Browse "People"

Displaying 10021-10035 of 11283 results

  • Article

    Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski

    Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, engineer (b at St Petersburg [Leningrad], Russia 5 Mar 1813; d at Toronto 24 Aug 1898). He began his ENGINEERING career in Canada in 1842. As a superintendent of public works of the Province of

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/5a9d7d32-53b3-46fe-b8a9-d8e168a58a70.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/5a9d7d32-53b3-46fe-b8a9-d8e168a58a70.jpg Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski

  • Article

    Sir Cecil Edward Denny

    Sir Cecil Edward Denny, 6th baronet of Tralee Castle, police officer, Indian agent, author (b in Hampshire, Eng 14 Dec 1850; d at Edmonton 24 Aug 1928). Denny is best known as the author of two colourful accounts of life with the North-West Mounted Police - The Riders of the Plains: A Reminiscence of the Early and Exciting Days in the North West (1905) and The Law Marches West (1939).

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/Cecil_Denny.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/Cecil_Denny.jpg Sir Cecil Edward Denny

  • Article

    Sir Charles Bagot

    Sir Charles Bagot, diplomat (born 23 Sept 1781 at Blithfield Hall, England; died 19 May 1843 in Kingston, Canada). Born to a wealthy and influential family, Bagot was elected to the British Parliament in 1807. He served in the cabinet as undersecretary of state for foreign affairs before appointments as Britain’s minister to France (1814), the United States (1816-19), Russia (1820-24), and the Netherlands (1824-32). As Britain’s minister to the United States, he negotiated the 1817 Rush-Bagot Agreement which reduced the number of military ships on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain and helped secure the Canadian-American border. From 1841-43, he served as Governor General of the Province of Canada, advancing responsible government and French-English equality in the colony.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/SirCharlesBagot.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/SirCharlesBagot.jpg Sir Charles Bagot

  • Article

    Sir Charles Blair Gordon

    Sir Charles Blair Gordon, banker, manufacturer (b at Montréal 22 Nov 1867; d there 30 July 1939). Five years after beginning work in a dry-goods store, Gordon formed the Standard Shirt Company and in 1904 oversaw the organization of Dominion Textiles.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Charles Blair Gordon

  • Article

    Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill

    Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill, naval officer, public servant (b at Guelph, Canada W 7 July 1855; d at Portland, Ont 15 July 1935). He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1869, served in the Sudan in 1884 and as British vice-consul and agent at Zeyla, Aden.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill

  • Article

    Sir Charles Edward Saunders

    Charles was the least robust of them all but perhaps had the highest standards. Educated at U of T and Johns Hopkins U, he was a professor of chemistry at Central U, Ky, in 1892-93 and then devoted 1894-1903 to the study of music and teaching of voice.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/5fe2870d-d68e-42fc-8552-596cf7670004.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/5fe2870d-d68e-42fc-8552-596cf7670004.jpg Sir Charles Edward Saunders

  • Article

    Sir Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville

    Sir Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, doctor, politician, premier of Québec 1874-78 and 1891-92 (b at Montréal 4 May 1822; d there 10 Sept 1915). A Conservative member of the Assembly of the Province of Canada, he was appointed to the Québec Legislative Council in 1867.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville

  • Article

    Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

    His finest poetry was produced in these early years, appearing in In Divers Tones (1886) and Songs of the Common Day (1893), and he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1890). Financial pressure forced him to turn his main attention to fiction.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

  • Article

    Sir Charles Hastings Doyle

    Sir Charles Hastings Doyle, soldier, administrator, lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia (b at London, Eng 10 Apr 1804; d there 19 Mar 1883). Doyle played an important role in the politics and military affairs of Canada at the time of Confederation in 1867.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Charles Hastings Doyle

  • Article

    Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper

    Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, politician, cabinet minister (born 3 August 1855 in Amherst, Nova Scotia; died 30 March 1927 in Vancouver, BC).

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/CharlesHibbertTupper/a027388.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/CharlesHibbertTupper/a027388.jpg Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper

  • Article

    Sir Charles Seymour Wright

    Sir Charles Seymour Wright, physicist (b at Toronto 7 Apr 1887; d at Victoria 1 Nov 1975). He attended Upper Canada College and U of T, and won a scholarship for postgraduate study in physics at Cambridge.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Charles Seymour Wright

  • Article

    Sir Charles Tupper

    Sir Charles Tupper, prime minister, premier of Nova Scotia 1864–67, doctor (born 2 July 1821 in Amherst, NS; died 30 October 1915 in Bexleyheath, England). Charles Tupper led Nova Scotia into Confederation while he was premier. Over the course of his lengthy political career, he served as a federal Cabinet minister and diplomat, and briefly as prime minister of Canada — his 10-week term is the shortest in Canadian history. He was the last surviving Father of Confederation.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/d7345ad3-c345-4b5f-b0e9-44e0176c0c6d.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/d7345ad3-c345-4b5f-b0e9-44e0176c0c6d.jpg Sir Charles Tupper

  • Article

    Sir Clifford Sifton

    Sir Clifford Sifton, PC, KCMG, KC, lawyer, politician, businessman (born 10 March 1861 near Arva, Canada West; died 17 April 1929 in New York City, New York). Sir Clifford Sifton was one of the ablest politicians of his time. He is best known for his aggressive promotion of immigration to settle the Prairie West. Under his leadership, immigration to Canada increased significantly; from 16,835 per year in 1896 to 141,465 in 1905. A Liberal politician of considerable influence and vision, he was also a controversial figure. Sifton promoted a single education system and opposed the public funding of denominational schools, largely disregarding the concerns of French Catholics. He also showed little interest in the Indigenous peoples of the Prairies; he oversaw cuts to Indigenous education and approved Treaty 8. His brother, Arthur Lewis Sifton, was premier of Alberta from 1910 to 1917.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/53d34b2e-01bc-41b9-9770-72b430fceec7.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/53d34b2e-01bc-41b9-9770-72b430fceec7.jpg Sir Clifford Sifton

  • Article

    Sir Colin Campbell

    Sir Colin Campbell, soldier, colonial administrator, lieutenant-governor of NS 1834-40 (b in Scot 1776; d at London, Eng 13 June 1847).

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Colin Campbell

  • Article

    Sir Colin John Mackenzie

    Sir Colin John Mackenzie, soldier (b 26 Nov 1861; d at London, Eng 7 July 1956). A conscientious Scot who came to Canada as Chief of the General Staff, 1910-13, Mackenzie resigned after a series of disagreements with the free-wheeling Minister of Militia and Defence, Sir Sam HUGHES.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sir Colin John Mackenzie