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Edward Hartley Dewart was born on 30 March 1828 in Ireland, the son of James and Margaret Hartley Dewart. When he was six the family immigrated to Canada. Edward was educated in the local Ontario schools of Dummer Township and at the Provincial Normal School. He taught briefly before entering the church. He was ordained into the Wesleyan Methodist ministry in 1855. The following year he married Matilda Hunt, and they apparently had three sons. For twenty-five years, from 1869 to 1894, he edited the Christian Guardian , the Methodists' weekly newspaper in Toronto. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Methodist-sponsored Victoria University in 1879. He was still writing columns for the Christian Guardian up until his death.

Miss H. Isabel Graham of Seaforth, Ontario. Born at Harpurhey, Ontario, daughter of the Rev. William G. Graham and Elisabeth (daughter of Dr. John Gouinlock). Both parents were natives of Scotland. Graham was educated in local schools, and at the Toronto College of Music. She was the author of "A Song of December and Other Poems", "Fifty Years of Presbyterianism in Egmondville," among others.

Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom, poet, short story writer, novelist (b at Toronto 25 May 1926). Phyllis Gotlieb was raised and educated in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto (BA, 1948; MA 1950). A celebrated poet and internationally popular writer, Gotlieb has been called the mother of contemporary Canadian science fiction.
She died in July, 2009.

Edward Blake (1833-1912) was a federal and provincial politician, Liberal member of Canada's federal parliament and Ontario Legislative Assembly, leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario (1869- 1872), Premier of Ontario (1871-1872), and leader of the Liberal opposition in Ottawa (1880-1887).

Edward Blake was born at Katesville on Bear Creek, on 13 October 1833. He was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He was called to the bar in 1856 and entered into the practice of law with his younger brother, Samuel Hume Blake. The firm was very successful and had a large practice in colonial appeals to the Privy Council.

In 1858, Blake married Margaret Cronyn, second daughter of the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Cronyn. They had seven children, of whom three died in early childhood. The sons, Edward Hume, Edward Francis and Samuel Verschoyle, all entered the family law firm.

Blake's political career began in 1867, when he was elected as the Liberal Member from South Bruce to the Ontario Assembly and as the Member from West Durham to Canada's Parliament. He was offered the leadership of the Opposition in the Ontario Assembly, but did not accept the position until 1869. Then, on the defeat of the Sandfield Macdonald administration in December 1871, he became Premier of Ontario. In the next year, following a provincial act prohibiting members of the Ontario Assembly from simultaneously holding seats in the federal Parliament, Blake retired from provincial politics.

Blake agreed to join Alexander Mackenzie's Liberal administration in Ottawa as minister without portfolio. He served as minister without portfolio from 1872- 1873, as Minister of Justice from May 1875 until June, 1877, and after that took the nominal post of President of the Council. In January 1878, he resigned from the cabinet.

Blake had been offered the leadership of the national Liberal party in 1872, but declined. However, on Alexander Mackenzie's resignation from the leadership in 1880, Blake succeeded him. For seven years and through two general elections, Blake led the federal Liberal party. He resigned in 1887 following the second defeat under his leadership. For two sessions, he was absent from Parliament, but in 1889 he returned. However, rumours that he would soon resume leadership of the party proved to be false and, in the general election of 1891, because he was opposed to unrestricted reciprocity with the United States, one of the principal planks in the Liberal platform, he did not contest a seat. The next year he accepted an invitation from the leaders of the Irish parliamentary party to stand for election to the British House of Commons. He was elected and remained an Irish Nationalist member until ill- health forced him to retire in 1907.

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The Botanical Society of Canada was instituted, at the initiative of George Lawson, in 1860 for the purpose of promoting the science of Botany, the study of which had previously been much neglected in Canada. The first meeting of the Society took place on December 7th, 1860. At subsequent meetings, of which there were eleven in all, papers were read and foreign members participated by sending notes. The Society also ceated a Botanical Garden. In 1863 Lawson moved to Halifax. Without his leadership the Botanical Society slowly withered and died as did the Botanical Garden.

