began making iron, but he soon ran into financial difficulties. In June 1800 he signed two-thirds of the business over to his Montreal suppliers, Nathaniel Burton and James Maitland McCulloch, in

–76, he was interviewed at length by James Boswell, who wrote an account for the London Magazine of July 1776. In it Brant is called the grandson of the chief who visited England in the

reportedly a factor in his resignation from the latter’s board [see James Ross*]. He was accused of colluding to sustain stock prices

), completed in 1854, and Inglewood (on Inglewood Drive), built for Archibald Kerr about the same date. Thomas’s Wilderness House (1848–51), built for Aeneas Kennedy, was destroyed in 1853. Thomas also designed

news room of a local newspaper. He also belonged to a scientific society where he met Edward Lesslie. Lesslie and his son James* were to be

same year that he added Rupert Mearse Wells and James Kirkpatrick Kerr. In 1861 Blake’s prestige was such that he became a lecturer in equity for the University of Toronto and the Law Society of Upper