August. Honey won the Military Medal for gallantry during a raid on German trenches on 22 Feb. 1917. The citation read in part, “He did most

Reading Preparatory Institution and the CMS training college at Islington (London) before taking a year of further training with the Reverend Hanmer William Webb-Peploe, a founder of the Keswick

HODGINS, JOHN GEORGE, civil servant and author; b. 12 Aug. 1821 in Dublin, son of William Hodgins and Frances Doyle; m

his identity, at 13 he appropriated the middle name Jerome, after the youngest brother of Napoleon, whose biography he had just read. His father’s death in 1852 cut short his formal education

educated in Reading, where she also taught briefly. Like many others of the English provincial middle class, however, she found that her future lay in the colonies. Reportedly in response to family conflict

HELMCKEN, JOHN SEBASTIAN, physician, politician, and HBC chief trader; b. 5 June 1824 in London, England, eldest son of

, England, daughter of John Hayr; m. 13 June 1860 Robert Jack (d. 1900), probably in Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada, and they had 12 children, 11 of whom survived to adulthood; d. 15

readings . . . (Saint John, 1900). His own educational writings include A public school history of Canada (Saint John and Toronto, 1901) and A history of New Brunswick; for use in

could read to him. In Paris he felt “the want of reading tremendously, I save my eyes entirely to work as much as I can in the day, take a walk after dinner and generally go to bed early.” He gained an

university’s principal, Sir John William Dawson*, and with the library’s great benefactor, Peter Redpath. After spending the first year of

GOODYEAR, HEDLEY JOHN, teacher and army officer; b. 18 Aug. 1886 in Ladle Cove, Nfld, son of Josiah Goodyear, a carpenter

. 7 Jan. 1827 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, son of Andrew Greig Fleming, a carpenter, and Elizabeth Arnot; brother of John Arnot Fleming

, and scholar; b. 12 May 1846 in Drummondville (Niagara Falls), Upper Canada, son of John Kennedy Falconbridge and Sarah Fralick; m. 15 April 1873, in Toronto, Mary Phoebe Sullivan (d

Maugerville, N.B., son of Robert Henry Emmerson, a Baptist clergyman, and Augusta A. Read; m. 12 June 1878, in Moncton, N.B., Emily Charlotte Record (d. 1901), daughter of Charles B

contribute to the cultural life of Halifax. In the late 1870s she organized and served as librarian for the Pioneer Book Club; this informal purchasing and circulating library spawned an élite reading class

-day management of both mining and shipping. It was corporate expansion and Robert’s widening interests that brought James to the Departure Bay office. Robert’s son-in-law John

Dorcas society for women, a reading-room, and adult education, all attracted a growing number of Tsimshian. Newcomers were required to abide by the laws of Metlakatla as well as by the new laws of the

-major and on 17 Oct. 1871 was sent to the Red River settlement in Manitoba with a contingent of reinforcements that had been dispatched to repel a Fenian invasion [see John

DAVENPORT, JOHN METCALF, Church of England clergyman and writer; b. 6 Oct. 1842 in London, England, eldest son of John

district northwest of Vegreville (Alta), he found seasonal employment in the mines of British Columbia and then turned to full-time farming. When Ivan (John) Bodrug and Aleksii Bachynsky visited in the fall