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  Biographie – HESPELER, ...  

Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	Décédé quelques mois plus tard, cet homme qui, rappelait sa nécrologie, « a[vait] déjà été si important dans la vie de la province » fut inhumé au cimetière anglican St John à Winnipeg, parmi les pionniers de la ville.
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	In his final months, after the death of his third wife in 1920, Hespeler moved to Vancouver to be with his son, Alfred. He died there and was buried in St John’s Anglican cemetery in Winnipeg, among the city’s pioneers. His obituary remembered him as a man “who was at one time so foremost in the life of the province.”

  Biographie – MILLS, WIL...  

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En octobre, l’archidiacre Thomas Bedford-Jones, partisan déclaré de la Haute Église, écrivit à son ami Albert Spencer, secrétaire du synode de l’Ontario, à propos de la visite de Mills à Brockville. Bedford-Jones déclara que la visite avait été « très satisfaisante, sauf peut-être en ceci qu[e Mills] a[vait] refusé de prendre part à une célébration quelconque » de l’Eucharistie.

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Mills was not an advocate of frequent synodical meetings, at the diocesan, provincial, or national level. He did attend the tercentenary of the Anglican church in the United States, celebrated in Richmond, Va, in 1907, and the Pan-Anglican Congress in London the following year. But unlike Lewis, he made no regular fund-raising trips to England. He attempted in 1902 to reorganize the chapter of St George’s Cathedral, so that every archdeacon and canon should be a week in residence at the cathedral each year, but the practice lapsed. He had no opportunity to teach in an Anglican college in his diocese, since Lewis’s plan for a seminary in Belleville had failed. However, two Anglican schools flourished, St Alban’s for boys (established 1901) in Brockville and St Agnes’ for girls (1903) in Belleville. The bishop supported the teaching of religion in the public school system, but for separate denominations, declaring, “This dominion is made up of peoples of diverse races and religions.” He promoted the special claim of Trinity College, Toronto, as the Anglican university of the province.

  Biographie – ADHÉMAR, J...  

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À Londres, l’ex-jésuite Pierre-Joseph-Antoine Roubaud, qu’on peut soupçonner d’avoir voulu remplacer Adhémar comme délégué, relata que celui-ci « vi[vait] tranquillement et en homme obscur dans son auberge, connu de peu, visité par personne ».

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Adhémar and De Lisle remained optimistic, however, when they learned that Haldimand, whom they held responsible for their failure, was going to be replaced by Carleton. Adhémar decided to remain in London for another year, whilst De Lisle returned to Canada to report. Both of them asked Briand to support Adhémar publicly, in order to give his mission a more official character. Briand was anxious to remain discreet, but he wrote to Carleton on 30 June 1784 that although he could not publicly approve a mission he considered “hasty and somewhat ill-humoured,” he was in agreement with the idea of bringing French priests to Canada, and he asked Carleton to use his influence in support of Adhémar. On 5 November Briand sent Adhémar a letter of encouragement and even permission to write an address in the clergy’s name, provided that he did not implicate the church in any political mission.

  Biographie – HOPKINS, J...  

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Hopkins n'avait pas une « constitution robuste », mais il avait la plume facile et ne se laissait pas aisément déconcentrer. De confession anglicane, il ne se maria qu'en 1906. (Annie Beatrice Mary Bonner, catholique, était deux fois plus jeune que lui.)

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Hopkins did not possess a "hardy physique" but he was a fast writer, one who allowed few distractions. An Anglican, he did not marry until 1906 (Annie Bonner, a Roman Catholic, was half his age). According to one biographer, his "life was one of great nervous activity" and "his literary output was probably larger than any other publicist in the Dominion." In a writing career that spanned three decades, he produced some 40 books and pamphlets, wrote extensively for newspapers, journals, and other publications in Canada and abroad, and coordinated and edited a number of series, including the first encyclopedia on Canada. Produced in six volumes between 1898 and 1900, this work, a good deal of it prepared by Hopkins himself, was meant to document authoritatively Canada's past and present; Canada "requires only to be known in order to be great," he wrote. In addition, each year between 1901 and 1923 he edited and wrote much of the ambitiously conceived, massively detailed, and still widely consulted

  Biographie – KEMP, sir ...  

