election of September 1911 voters defeated the Liberal government. Walker had been invited by Robert Laird

* and Wallace Nesbit Graham*, a partnership that would include Robert Laird

settled on the Shetland island of Fetlar in the 12th century. As he would explain in a letter to his uncle Robert Tait in 1905, “[Teit] is the real old original and proper way of spelling the name

 June 1829 near Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, son of William Stephen, a carpenter, and Elspet Smith, a crofter’s daughter; m. first 8 March

SMITH, GEORGE

SMITH, GEORGE ROBERT, mining executive and politician; b. 17

*, and Donald Alexander Smith

, son of Dr Allan Ruttan and Caroline Smith; d. unmarried 19 Feb. 1930 in Montreal. Robert Fulford Ruttan’s mother was an ardent churchwoman and she may

 Dec. 1857 in Mountain Cross, Scotland, son of Robert Rutherford, a United Presbyterian minister, and Agnes Gunion; m

3.2 per cent. He was not the first person at McGill to use antiseptic techniques: Robert Craik and others had done so in the previous decade, but had not adhered strictly to Lister’s methods, so their

meeting of the Dairymen’s Association of Ontario in Smiths Falls, Prime Minister Sir

 Aug. 1859 in Huntingdon, Lower Canada, son of Alexander Robb, a farmer, and Jenny (Janet) Smith; m

. 1894 Amelia Blanche Smith at Quebec, and they had four sons and two daughters; d

in 1925. He had been vice-president of the General Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and had acted as chair when Daniel Robert Drummond, an opponent of union, resigned shortly before it

PARKIN, Sir GEORGE ROBERT, educator, imperialist, and author; b

. first 1868 Isabella Lammond Smith (d. 1871), and they had two children who

 July 1856 in Hartington, England, son of Robert Oliver and Emma Lomas, a widow; m

McLAUGHLIN, ROBERT

a private practice. In 1863 veterinarian Andrew Smith*, who had attended Edinburgh Veterinary College with him, asked him to help set up the