James Joseph Foy, but his career path soon changed direction, in part because of an illness, possibly meningitis, that left him partially deaf. In 1902 William Thomas

for English-speaking physicists was the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1874 and presided over by the remarkable Joseph John Thomson. Rutherford gained a coveted 1851

lifelong interest in sport. For the 23-year-old, who had begun to enjoy travel to Europe, 1882 also marked his social arrival. In May he visited with Oscar Wilde after the Irish author’s Toronto lecture on

had no children; d. 14 Nov. 1932 in Toronto. Joseph Marks devoted his life to the cause of labour. As a tinsmith in the Grand Trunk

Taylor Hill and Eleanor A. Carty; m. 16 April 1895 Elsie Annette Kent in Granby, Que., and they had at least one son and two daughters; d. 17 July 1934 in Outremont (Montreal) and

BREDIN, MARK, baker, businessman, and politician; b. 2 July 1863, probably in Dublin, son of John Bredin and Mary Graham; m