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of Chicoutimi. They decided to set a new course for their “community” on 13 Nov. 1891, while retaining their orphanage in Worcester. The “Brown Nuns” had now arrived in Baie-Saint-Paul, but they
thereby earned the bitter enmity of George Brown and the Toronto Globe. Bowes also promoted the interests of Toronto in the assembly by introducing or supporting bills for the settlement of the
leprosy of impenitence” which he himself “so energetically condemned” in his plea. For in this famous case, according to Cassidy, the opposing parties were not Henriette Brown and the parish council of
he could show independence. In 1860, for instance, as a member of a select committee named by parliament he joined George Brown* in defending
of Upper Canada. Chadwick and a fellow student, Calvin Browne, compiled an impressive book, published in Toronto in 1862, to assist others in preparing for the society’s questions. The authors pointed
Harris* from Winnipeg in search of reconstruction work in his hometown. He led in this endeavour with a three-storey brick store. Chappell and Phillips also contributed: their Brown Block received
Brown*. Locally Clarke held office as a member of Elora’s village council in 1858 and 1866, and as reeve in 1859–64 and 1867–68; he served as well
indeed his whole life, as raw material for his art, his writing, and his causes. Wallace Brown
, Chapleau, Hall, and Atwater, the firm kept changing as partners came and went. By 1892, when Hall became a principal partner, it was Hall, Cross, Brown, and Sharp. He built up important professional and
 31, C1, 1871, Adelaide Township, Ont., div.2: 26 (mfm. at AO). Daily Mail and Empire, 21 March 1919. Toronto Daily Star, 30 June 1917, 25 Nov. 1918. R. C. Brown
Brown*; Johnston’s energy and vision, however, enabled him to accomplish the task with remarkable dispatch. Although most of September and early October 1849 were given to his business in New
and examiner in methods in English (1908–10), and edited several textbooks, including works by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Arnold, and Browning. During
reformers were prepared to rebel, Lloyd was dispatched to Montreal to secure proof. The letter he brought back from Thomas Storrow Brown* did
 
.” The second achievement was overcoming the fractured relationship between the college and the experimental farm. When Mills assumed the principalship, William Brown, a professor of agriculture, was in
 
in type – is very handsome: short, delicate, aquiline nose; piercing dark grey eyes; long dark-brown hair, beard, and moustaches; white, small, regular teeth; skin tanned to red bronze from
 
in the 1870s and 1880s. Newman, at the time of his death, had accounts with M. S. Brown and Company in Halifax [see Michael Septimus
 
joys of any fresh comer always with complete detachment from all other interests, trying out new fungi on reluctant ‘volunteers,’ preaching the gospel of brown flour to a septuagenarian widow while his
Penny privately referred to George Brown*, the Reform leader and instigator of the confederation coalition, as a hypocritical opportunist who had
Madawaska River and in 1857 acquired additional hydraulic lots at the Chaudière Falls. In 1859, with the addition of John T. Brown, another Ottawa lumberman, the firm was reorganized as Perley, Pattee
Brown* instead. In 1854 Rankin was ready to challenge Prince in Essex but at the last moment Prince withdrew in favour of his son. Rankin’s support of separate schools may have swung the Roman
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