Mackenzie Bowell was born on December 7, 1823, at Suffolk, England. he came to Canada with his parents in 1832 and became a printer's apprentice in the office of the Belleville Intelligencer, a newspaper of which he was later to become the editor and proprietor. In 1847 he married Harriet Louisa Moore of Belleville.

Early in his life Bowell joined the Orange Order and served as Grand Master of the Orange Lodge of Ontario and as Grand Master of the Orange Association of British America. In 1867 he was elected to the House of Commons and served as Conservative representative for the Riding of North Hasting until 1892. Appointed Minister of Customs in 1878 by Sir John A. Macdonald, Bowell was largely responsible for putting the "National Policy" into operation. Early in 1892 he was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence and later the same year became Minister of Trade and Commerce, a position he held until 1894. In 1894, following the death of Sir John Thompson, Bowell was sworn in as Prime Minister, only to resign in early 1896 after several members of his cabinet also resigned. He remained Opposition Leader in the senate until his retirement in 1907. He died at Belleville on december 10, 1917.

Florence Gwendolen Lazier was born in 1905. In 1924, at the age of 18, Miss Lazier rode a horse from Belleville, Ontario to Washington, D.C. to invite then President Calvin Coolige to attend the 140th anniversary of the United Empire Loyalists. During the trip, which took 32 days, Miss Lazier met a number of notables including ex-President Howard Taft, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U.S, Lady Peel and Lord Byng, Arthur Meighen and Mackenzie King. She passed away in October 2007.

John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, was born August 26, 1875, at Perth, Scotland. Buchan lived in Pathhead, Fife from 1876 to 1888, when his family moved to Glasgow. In 1892, after attending Hutcheson's Grammar School, he received a bursary to Glasgow University. Three years later he won a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Buchan began contributing to periodicals and publishing books. In 1899 he took rooms at the Temple in London and read for the bar. Two years later, he joined Lord Milner's staff in South Africa, working on refugee camps, land settlement, and the administration of the Orange River and Transvaal Colonies.

Buchan returned to London in 1903 and spent the next three years working as a barrister while continuing to pursue his literary career. In December 1906 he joined Nelson's publishing house, where he would remain until 1929. With the outbreak of the First World War, he began a serial history of the war for Nelson's. From 1916 to 1918 he worked for British Military Intelligence, eventually becoming Director of Intelligence in the U.K. Ministry of Information under Beaverbrook. In 1927 Buchan was elected to the British Parliament as Conservative member for the Scottish Universities. He was re-elected in 1929 and 1931. In 1933 he became High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Two years later he was appointed Governor General of Canada and was thereafter known as Lord Tweedsmuir.

A popular Governor General, he travelled widely throughout Canada and endeavoured to make the office accessible to a broad spectrum of society. In 1937, the year which saw him become the first Governor General to tour the Arctic, Buchan instituted the Governor General's Literary Awards. The author of more than 60 books, Buchan was both a world-famous novelist and an accomplished historian and biographer. He died in Montreal on February 11, 1940.

In 1817, William Buchanan emigrated from Scotland to what is now Kemptville, Ontario. Two years later he was followed by his wife, Anne Hunter, and children. While some of William's descendants left the area, representatives of the family continued in the Kemptville region to the present day. In 1868, John Hunter, brother of Anne Buchanan, died, leaving no will. As Hunter was unmarried, the estate had to be divided between his nine nieces and nephews. There followed a relatively long correspondence between persons in England and the Buchanans in Kemptville, as the estate settlement dragged on. In 1930, a rumor started that a William Buchanan of Kemptville had entailed his estate for 99 years after his death. As of 1930 the 99 years had apparently elapsed and the estate, amounting to some $850.000 was to be divided among living descendants. The papers include some correspondence on this issue.