acclamation in 1872 and 1874.
An outspoken backbencher in the Liberal government of Alexander
troops & I can have much opportunity for learning how to handle men,” he wrote to his brother Richard. Moreover, the camp further brought him to the attention of those who mattered in Britain
Chelsea (Frankfort), Ill., eldest child of Cornelius Covenhoven Van Horne, a lawyer and farmer, and Mary Minier Richards; m. March 1867 Lucy Adaline (Adeleine) Hurd of Joliet, Ill., and they had
the election. For four years Tupper campaigned in virtually every by-election in Canada, and in the commons he became the party’s most effective critic of the Liberal government of Alexander
.
Other contributions to this ground-breaking show also seemed to be forerunners of a new mood in Ontario, an intense interest in the Canadian wilderness of a sort not seen since Lucius Richard
Superintendent Alexander R. Macdonell. Marie was wealthy and well connected: her father, Robert William Harwood, had been an mp, and her paternal grandmother, the wife of Robert
. 6 Aug. 1820 in Forres, Scotland, son of Alexander Smith and Barbara Stuart; m. Isabella Sophia Hardisty, sister of Richard
SCOTT, Sir RICHARD WILLIAM, lawyer and politician; b. 24 Feb. 1825 in Prescott, Upper Canada, son of William James
, Ross’s newspaper work had confirmed his interest in politics. He was nominated to run for the House of Commons in 1867, and in the provincial election of 1871 he campaigned in Middlesex West for Alexander
.
Rogers aspired to organize his own business. The chance came in 1889 when he went to Montreal to install a new filtering process at George Alexander
, son of Richard Richardson and Elizabeth Sarah Miller; m. first Charlotte Isabella — (d. 1879), and they had two sons and four daughters; m. secondly 2 April 1883, in Drumbo, Ont
the business in Toronto, and Ross was to assist with the consignment of goods on the vessels he ran from London to Montreal. Reford left his other business in the hands of his brother Lewis and Richard
administering the Manitoba Grain Act), Thomas Walter Scott*, mp, William Richard
, Sir RICHARD, lawyer and politician; b. 15 Dec. 1870 in New Westminster, B.C.; m. there 23 Sept. 1896 Christine Margaret McGillivray, and they had six daughters; d
come to the attention of Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn*, director of the Geological Survey of Canada, the scope of which was
, John Alexander Robinson, produced a small volume of The letters of Mayo Lind “in memory of the cheerful soldier.”
The letters are of limited
Richard* (1869–74), Joseph Lavergne (1874–97), and Philippe-Hypolite Côté, who joined the firm in 1889. His practice concentrated mainly on general law and never had the advantage of any famous cases
LANGMUIR, JOHN WOODBURN, businessman, politician, and civil servant; b. 6 Nov. 1835 in Ayrshire, Scotland, son of Alexander
Department of the Interior. Initially he was astronomical assistant to assistant surveyor general Lindsay Alexander Russell. He later worked with Édouard-Gaston