, businessman, and politician; b. 23 March 1865 in Oswego, N.Y., son of William Weston and Ann ———; m. 3 April 1889 Emma Maud Richards in Toronto, and they had six children, of whom two sons

Stanford Wells and Alvira ———; m. 11 Jan. 1872 William John Dickson in Truro, N.S., and they had five surviving children; d. 19 March 1926 in Dartmouth, N.S

WATSON, Sir DAVID, journalist, newspaper owner, and officer; b. 7 Feb. 1869 at Quebec, only son of William Watson, a rigger

Warburton and Martha C. Green; m. there first 23 Aug. 1883 Helen M. Davies (d. 1884); m. there secondly 26 Oct. 1889 Isabel Cogswell Longworth, daughter of John

local branch of the recently formed Canadian Bank of Commerce. The bank had been established in 1867 by Irish-born merchant William

*, commissioner of public works and treasurer for the North-West Territories, to be Yukon commissioner; on 1 March the territorial premier, Frederick William Gordon

Allan John Scott and Margaret Cathleen Teresa Heron; m. 29 April 1903 William Patrick Davis in Ottawa, and they had two daughters; d. 19 Nov. 1927 in Paris, France

Breton mine strike [see William Davis]. Throughout the postwar years he also maintained a busy speaking

. 7 June 1839 in County Tipperary (Republic of Ireland), daughter of William Quinlan and Susan Medill; d. unmarried 18 Feb. 1923 in Chatham, N.B

PRICE, Sir WILLIAM, businessman, industrialist, officer, and politician; b. 30 Aug. 1867 in Talcahuano, Chile, son of Henry

increased their trade with the Inuit to offset the rapid decline of the whale population in Davis Strait. A few companies attempted to regularize trade in polar bear, ivory, sealskins, and blubber by

., second son of William McGregor and Jessie Lathrup Peden; m. 2 Nov. 1898 Harriet (Hattie) Dodds in Detroit, and they had three daughters and two sons; d. 11 March 1922 in Montreal and

sons follow him into carpentry and the building trade, which James did after leaving school. In 1869 the firm for which James worked also employed William

Davies, chief justice of Canada, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

). The son of an Irish tailor, Robert Kelly was educated in the public schools of Russell Township. At age 16 he became an errand boy in William Petrie’s general store in Russell. A few years later he

trying to persuade Lafleur to accept the chief justiceship following Davies’s death in 1924, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie

Sir William Cornelius Van Horne*, who had provided a preface to the Lacombe biography, and she and the railway tycoon

Independent, poet William Bliss Carman, included Herbin’s work in his periodical and wished “that every man

city its home. They had been preceded by Solomon Hart and his wife Alice Catharine Davis*, who had settled with their family in 1858

GRAY, ROBERT, manufacturer; b. 3 Feb. 1862 in Chatham, Upper Canada, son of William Gray and Ellen —; m. 28