provincial Tory leader, James Pliny Whitney, and arrest what they saw as a “policy of drifting” in the Ontario

WHITNEY, Sir JAMES PLINY, lawyer and politician; b. 2 Oct. 1842 in Williamsburgh Township, Upper Canada, son of Richard

Conservatives in 1905 under James Pliny Whitney had brought to White’s department, as minister, a tough northerner

Whitney, especially its apparently unpopular decisions to award a contract for low-paid prison labour in Hamilton, in “direct competition with free labor,” and to close the local normal school

Whitney in Ontario for the abolition of bilingual schools. “Down in the Province of Quebec,” Sproule proclaimed in typically paranoid rhetoric, “desolation and ignorance were rampant owing to the

Whitney]. In January 1907 Spence stepped down as secretary of the Ontario branch to be succeeded by his brother the Reverend Ben

in 1905, the Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney moved swiftly under education minister Robert

Whitney], he spoke out once again in defence of separate schools and French language rights. That same year his son

certified by the Department of Education. Conservative leader James Pliny Whitney, however, judged that Ross’s

Whitney. Robertson kept special watch over hydro matters in Toronto, and Edward Montague Ashworth, who later became general manager of the Toronto Electric Commissioners, would reflect in his

incorporation federally of Dominion Power and efforts headed by Gibson to do the same for the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway were seen by the provincial Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney as an

Sir James Pliny Whitney], this body did not exploit water resources, but it had a mandate to regulate

Whitney]. “To preach Holy War for the ‘liberties of peoples’ overseas, and to oppress the national minorities within Canada is, in our opinion, nothing but odious hypocrisy

Whitney. In a private letter to Whitney in February 1907, McEvay asked that the more than 80 religious teachers in his diocese be exempt from further certification. He added that the retroactive

Whitney commissioned Morris to search out chiefs in the northwest who had signed earlier treaties. In June he went to Manitoba and enlisted the help of Acheson Gosford Irvine, former commissioner

Conservative government of James Pliny Whitney set out to reform the university’s constitution and, listening to

politics [see Sir James Pliny Whitney]. Compromise was also necessary in the founding in Sudbury of the Jesuits’ Collège du Sacré-Cœur, in which Lefebvre was instrumental. Modelled on the

Pliny Whitney]. During the same period he opposed the prohibition movement which, after some 20 years

Pliny Whitney] in June, which limited the teaching of French in Franco-Ontarian schools, and by the naval question, which led in October to Monk’s resignation as minister of public works. Unable to “bow