settled his family at Pigeon Bay (Man.), just south of Berens River, and built one of the first log houses in the area. His son William later recollected that the family lived well on sturgeon, whitefish

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

BORDEN, Sir FREDERICK WILLIAM, physician, businessman

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

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

. Frederick Brigden, with his two brothers and two sisters, grew up in an atmosphere that his brother William Henry later described as the “simple, unaffected, genuine religion” of Wesleyan Methodism. John

. In 1875 he sold his pharmacy to his brother William and left for the west to work for John Wright Sifton on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and especially on the CPR’s telegraph lines

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

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

[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

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

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

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

educator; b. 25 Nov. 1842 in New Glasgow, N.S., son of Alexander Forrest and Barbara Ross McKenzie

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

. 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

(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

. 12 Aug. 1821 in Dublin, son of William Hodgins and Frances Doyle; m. first 22 Nov

. 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