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

 High Street where his father carried on business as a pawnbroker. In his Vancouver years he was described as “scholarly” and “well-read in the English classics,” and he was known for the breadth and

CARTWRIGHT, Sir RICHARD JOHN, businessman, politician, and author; b. 4 Dec. 1835 in Kingston, Upper Canada, second son

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

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

COPE, JOHN NOEL (Newell) (Bolmoltie, Bowlmawltie, Paul Martin), Micmac guide and hunter; b. April 1847 in Sheet Harbour, N.S., son

the Sich-Kolomea district northwest of Vegreville (Alta), he found seasonal employment in the mines of British Columbia and then turned to full-time farming. When Ivan (John) Bodrug and Aleksii

. John M. Davenport was clerking for his father, a prominent commercial chemist, when his reading of the Tractarians awakened a vocation to the

. 1871 was sent to the Red River settlement in Manitoba with a contingent of reinforcements that had been dispatched to repel a Fenian invasion [see John

Dorcas society for women, a reading-room, and adult education, all attracted a growing number of Tsimshian. Newcomers were required to abide by the laws of Metlakatla as well as by the new laws of the

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

reading class which met weekly under Anna’s tutelage. In 1895 she continued this tradition with her Shakespeare Club for young women. In 1887

. 25 Sept. 1853 in Maugerville, N.B., son of Robert Henry Emmerson, a Baptist clergyman, and Augusta A. Read; m

, and scholar; b. 12 May 1846 in Drummondville (Niagara Falls), Upper Canada, son of John Kennedy

carpenter, and Elizabeth Arnot; brother of John Arnot Fleming*; m

GOODYEAR, HEDLEY JOHN, teacher and army officer; b

experience, his educational and cultural background, and the Presbyterianism he shared with the university’s principal, Sir John William Dawson

. 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

were published as supplements to the Review between 1898 and 1900 and then issued in collective form as Canadian history readings . . . (Saint John, 1900). His own educational

. 1 Jan. 1839 in Northamptonshire, England, daughter of John Hayr; m. 13 June 1860 Robert Jack (d