brightness and joy into the lives of our silent ones.” Why he left when he did is not clear; his departure may have had something to do with two negative evaluations. In 1906 British specialist James Kerr Love
James Skitt Matthews with three of MacLean’s backers, who recalled that illegal voters in the election had included everyone from houseboat tenants to itinerant hotel guests
SAYWARD, WILLIAM PARSONS, businessman; b. 9 Dec. 1818 in or near Thomaston, Maine, son of James Sayward and Lucy
was jumped; Indian Affairs was unable to secure redress. He is credited with discovering the ore body that led to the famous Kerr-Addison gold-mine east of Kirkland Lake. Shortly before World War I a
entered into a separate partnership to can salmon. Together with fellow fisherman James Wise, he joined New Brunswick canner Alexander Loggie and tinsmith David S. Hennessy in a
Hazen, James Simonds*, and James White, disappointingly aloof like the formerly pro-revolutionary inhabitants of Maugerville [see
. 1, 3–8, 15, 18, 21–22, 24–28 (mfm. at ANQ-Q); Candidates papers, 15 Aug. 1798; London Missionary Soc., Board minutes, 11 Nov. 1799; North American corr., 28 Nov. 1804. [James Kerr
1827 Julie-Henriette Marett, daughter of James Lamprière Marett, a merchant, and they had a daughter who died in infancy; d. 11 Aug. 1849 in Montreal
Burlington Bay Canal in 1825 [see James Gordon Strobridge*], and was made a magistrate in 1827. After the belated award of his
over as a military base hospital. Here Mewburn gained his first experience as a military surgeon, under James Kerr, and for this service he was awarded the North West Canada Medal
1854 Governor James Douglas* called him a “fortunate selection” who had done his job with “zeal and untiring energies
Presbyterian minister. He was also born into a recently united eastern Canadian Presbyterian church and was seven years old when Canadian national Presbyterian union occurred [see James
Belleville, Upper Canada. Initially he taught public school in Huntingdon and Madoc townships and at Oshawa. Turning to journalism in 1850, with James E. McMillan he published the Bowmanville
of James Dun, a farmer; d. on or about 6 Nov. 1803.
Little is known of John Dun’s early life, except that he had been “regularly educated
requesting that a clergyman ordained by the Church of Scotland and “sent out to America under [its] particular sanction and authority” be selected to assist their present minister, the Reverend James
in the bank crash of 1894 [see James Goodfellow*], and by the summer of 1898 the loss of two schooners in gales had led him back
Hamilton and William Dickson*. The petit jury included the Niagara merchants James
Mitchell and Barbara Grant; m. 9 March 1853 Isabella Gough, née Carvell, widow of James Gough and sister of Jedediah Slason
Harvey*, he emigrated to St John’s in 1860 and became a dry-goods clerk with the firm of McBride and Kerr, which after 1864 was managed by James
of James Dunsmuir; m. in 1847 Joanna (Joan) Olive White, and they had ten children; d. 12 April 1889 at Victoria, B.C.
Robert