control of the Bank,” a proposal he declined. Commenting on Fyshe’s departure, his fellow banker William Donald Ross remarked, “I cannot for the life of me see why any Bank would want to get clear of the

. The grandparents of Simon Holmes emigrated to Pictou County from Ross-shire, Scotland, in 1803 with their son John and shortly thereafter settled in the area which would become Springville. The family

[Vail], the subject was introduced into Ontario schools on an optional basis in 1885, part of the moral thrust being introduced by education minister George William

between Samuel and his brother William Valentine. Over the next 29 years they expanded their activities, acting as publishers, bookbinders, and news agents. They opened a branch bookstore on St

L. J. Forget et Compagnie and pursuing his own brokerage operations. A few years later, when Jack Ross, the only son of James

(Republic of Ireland), son of William Hewitt, a shoemaker, and Jane Hicks (Hincks); m. 9 Nov. 1876 Elizabeth Thompson in Toronto, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. there 14 March

archbishop. Farrer’s registration of death lists his mother’s name as Kathleen Delaney; a memoir by a friend claimed he was the nephew of Bishop William Delany of Cork

1846 in St John’s, son of William Lash and Margaret Fannon; m. in or before 1871 Elizabeth Ann Miller, and they had three sons and a

under the influence of William Leslie Hooper, head of the college’s new department of electrical engineering. In the summer of 1884, for instance, he worked as a consultant at a gold-mine in Virginia

James’s frontier image as a fighter and man of adventure. He first came to Fort William (Thunder Bay) in 1872 to work at the sawmill of Adam

. In 1886 he split with William Ewart Gladstone over Home Rule for Ireland and became a Liberal Unionist. By this time, inspired by the theory of Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini for world

provincial officers. The so-called Gamey commission of 1903 was perhaps the most controversial. Following the election in 1902 of a Liberal government in Ontario under George William

FALCONBRIDGE, Sir WILLIAM GLENHOLME, teacher, lawyer, judge, commissioner

of George William Ross between 1899 and 1905, largely because of its electoral misdeeds and neglect of

Laurier to levy an export duty on nickel and the determination in 1899 of the provincial Liberal administration of George William

of 1878. Based in part on the work of a select committee chaired by George William Ross, which reported

Quebec John Jones Ross* headed a cabinet that included a strong ultramontane element. Something had to be done. In October 1884 Senécal’s

, occasionally ventured into the field to excavate promising locations, and lobbied for government funding. In 1887 George William Ross, Ontario’s

BORDEN, Sir FREDERICK WILLIAM, physician, businessman

. Tupper had become involved in politics through the influence of James William Johnston*, the leader of the Conservative party in Nova