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#NewBio! Edward Nicholas Hopkins (1854–1935), farmer, cheese manufacturer, and politician.
His story is intertwined with the early history and business growth of the city of Moose Jaw and with western Canadian agriculture. #SK www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hopki...
#NewBio! Engineer and mining entrepreneur James Paul Norrie (1891–1945) contributed to the mining industry in northwestern Quebec by demonstrating that next to the region’s gold mines there were deposits with potential for productivity and profitability.
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#NewBio! The story of the Cree hunter Kitchi-manito-waya, called Almighty Voice (d. 1897), caught the nation’s attention during his lifetime; since his death he has been the subject of stories, poems, plays, and a film. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kitch...
#NewBio! John Hawkes (1851–1931), labourer, journalist, civil servant, and author. John Hawkes loved a good tale, including his own life story. His most famous accomplishment remains "The story of Saskatchewan and its people," published in three volumes in 1924. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hawke...
#NewBio! Andrew Browning Baird (1855–1940) was a pioneering Presbyterian minister and educator in the Canadian west. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baird... #Winnipeg #Manitoba
#NewBio! Henry Sneed (1848–1914), a farmer and preacher, was an early Black settler in Alberta. In 1911 he led some 20 African American families to what would become Amber Valley, north of Edmonton. The party faced discrimination from immigration officials. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sneed... #BHM
#NewBio! Arthur James Glazebrook (1861–1940), banker, stock-exchange broker, educator, and imperialist.
He was best known for his involvement in the Round Table movement, which promoted the idea of British imperial unity. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/glaze...
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#NewBio! Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937) was the premier of #BritishColumbia from 1928 to 1933. His affable and folksy leadership proved insufficient to deal with the challenges of the Great Depression and the unforgiving partisanship of #BC politics. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tolmi...
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#NewBio! Alexander James McPhail (1883–1931), farmer, office holder, and agrarian leader.
He was a leader in the cooperative movement in western Canada and the first president of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wheat Producers (#Saskatchewan Wheat Pool). www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcpha...
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#NewBio! Angus Mackay (1840–1931), farmer, office holder, and agriculturalist.
Billed by the Globe in 1913 as “Saskatchewan’s grand old man of agriculture,” Mackay is popularly known as the father of summer fallowing. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macka...
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#NewBio! Richard Deans Waugh (1868–1938), businessman, public servant, and politician.
A Scottish immigrant, he made a name for himself in #Winnipeg's real-estate industry before serving as its mayor in 1911, 1915, and 1916. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/waugh...
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#NewBio! William Egerton Phin (1863–1939), travelling salesman, contractor, and businessman.
W. E. Phin grew up on his family’s farm in Upper Canada, and went on to become one of Canada’s leading businessmen. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/phin_...
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#NewBio! Sir Herbert Meredith Marler (1876–1940), notary, businessman, politician, and diplomat.
In 1936 he was announced as Canadian minister in Washington, D.C. – but the prime minister soon regretted the appointment. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/marle...
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#NewBio! William James Roche (1859–1937) was an MP for #Manitoba from 1896–1917 and served as minister of the interior under Robert Laird Borden. He championed the replacement of the prevailing patronage system with one based on merit. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roche...
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#NewBio! A Nova Scotia native, Norman McLeod Rogers (1894–1940) overcame serious injuries suffered during #WWI to become an influential scholar, civil servant, and politician. Mackenzie King mused that Rogers might succeed him as prime minister. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roger...
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#NewBio! John Skirving Ewart (1849–1933), lawyer and author.
He defended Louis Riel after his conviction in 1885 and supported French Catholics during the debates over the Manitoba school question.
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ewart...
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#NewBio! Margaret Gascoigne (1876–1934), educator, school administrator, and musician.
She immigrated to #Montreal in 1913 and opened The Study, a private English-language girls’ school, which developed a reputation for high educational achievement. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gasco...
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#NewBio! Edward Odlum (1850-1935), militiaman, educator, geologist, ethnologist, businessman, lecturer, politician, and lay preacher.
His legacy is darker than he might have anticipated.
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/odlum...
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#NewBio! Marjory Jardine Ramsay MacMurchy (Willison, Lady Willison) (1870–1938), author, journalist, and social reformer.
She was among the most respected Canadian female journalists of the early 20th century. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macmu...
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#NewBio! Eugene Thornton Kingsley (d. 1929), farmer, railway worker, socialist, political agitator and organizer, fishmonger, editor, printer, and author.
He was one of the most notable socialist intellectuals of his time in Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kings...
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#NewBio! Merchant, politician, and militia and army officer. Assigned to support positions during #WWI due to injury, he was mentioned in dispatches. After his return he was an exec with the Robert Simpson Company. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/snell...
A portrait of a balding white man in academic robes holding a statue of a discus thrower. A bust of Plato is in the corner. The portrait is by James Edward Hervey MacDonald, Mauricius Hutton, 1925, oil on board. 152.4 x 121.28 cm. University College Collection UC302, commissioned from the artist, 1924. Courtesy Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
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#NewBio! Maurice Hutton (1856–1940), scholar and educator.
A self-effacing man with immense personal magnetism, Hutton inspired generations of students who became the leaders of a growing country. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hutto...
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#NewBio! Mary Travers, known as La Bolduc (Bolduc), (1894–1941) musician, self-taught singer-songwriter, and actor.
La Bolduc is considered the first singer-songwriter of the chanson québécoise. Her success stemmed from her authenticity. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/trave...
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#NewBio! John Penman (1845/46–1931), textile and clothing manufacturer and philanthropist.
He set out to dominate the woollen industry in Canada. The company was best known for its combinations – all-in-one winter underwear for men, women, and children. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/penma...
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Text from "The Refugee, or, The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada" by Benjamin Drew. Boston : J.P. Jewett; Cleveland : Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1856. Source: https://archive.org/details/cihm_49469/page/n93/mode/2up
#NewBio! A free Black man who was kidnapped into slavery as a child in the United States, John W. Lindsay eventually fled to Upper Canada, where he made a successful career. In escaping bondage, however, he found he had not escaped prejudice. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/linds...
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A white woman wearing a dark dress with a lighter collar sits smiling by a potted plant. The name 'Francoise' is signed across the bottom right-hand corner of the photo.
No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of Félicité Angers (1845–1924), novelist, biographer, journalist, and playwright, and Robertine Barry (1863–1910), journalist, writer, lecturer, feminist, and office holder. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/anger... / www.biographi.ca/en/bio/barry...
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