeth Amelia Brabant in
commission [see John McMillan*]. The commissioners urged all dairy farmers and cheese-factory managers “to read every word” of his
practise law, but John was not inclined to book learning; he later admitted that he had read only a single book in its entirety.
Carling would be regarded
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In 1872 Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* offered the young but accomplished Blake the position of junior vice
health and the recalcitrance of his deputy, John George Hodgins, impaired his effectiveness. Among Ross’s
the department of history, which had been established in 1895, recognized his promise and sent him to Balliol College in Oxford, supported by the Flavelle Travelling Fellowship. There Edward Kylie read
1892.
During these years as a back-bencher, Leblanc was involved in every battle. He defended the stance of Sir John A
, after the youngest brother of Napoleon, whose biography he had just read. His father’s death in 1852 cut short his formal education.
With
experience, his educational and cultural background, and the Presbyterianism he shared with the university’s principal, Sir John William Dawson
.
Well read in American, British, and German educational theory and practice, McKay was thoroughly conversant with the concepts of the “new education,” which stressed integration of the intellectual
Mackenzie. During the same sojourn in England he also spent some time at University College, London, in the physiology laboratory of John Scott Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Albert Schafer. In 1881 he returned
CAMPBELL, JOHN GEORGE EDWARD HENRY DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND, Marquess of LORNE and 9th Duke of ARGYLL
. Prowse was well read in the work of the great historians of his century, Lord Macaulay and Henry Hallam in Britain, for instance, but equally the Americans John Lothrop Motley, William Hickling
.
Settled near the St Lawrence in the former presbytery of the curé of Berthier (Berthier-sur-Mer), Angers could have lived out his life on the bench, dividing his leisure between reading and his passion
January 1864 Spencer purchased the Victoria Library, in the downtown area on Government Street, where his business would be based for the rest of his life. This “Reading Room and Library” charged
LANGMUIR, JOHN WOODBURN, businessman, politician, and civil servant; b
. In Charlottetown and Boston he had found people who could read to him. In Paris he felt “the want of reading tremendously, I save my eyes entirely to work as much as I can in the day, take a walk after
, and scholar; b. 12 May 1846 in Drummondville (Niagara Falls), Upper Canada, son of John Kennedy
. 31 Dec. 1876 Julia Reading in Truro, N.S., and they had one son and three daughters, one of whom married financier Fleming Blanchard