User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. In 1878 Burns returned to Ontario to succeed Samuel Dwight Rice* as governor and principal of the Wesleyan Female (later Wesleyan Ladies’) College in Hamilton, also becoming its professor of mental and moral science, logic, evidences, and higher English literature. j.s.m.]. DADSON, EBENEZER WILLIAM, Baptist minister and editor; b. In 1896 Dadson accepted a call to Olivet Church, the largest Baptist congregation in Montreal. Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up. Subject Headings: Dictionary of Canadian biography-Indexes. . He was now a figure of some eminence in academic circles. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography provides authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada's past, including both detailed arcticles on Canada's major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages who have hitherto found no place in reference works or general histories. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. In the summer of 1872, a year before graduation, he served as a ministerial assistant in Ottawa and Chelsea, Que. © 1990–2021 University of Toronto/Université Laval. He was born in Montreal on 7 Oct. 1786, his father, Joseph Papineau ( d . The current electronic edition is not free, but is availablethrough individual or library subscription. He spoke widely on all these issues, ran in Hamilton as a Liberal candidate in the federal election of 1887 (but lost by 169 votes), and was nominated as a delegate to the Irish Race Convention, held in Dublin in 1896. J. H. Farmer (Toronto, 1902), which contains unidentified selections from diaries, private letters, sermons, and public writings which have now disappeared. J. K. Zeman (Burlington, Ont., 1980), 147–59. "Klatsassin" in The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume IX Although raised a Presbyterian, Burns was converted to Methodism and became a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1851, after he attended revival services held by the Reverend James Caughey in Toronto. **** /4 Although a polished writer, Dadson showed no aptitude for preaching. There he became a founding member of the University College Young Men’s Christian Association and was involved with Professor James Colton Yule in religious work at York Mills (Toronto). The family attended Bond Street Baptist Church, where the young Ebenezer was influenced by three leading Baptist pastors of the day, James Pyper, Thomas Ford Caldicott*, and particularly Robert Alexander Fyfe*, founder and principal of the Canadian Literary Institute in Woodstock. This item: Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique du Canada: Volume I, 1000 - 1700 by Francess G. Halpenny Hardcover $107.15 Ships from and sold by Book Depository US. Includes business people, artists, politicians, nurses, judges, doctors, soldiers, athletes and poets. : the man and his message, ed. record, county York. Biography – BOURGEOYS, MARGUERITE, Dite Du Saint-Sacrement – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Subject Heading: Canada-Biography. Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in … In 1886 he strongly defended members of the Knights of Labor dismissed by the management of the Toronto Street Railway Company for union activities. 12 Aug. 1834 in Castlewellan (Northern Ireland), son of James Burns, carpenter, and Elizabeth McAdam; d. 22 May 1900 in Toronto. (Toronto), 1882. Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique du Canada: Volume II, 1701 - 1740 by Francess G. Halpenny Hardcover $122.00 Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique du Canada: Volume XII, 1891 - 1900 (Dictionary of Canadian Biography) May 1, 1990, University of Toronto Press Hardcover in English For Dadson these issues were as much religious as social and political. Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up Reviewed by Alison Mews. He championed free trade as well as free thought; supported public rather than separate schools; followed the single-tax ideas of American economic reformer Henry George “as far as practicable”; opposed the existence of the Senate; and advocated Home Rule for Ireland. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 17, 2021, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dadson_ebenezer_william_12E.html. Biography – DADSON, EBENEZER WILLIAM – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. (Paris, Ont., 1893), and Centennial services, Haldimand Baptist Church, 1798–1898, on Sunday, May 22, 1898 . ; Learn about our editors and read the Letter from the General Editor Professor Sir David Cannadine. In 1895 McMaster University conferred on him its third honorary dd. 4-7, Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone.--v. (1-14 w/ cum index for vol. 12; External links "Biography of Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau". Biography – DUMONT, GABRIEL – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. © 1990–2021 University of Toronto/Université Laval. Under Dadson’s guidance the Canadian Baptist became an early exponent of the ideas of “practical Christianity” later incorporated into the Social Gospel. The publishers had looked at other similar projects, such as the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) and the Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) and concluded a different approach was required. This volume, the eleventh to be published since 1966, bridges the years between the first six volumes, covering the period between 1000 A.D. and 1835, and volumes VIII-XI, dealing with the years 1851-1890. His editorials called for justice in personal relations, political equality, and freedom of conscience, and they emphasized individual and collective responsibilities instead of rights. The Australian Dictionary of Biography is Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography.In it you will find concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history. Canadian men and women of the time (Morgan; 1898). B. McKillop, “BURNS, ALEXANDER,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. The dictionary was first proposed to the Council in 1920 by historian Frederick Jackson Turner. 1-12) [Cook, Ramsay, Halpenny, Francess G., Hamelin, Jean, Bélanger, Réal] on Amazon.com. The first volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography appeared in 1966 with 594 biographies covering the years 1000 to 1700. Polly Barber’s father was the son of an American physician from Canton, Conn., and her mother’s family included several Baptist clergymen. Toronto and Quebec: University of Toronto Press / Presses de l’Université Laval: Edouard-Charles Fabre (vol. Pages are unmarked. