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DESJARDINS, Alphonse - Accompanied the British Association in 1884
Alphonse Desjardins(1841-1912) was the Conservative M.P. for the Quebec constituency of Hochelaga. From 1862-1867 he practiced law after which he turned to journalism, retiring as editor of “Le Nouveau Monde” in 1878. As a Conservative Member of the Canadian Parliament (1874-1887) Desjardins was a great supporter of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1879 he married Marie-Clara Dorimène Roy (1858-1952); they raised four girls and six boys,although she was the primary spouse tasked with this job. In 1900, they also co-founded the first Credit Union, known in Quebec as the "caisses populaires". The “Montreal Gazette” Sept, 17, 1884 and the “Report of the Visit of the British Association to the Canadian North-West” both refer to Alphonse Desjardins as being one of the excursionists that travelled with Sir Richard Temple, who visited the Bell Farm Sept. 14, 1884.
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Photo source (1882) - http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/II-64954.1 1875 biography and /photo - https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-104368-11/page/n99/mode/2up 1892 biography - https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_lc_montreal-history-gazeteer_Lande00051-15422/page/n255/mode/2up / “Montreal Gazette”, Sept. 17, 1884 – report on the British Association tour and list of travellers, including Desjardins. Report of the visit of the British Association to the Canadian North-West [microform] : description of the trip to the Rocky Mountains, addresses presented, report of speeches delivered, doings in Winnipeg : Richardson, R. L. (Robert Lorne), 1860-192 T.H. Thomas, special artist of the Graphic extends special thanks to Alphonse Desjardins MP for Hochelaga for varied information and cheerful companionship in travel - p.2 - https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131055429096d.pdf Biography, The Canadian Encyclopedia - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alphonse-desjardins
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DILLON, James - British Association Member - 1884
James Dillon (1838-1916) was an Irish engineer, inventor and later the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland. Dillon attended the British Association's Montreal meeting where he presented a paper entitled "Dillon's Automatic Sounder" on Sept. 1, 1884. The "sounder" was designed to prepare nautical charts, sections or soundings of lakes, rivers or sea-coasts, etc. Following the formal meeting he joined Sir Richard Temple and the many other excursionists that travelled to the Bell Farm. While Sir Richard signed the Bell Farm Visitor’s Register on Sept. 14th, James Dillon did not.
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Photo source and biography - "Called to Serve: Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland 1835-1968", by Ronald Cox and Dermot O'Dwyer. - http://iae.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Called_to_Serve.pdf - p. 104-105 "Montreal Gazette" - 17 Sept. 1884 - List of British Association Tour Members "Irish Builder and Engineer" - An Irish Engineer and Inventor pg 288 / Oct 15, 1885 biography - https://books.google.ca/books?id=fzhJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&dq=%22An+Irish+engineer+and+inventor%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjiw9Hj9dvtAhWjFVkFHd93CZ8Q6AEwAHoECAIQAg#v=twopage&q&f=false "Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society", Vol. VI, 1884, p. 676 - Dillon's Automatic Sounder - https://books.google.ca/books?id=cBASAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=twopage&q&f=false
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DOBSON, George Edward - British Association Member - 1884
George Edward Dobson, F.R.S. (1844-1895) was born in Ireland and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, Dublin in 1866, plus several other degrees later, culminating with an M.A. in 1875. In 1868 he entered the Army Medical Services, from which he retired in 1888 due to ill health. As a Surgeon-Major, author and zoologist, Dobson attended and presented a paper at the 1884 Montreal meeting of the British Association. Afterwards he joined the B.A. excursionists that travelled to the Bell Farm on Sept. 14, 1884. Like so many others on that tour, he did not sign the Bell Farm Visitors Register. After George Dobson retired from the Military due to a serious illness, he lived only a few more years, but continued his scientific research, as well as writing articles and publications as best he could. He died in 1895 at age 51.
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FRS = A Fellow of the Royal Society of London Obituary 1: https://archive.org/details/philtrans03007948/page/n13/mode/2up Obituary 2 - https://archive.org/details/s597id13663980/page/62/mode/2up Biological Section/ - presented at B.A. Meting in Montreal, Aug. 29, 1884 - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/211843582.pdf Photo sources and obituary - “The Graphic”, Dec. 7, 1895
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ELLIOTT, Edwin Bailey - British Association Member - 1884
Mathematician at Oxford University, Edwin Bailey Elliott (1851-1937) was an Oxford Mathematician.
