Westminster and back, a distance of 200 miles. The next spring, charging two dollars a letter, he carried mail between Yale and the Cariboo, a round trip of 760 miles. In May 1862 Governor James
intervention by an evangelical layman, James Kirkpatrick Kerr, forced a new ballot on procedural grounds. When the results of the sixth ballot, in which evangelical Robert
., where he achieved some prominence. He secured in 1759 a portion of the supply trade at Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island. Anticipating further gain through the advancement of his friend Colonel James
Mary McKeddie; m. 1872 Annie Kerr of Kingston, N.Y., and they had one son; d. 20 Sept. 1913 in Montreal.
James
Savona’s Ferry (Savona) and the upper Thompson River. Parke sold out his interest to Wilson Henry Sanford in 1868 and in 1870 Semlin took over Sanford’s share. Semlin traded the hotel to James Campbell in
Riel to come north and present their case to the government. Dumont, Michel Dumas, and James Isbister* were delegated to go to Montana and make
equipment on his own account. Here he did not have the status of colonist that he had enjoyed on Vancouver Island. Chief factor James Douglas
bar in 1863. Until 1870 he practised with Read; he then moved to the firm of Blake, Kerr, and Bethune. Between October 1870 and November 1872 he sat as master in ordinary in Ontario’s Court of
entrepreneurs had begun to exploit in the 1850s [see James Miller Williams*], was then regarded as the true prize, and gas, when it was
, Robert Gourlay, gadfly. James Young, Reminiscences of the early history of Galt and the settlement of Dumfries, in the province of Ontario (Toronto, 1880). J. E. Kerr, “Sketch of the
Frank Cassidy in the 1900s and 1910s, Gordon Hudson in the 1910s and 1920s, and the brothers James Kenneth (Ken) and Grant G. Watson in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Through his newspaper columns, his
Du Pont* Duchambon de Vergor]. Three years later he received a Massachusetts captain’s commission to raise a company for “the Reduction of Canada,” but the expedition was aborted after James
Service. In another enterprise, Irving, with partners Senator James Reid and businessman Stephen Tingley, had the steamer Charlotte built at Quesnel in 1896 for service on the upper Fraser to Fort
, after it opened in 1867, the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Morrison’s popularity also undoubtedly assisted his election as alderman for St James’ Ward in 1853 and 1854
he was acclaimed a city councillor for James Bay Ward. The election of the mayor and many of the councillors had been attributed by some of their opponents to the Chinese vote. In view of his later
FLEMMING, JAMES KIDD, schoolteacher, businessman, and politician; b. 27 April 1868 in Lower Woodstock, N.B., son of Thomas
bench regardless of any problems over responsibility or principle. Secretly, Head had James Carter appointed the
.
Unlike fellow agent James Williams* on Prince Edward Island, McDonell did obey Selkirk’s summons to England to report in detail on his stewardship
been relocated from Montreal to the Lachine Canal) was managed by James Goudie, a brother-in-law of Alexander Ogilvie. That year Alexander Walker Ogilvie was made a partner and expanded the operation