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. The first years of Dadson’s editorship were made difficult by conflicting plans for the site of a Baptist university, but Dadson won the respect of the opposing factions by his fair and open treatment of differing points of view. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, set 15 vol. Show More. 1305pp., cloth, $75.00. Outlines of two of his sermons were published in pamphlets commemorating church anniversaries: Paris Baptist Church: a memorial pamphlet, containing an account of the services held on the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church . 12 Nov. 2014. © 2003-2021 University of Toronto/Université Laval, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/burns_alexander_12E.html, Biography – BURNS, ALEXANDER – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography, From the Red River Settlement to Manitoba (1812–70), The Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864, Europe – United Kingdom – Northern Ireland, North America – Canada – Ontario – Centre, North America – Canada – Ontario – Niagara, North America – Canada – Ontario – Southwest. Nevertheless, despite discouragement by friends, he was determined on a pastoral career, and by unrelenting practice he increased his pulpit facility until in his mature years he was regarded as the most effective Baptist preacher in Canada. Dadson produced two pamphlets: Bible baptism (only the third edition, Toronto, 1899, is known), and a tribute to his wife, Julia French Dadson; written by her husband for the boys ([Montreal, 1898]). He advocated, by legislative means when necessary, the relief of poverty, the right to work and to unionize, legal protection for children, women, and Indians, honesty in business, purity in politics, fair wages and profit-sharing, prohibition of the liquor traffic, and the banning of vivisection and blood sports. "Biography – BOURGEOYS, MARGUERITE, Dite Du Saint-Sacrement – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography." Burns entered the Methodist ministry the next year and was placed on probation at Stratford and Drayton. Commemorative biog. There is also a recentprint edition. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VII, 1836-1850, Francess G. Halpenny, General Editor, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988, xxix,1088 pp. Welcome to the online version of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC)! The first edition was published in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936, appearing at a rate of two or three volumes per year. [6] But when Volume XIII appeared in 1994, with Ramsay Cook as new general editor, the intervening years were described as “hav[ing] been among the most difficult in the history of this Canadian institution.”[16] Severe financial restraints were described and a more “modest” plan was announced, with each volume covering a decade instead of th… . He was Calvinist and conservative in his theology, and his writing was, like his preaching, simple, forceful, and aggressively evangelistic rather than literary. Web. Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique du Canada: Volume XII, 1891 - 1900 Edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin From: $105.00 In order to reduce the financial difficulties of the Canadian Baptist, which were probably caused by its limited circulation, in 1886 Dadson combined a pastorate at Claremont (Pickering) with his editorial duties. 19 May 1828 in Scotland, second son of Lord Patrick Robertson, judge and wit, and Mary Cameron Ross; m. in 1851 Amelia Ann Maynard, and they had at least one son; d. 23 July 1883 at Boulogne, France. Download PDF: Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following location(s): https://jps.library.utoronto.c... (external link) Review by Alexander Gregor. After a brief stay in Strathroy, he accepted in 1882 the post of editor of the Canadian Baptist, which had just been purchased by the prominent Baptist layman Senator William McMaster*. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB; French: Dictionnaire biographique du Canada) is a dictionary of biographical entries for individuals who have contributed to the history of Canada. Published simultaneously in French, this reference work is recognized as Canada's definitive source on biography. DUMONT, GABRIEL, Métis hunter, merchant, ferryman, and political and military leader; b. December 1837 in the Red River settlement (Man. On 15 June 1863 he married Sarah Andrews, daughter of Cobourg miller Thomas Andrews; he was ordained in 1864. Ramsay Cook and Jean Hamelin, general editors, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XIV, 1911-1920.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, 1247 pp. Below we link to free onlinevolumes of the first and second editio… 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 17, 2021, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/burns_alexander_12E.html. 8-20, Dumas Malone.--v. His only formal education had been at the Toronto Model School from 1853 to 1857, but at the age of 20 he enrolled in the Canadian Literary Institute and was converted and baptized there in 1868. Globe, 23 May 1900. The family initially resided at Quebec but in 1850 they settled in Toronto where they remained. John S. Moir, “DADSON, EBENEZER WILLIAM,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. BURNS, ALEXANDER, Methodist minister and educator; b. 10 July 1845 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, youngest of five sons of Stephen Dadson and Mary Breachin; m. The Dadson family immigrated to Upper Canada in 1849 and settled at Toronto. Found in Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Confederation. He served on several Baptist boards, including those of the Grande-Ligne mission [see Henriette Odin*] and foreign missions, and was president of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec in 1892. