in July, in Lisburn (Northern Ireland), son of John Finlay, a hardware and seed merchant, and Christina Brownlee; m. 10 Feb. 1883 Catherine Anne Allott in Winnipeg, and they had two sons and

newspapers and magazines. In 1906 he and George Harold Clark, later dominion seed commissioner, published the pictorial Farm weeds of Canada, an outstanding contribution to science. However, his best

. Gibbons, in his capacity as chief justice, rejected the plan, and Macarmick outlawed the society as a possible “Seed of Rebellion.” Despite this setback

. Glode tried to bring others in, requesting seed potatoes for seven families; four, he said, had already cleared land and the rest planned to do so. Howe, the first provincial Indian commissioner, visited

Bronfman* said of Goldstein that “it was a source of great satisfaction to him to watch the seeds which he had so ably and patiently sown in the field of humanitarian service, develop, ripen and bear

. On 18 Feb. 1834 his uncle Edward Hale, of Portneuf, congratulated him on having bought a farm at Sherbrooke, sent him seed, and discussed the timber trade with him. Hale built a house on the banks

. Alexander Henderson was the son of a successful nurseryman and seed merchant. His grandfather, Alexander Sr, the founder of the business, was the first chairman of the National Bank of Scotland and had been

grant of seed potatoes, presumably because they were being eaten rather than planted. Hogsett seems to have been financially well off, as he claimed he

the French Métis, perhaps in the process sowing the seeds of the single Métis Nation of today. David Smyth

exotics from around the world: Java coffee, Puerto Rican molasses, British seed, American tobacco, Peruvian fertilizer, Canadian flour, African cocoa, and Nova Scotian fish, as well as agricultural

predecessors, built Fort Saint-Louis (Fort-à-la-Corne, Sask.) near the forks of the Saskatchewan River, seeded several acres of grain, and explored the Carotte (Carrot) River valley. Anthony

calm, though the seed of future conflict had been planted. The minister, perhaps influenced by Payen de Noyan’s complaints, put this crisis down to lack of respect for Noyelles among the tribes

extensive portions of the large reserve to them. They justified this action by arguing that the monies obtained served as a trust fund with which Iroquois farmers could purchase seed and new equipment

and a breeder of superior livestock. This success led him to establish a seed distribution business, the Canadian Agricultural Emporium, through which he introduced Red Fife wheat [see David

establishment of a model farm by the society to upgrade the quality of livestock and to experiment with seed grains. According to the 1861 census, Wightman produced the most grain, cheese, butter, lime, fish oil

, 1898, and the Destructive Insect and Pest Act, 1910), and seed purity (the Seed Control Act, 1905), as well as to the school garden movement. Under Fisher, a major expansion of the experimental farms

Yoho Park (British Columbia). In the Rockies he collected several examples of about 229 species. All the plants and seeds had to be carefully dried so that they would not mildew, and Palliser helped him

relief committee, enough food and seed were collected from Canada, the United States, and England to help the poorest settlers survive the winter of 1868–69

military settlement that he had bought from an army officer in New York, and a quantity of tobacco seed. His family arrived the following year, when the yellow fever epidemic in New York broke up their

illustration, and work on weeds and seed analysis for the Department of Agriculture in Calgary. In February 1912 Charles Gordon