author; b. 8 Nov. 1731 (n.s.) at Methuen, Massachusetts, son of James and Mary Rogers; m. 30 June 1761 Elizabeth Browne at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; d

approachable, with a quiet charm and mischievous smile. His brown hair was thinning; his blue eyes were penetrating and full of youthful purpose. When debating in the House of Commons or wrangling with Mitchell

 March 1930, 22 July 1936. R. C. Brown, Robert Laird Borden: a biography (2v., Toronto, 1975–80). Canadian annual rev., 1902–34. CPG, 1911–34. Philip Eyler, “Public

., eldest of the six children of Thomas Russell and Margaret Harvey Fowlie; m. 24 Dec. 1903 Olive Lillian Brown in Toronto, and they had three sons and two daughters; a son and a daughter

Johnston*], where he won the prize for practical agriculture. Through John Hope, the manager of George Brown*’s Bow Park estate near Brantford

Brown* amongst them, and a recurring epithet, “Leonidas,” for Ryerson’s smug comparison of his own role in 1844 with that of the hero of Thermopylæ. Ryerson himself left Canada West in October 1844

resentment in 1838 when he suggested to Egerton that a £100 reward should be collected for “the Christian act of Col. Brown,” who had kicked an Irvingite downstairs for telling an attempted suicide that he was

],” Leading Canadian poets, ed. W. P. Percival (Toronto, 1948), 202–12; Five Canadian poets . . . (Ottawa, 1968), 12–19. E. K. Brown, On Canadian poetry (rev

Timothy Browne*, all priests of the Newfoundland mission. Fleming had been his curate in St John’s since 1823 and, despite what Fleming

, 12 Dec. 1883, 2 Feb. 1884, 6 Aug. 1906. D. H. Brown, The genesis of the Canadian Criminal Code of 1892 ([Toronto], 1989), 11–37, 70–91, 148, 163–64. Can

], 5th Earl Stanhope, Notes of conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831–1851 (London, 1888; repr. New York, 1973). Halifax Journal, 19 April 1830. Cornelius Brown, Lives

Brown*]. The boy was probably named for John Stewart*, an earlier missionary to Cape Breton who had also seceded to the Free Church

avocats: in re Henriette Brown vs. la fabrique de Montréal; refus de sépulture (Montréal, 1870). Charles Langelier, Souvenirs politiques (de 1878 à 1896) (2v., Québec, 1909

Institution of Great Britain, [comp. B. F. Stevens, ed. H. J. Brown] (4v., London, 1904–9), 4: 243. N.B., House of Assembly, Journal, 1786–1814; Legislative Council, Journal

commissioned an official portrait of Wright in 1918 from English artist John Alfred Arnesby Brown. His only documentary legacy was his bequest to the university library of the typescript of a retirement project

, neatly wrapped in brown-paper packages, which his father brought home to their house in Toronto’s west end. His mother was something of a bookworm herself, and from their earliest years she read to her

biography (3v., Toronto, 1958–76). The three relevant volumes of the Canadian Centenary Ser. are immensely useful: R. C. Brown and

Arthur Brown, who commanded the 28th Foot, as well as a pack of disgruntled traders led by George Allsopp*, William

Brown, The house that Blakes built (Toronto, 1980; copy at the Law Soc. of Upper Can. Arch.). The Canadian law list (Toronto), 1890, 1895, 1900. Canadian men and women of the time

. Paul Knaplund (London, 1931); and Benjamin Wait, The Wait letters, ed. Mary Brown (Erin, Ont., 1976). Numerous references to Arthur occur in Toronto newspapers of the period 1838–41, especially