Departure Bay office. Robert’s son-in-law John Bryden, who

of his father in 1865, he lived for a time with his eldest half-brother, John Coucher Steele. The Fenian troubles

president of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada, and Carman as general superintendents of the new church. When Rice died in December 1884, he was replaced by John Æthuruld

serious handicaps in his profession. He had difficulty expressing himself in public. This disadvantage he overcame by practising law in partnership, first with Joseph-Évariste Prince in 1882–83, John

Wolfville, where he became “fairly proficient” in Latin and Greek and acquired a reading knowledge of French and a smattering of science. In 1839–40, after teaching for a time in New Brunswick, he studied

federal election in the summer of 1872 did not, however, measure up to the hopes of the youthful members. Sir John A. Macdonald