the labour movement was amplified by the establishment of the weekly Maritime Labor Herald under the veteran socialist editor William Ulric
assistant demonstrator of physics. He was promoted to a permanent position in 1894 and to demonstrator in 1899. With Loudon’s nephew, physics demonstrator William James Loudon, McLennan published a text in
had the example of his younger brother William*, a notary who had become a well-known translator and author of historical novels
O’CONNOR, WILLIAM FRANCIS, lawyer, educator, civil servant, and author; b. 3 Sept. 1873 in Halifax, son of Martin O’Connor
ground. By the autumn of 1919, following the Spanish influenza epidemic, he and Henry Gordon, the Anglican priest at Cartwright, had raised sufficient money to build a residential school at Muddy Bay to
Limited and the Northern Soap Company and was president and general manager of both businesses. He also formed Lough and Paterson, a firm of financial and real-estate agents with William Edgar Lough. Active
PENTLAND, WILLIAM JAMES, businessman and sports entrepreneur; b. 31 March 1888 in Gilford, County Down (Northern Ireland
of William Goodhue Perley*, a lumberman, and Mabel Elvira Ticknor Stevens; m. first 4 June 1884 Annie Hespeler Bowlby (d
Frederick William Gordon Haultain*, and its use in schools was restricted
, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher; b. 15 Sept. 1854 in Quebec City, daughter of the Reverend William Pollard and Maria Heathfield; m. 30 July 1874 Gordon Fraser
Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier* was in office. During his meeting in 1901 with Frederick William Gordon
William Gordon Haultain*, the territories’ premier, advocated a single
came into being with Southam as president and Wilson, Fred, Richard, Harry, and William James as directors (Gordon was only 18). Southam’s salary was $4,000 a year and
challenge from William Ford Coaker’s Fishermen’s Protective Union of Newfoundland, which was in alliance with
party to a constitutional cause célèbre relating to the privileges of the House of Assembly. The resulting lawsuit brought by Liberal premier William Stevens
, with Henry Hall, he won second place in the important competition for the Glasgow Municipal Buildings. That year he took on a partner, George William Hamilton-Gordon. Now with an associate who could