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Young* of having used their positions as chief commissioner of public works and president of the Executive Council respectively to make an improper deal in 1874 with Joseph Cameron Brown, the railway
 
. According to a genealogical record compiled by William Marsters Brown, a cousin of Richard Upham Marsters, the Marsters family were English Jews who emigrated to Massachusetts. Richard’s paternal grandparents
 
Brown, printer and owner of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Quebec. After Brown’s death in 1789, Roy continued to work there for Samuel
Shearer decided to enter the primary wood sector. With Jonathan Brown, a bookkeeper, he formed Shearer and Brown Company, which had a steam-powered sawmill south of the St Gabriel lock. Shearer was
.” For the decade following 1854, Wright was a consistent supporter of George Brown* and the Clear Grit party on issues of wide significance such
George Brown’s Municipal Reform Association. Boulton lent
BROWN, ADA MARY (Courtice), educator, social reformer, and office holder; b. 4 Nov. 1860 near Bloomfield, Upper Canada
the tribe. Church of England clergyman R. C. Lundin Brown* later mentioned him as “a man of great authority with
 
. In 1830 Smith turned to the important coal resources of Cape Breton Island, where GMA activities had been supervised since 1826 by the young mining engineer Richard Brown, later a chief agent for the
Brown*]. Of wiry build, he accepted the rigours of an expedition which covered much of the southern part of the island. An exhibition of 33 of his drawings from the exploration was held in Victoria in
the primacy among reform newspapers it had recently lost to George Brown*’s Globe. Indeed, Lindsey attempted to carve a niche for his
relationship with George Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe and leader of the Upper Canadian Liberals, was of
have entered the ranks of the Liberal-Conservative party. In fact, in August 1858, he refused a ministerial post in the government of George Brown
Brown*. On 4 October he was one of the 44 people signing the “Adresse des Fils de la liberté de Montréal, aux jeunes gens des colonies de l’Amérique du Nord.” He had the complete confidence of
accounts. Attempts at incorporation of the institute in Canada to end the liability of individuals in the event of bankruptcy were frustrated by James C. Brown, a trustee who refused to surrender his
Boulton, John Brown, mha for Durham, and Colonel John Covert*) who were attempting to turn the Orange lodges
York City, “to get rid of the rust” according to mission historian Margaret H. Brown. Jean Dow returned in April 1902 and “dwelt among the ruins
, as was then the custom. He worked in the offices of George Browne* and John James
generous public.” But his dominance had been challenged: a rival, John Brown, had built a hotel upriver, although his Ontario House could not equal Forsyth’s establishment, or so it was said. In 1826 it was
 
 Aug. 1777 in Dartmouth, England, second son of William Hoyles, doctor, and Anne Wright; m. there in 1801 Lucretia Brown, and they had three sons and six daughters; d. 29 Feb. 1840 in
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