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http://learn-math.info/historyDetail.htm?id=Elliott photo source and biography http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1938MNRAS..98R.246. obit - page 246 https://archive.org/stream/advancingscience029066mbp#page/n65/mode/2up reference to EB Elliott at the Montreal Meeting – p. 62 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37806/37806-h/37806-h.htm - details below EDWIN BAILEY ELLIOTT, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Formerly Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford. President of London Mathematical Society, 1896-1898. Author of Algebra of Quantics; &c.
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FREAM, Professor William - British Association Member - 1884
Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College, Dr. William Fream paid visits to Canada in 1884, 1888, and 1891, to examine agricultural conditions, describing his findings in a series of papers. These include the pamphlet "The Gates of the West" (1892), "Across Canada: a Report on Canada and its Agricultural Resources", written for and published by the Government of Canada (1885), and, in two parts, ‘Canadian agriculture’, which appeared in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1885. In 1888 Fream received an honorary LLD from McGill University. Fream was a professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College, a founder of the College of Agricultural at Downton and a correspondent for The Times. His book: "Elements of Agriculture", first published in 1892, has proved to be one of the most enduring of all textbooks in his time. He died in May 1906, at age 51. Professor Fream also signed the Bell Farm Visitors' Register on Sept. 14, 1884 (entry # 103)
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https://archive.org/stream/cihm_30147#page/n5/mode/2up http://books.google.ca/books?id=3pkuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9&dq=%22Brick%22+%22assiniboia%22+%22bell+farm%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nc6nUq3-GJXmoASgtYHYCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Brick%22%20%22assiniboia%22%20%22bell%20farm%22&f=false http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/paradigm/GODDARD1.JPG&imgrefurl=http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/paradigm/goddard.html&usg=__M7IAp8QL_CDneORIWmXBQBJ_Pvo=&h=1925&w=1331&sz=179&hl=en&start=8&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=fbvLK9akQQ0gOM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522William%2BFream%2522%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GFRE_en%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1 A Report on Canada and its Agricultural Resources 1885 http://books.google.com/books?id=spkuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=%22William+Fream%22+%22Qu'appelle%22&source=bl&ots=c0IcIBnnq2&sig=Rc-NL8rNLlHWfvTXYjYnb-DXKK0&hl=en&ei=MkduS6CPPIyh8Ab4t7ChDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ Obituary: https://archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo34arch#page/436/mode/2up
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FREMANTLE, Sir Charles - British Association Member - 1884
Sir Charles Fremantle was the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in London, England, and went on the tour with a colleague, Sir William Chandler Roberts, Professor of metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines in London.
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http://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/history/people/mint-officials/charles-freemantle/index.html http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30C15FE3E5913738DDDA10894D0405B8785F0D3
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KINAHAN, George Henry - British Association Member - 1884
George Henry Kinahan (1829-1908) was a distinguished Irish geologist and the District Surveyor for the Irish Branch of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. In 1853 he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, as a Civil Engineer. The following year he was appointed to the Geological Survey, and was promoted to Senior Geologist in 1861. In 1878, Henry Kinahan publish a Manual of the Geology of Ireland. Kinahan also practised archaeology in Ireland, and wrote many scientific papers relating to Ireland's geology and archaeology. He was a member of and served on the Council of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Photo and obituary: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=5081956&jid=GEO&volumeId=6&issueId=03&aid=5081952 British Geological Survey entry: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/pioneers/pioneers.cfc?method=viewRecord&personId=72¤tTab=tab_K Online Books by Kinahan: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Kinahan%2C%20G.%20Henry%20(George%20Henry)%2C%201829-1908
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LAURIE, Major General John Wimburn - Travelled with the British Association in 1884
Major General Laurie (1835-1912) attended the Montreal meeting of the British Association and presented a paper on the agricultural resources of Nova Scotia. During the North-West Rebellion of 1885, Laurie was put in charge of the government's transportation forces stationed at Swift Current. He was in regular communication with Major Bell, his counterpart at Qu'Appelle.
