other Toronto publishers and booksellers. Part of an international trend to the wholesale distribution of popular reading material, the company was modelled after W. H. Smith and Son of London and

following reviews in contemporary newspapers: the London Advertiser (London, Ont.), 20 July 1880; the Saint John Globe, 24 July 1880; the Saint John Daily Sun

: 8, 24.  g.m.s.] W. H. Greene, The wooden walls among the ice floes: telling the romance of the Newfoundland seal fishery (London, 1933

was represented in Upper Canada’s Provincial Exhibition (London, 1865), at which he won second prize, the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition (1876), where he showed as many as 12 works

railway history. Settling in Toronto, Jennings next supervised construction for the CPR in Ontario: the lines from Woodstock to London and from London to Detroit, the Wingham extension, the Guelph Junction

community when their lives were in danger. In March 1883 he was chosen by the Canadian government to represent the dominion at the International Fisheries Exhibition in London, England. His speeches received

Annand*, and others to London to oppose – unsuccessfully, as it turned out – the British North America Act. After suggesting that others were better equipped by public life and training, he

 pounds of Canadian honey at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London, England. All of it was sold profitably. In 1893 disaster struck the

London, Upper Canada, son of Peter Jones* and Elizabeth Field*; m. 27 Feb

lines in Canada and was a partner in the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, founded in 1854, which was responsible for the first transatlantic cable, completed in 1866 [see

private circulation (London, 1870), is preserved in Queen’s College Library, St John’s, and The voyage [of] the churchship “Star,” 1870, intro. F. B. Gill, based on

opinion of the law officers of the crown in London on the constitutionality of the act

. A. A. Talbot, “A wheat hospital,” Windsor Magazine (London, Eng.), 19 (1903–4): 729–34. Patricia Verwoort, “Lakehead terminal elevators: factors affecting survival,” Soc

. 1 April 1859 in Battersea (London), England, daughter of John Louis Kinton and Sarah Curtis Mackie; d

Washington in St Paul’s Cathedral in London to prepare an article expressing his objections. Washington’s “sole distinction,” wrote Kirby, “was that he broke up the British Empire and persecuted with

(1918), sect.ii: 135–50; Old silver of Europe & America from early times to the nineteenth century, etc. (London, 1928

two main projects. In the first he was successful. In the second he ran into competition on the London market from the directors of the Grand Trunk, to the detriment of the Quebec economy and the

: essays on Kingston in the nineteenth century, ed. G. [J. J.] Tulchinsky (Montreal and London, 1976), 255. H. [M.] Neatby and F. W

music in Canada, 1534–1914 (Toronto and London, 1960), 126, 210, 247. Yvan Lamonde et Raymond Montpetit, Le Parc Sohmer de Montréal, 1889–1919; un lieu populaire

John Herbert Mason of Canada Permanent Loan and Savings proposed an amalgamation of his company, Western Canada, Freehold Loan, and the London and Ontario Investment Company. The merger took place at the