William Miller was an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century North American religious movement now known as Adventism. Preaching the impending return of ...

A General practitioner and police surgeon, Dr. Woodman’s greatest interests were gardening and Freemasonry.

Born in Dublin, Swift took religious orders in 1694 and was appointed Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. Author of such social satires as Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest ...

Captain in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Brown holds the distinction of being the man who shot down the famous German pilot Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, on April 21, 1918, ...

The youngest child and only surviving son of freemason, Leopold Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus was born in Salzburg in 1756, He showed early precocity both as a keyboard-player and ...

Militant American abolitionist, John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional ...

The marks collected by M. Didron divide themselves, according to his opinion, into two classes—those of the overseers and those of the men who worked the stones. The marks of the first class consist ...

George Washington was Commanding General of the American Continental Army during their War of Independence (1776-1781). He was President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and from 1789 to 1796 ...

The first of B.C.’s Premiers to be born in the province, "the people’s Dick" took his law degree at Dalhousie in 1890, then moved to Atlin. First elected to the Legislature in 1898, he became the ...

W. & D. Downey Duke of Connaught Lodge No. 64 works under a Warrant issued by the Grand Lodge of British Columbia issued in 1912. Meeting on the first Tuesday of the month, with the exception of July ...

Born in Harvey, New Brunswick, Harlan Brewster became a sailer and later a printer before moving to British Columbia. First elected to the Legislature in February 1907, he served as leader of the ...