MACKASEY, JOHN A., commission merchant and labour leader; b. c. 1840; m. with two sons and one daughter who survived him; d

MACOUN, JOHN, teacher, botanist, naturalist, civil servant, and author; b

commission [see John McMillan*]. The commissioners urged all dairy farmers and cheese-factory managers “to read every word” of his

* and Eliza Ann Phelps; m. 26 Jan. 1897 John Mill Treble in Toronto; they had no children; d

the force sent to quell the trouble. His enthusiasm and characteristic interest in military preparedness were marked, in April 1885 prior to his leaving, by his petition to Prime Minister Sir John

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

Laurier, apostolic delegate Donato Sbarretti y Tazza, and John Read Teefy, superior of St Michael’s College in Toronto, but O’Connor resisted and the marriage took place in the residence at

. MacGregor was brilliant, energetic, nervous, impatient. He was not willing much to suffer fools. In a senate meeting, when some colleague was blundering about a rule he would smile and say, “Read your

Premier John Herbert Turner*’s program of “Progress and prosperity,” McBride won the seat. When Lieutenant Governor Thomas Robert McInnes

McCREIGHT, JOHN FOSTER, lawyer, politician, and judge; b

moved his practice in 1863. In 1872 he was successful in the dominion election in Pictou. McDonald was liked by Prime Minister Sir John

. 4 Nov. 1882 in Ottawa, one of at least three sons of John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Crotty; d. unmarried 16 Sept. 1916 near

. 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

McLAUGHLIN, JOHN JAMES pharmacist and manufacturer; b

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

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

. 31 Dec. 1876 Julia Reading in Truro, N.S., and they had one son and three daughters, one of whom married financier Fleming Blanchard

. 12 June 1861 in Saint John; d. 30 Aug. 1914 in Boston and was buried 4 September in Saint

, the manager of the General Mining Association’s coalmines in Pictou County, and Elizabeth Noad Leonard; m. 15 June 1876, in Charlottetown, Florence Hope Gibson Gray, daughter of John Hamilton

. 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