, as communications with Toronto began to be improved, it is said that George Brown, inaugurating the Globe
G. S. Brown. Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 21 March 1959. Tribune (Yarmouth), 1863–64, 1866–67. Vanguard (Yarmouth), 2 Aug. 1967. Yarmouth Herald, 1859
most revealing. George Brown thus described the election to his wife: “The struggle . . . in Centre
George Brown* and Antoine-Aimé Dorion*. Publicly Huntington claimed that
Bowes*, and George Brown* stood for the two-member riding of Toronto. Brown, the Reform editor of the powerful Globe, attacked
Brown*, the politically active owner-editor of the Toronto Globe, to oppose Arthur Rankin, a
ANDERSON, THOMAS BROWN, merchant, banker, member of the Special Council for Lower Canada; b. June 1796 in Edinburgh
.
As a young man Armstrong entered the composing room of George Brown*’s Globe to be apprenticed as a printer. He became an activist in
. Brown
American Philosophical Soc. (Philadelphia), ms coll. 26 (A. I. Hallowell papers). PAM
.
Jennifer S. H. Brown
Elizabeth Bingham Young is the author of “The transformed Indian woman,” Indian’s Friend
way in which clan relationships undergirded their business successes. He himself built up a reputation as a bold entrepreneur, who was extremely proud of his personal success. Adam Brown of Hamilton
the second most important Liberal publication in Ontario after the Toronto Globe, published by George Brown*. Under Cameron’s
management, together with Chief Trader William Brown, of New Caledonia (B.C.), in which district “serious differences and insubordination” had occurred. Connolly’s headquarters were first at Fraser Lake and
October 1844, George Brown and Thomas Ewart. Far from neutral in the local dispute, they were there to dispose
Brown*, encouraged Irving to enter public life. At the time of confederation the prospect of applying his talents in politics appealed to him, though, as he acknowledged to Brown in July 1867, he
secure sufficient clients, in December 1864 he went into partnership with Alfred Brown, a well-known Montreal iron dealer, forming John McDougall and Company. Their foundry was constructed behind the
Jones offered a five-dollar reward for this “negro man,” whom he described as about 30 years of age, “stout and well set” and wearing “a light brown jacket, a plaid waistcoat, corduroy breeches
.”
Jennifer S. H. Brown
[The author is grateful to the late Harold Egerton Young, of North York (Toronto), for sharing a copy of an
Brown*. Here they described the benefits of the new, indirect method of transfusion, by means of syringes and cannulae, that Robertson was using at Sick Children’s. (He was also cognizant of the
unsuccessfully that Liberal editor George Brown* had vilified judge Adam Wilson* and thereby