Nielsen]. His lengthy report, published in Prowse’s History of Newfoundland . . . (London, 1895), deplored the “alarming” decline of the fishery before the commission began its

and Home Magazine of London, Ont. [see William Weld*], put up a prize for the best three dairy cattle in the province and Jones’s

an all-party delegation the legislature sent to London in April 1891 to persuade imperial officials to withdraw the bill. In its place, Newfoundland offered temporary legislation for 1891 giving the

. 1 June 1843 in London Township, Upper Canada, son of Milner Harrison and Catherine Howard; m. 26 April 1866 Margaret Notman in

skulduggery of confidence men in London and Paris when he embarks on a grand tour. As with all five of Harris’s novels, Mr. Perkins is overly dependent on coincidence for the resolution

hesitation about his career, he became a journalist. He worked briefly for the London Advertiser

London Rowing Club took them to the Henley Royal Regatta in 1872 and won every race they entered. The swivel oarlock was invented in 1874 by an American

Arctic coast and returned by way of Great Slave Lake. Hanbury’s Sport and travel in the northland of Canada (London, 1904) concentrates on his second and more successful trip. The work included

to the Nova Scotia commissioners for the International Exhibition in London. He was corresponding secretary of the Horticultural Association and International Show Society and first president of the

 1842. In April 1844 Gwynne went to England to study in the chambers of John Rolt, a rising equity practitioner. His sojourn in London

Rolling Mills Company and the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Company of London. In addition he was part of the financial syndicate led by Allan that attempted in 1877 and 1882 to buy the Quebec

. Nothing is known of the early years of Mary Elizabeth Graves’s life. She was educated at the New London Literary and Scientific Institution in New London, N.H., graduating in July 1864, and then taught

between reason and revelation. Macleod, and the London periodical he edited, Good Words, exposed Grant as well to such broad-church writers as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Julius Charles

joined the HBC as an apprentice clerk and, recommended by various company officials in London, he sailed for York Factory (Man.) in June 1843. After a winter learning the trade at Upper Fort Garry

), London (1896), Brantford (1899), and Woodstock (1905). The choices of location reflected the Grafton brothers’ early experience in Dundas – a small town with an active industrial base, surrounded by a

. 15 March 1848 in Camberwell (London), England, son of Charles Goad, a plumber, and Caroline Ann Vogel; m

of the Geological Society of London in 1874. He was soon also made a member of the prestigious North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, solidifying contacts which would last throughout his

in 1873, he would hold directorships in Sun Mutual, the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Company, the Manufacturers’ Life Insurance Company, the City

, N.Y., London, Paris, Sydney, Wellington, Singapore, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town. Branches were later established in China and Hong Kong. Fulford’s nephew, Charles Taylor Fulford

). F. W. Wallace, Wooden ships and iron men . . . (London, [1924]). The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Eastern Division