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See also:KINGSFORD, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1819-1898) , See also:British engineer and See also:Canadian historian, was See also:born in See also:London on the 23rd of See also:December 1819. He first studied See also:architecture, but disliking the confinement of an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office enlisted in the 1st See also:Dragoon See also:Guards, obtaining his See also:discharge in See also:Canada in 1841. After serving for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in the office of the See also:city surveyor of See also:Montreal he made a survey for the See also:Lachine See also:canal (1846-1848), and was employed in the See also:United States in the See also:building of the See also:Hudson See also:River railroad in 1849, and in See also:Panama on the railroad being constructed there in 1851. In 1853 he was surveyor and, afterwards See also:district See also:superintendent for the See also:Grand See also:Trunk railroad, remaining in the employment of that See also:company until 1864. The following See also:year he went to See also:England but returned to Canada in 1867 in the See also:hope of taking See also:part in the construction of the Intercolonial Railway. In this he was unsuccessful, but from 1872 to 1879 he held a See also:government See also:post in See also:charge of the harbours of the See also:Great Lakes and the St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence. He had previously written books on See also:engineering and topographical subjects, and in 188o he began to study the records of Canadian See also:history at See also:Ottawa. Among other books he published Canadian See also:Archaeology (1886) and See also:Early Bibliography of See also:Ontario (1892). But the great See also:work of his See also:life was a History of Canadain 10 volumes (1887-1897), ending with the See also:union of Upper and See also:Lower Canada in 1841. Kingsford died on the 28th of See also:September 1898.
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