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En novembre, Hughes était dans une position encore plus précaire : il avait continué d'agir au mépris des instructions de Borden, et la confusion régnait dans l'administration militaire du Corps expéditionnaire canadien à Londres.

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In November, Hughes was in deeper trouble still over the confused military administration of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in London and his defiance of Borden's instructions. The prime minister demanded his resignation and called on Kemp to put the Department of Militia and Defence back in order; he became minister on 23 November. In a private note on 5 Jan. 1917 to Sir George Halsey Perley*, another trusted lieutenant, who had gone to London as high commissioner and was now minister of overseas military forces, Kemp confessed that he found the department in a "remarkable condition of affairs" and that the "adjustment of nearly every difficult decision had been postponed and the stream was blocked."

  Biographie – ALDERSON, ...  

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En janvier 1916, à un poste de secours canadien, quelqu'un nota dans son journal intime que l'« infatigable » Alderson était un « petit homme aimable » et qu'il « a[vait] parlé aux patients un à un, en ayant pour chacun une question gentille ou une plaisanterie ».

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“He was an Englishman of a fine type,” claimed the Times, “and the affection which he inspired in all who knew him was great.” In two wars, Canadians able to appreciate an energetic, conscientious English officer could echo that affection. At a Canadian dressing station in January 1916, a diarist described the “indefatigable” Alderson as a “kind, gentle, little man” who “spoke to the patients one by one, with a pleasant enquiry or a bit of banter for each.” A decent, honourable, unimaginative man, he had been more faithful to the interests of Canadian soldiers than their own minister. “Canadian politics,” Alderson had confessed to his friend Hutton in 1915, “have been too strong for all of us.” They ended his career.

  Biographie – HANNAY, JA...  

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En tant qu’historien, par contre, il ne fut, comme Raymond s’en plaignait à William Francis Ganong*, qu’un « écrivassier » – un « Écossais têtu comme une mule [qui... abordait] un sujet dans le but d’étayer les opinions qu’il a[vait] exprimées précédemment plutôt que dans l’esprit d’un honnête chercheur ».

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As a journalist Hannay was the most prolific popularizer of New Brunswick history in his time. As an historian, however, he was, as Raymond complained to William Francis Ganong*, a “hack writer” – a “pig-headed scotchman [who] . . . will pursue the subject rather with the design of bolstering his previously expressed opinions than in the spirit of a candid enquirer.” It fell to Raymond and Ganong to lead New Brunswick historical writing out of journalism and into sober professionalism, a process which would render James Hannay’s energetic scribblings all but forgotten.

  Biographie – MITCHELL, ...  

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Dans son rapport de 1888, il disait espérer que « l’achèvement rapide de certaines sections importantes [du] réseau ferroviaire [de la province] faciliterait l’accès aux marchés de la République voisine ». Un an plus tard, il estimait que « le relèvement général du marché britannique du bois a[vait] insufflé une vie nouvelle » au commerce de cette marchandise.

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James Mitchell seems to have made few political enemies. Although a political protégé of the partisan Blair, he was a capable administrator who came to know his province through personal travel and close observation. In an age when railway patronage was rampant, Mitchell emerged with his hands clean and his reputation intact. A lifelong Conservative, he none the less threw his weight behind the man who created New Brunswick’s Liberal party. He was one of the last unaligned politicians in an arena where party lines were becoming firmly fixed.

  FR:Biography – DUN, JOH...  

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Les raisons de ce geste ne sont pas connues avec certitude ; pourtant, dans une requête du 28 décembre 1796, pour obtenir une nouvelle concession, il faisait état de sa démission « devant certaines circonstances décourageantes » et affirmait qu’il « profess[ait] la religion chrétienne et l’obéissance aux lois et a[vait] vécu dans ce pays sans offenser qui que ce [fût] ».

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Dun had not married and died intestate, leaving his creditors to petition for administration of his estate. Robert Hamilton and Dun’s principal creditors, Patrick Robertson and Company of Montreal, to whom he owed at least £1,400, sought control from Lieutenant Governor Peter Hunter. The decision was made in favour of the Robertson company’s authorized local agents, the Niagara merchant John MacKay and Samuel Hatt*, brother of Richard.

  Biographie – O’BRIEN, J...  

