Catholics,” his arch-rival Cooper accused him of “sowing . . . seeds of jealousy, strife, hatred and malice.” The intemperate language was a symptom of the time and the issue. In 1859 the Coles

minister, it was both a considerable achievement and an introduction to the west. In return for land grants, cash payments, the promise of tools, seed, and cattle, and other minor inducements [see

, and new seeds were distributed, notably parsnip chervil as a potato substitute. Lawson proposed seaweed as a manure along the lower St Lawrence and Atlantic coasts. To manufacturers he and his

toured Europe in 1822, only to be shocked at how deep the seeds “sown by the french revolution” had put down roots. His spirits revived later that year when Plessis invited him to oppose an imperial bill

river the same, and all the teams are required almost immediately for seeding.” Determined to strike at Batoche before the rebellion spread, he left

Council meetings in winter and proposed such practical measures as the procurement of various sorts of seeds, the appropriation of £25 to buy salt for the river fisheries at Horton, Cornwallis, and Falmouth

by McNutt from the government and with other supplies donated by the government and private charity. In the spring of 1762 the Council gave the Irish provisions, seed corn, tools, and building

farther and farther inland to find pine and spruce of a good size. The settlers sowed seeds in the tree-stripped and burnt-out areas of the Baie des Hahas (Baie des Ha! Ha!), and Chicoutimi became the

of other partners, until the end of his life. Préfontaine was one of the young Liberals who frequented the Club National, that seed-bed of

government had already supplied the exiles with transportation, land, seed-grain, farm implements, and rations, yet Puisaye petitioned for a food allowance for his servants and for more land. He claimed that

, agriculture, and public policy continue to be harvested in Saskatchewan today, though few remember who planted the seeds. Gordon

well as the amount, varied from person to person. Borrowers ranged from William Haun, a Bertie Township farmer who asked for a loan of £25 in 1829 to purchase seed grain, to members of the important

Ledger – put down the Orange Press.” The seed of sectarian rivalry had been planted in what had hitherto been a comparatively peaceful colony. The following 50 years would show into

of his life. If Wrigley’s goal had become clear by the 1890s, the means of achieving it remained elusive. In his unending effort to sow the seeds of

from his professional assignments and to gather unknown plants or seeds to be sent to the Jardin du Roi. He had also created a botanical garden for himself at his chateau of Monnières, near Nantes

and the west – the Neutrals, the Tobacco nation, the Eries, the Nipissings and the Ottawas. The Hurons thus became the great traders of the period. As soon as seeding was ended, they would load

Canada of the first seed of the holy Society of Jesus!” And what was the result of the Jesuits’ influence since their return to Canada? “A few years sufficed to condemn our population to the most abject

romantic critique of the “external” emphasis of a Calvinist tradition gone to seed. He believed that the real living faith of the Puritans had largely given way to the empty and desiccated theological cant

lacked good seed grain, had purchased several carloads and sold it to them at cost in 1897. There were similar responses to other shortages. On occasions when major suppliers refused to grant individual

Canadians, who had not previously been inclined to drink beer. As there was not much barley being produced in the Canadas, Molson induced farmers to grow it by initially supplying them with seed, to be paid