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
BORDEN, Sir ROBERT LAIRD, lawyer and politician; b
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
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
colleague Robert Alexander Ross, Butler had large ideas about the role of
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
Robert Laird Borden, who would later recall that on
journalist Philip Dansken Ross*. At the next year’s meet Doolittle triumphed in
mothers’ meetings, and visiting the sick. Her responsibilities grew as her husband’s career advanced. Pinkham became a member, under the chairmanship of his bishop, Robert
* and Charles Marcil, engineer Robert Alexander Ross
, Ebenezer Ross (named for a Presbyterian minister in their hometown), would study medicine and have a distinguished career as surgical director of the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital in New York City
investigate the feasibility of establishing a municipally operated hydroelectric facility at Niagara Falls. Much of the technical assessment of the project was subcontracted to Robert Alexander
philanthropist; b. 18 July 1848 in St Michaels (Athelstan), Lower Canada, eldest of the four children of Robert Walker Graham, a gentleman farmer, and Marion Gardner; m. 17 March 1892 Anne Beekman Hamilton (d
and fun-loving, generous, ardently loyal, and a fearless fighter in many good causes.” A similar likeness appears in The measure of the rule, by novelist Robert
Robert Paris Edwards, an assistant editor, contributed to some of the early issues. The eight-page newspaper, which appeared weekly until 1926 and
., son of John Ross Mackinnon, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and Margaret Tait; m. 6 Oct. 1896 Mary McGillvray Mackintosh in Edinburgh, and they had three sons and a daughter; d
Brymner*, Maurice Galbraith Cullen, and Robert
projects. His decision to retain the construction manager of each section, John Ross at Lake Superior and James Ross* (no relation) in the
Kildonan (Winnipeg), Red River settlement (Man.), son of Robert McBeath*, a farmer and member of the Council of Assiniboia, and Mary McLean; m
MacKay* to teach mathematics there. He also taught at Sydney Academy before choosing a different career path. In 1885 he began a legal apprenticeship with John Urquhart Ross of Pictou. He entered