YOUNG, JAMES

years returned to Nova Scotia, settling in New Glasgow, where James completed his formal education at the high school. He followed the route of ambitious young men, first teaching school for a couple of

at the home of the Reverend Egerton Ryerson Young*, the Methodist missionary at Rossville. Young began to work more closely with

, however, and there were few prospects in East Kilbride for ambitious young men. In the mid 1850s James and his elder brother John emigrated to Upper Canada. There James spent a year as a farm labourer in

young, single Scots and Irish-Scots to Canada. He may well have been lured by the revival of professional distance running in North America that followed the dramatic 1908 Olympic marathon in London

of International Harvester doing hot, filthy, heavy, and dangerous work, under constant threat of lay-off. Young and strong, they were regarded as diligent workers. Even if they controlled one of the

subjects in the province.” The diversion of bright young lawyers into the field of legal reporting was of great importance. It reflected the professionalization of the law in Quebec and the growing power of

, he was the victim of circumstance. Federation, still young, left collegiate jealousies running high. Rising enrolments and government parsimony resulted in growing deficits. Political interference

” and that the young people “expressed themselves as willing to renounce heathenism and become Christians.” Jacob Berens was probably among them, since he was baptized at Norway House by McDougall on 25

Young*, a legislative councillor and former mha for Gloucester. They and others held a meeting in Caraquet to start a local reform party. But Blanchard ran as an Acadian

the most beautiful young women in the city. Her social and cultural pursuits matched his, and she became active in St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, and

. Sometime after 1901, when his wife died, Withrow and his young son moved to Ottawa, and by the outbreak of World War I

school of success. It was perhaps this fundamental difficulty over the proper equipping of a good laboratory that led him early to the conclusion that the only way Nova Scotia could put its young men and

Young*, and thither the university moved that autumn. (The building was named the Forrest Building in 1919.) Forrest was a big man, with big

. As there was scant opportunity for a young Jewish man in his home town, 17-year-old Simon Leiser was apprenticed to an uncle, Jacob Lenz, in the Wisconsin Distilling Company of Madison, Wis. Lenz had

mathematics and mathematical physics, and received the Sir William Young Medal for the undergraduate with the highest standing of honours students in those subjects. In 1892 she completed her

province of Ontario: a history, 1615–1927 (5v., Toronto, 1927–[28]), 5: 802–3. The roll of pupils of Upper Canada College, Toronto, January, 1830, to June, 1916, ed. A. H. Young

employer of so many men of his race, in prosecutions for stealing. The impression of a young man on the make with enormous energy emerges from the press

. While in Virginia he met Laura Surles, whose brother attended the college. After their marriage in 1876, the young couple returned to Nanaimo. The Dunsmuirs’ status was demonstrated when the coastal