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, dirigé par Robert John Parsons*, qui considérait cette procédure comme un abus d’autorité sans précédent contre un homme qui, « à force de travail assidu, a[vait] réussi à défricher quinze des quelque cinquante acres de terre inculte que la couronne [lui avait accordées] [tout en] élev[ant] une famille nombreuse, prévoyant qu’ [...] il pourrait leur léguer [cette terre] comme le produit d’une vie de labeur et de misère ».

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of Robert John Parsons*, who regarded the proceedings as an unparalleled piece of oppression against one who “by dint of persevering toil has succeeded in clearing fifteen out of some fifty acres of wild land from the Crown and has reared a large family during the process – calculating that . . . he could bequeath it to them as the produce of a life of labour and penury.” Apparently nobody bid on the farm and O’Brien retained possession.

  Biographie – ROE, HENRY...  

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Les Roe avaient grandi au sein de l’Église d’Angleterre et, comme Henry le rappela plus tard, il était « en quelque sorte convenu (comment, [il] ne le sa[vait] pas) » qu’il serait ordonné ministre du culte.

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Henry Roe’s early home life was unsettled. His family moved from Henryville to Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) and then to Christieville (Iberville). Two brothers had died as infants before he was born; when he was four his mother and younger brother died; three years later his younger sister died. A few months afterwards, the rebellion of 1837 broke out. The family feared assassination because of the father’s loyalist views, so Henry was sent to live with an aunt in Vermont. In 1842, three years after his return, his father died in a boating accident on the Rivière Richelieu. Destitute, the six surviving Roe children kept house together in Montreal for a year and a half, and then went their separate ways. Henry, now 14, entered McGill College and lived in residence, having won a competition for a scholarship founded by Charles William Grant, Baron de Longueuil.

  Biographie – ZHEEWEGONA...  

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Au cours de l’été de 1784, James Sutherland*, de la Hudson’s Bay Company, qui faisait de l’exploration à l’ouest de Gloucester House, rencontra les capitaines Zheewegonab et Cannematchie (peut-être le frère de Zheewegonab) et leurs bandes, soit 15 hommes, plus les femmes et les enfants, qui campaient au lac Pashkokogan, tout juste au sud-est du lac Saint-Joseph. Zheewegonab raconta à Sutherland qu’à la fin de l’été de 1783, ayant trouvé Gloucester House désert, il avait jeté ses fourrures.

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During the summer of 1784 James Sutherland* of the HBC, exploring west of Gloucester House, met captains Zheewegonab and Cannematchie (possibly Zheewegonab’s brother) and their bands, totalling 15 men plus women and children, camped at Pashkokogan Lake just southeast of Lake St Joseph. Zheewegonab told Sutherland that late in the summer of 1783, upon finding Gloucester deserted, he had thrown his furs away. That winter he apparently traded his catch to the men from Montreal. Sutherland made a speech to the Indians to attract them back to Gloucester, and then smoked the sacred calumet with them, aware that “none but he who is or intends to be your real friend will smoak the great Pipe.” The Indians held a dance and a feast involving the eating of a dog. Sutherland’s guide and Zheewegonab then exchanged guns, gift exchanges being important in establishing alliances.

  FR:Biography – TRUSCOTT...  

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que « la Truscott & Co. a[vait] fait faillite pour de bon ». En février 1838, la chambre d’Assemblée du Haut-Canada estima que les billets impayés par l’Agricultural Bank s’élevaient à 20 000 $ ; les déposants ne reçurent pas un sou.

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AO, MS 78, Stanton to Macaulay, 18 March 1835; Cozens to Macaulay, 18 March 1835; Macaulay to Ann Macaulay, 14 April 1837; RG 1, A-I-6, 14; A-II-2, 1: 287. Devon Record Office (Exeter, Eng.), St David parish, Exeter, reg. of marriages, 29 Nov. 1820. Erie County Surrogate’s Court (Buffalo, N.Y.), will of George Truscott. PAC, MG 24, E1, 9: 1038–41; MG 30, D101, 2–4; RG 1, L3, 502: T18/16; RG 5, A1: 70797–800, 73499–503, 78719–20, 79494–96, 82370–72, 82674–84, 123472–74. PRO, ADM 107/31: 176. St James’ Church (Church of England) (Teignmouth, Eng.), West Teignmouth, reg. of baptisms, 7 June 1785 (transcript at Devon Record Office).

  Biographie – McBRIDE, s...  

