, based in Connecticut, the London and Lancashire Life Assurance Company, the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, and the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company of Aberdeen. Each brother held life
*. Unlike most Island lawyers, who were content with a colonial education, he then spent two years at Lincoln’s Inn and the Inner Temple in London. Following his return to Charlottetown, he was called to the
established a powder plant in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, his first in the Canadian west.
In 1900 the Nobel-Dynamite Trust Company of London acquired a
wrote to his brother Thomas in England expressing concern that the natives would not trap furs during the troubles and that he would be ruined. He owed £4,000 to the London forwarding firm of Frederick
received his education in mechanical engineering in Liverpool and London. Upon graduation he obtained employment in the engineering department of the London and Northwestern Railway. In 1853 he immigrated to
journals such as Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the London Quarterly and Holborn Review.
One of Bourinot’s favourite
educated at Calday Grammar School, West Kirby (his family having moved to nearby Hoylake), and later in London. At age 17 he left England to work in business at St John’s, Nfld. There, he was influenced
. 20 Jan. 1834 in London, England, son of Charles Carpenter Bompas, a sergeant at law, and Mary Steele Tomkins; m
. That year he devoted considerable effort to the early stages of L’avenir du peuple canadien français, which would come out three years later. He had completed the research for it in London by
), B.C.
George Blenkinsop joined the marine service of the Hudson’s Bay Company in London as a steward on 24 Aug. 1840 and was sent on
as far north as Cape Chidley on the northern tip of Labrador. That year he also served on the local committee set up to facilitate the establishment of a London-based mission to deep-sea fishermen in
much of his Irish land he had chosen liquidity in capital. Some major investments in the London and Globe Finance Corporation were speculative and unwise, and he led others into similar straits through
interest in advanced education and served as registrar of the University of Manitoba from 1883 to 1893. In 1886 he sent a collection of daily class assignments to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London
an adventurous disposition, he ran away to London, whence he was returned to Edinburgh by his father, who then placed him in an engineering firm. He joined the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Brigade. After
Canada Lumberman, which remained influential for decades. During a European trip, Begg installed at the 1878 universal exposition in Paris a prize-winning display of a landau built in London, Ont
Congress of Hygiene and Demography, held in London.
In his choice of therapeutics, Bayard was representative of the Anglo-American medical community
taking the dairy industry by storm in 1866–67, with some 80 factories opening in the London district alone in that one year. Ballantyne was a tyrant
. 2 Aug. 1842 in London, England, eldest son of James Bain, a bookseller, and Joanna Watson; m
London in 1851, and current American experiments with cast and wrought iron. Although he had occasionally used iron for decorative purposes in earlier work, he now integrated the material into the