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https://archive.org/stream/reportofbritisha85brit#page/848/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/cihm_05877#page/n21/mode/2up/search/Laurie http://books.google.ca/books?id=dOx0vxlvtvQC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=Major+General+John+Wimburn+Laurie&source=bl&ots=cEdHD6LEje&sig=bQMZfhS55F1qWZgDT0-E6ha-S2Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lhiMUsCBA4LFigLB8oGADQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Major%20General%20John%20Wimburn%20Laurie&f=false Photo: http://www.accesswave.ca/~bleslie/Laurie.jpg
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LONGSTAFF, George Blundell - British Association Member - 1884
George Blundell Longstaff (1849-1921) was a noted entomologist, author and a member of the British Association delegation that visited the Farm on Sept 23 1884. He married his first wife - Sara Leam Dixon - in 1874; and his second wife - Mary Jane Donald - in 1906. He gave his address as London and Morthoe. Morthoe is a village in Devon in the west of England and Longstaff had a country house there from 1881. In London he lived at addresses in Wandsworth and at a house called "Highlands" on Putney Heath.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2415119/?page=1 - 1921 British Medical Journal obit http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Longstaff,_George_Blundell_(1849-1921) https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1107748 http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2798
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Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon; Bill Pinfold, Sharnbrook, England; and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask. -
LOUIS, David Alexander - British Association Member
David Alexander Louis (1856-1915) was born in London, England, and was educated at the Royal School of Mines. He subsequently became a mining engineer, chemist and a valued contributor to "The Engineer". A "regular attendant" of the annual British Association meetings, in 1884 (while working for Rothamsted Experimental Farm) he attended the Montreal meeting along with Rothamsted's founder - Sir J.H. Gilbert, Bell Farm visitor Entry # 129. Louis was with the one hundred Association visitors that toured the Bell Farm, most visiting on Sept. 14, 1884; but he may have been travelling with Sir Gilbert, who signed the Visitors Register on Sept. 16, 1884. Louis worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1882 to 1887. Later he travelled all over the world on engineering business related to mining and petroleum exploration. In some of his travels Professor Louis was accompanied by Professor H. Bauerman. Both men were on the tour that stopped at Winnipeg on September 10, 1884; hence it is assumed that they travelled together to the Bell Farm. However, neither man signed the Visitors Register.
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David Louis obituary – 1915 – https://www.nmrs.org.uk/resources/obituaries-of-members/obituaries-of-members-names-beginning-with-l/david-alexander-louis/ “Rothamsted Experimental Station – reminiscences of Edwin Grey”, 1922, p. 42-43 - https://archive.org/details/rothamstedexper00grey/page/42/mode/2up D.A. Louis regularly attended the annual BA meetings - Death Notice in “The Engineer”, Vol. 119, 1922 ,p. 349 - https://books.google.ca/books?id=rtH7byWX7msC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=%22david+alexander+louis%22+%22chemist%22&source=bl&ots=lyIErLZqzr&sig=ACfU3U2vFKDu6RCzLBBhVYmT3Wne-qUobw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj16eXf6d3rAhXJmuAKHUjEBkgQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22david%20alexander%20louis%22%20%22chemist%22&f=false Biography and photo source – “The Illuminating Engineer”, June 1915, p. 282 - https://archive.org/details/lightlighting08illu/page/282/mode/2up Hilary Meinhardt Bauerman (1833-1909) - http://www.royalengineers.ca/Bauerman.html
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PEGLER, Alfred - British Association Member - 1884
Alfred Pegler, was a well-known Southampton jeweller and British Liberal politician. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. In 1849 he inherited the family jewellery business and made significant commercial progress, while playing an important part in the public life of Southampton. Alfred Pegler was married to Ann Clifford; they had a daughter named Fanny Esther (1852-1885). Pegler visited the Bell Farm with the British Association on Aug. 8, 1884. His impressions of this visit to Canada were published in the "Hampshire Independent". In 1885 Pegler was chairman of the Isle of Wight Steam Packet Company, and became involved with a scheme to profit from the wedding of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry; however, the venture lost money.
