of his first term trying to maintain a measure of decorum among the Conservative members, who voted consistently in favour of more bonuses than were allowable under municipal law to the approaching

society unaccustomed to large-scale public health and welfare expenditures. As there was no poor law in Newfoundland, the sick, aged, infirm, feeble-minded, orphaned, and unemployed were maintained by an

*, had been solicitor general of Lower Canada; the fifth, Andrew*, was well on the way to a brilliant career in law and politics in Quebec. Two

. “Perpetual tinkering at laws and institutions” would not bring about fundamental reform. Indeed, Sutherland was alarmed that the Social Gospel, which seemed to him to concentrate on the material aspects of the

of the École Polytechnique to be recognized as engineers and surveyors without writing a qualifying exam. Despite his efforts, the amendment was not part of the Act amending the law respecting the land

significant one in Waldron’s career. He married into the Young family and after the death of his father-in-law, Robert Young, that same year had his name attached to the firm. The three major partners were

adapted the militia organization to fulfill the statute labour laws; by 1810 new roads were being opened and public buildings planned [see John

at Fort Erie, Upper Canada, on 1 June [see John O’Neill*]. The excitement generated by these events provided support for the

Klatsassin], was slow in informing Seymour. Seymour, in contrast to Kennedy, acted with dispatch. He did not declare martial law, but immediately ordered gold commissioner W. G

, son of the prime minister, announced his move to Winnipeg to open a law office with a son of Tupper, Stephen immediately offered $5,000 of legal business from the CPR’s land department. The extent to

moved to Port Hope, taught school briefly, and then began to study law. After a period in the office of George Strange Boulton*, Draper

. William Henry Pope received his early education in Prince Edward Island and proceeded to higher studies in England, from which his father had emigrated in 1819. William read law at the Inner Temple

grant to Clark, on the grounds that Clark had procured it by falsely representing himself to be the lawful tenant under the lease of 1794. At the

northwest; he arrived in Manitoba, probably in 1877. After being employed as a labourer in Winnipeg, he bought land with his brother-in-law and hired a surveyor to lay out the townsite for what was to become

which rejected Calvinism in the writings of the 18th-century Jacobite Anglican, William Law. Although Law’s earlier work influenced all evangelicals, only Alline seems to have followed him in adopting the

as the law of the land, and to render it as beneficial as possible for the object intended. It is with all well-disposed persons a subject for congratulation that a topic of grievance has thus been

, militia officer, and politician; b. 14 May 1847 in Upper Canard, N.S., only son of Dr Jonathan Borden and Maria Frances Brown; m. first 1 Oct. 1873 Julia Maude Clarke (d

Ryland]. In 1820 Cuvillier unsuccessfully proposed passage of a law to remunerate members of the assembly as a means of opening the house to candidates from walks of life other than the liberal

the militia, Frederick Charles Denison was privately educated until 1858, when he entered Upper Canada College. In 1864 he became a law student at Osgoode Hall. Called to the bar in 1870, he entered

intestate millionaire widower whose only heirs-at-law were his two sons, had reputedly been the richest man in New Brunswick. Appointed co-administrators of his estate, Archibald and Donald Jr simply