members joining him, was carried 22 to 18; one of the defectors, Gaius Samuel Turner, would be made a member of Blair’s Executive Council. Joseph

enterprise benefited from this occurrence as well as from the effects of the National Policy [see Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

were compounded by a lawsuit brought against him by Sir Samuel Spry. Spry sued Crease for £700, contending that he had failed to develop mining properties entrusted to him. The shareholders of Great

Dickens* from making an arrest, Crozier and 20 men arrived at the crossing on 6 January. Despite strong and angry protests from Chief

remarkable. Private studies until he was 18 nurtured his orderly mind, insatiable intellectual curiosity, broadly perceptive intelligence, and attractive personality with strong leadership qualities

diarist; b. 4 July 1827 in Half-Way River (Hantsport), N.S., daughter of Samuel Dickie and Sarah (Brothers?); m. first 4 Jan. 1849 Simeon Michener; they had no children; m. secondly 9

 Scott Street. Guided by a strong sense of what was practical and profitable, he soon realized that the wholesale industry was experiencing diminishing returns and that the retail trade offered greater

-curer in Hamilton, he ranked well below Samuel Nash, whose 23 employees contributed to an output of

a major part as well in the debate over the abolition of the Legislative Council, which he strongly favoured. As treasurer, he was of course interested in the financial savings of a single-chamber

government of Samuel Leonard Tilley* had passed an act subsidizing railway building, he was one of those Fredericton entrepreneurs anxious to

Brothers and Company was expanded to include a brother-in-law, Samuel Finley. Gault’s efforts were being watched by R. G. Dun and Company

Charlotte without a representative on the Executive Council. Premier Samuel Leonard Tilley* and Attorney General Albert James

Gaelic-speaking Highlanders with strong loyalties to the established Church of Scotland; however, their first ministers, including James Drummond

Powell*, a former chief justice of Upper Canada; John became legal adviser to the Powell family and their relations, the Jarvises. Samuel Peters

contributions to posterity. Although Haliburton found colonial politics unattractive, he had strong concerns and opinions, which were voiced through his

Smallwood*, and it reprinted scientific intelligence from abroad. The scientific news in the Canadian Journal had a strongly utilitarian bent, as it did in the contemporary Scientific

. In 1830 the family took up residence in Montreal. Two years later Henry Joseph and his eldest son, Samuel, died of cholera. Jacob then took the additional first name of Henry in honour of his father

Thompson* in 1894. In the election of 1896 he won the urban vote in his constituency but lost his seat thanks to strong rural dissatisfaction engendered by a quarter-century of distress and depopulation

appointment had long been expected and was favourably received. Chief Justice Sir Samuel Henry Strong

Commons on matters relating to the west. In politics Laurie supported the Conservative party and especially its National Policy [see Sir Samuel Leonard