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Le 15 décembre 1915, jour de ses 45 ans, McBride annonça sa démission et fut remplacé au poste de premier ministre par Bowser. La presse de l’opposition se plaignit que « l’ancien pilote n’a[vait] pas conduit son vaisseau jusqu’à bon port ».

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On his 45th birthday, 15 Dec. 1915, McBride announced his resignation and was replaced as premier by Bowser. The opposition press complained that “the late pilot has not guided his vessel to an untroubled anchorage”; Conservative papers declared he “typified the progressive, democratic spirit of this new land” while admitting he was not “without some blemishes.” Friends and foes agreed he had “a thorough knowledge of this province, . . . an attractive personality, is uniformly courteous and has an enviable gift for making friends.” Indeed, affability was a key to Richard McBride’s political successes. His tall, well-built frame, topped by a curly head of hair that was sprinkled with grey when he first took office but soon turned pure white, led one writer to suggest “no man could be as wise as McBride looked.” Though he appeared robust, his health often failed him after strenuous activities such as election campaigns.

  FR:Biography – LANGEVIN...  

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Dès 1839, avec le consentement de Signay, Langevin employa le revenu des terres appartenant à l’archevêque pour payer la pension des étudiants, « dans l’espérance d’en faire [des] ecclésiastique [s] pour ce pauvre diocèse [...] qui en a[vait] tant besoin ».

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In the field of education Langevin stood out as a leader. He encouraged the setting up of primary schools and bolstered the dedication of itinerant teachers. But his zeal was especially evident in the assistance he gave to the young men of the Madawaska area to enable them to pursue their studies at college, particularly at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. From 1839 Langevin, with Signay’s permission, used the income from the lands belonging to the archbishop to pay the students’ board, “in the hope of making ecclesiastics of them for this poor diocese . . . which needs them so badly.” Part of his own income was put to the same purpose. Between 1855 and 1857 he gave the college donations totalling £2,000 for bursaries that are still offered. The college inherited his estate, estimated to be worth £3,079.

  FR:Biography – MUNRO, H...  

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Dans sa propriété, Somerset Vale, il avait, disait-on, « une ferme aménagée avec art et cultivée avec talent, qui telle une oasis souri[ait] aux forêts sur lesquelles elle a[vait] été gagnée par des années d’infatigable labeur ».

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, smiles upon the wilderness, from which years of unremitting industry have reclaimed it.” In 1825 he was a member of the committee appointed by the assembly to consider ways of improving agriculture and promoting immigration; it recommended the creation of the New-Brunswick Agricultural and Emigrant Society. Active in this association until it ceased to exist, Munro sat on its central committee from 1828 to 1830. He was also the organizer and first president of the Gloucester County society, formed in 1828.

  Biographie – LINDALA, J...  

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se demanda comment « un obscur tailleur socialiste d’origine étrangère a[vait] pu récolter plus de huit mille voix [... en se présentant] contre un barrister irréprochable ». Dans son programme, Lindala avait prôné l’abolition de l’« esclavage du salariat » et la propriété collective des terres et de la machinerie, mais son succès semble avoir été attribuable en grande partie au mécontentement des électeurs.

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, for instance, wondered how “an unknown Socialist tailor of foreign birth should poll over eight thousand votes . . . against a barrister of irreproachable character.” Lindala’s platform had advocated the abolition of “wage slavery” and urged collective ownership of lands and machinery, but his strong showing seems to have been largely due to a high protest vote. The socialists were nevertheless elated both with the results and with the publicity surrounding the campaign, in which, the

  FR:Biography – RYAN, JO...  

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En 1847, Withers notait qu’il avait, avec Ryan, « détenu le titre d’imprimeur de la reine pendant les 15 dernières années, période durant laquelle (les infirmités de la vieillesse ayant empêché M. Ryan d’être de quelque secours) [il] a[vait] assumé seul les devoirs de cette charge ».

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. It is apparent that Ryan’s active participation in the printing business had ended by 1832. Writing in 1847, Withers noted that he had, jointly with Ryan, “held the appointment of Queen’s Printer for the last 15 years, – during which period, (the infirmities of advanced age having prevented Mr. Ryan from assisting therein in any manner) the duties of the office have solely devolved upon me.” Ryan died in 1847 “after a protracted and painful illness.”

  Biographie – BUTLER, MA...  

