, William Henry*, John James, and Thomas Joseph. Despite his father’s premature death two years later, he was able to study at the Royal Arthur School in that city. On completing his education, he

, but he declined. In parliament Dewdney supported the Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald*, which had brought

. Macdonald* not to carry out the sentence. Like several other ultramontanes, he broke publicly with his party after the hanging of Riel, even choosing to sit with the opposition. He helped arrange

between Samuel and his brother William Valentine. Over the next 29 years they expanded their activities, acting as publishers, bookbinders, and news agents. They opened a branch bookstore on St

], the subject was introduced into Ontario schools on an optional basis in 1885, part of the moral thrust being introduced by education minister George William

and only son of William Cundall and Sarah Louisa Haszard; d. unmarried 16 July 1916 in Charlottetown. Henry Cundall was born into a family

elder brother, Leonard Henry, had also worked in a bank and had gone on to become a secretary to the Treasury in William Ewart Gladstone’s second administration. Privately educated in Penzance, Mortimer

. Macdonald* proved unsympathetic to approaches by the bishops orchestrated by Anglin. Costigan, however, was a government supporter, in a position to influence Macdonald and his ministers – or at

became established, he diversified his activities. One of his most profitable investments was in hydroelectricity. In 1902 he and local prospector William McVittie incorporated the Wahnapitae Power Company

. Macdonald*’s Conservative governments. Cartwright earned a reputation for probity as a banker but his financial career suffered a severe setback in

London, producing a beer based on a recipe from his native Yorkshire. The brewery flourished and in 1849 Thomas Carling passed the firm on to his sons William and John. The W. and J. Carling

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM WILFRED, Church of England clergyman, poet, writer, and civil servant; b. probably on 15 June 1860 in

William Ewart Gladstone had appointed secretary of state for India. Lorne had a flirtation with Gladstone’s daughter Mary, but it waned and in 1870

. Macdonald*, but he soon began advocating a non-partisan approach towards the redress of provincial grievances over the Canadian Pacific Railway’s monopoly, federal land administration, and the tariff

BUTLER, WILLIAM FREDERICK, carpenter and architect; b. 22 June 1866 in St John’s, son of Thomas Butler, a farmer, and

at the Toronto branch of Ogilvy and Company for his brother, William Rees, who was a partner in the firm. From 1876 to 1877 he was manager of J. Gillespie and Company, a wholesale dealer in hats

vote and 36 of the 45 seats. While waiting for the official results of the soldiers’ vote and the resignation of Premier William John

secured the voluntary position of curator of its museum. Encouraged, among others, by the institute’s corresponding secretary, William Henry Vander Smissen of University College, Boyle issued a circular to

-brother William Thornton Cust Boyd, and John Macdonald. In 1883–84 they produced nearly 16 million feet of sawlogs and in 1885 they shipped over 6 million feet of lumber by rail and canal to wholesale

whose execution stirred passions there. In 1878, after the Conservatives’ electoral victory, Sir John A. Macdonald