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http://www.parkhousethejeweller.com/about-us/history-timeline photo source Genealogy: https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/215560/I1/-/ahnentafel Newspaper article: "The Royal Wedding that Turned into a Financial Disaster for Two Men", Southern Daily Echo, 7 April 2016, by Jez Gale - https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/heritage/14410511.the-royal-wedding-that-turned-into-a-financial-disaster-for-two-men/ https://archive.org/stream/cihm_09228#page/n45/mode/2up Bell Farm visit (and a great description of his hotel stay) pgs 24,36,37-39,50,52,60 and 83
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POLWHELE, Thomas Roxburgh - British Association Member
Thomas Roxburgh Polwhele (1831 - 1909), a geologist who studied at Cambridge, joined the British Geological Survey in 1857 and became president of the Geological Society of Cornwall in 1896 and 1897. Polwhele visited the Bell Farm on Sept. 14, 1884 along with many other members of the Association after attending the annual conference of the British Association, which was held in Montreal, Quebec in 1884.
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British Geological Society website - http://bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/pioneers/pioneers.cfc?method=viewRecord&personId=179 Photo Source: - http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=131095 Obituary - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=5096148&jid=GEO&volumeId=6&issueId=12&aid=5096144
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RIVARD, Sévère - Local Secretary - British Association Conference, Montreal - 1884
One of five local secretaries for the British Association Conference, and a former mayor of Montreal, Rivard acted as a local secretary for the 1884 BA meeting in Montreal.
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http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/democratie/democratie_en/expo/maires/rivard/index.shtm photo source https://archive.org/stream/historyandbiogr00bortgoog#page/n238/mode/2up http://books.google.ca/books?id=3Ajyl_YRROQC&pg=RA1-PA3&lpg=RA1-PA3&dq=%22rivard%22+%22british+association%22+%22secretary%22&source=bl&ots=YsacCyK8LV&sig=-oqM0EaVY2OqmiYa5qxFcvwE9aw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u1WMUvPwK4HoqAG1tIDgAw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22rivard%22%20%22british%20association%22%20%22secretary%22&f=false http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rivard_severe_11E.html - Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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SCLATER - Philip Lutley - British Association Member - 1884
Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913), born in Hampshire, England, was a lawyer, but primarily a zoologist, and served over 30 years as secretary of the Zoological Society of London. He attended the British Association meeting in Montreal in August 1884 and joined the many excursionists that visited the Bell Farm on Sept. 14, 1884. The Sept. 17, 1884 “Montreal Gazette” stated: “Although only a limited number took this special trip, the CPR have kindly offered during the present month to convey members of the British Association free to the end of their line, in order that they may have an opportunity of seeing the country.” The "limited number" for this excursion was made up of 100 gentlemen. Some were accompanied by wives and children - their names were not included on the list published by the Gazette. “A Prince in the realm of Zoological Science has fallen…” That beginning to a 12 page eulogy likely indicates how well Philip Sclater was revered by his colleagues. Such esteem has not been attributed to anyone else in the course of this Bell Farm research. Elsewhere, his ornithological research is described as “brilliant”. The Bell Farm received many visitors between 1882 and 1895, but no records have yet been found to indicate that anyone other than Philip Sclater was deemed to be “brilliant”. Sclater joined the British Association in 1847 and became its president in 1875. He first visited North America in 1856; then not again until the Montreal meeting in 1884. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1861, he became an active or associate member of many scientific societies, and publish extensively. Philip Sclater married Jane Hunter-Blair in 1862 and they raised five children. He died in 1913 at age 84.
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Wikipedia biography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sclater Sclater attended the BA Montreal meeting - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1623418?seq=5#metadata_info_tab_contents Obituary and biography for Sclater - “The AUK: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Jan, 1914 , p. 1-12 - https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v031n01/p0001-p0012.pdf “The Published Writings of Philip Lutley Sclater, 1844-1896 “, by G. Brown Goode, 1896, p. ix – xix - https://archive.org/details/publishedwriting00good/page/n21/mode/2up
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SCOTT, Robert Henry - British Association Member - 1884
Dr. Robert H. Scott (1833-1916), was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was founder of Valentia Observatory and first Director of the British Meteorological Office (1867-1900). He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1852 and joined the Royal Society in 1871. In 1884, Robert Scott joined other members of the British Association and travelled to Canada for their annual conference in Montreal, followed by a trip to the West. Although he did not sign the Bell Farm Visitors Register, his name is included in a newspaper report from Medicine Hat (Sept. 11, 1884); hence it is possible that he visited the Farm.
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Obituary: Volume 42, Issue 180,October 1916; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/qj.49704218011 "Montreal Gazette", 17 Sept, 1884 - from earlier Medicine Hat report
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Bill Pinfold, Sharnbrook, England