Ross*’s Liberals granted him the right to develop water power on the Ontario side of the Rainy River and promised to provide him with timber limits. The latter pledge was not fulfilled before the

introduced Eric to Montreal art dealer Frank Robert Heaton, who convinced him that an ambitious Englishman could thrive in Canada’s inchoate arts community. In Maud’s words, Heaton’s intervention was “an

expression,” a principle followed in the 35 lectures she would organize. During a meeting at the Carsons’ home, Irvine, stonemason Alexander Ross, Coutts, her sister and brother-in-law, and others created

that the two men were in conflict. Bowser was unhappy about being replaced as acting finance minister, a position that he had assumed on 22 Oct. 1909, the day Robert Garnett

OLIVER, FRANK (born Francis Robert Bowsfield, Bossfield, or Bousfield), printer

closest associates were Robert Rogers, minister of public works from 1900 to 1911

brother-in-law Robert Baldwin Hamilton, the QOR’s unpopular commander, who was succeeded in 1896 by Joseph Martin Delamere. Family

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 Robert Laird Borden, who would later recall that on