of the school inspector Valentin-Auguste Landry* he also obtained provincial grants for the convent school

records and memorabilia held by Vincent Massey Tovell of Toronto, a grandson. Mr Tovell granted the author access to his collection, and provided

told as a thrilling adventure story. During his first furlough Mackay had been granted an honorary dd by Queen’s College

or elimination of certain grants and over the trust left by James Leith* added to the church’s problems. The hoped-for funding from central

separate French-speaking parish in Alexandria. The bishop refused to grant the request, going so far as dismissing both Poitras and his successor when the petitions did not cease

Greenway took office in 1888, the Free Press soon turned against it as well, reporting every sign of cabinet backsliding and perfidy, such as giving the CPR grants for the extension of

establishment of a school separate from the university but associated with it for the teaching of the sciences and the granting of degrees [see John Robinson

secured by law; the school system should be as simple as possible; and there must be freedom of conscience. Support would be provided in part by provincial grants, in part by a general county assessment

involved the federal government in other matters concerning waterfronts and transport in southern New Brunswick by persuading it to commit funds or grant subsidies, particularly in the construction in the

excellent connections with the Conservative party, he also urged the federal government to grant the bands more control over their own administration. After he failed to obtain sufficient power for them, he

during the 1860s and 1870s, Mackenzie’s letters to Jones evince considerable solicitude towards Nova Scotians. Thus the Liberal attack of 1870 on the method of granting “better terms” to Nova Scotia was

responsible for raising a portion of school funds. When that amount was in place, the Executive Council would provide a grant for teachers’ salaries. The Victoria school district, whose residents had balked at

new buildings, but the department was not prepared to grant more funding to the experimental school. In 1879 Hunter charged its bursar, Walter Nicholl Hossie, with obstruction and with providing it with

United States frequently, and attended the International Congress of Women in London in 1899. At home, however, she began to encounter set-backs. Although her school had received the first provincial grant

outspoken men such as Brown and Cartier. According to Donald Grant Creighton*, Howland, with Sicotte, stormed out of their meeting with the

Canada. Howlan simply called on the colony’s Catholics to vote for any candidate who favoured grants for Catholic schools. On election day the liberals polled a respectable majority but, in reality, to

Dunsmuir*, but became disillusioned by the looseness with which it granted land to railway companies. In May 1902, under the influence of “four or five good-sized jolts of Scotch,” he played an

HALIBURTON, ROBERT GRANT, lawyer, author, and anthropologist; b

railway policy and the granting of subsidies in lieu of provincial control of lands. The faltering economy and slowing pace of immigration to the prairies in the 1880s caused widespread dissatisfaction that

GRANT, GEORGE MONRO, Presbyterian minister, author, and educator; b