The Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory: Containing Concise Descriptions of Cities, Towns and Villages in the Province, with the Names of Professional and Business Men and Principal Inhabitants, Together with a Full List of Members of the Executive Governments, Senators, Members of the Commons and Local Legislatures, and Officials of the Dominion, and a Large Amount of Other General, Varied and Useful Information, Carefully Compiled from the Most Recent and Authentic Data |
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Page 480 - Department is a Museum, containing specimens of school apparatus and furniture, a valuable collection of Italian, Dutch and Flemish Oil Paintings, and Statuary casts and busts. The Museum is freely open to the public from 9 am to...
Page 269 - Such are the solemn acknowledgments of the King's Sovereignty required from Candidates for Holy Orders in the United Church of England and Ireland. A similar obligation, as extended to all ecclesiastical persons, was enforced in a Code of Canons intended for the Established Church of Scotland in the Reign of Charles the First. But the attempt to introduce a proper system of discipline, conjoined to the uniform use of a Liturgy, was completely...
Page 476 - C., which requires that the patient be examined by three licensed medical practitioners, verified by Reeve or Mayor, collectively, who certify to t he insanity.
Page 476 - S4 per share, and a deposit of $2 per share at time of entering. New members may come in at any time, No entrance money or management fee.
Page 477 - Home for the training and maintenance of destitute boys, not convicted of crime.
Page 134 - ... the Erie canal, and of the New York Central railroad and two of its branches to Niagara Falls and Lockport ; it is the main western terminus of the Erie railway, with a branch road from West Corning and one to Niagara Falls. It is the eastern terminus of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway ; of the Buffalo and Lake Huron branch of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada ; and of the nearly completed Canada Southern railway, and "loop line...
Page 69 - Штег, at the head of navigation and ie я station of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway. Its name is derived from the celebrated Mohawk Chief, Joseph Brant. The site of the town, 807 acres, was surrendered by the Indians to the Crown, 19th April, 1830, and was surveyed the same year. The Grand River Navigation ('anal, commenced in 1840, added materially to the early prosperity of the town, its object was to remove the obstruction caused by the fall...
Page 384 - REWARD will be paid for information leading to the conviction of any person who may mutilate or wantonly deface any book, periodical or engraving belonging to this library.
Page 480 - Professor of Mineralogy and Geology ; GT Kingston, -MA, Professor of Meteorology, and Director of the Mi.gnctical Observatory; Dr.
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