John A. McCrae John McCrae was a Canadian poet John McCrae. He served in the Canadian forces as a medical officer in both the Boer War and World War I. A year after the beginning of World War One, he published a poem in the famous “Punch Magazine”, the only work, by which he would become famous. McCrae was born in McCrae House in Ontario, the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He attended to the well-known Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute and soon became a member of the Guelph militia regiment.
Summary Conrad Moffat Black, Canadian-born British peer, Baron Black of Crossharbour, media baron, industrialist, journalist, historian and author (born 25 August 1944 in Montréal) was the son of George Montegu Black, Jr, President of Canadian Breweries Ltd who served as assistant deputy minister of National Defence during WWII. Black was educated at Upper Canada College and from there was sent to Trinity College, Thornton School and Osgoode Hall. He received an arts degree from Carleton University in 1965, a law degree from Université Laval in 1970 and a Master's degree in history from McGill in 1973. With his partners Peter White and David Radler he began acquiring a number of rural newspapers starting in 1969 with The Eastern Townships
A Harvard college graduate, Lemann graduated magna cum laude in 1976. Lemann married twice, lived near New York City with his wife, Dominique Browing and their two sons when he wrote “The Promised Land.” They divorced and he later married Judith Anne Shulevitz in 1999. They have a son and daughter. The Book “The Promised Land the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America,” is a National Best Seller written in 1991. It was published in the Untied States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto .
For a few years, the senior Bell and Thomas Henderson collected royalties from the lease of telephone hardware to customers in the limited late 1870s Canadian market who either operated their own personal network infrastructure or subscribed to a third party telecommunications service provider. (Bell Canada, 2011) In 1879 Bell's father sold his Canadian rights to the National Bell Telephone Company, formed in Boston, Massachusetts earlier that year by the merger of Bell Telephone Company and International Bell Telephone Company, which in 1880 reorganized as the American Bell Telephone Company, initiating the Bell System. That same year the Canadian division was renamed "the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd." and headed by U.S. executive Charles Fleetford Sise from Chicago who served as its first general manager. (Bell Canada, 2011) The first supplier of telephones to Bell was a company established by Thomas C. Cowherd and his son James H. Cowherd, in a three story brick building in Brantford, Ontario, creating Canada's first telephone factory. Thomas
In “The Craftmen’s Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, The Early Years”, authors Craig Heron and Steve Penfold address entirely on the making of Labour Day and what it changed into as the years progressed. Craig Heron and Steve Penfold begin with a brief summary of when Labour Day became an official statutory holiday in Canada on September 3rd, 1894 after five years of Canadian labour leaders lobbying to win the support support of both panels of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital in 1889. This day consisted of barbers, firefighters, butchers and other professions recognized in the working class. The holiday was originated based on two demands “one for public recognition of organized labour and its important role, and another for release from the pressures of work in capitalist industry” (Heron and Penfold 357). It is explained that the event was a public program organized solely by workers with no additional help.
Bain Capital, meanwhile, has made several business forays into Canada. As a buyout shop, Bain purchases companies and restructures them in hopes of selling the businesses years later at a profit. Although almost all of Bain's Canadian purchases were inked after Mr. I am a retired captain of the upper sea. That is to say, when I was a younger man (which
In 1954 Lugar received his degree from Denison and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College on the campus of Oxford University, in England. Richard and Charlene were married in September, 1956, and now have four sons and six grandchildren. After completing studies at Oxford, Dick Lugar went to the American Embassy in London, England and promptly enlisted in the Navy as an intelligence briefer and was responsible for giving intelligence reports to 'high brass', including the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Along with Senator Lugar's political achievements, he has occupied positions in the private sector, as well as a stint in the United States Navy. As a young
Consequently, Brandeis graduated high school at the young age of 14. He first attended college in Kentucky but later transferred to Germany when his father had to relocate. He went on to study at Harvard Law School and graduated in 1875 as valedictorian at the age of 20. Brandeis started practicing law in St. Louis, Missouri and after a short time, he moved back to Boston to start a law firm with former Harvard classmate, Samuel Warren. The firm of “Warren and Brandeis” spent much of their time arguing against monopolies and large corporations and advocating for free speech.
Born on July 23, 1936 in Sacramento California. Anthony McLeod Kennedy was the second child born to Anthony J. Kennedy and Gladys McLeod. His father started as a dock worker in San Francisco then worked his way through law school to form himself as a lawyer and lobbyist in the California legislature and his mother was active in civic affairs (Grimm, French, and Pak). Since a young age he came in contact with outstanding politicians and developed sympathy for the whole world of government and public service. An honor student for his high school years at McClatchy High School in Sacramento, California, Kennedy graduated in 1954(Grimm, French, and Pak).
His idea had successfully worked and he was honoured with the noble peace prize. Born in 1897 in Newtown brook, Ontario Pearson‘s childhood was sports. He went to the University of Toronto and at the age of 18 he enlisted to fight in World War 1. After the war Pearson started teaching at the university. In 1963 Pearson was elected prime minister of Canada.