educated at the Collegiate School in Fredericton, where George Robert Parkin was headmaster, and at the
Dec. 1857 in Mountain Cross, Scotland, son of Robert Rutherford, a United Presbyterian minister, and Agnes Gunion; m
* and Wallace Nesbit Graham*, a partnership that would include Robert Laird
Richard Hardisty, the richest man in the North-West Territories, and to Donald Alexander Smith
depravity. The evangelists Dwight Lyman Moody and Ira David Sankey make an appearance as does the popular American freethinker Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, a friend of Walt Whitman who introduced Flora to
. first 1868 Isabella Lammond Smith (d. 1871), and they had two children who
Minister Sir Robert Laird Borden* in January 1915 that Alderson “does not treat our men with a firm iron hand covered with the
Smith, New Testament expert Marcus Dods, theologian Alexander Balmain Bruce, and natural scientist Henry Drummond were particularly influential on him, and their fight for progressive evangelicalism was
student of reverent biblical criticism and the works of scholars such as William Robertson Smith and Charles Augustus Briggs. He remained the minister of St
meeting of the Dairymen’s Association of Ontario in Smiths Falls, Prime Minister Sir
moved there early in 1882. Martin was admitted to the Manitoba bar late in the summer. He established a successful legal practice and took an articling student, Smith Curtis, who would later become his
election of September 1911 voters defeated the Liberal government. Walker had been invited by Robert Laird
mpp. Hendrie handily defeated Colquhoun (who ran as an independent), Grit candidate Stephen Frederick Washington, and socialist Robert Roadhouse. Though the Liberal government of George
*, and Donald Alexander Smith
leadership of the Conservatives was another factor, especially after the death of Charles Smith Wilcox
with the nascent Provincial Workmen’s Association and a personal friendship with its influential general secretary, Robert
. 1894 Amelia Blanche Smith at Quebec, and they had four sons and two daughters; d
begun to branch out in 1889 as president of the Charles J. Smith coal and wood company. In 1891 he joined a syndicate which acquired control of Toronto’s horse-drawn trolley system
ambition or her output. She suggested in an interview in the Idler (London) [see Robert