appeal eventually led to the passage of an ineffective law that left banning the sale of liquor to the discretion of local magistrates. In the Novascotian, or Colonial Herald Joseph

Stanwix (Rome). This affair was his last in the field. For the remainder of the war his primary service was as paymaster at Fort Niagara. On 1 June 1782 John Butler wrote to

in June 1853 of a law regulating river crossings in Lower Canada. But McKenzie gained little from it because of the entry upon the scene of a new and much more powerful rival, the Grand Trunk

intimidation and riot against would-be Conservative voters. Pack as a merchant was a consistent supporter of law and order, but elector intimidation worked in his favour and thus he did not protest. In the 1836

shipbuilding operations to Lake Huron, the town of Owen Sound offered it a grant of land, an adjacent channel dredged at municipal expense, and exemption from property taxes for ten years. A by-law passed later

his son-in-law, James Lyons. Before he closed his Kingston business affairs in 1818 Richardson had run this shop on his own and in partnership with his son Robert. At some point in the immediate post

brother-in-law James Bird* and the Cree Maskepetoon* as guides, they crossed White Man

pre-eminence as a practitioner of partisan rowdyism, his brothers, Jeremiah and Patrick, and a brother-in-law, Patrick Cassady, were also no mean performers. The Toronto Recorder and General

initiated in 1833 and was chartered two years later, he was instrumental in getting it off the ground. On 1 Sept. 1835 he chaired a meeting of promoters which arranged for the opening of stock

Conservative interests. It is not known whether Évanturel gave up his law practice in the course of his political career. He is mentioned as a lawyer in the

returned to Virginia in 1775, at the beginning of the revolution. He volunteered for service in the British forces and was made an ensign in the Queen’s Loyal Virginia Regiment on 1 Dec. 1775

Métis of St Laurent formed a provisional government for themselves on 10 Dec. 1873 and established laws and regulations governing the hunt, the protection of property and individuals, the

and the Brantford Expositor and in the law; at some point he used his skills as a shorthand writer in the courts of New York City. He was the founding president of the Young Men’s Liberal Club

future career, he formed a partnership with his stepbrother Henry Dinning* effective from 1 Sept. 1850. The agreement, signed for eight

BETHUNE, JAMES GRAY, businessman, office holder, jp, and militia officer; b. 1 April 1793 in

. In 1846, the year John was born, Hans formed a partnership with his brother-in-law Charles King, father of James*, to erect a sawmill

while he was on the city council of Quebec, where he represented Saint-Louis ward from 1875 to 1880 and 1882 to 1884. He sat on the committees dealing with markets, by-laws, fire protection, and

1820s and during the 1830s attracted a small black community, in which Brown assumed a leadership role. After 1833 he marshalled the area’s blacks during annual celebrations on 1 August commemorating

 Jan. 1862–12 March 1864 (letterbook copies); Vancouver Island, House of Assembly, Minutes, 2 Aug. 1859–5 March 1860, 1 March 1860–6 Feb. 1861, 26 June 1861–27 Feb

Conservative senator Matthew Henry Cochrane*, the father-in-law and business associate of Cassils’s brother Charles. By 1881 the