in Toronto recommended him for a medical position with the North-West Mounted Police, which had come open with the resignation of Richard Barrington Nevitt

; Lucius Richard O’Brien*], but he also received his first commission for a commemorative monument in bronze. His memorial to Charles

HOWLEY, JAMES PATRICK, geologist, surveyor, museum curator, and author; b. 7 July 1847 near St John’s, son of Richard

HENEKER, RICHARD WILLIAM, businessman and politician; b. 2 May 1823 in Dublin; m. 1856 Elizabeth Tuson in England, and they

was created, the British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company, commonly known as B.C. Mills. Hendry became the president, and Richard Henry

there he received the first appointment made by the first governor of Vancouver Island, Richard Blanshard*, when in June he was commissioned

exclusionary legislation passed by the government of Richard McBride and he went to great pains to arrange the tour of

Richard Reid Dobell*, the prime mover behind the establishment of a transatlantic steamship line. Like most of the city’s younger generation

educator; b. 25 Nov. 1842 in New Glasgow, N.S., son of Alexander Forrest and Barbara Ross McKenzie; brother of Isabella Forrest*; m

to Upper Canada, settling initially in Peterborough, where he secured employment with surveyor Richard Birdsall*. He later contracted with

. Macdonald* as a Conservative party organ in March 1872. In December 1873 he was appointed an immigration agent in Ireland by the Liberal government of Alexander

. Ewart was also associated with farm leaders such as William Richard Motherwell

lecture-circuit activities. After Emperor Alexander II of Russia was assassinated on 13 March 1881, the Youth’s Companion, a popular Boston weekly, contracted Leonowens to cover the story

work with Richard Clement Moody* and a contingent of Royal Engineers who were surveying the site of New Westminster, recently chosen to

Courtney for much of a year, on 1 Aug. 1878 Richard John Cartwright, minister of finance in the

. In Montreal Clouston made the most of his experience and the support of two prominent men who would serve as vice-president and president of the bank, Donald Alexander

CARTWRIGHT, Sir RICHARD JOHN, businessman, politician, and author; b. 4 Dec. 1835 in Kingston, Upper Canada, second son

asked his father to help the appointee, Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt*, socially, for there were problems. Lady Galt was the

ideas of British architect Richard Norman Shaw. Burke compressed Shaw’s grand, flexible plans into orderly rectangles that conserved heat and oriented each room to catch sunlight. On the exterior

. Winnipeg’s mayor, Alexander Macdonald, became the company’s first president and Brock was its general manager. Initially, Brock had planned to supervise the