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Sa mère le rejoignit et habita avec lui jusqu’à sa mort en 1895. Plus tard la même année, Butler épousa Margaret McLean, qui avait une fille de dix ans, Lilian. Un fils, Albert Martin, naquit le 26 mai 1897.

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In his later years Butler remained a familiar figure in the streets of Fredericton, a large bearded man in a long coat pulling his cart through the streets with his newspapers, the friend and protector of small boys throughout the city. He continued to peddle copies of his books, which carried testimonials describing him as “an honest, industrious, temperate and law-abiding citizen” and a worthy subject for “sympathetic, humane and Christian consideration.” Shortly after the outbreak of World War 1, in an editorial entitled “The failure of Christianity,” Butler again voiced his faith in socialism: “The only thoroughly unselfish organization that practices as well as preaches freedom, justice, brotherly love, grace, mercy, and peace, is the Socialist organization.” A few months later

  Biographie – TURRIFF, J...  

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Au cours de ses premières années aux Communes, il fut souvent appelé à défendre son bilan, et celui de Sifton, en matière d’administration des terres du dominion. En 1907, après l’une de ses interventions, même le chef de l’opposition, Robert Laird Borden*, admit qu’« il a[vait] présenté une défense très solide ».

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In parliament Turriff never was a prominent leader, but he was an able and active mp and senator. In his early years in the House of Commons he was called upon repeatedly to defend his record, and that of Sifton, with respect to the administration of dominion lands. Even opposition leader Robert Laird Borden* commented after one of Turriff’s speeches in 1907 that “he has made a very strong defence.”

  Biographie – NORTON, JO...  

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On ignore à quelle date naquit John Norton. Son père appartenait à la nation cherokee et avait, dit-on, été « sauvé, enfant, de Kuwoki, quand ce village a[vait] été incendié par les Anglais ». Sa mère vivait probablement près de Dunfermline, en Écosse, à la naissance de John.

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The date of John Norton’s birth is not known. His father had come from the Cherokee nation, “having been taken, a boy, from Kuwoki, when that village was burnt by the English,” according to one report. His mother was an Anderson who was probably living near Dunfermline, Scotland, when their son John was born. It is also probable that the son received his education in a good school in Dunfermline, and in a print shop, perhaps his father’s. The letters, speeches, and journal which John composed later show that he had had good training in the writing of English.

  Biographie – WATSON, AL...  

Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	Cet ouvrage paru en 1923 ne suscita pas des commentaires aussi élogieux de la part de tous les critiques, mais Edwin John Pratt* souligna que le « travail d'interprétation a[vait] été accompli avec intuition et finesse ».
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	series, on the poet Robert Winkworth Norwood* (1923). Though all reviewers were not so positive, Edwin John Pratt* wrote that the "task of interpretation has been accomplished with insight and refinement." Watson had also collaborated with Pierce in compiling the noted anthology

  FR:Biography – PLANTÉ, ...  

Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	Son ami intime, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, devait faire remarquer que « les soucis et les inquiétudes qu’il a[vait] pris dans les affaires et dont [il avait] été témoin [avaient] bien contribué [...] à affoiblir sa force physique. C’était une belle âme dans un corps frêle. »
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	Planté died suddenly on 13 Feb. 1826. His close friend, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, was to observe that “the cares and anxieties which he assumed in [all his] affairs and of which I have been a witness certainly contributed . . . to weakening him physically. He was a noble soul in a frail body.”

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Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	d’York, un entrefilet signalait à propos de Mallory qu’il « a[vait] depuis figuré dans les journaux de son pays comme un expert dans l’art d’employer les biens d’autrui à son propre usage, ce pour quoi on lui a[vait] accordé des appartements dans une prison d’État ».
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	reported that he “has since figured in the Newspapers of his country as an adept in the art of converting the property of others to his own use, for which accomplishment he has been honoured with lodgings in a State Prison.” A letter of 28 March 1832 in the

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Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	d’York, un entrefilet signalait à propos de Mallory qu’il « a[vait] depuis figuré dans les journaux de son pays comme un expert dans l’art d’employer les biens d’autrui à son propre usage, ce pour quoi on lui a[vait] accordé des appartements dans une prison d’État ».
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	reported that he “has since figured in the Newspapers of his country as an adept in the art of converting the property of others to his own use, for which accomplishment he has been honoured with lodgings in a State Prison.” A letter of 28 March 1832 in the

  Biographie – CHIPMAN, W...  

Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	Rien ne permet d’affirmer avec certitude que le ressentiment contre « une famille qui a[vait] toujours monopolisé le plus important poste du comté » ait été général mais le fait qu’on l’ait mentionné est un indice significatif de l’influence qu’avait la famille Chipman.
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	William Henry Chipman, with his numerous political offices and wide business interests, in many respects represented the height of the Chipman family influence in Kings County. Some of his children followed distinguished careers in the medical and political professions, but the dominant role of the Chipman family in Kings County was largely at an end.

  Biographie – DES VŒUX, ...  

Show textShow cached sourceOpen source URL	Lorsqu’il quitta St John’s, sir Robert Herbert, du ministère des Colonies, écrivit qu’« il a[vait] remarquablement réussi à gagner la confiance et les bonnes grâces des ministres et de la population ».
Compare text pagesCompare HTM pagesOpen source URLOpen target URLDefine biographi.ca as primary domain	Never afraid to speak his mind or to take an independent line, Des Vœux proved, in difficult circumstances, to be one of Newfoundland’s better governors. As Sir Robert Herbert of the Colonial Office wrote when Des Vœux left the colony, it was to his credit that “he has succeeded in a remarkable degree in obtaining the confidence and goodwill of ministers and people.”

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La ténacité avec laquelle James Gordon Strobridge avait mené sa croisade pour obtenir un paiement équitable se retrouvait aussi dans son travail comme ingénieur. En 1826, les flots déchaînés du lac Ontario menacèrent de démolir le brise-lames en construction, et Strobridge, l’air résolu, constata que les caissons avaient été placés assez profondément pour résister aux coups.

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The tenacity which James Strobridge brought to his crusade for just payment was also reflected in his work as an engineer. When in 1826 a hostile Lake Ontario threatened to smash the unfinished breakwater, Strobridge, watching grimly, saw that the caissons had been sunk deep enough to withstand the pounding. Francis Hall observed that “every part thereof, has been so severely tested, that the practicability of the measure and permanence of the works even in their unfinished state is now beyond doubt.”

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Le 15 décembre 1915, jour de ses 45 ans, McBride annonça sa démission et fut remplacé au poste de premier ministre par Bowser. La presse de l’opposition se plaignit que « l’ancien pilote n’a[vait] pas conduit son vaisseau jusqu’à bon port ».

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On his 45th birthday, 15 Dec. 1915, McBride announced his resignation and was replaced as premier by Bowser. The opposition press complained that “the late pilot has not guided his vessel to an untroubled anchorage”; Conservative papers declared he “typified the progressive, democratic spirit of this new land” while admitting he was not “without some blemishes.” Friends and foes agreed he had “a thorough knowledge of this province, . . . an attractive personality, is uniformly courteous and has an enviable gift for making friends.” Indeed, affability was a key to Richard McBride’s political successes. His tall, well-built frame, topped by a curly head of hair that was sprinkled with grey when he first took office but soon turned pure white, led one writer to suggest “no man could be as wise as McBride looked.” Though he appeared robust, his health often failed him after strenuous activities such as election campaigns.

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Kemp s'attaqua aux problèmes en recommandant aux autres d'être patients et en déléguant des tâches aux hommes les plus compétents qu'il pouvait trouver. Jouer à la vedette comme Hughes – qui avait ainsi perdu tous ses appuis au Canada puis outre-mer – n'était pas son genre.

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Kemp turned to solving the problems, counselling patience, delegating duties to the ablest men he could find, and ending the one-man show that had been Hughes's downfall at home and then overseas. Dismayed as he was, he had some sympathy for Sir Sam and no time for recriminations. He reported that he had admonished a senior officer and bitter critic of Hughes to "have a little more regard for those whose honesty of purpose, although they may have made some mistakes, was no less sincere than his own." At the same time Kemp was creating a professional, efficient operation to implement the day-to-day administrative routine he had designed. For his service he was made a kcmg; announced in the king's New Year's honours of 1917, it was conferred on 13 Feb. 1917. The following month he announced a "Canadian Defence Force," to increase the militia ranks for home defence in order to free up troops for overseas service. The plan was largely a failure; "voluntary enlistment has about reached its limit," he confessed to Borden in April. Like many of his cabinet colleagues, he came to realize that conscription was inevitable.