, Chapleau sent Würtele, rather than the provincial treasurer, Joseph Gibb Robertson*, to Paris, where he secured a $4

evenings. Journalist John Ross Robertson*, who was fascinated with Wild, reported that the congregation cheered and burst into applause when

the late Alexander Rocke Robertson*. Macdonald’s decision is said to have been prompted by Trutch’s assertion that the task of

, with John Ross Robertson* as publisher, of the Evening Telegram, a daily to compete with Brown’s Globe. It soon

Quebec as the eastern terminus of the transcontinental line. The provincial treasurer, Joseph Gibb Robertson*, who represented Sherbrooke

ROBERTSON, THOMAS, civil servant, author, entrepreneur, and politician; b. 13 Sept. 1852 in Barrington

ROBERTSON, JAMES, Presbyterian minister; b. 24 April 1839 in Dull, Scotland, one of the eight children of

. 12 Oct. 1842 in Coupar Angus, Scotland, son of William Robertson Reid and Catherine Gillespie; m

Robertson* and philanthropist Sir William Christopher Macdonald*. Improvements to school grounds – the planting of

Armstrong, in the spring of 1872. O’Donoghue and stonecutter Donald Robertson successfully lobbied Prime Minister Sir John A

Gibb Robertson* remained treasurer and Louis Archambeault* commissioner

1961; the spirit of William McPhail continues to haunt the room in which he died. Ian Ross Robertson

Ryerson*, Thomas Jaffray Robertson*, and Daniel Wilson

Robertson*, the principal of Macdonald College at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que. Jamie Benidickson

: past and present; a handbook of the city (Toronto, 1884; repr. 1970), 117–18. Robertson’s landmarks of Toronto, 6: 196–97. V. L. Russell, Mayors of Toronto

. (Toronto), 7 (1869–71): 77, 259. RCAA exhibitions (McMann). Robertson’s landmarks of Toronto. Judith St John, Firm foundations: a chronicle of Toronto’s Metropolitan

Robertson*. Like Mrs Jessop active in the Sunday school of the Church of St John the Divine, Robertson was provincial secretary in the newly elected government. In December 1871 he asked Jessop

., 1880–81: 257. P.E.I., House of Assembly, Debates and proc., 1867–69, 1871–72. Prince Edward Island illustrated (Charlottetown, 1897). I. R. Robertson, “Religion, politics, and

at Dogpound, north of Calgary, and kept on raising horses which he branded 9S. By 1899, the year he took his son-in-law Alexander Robertson into partnership, the herd of horses had grown large