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. ISBN 0-8020-3460-8. Two years later, for reasons unknown, he resigned both posts and became pastor at Woodstock; he was succeeded at the Canadian Baptist by James Edward Wells. [The primary sources of information on Ebenezer William Dadson are the files of the Canadian Baptist (Toronto) for the years 1882–88, and E. W. Dadson, B.A., D.D. 1-12) 10: Publisher: University of Toronto/Université Laval: Year of publication: 1972: Year of revision: 1972: Access Date: January 12, 2021: We acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage. J. S. Moir, “The Canadian Baptist and the Social Gospel movement,” Baptists in Canada: search for identity amidst diversity, ed. In 1861 he rejoined his family in Guelph, where he worked in his father’s store. 12 Aug. 1834 in Castlewellan (Northern Ireland), son of James Burns, carpenter, and Elizabeth McAdam; d. 22 May 1900 in Toronto. During his early years in the pastorate he was active in amateur athletics and attracted attention as a public speaker and writer on popular, classical, and religious topics. Clappison, whose ministry had begun in 1844, charged Burns with deviating from Methodist doctrinal standards on three major points, “the Equal Inspiration of the Canonical Scriptures,” “the Substitution Theory of the Atonement,” and “the Doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment and the possibility of a Post-mortem Probation.” After much debate over two days, the conference concluded that “having heard Dr. Burns’ explanations we accept them as being substantially in agreement with our standards on the Inspiration of the Scriptures.”, Burns continued, however, to be outspoken on matters religious and political. Sir John A. Macdonald. Biography – BOUCHER, PIERRE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography BOUCHER, PIERRE, interpreter, soldier, governor of Trois-Rivières, royal judge, founder and seigneur of Boucherville; son of Gaspard Boucher and Nicole Lemer (Lemaire); baptized 1 Aug. 1622 at Mortagne, in Perche (France); d. 19 April 1717 at Boucherville. By 1880 Burns was a man not only of academic and clerical substance but also of decidedly liberal views on a wide range of subjects. Gradually expanding to include individuals who died since 1930. 1247 pp., cloth, $100.00. Volume 18 Number 5 1990 September Soon he was also elected a senator of the University of Toronto and a member of the board of trustees and the senate at Victoria. A strong believer in higher education for women, he led an unsuccessful movement to establish a university for women in Hamilton. (Colborne, Ont., [ 1898?]). He had received an honorary dd from Indiana University in 1869 and added an honorary lld from Victoria College in the year of his return to Ontario. DADSON, EBENEZER WILLIAM, Baptist minister and editor; b. He learned wood-turning in order to finance his further education, and in 1855 he was able to enrol in the Methodist-run Victoria College in Cobourg. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. Canada-Biography-Indexes. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, set 15 vol. . Volume XII of the DCB said that the first three volumes of the 20th century were in preparation: Volume XIII (1901–1910); Volume XIV (1911–1918); Volume XV (1919–1925). Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8020-3476-4. (1-14 w/ cum index for vol. He insisted that the law of supply and demand was “unchristian” and that both public and private relations be governed by the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. N.p., n.d. Ebenezer remained in Toronto, working as an errand-boy, as a helper to Fyfe, the publisher and editor of the Canadian Baptist, and as an assistant in a printer’s shop. Burns had by 1865 gained a reputation as a rising Methodist academician. BURNS, ALEXANDER, Methodist minister and educator; b. Editors: v. 1-3, Allen Johnson.--v. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography provides authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada's past, including both detailed arcticles on Canada's major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages who have hitherto found no place in reference works or general histories. Evening News (Toronto), 23 May 1900. biographi.ca. The Dictionary of American Biography was published in New York City by Charles Scribner's Sons under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). 10 July 1845 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, youngest of five sons of Stephen Dadson and Mary Breachin; m. August 1877 Julia Elizabeth French of Paris, Ont., and they had five sons; d. 12 March 1900 in Montreal. Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Volume 1) 1000 to 1700 Laurentian Edition by Brown, George W. (Editor) Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. © 2003-2021 University of Toronto/Université Laval, 10 July 1845 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, youngest of five sons of Stephen Dadson and Mary Breachin; m. August 1877 Julia Elizabeth French of Paris, Ont., and they had five sons; d. 12 March 1900 in, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dadson_ebenezer_william_12E.html, Biography – DADSON, EBENEZER WILLIAM – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography, From the Red River Settlement to Manitoba (1812–70), The Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864, Communications – Newspapers and magazines – Journalists, North America – Canada – Ontario – Centre, North America – Canada – Ontario – Southwest, North America – Canada – Quebec – Montréal/Outaouais. That year he was offered the vice-presidency of Mount Allison Wesleyan College in New Brunswick, but refused it in order to accept a position as vice-president and professor of mathematics and astronomy at Iowa Wesleyan College. ROBERTSON-ROSS, PATRICK, soldier and adjutant-general of the militia; b. Dictionary of Canadian biography. Methodist Church of Canada, London Conference, Journal of proc. Dent, Canadian portrait gallery. In 1868 he assumed the presidency of Simpson College in Iowa, a position he held until 1878. Stephen Dadson had been raised an Anglican but became successively a Methodist class leader, a Congregationalist, and a Baptist. Some earlier editions of this work are freely available online, andremain of historic interest. Historical, biographical dictionary with scholarly articles on thousands of men and women who died on or before 1930. Edited by Ramsey Cook and Jean Hamelin. Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, Baptist year book (Toronto), 1879–98. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less He proved to be an excellent and industrious student, winning the Prince of Wales gold medal and serving as valedictorian for his graduation class in 1861. On completing his secondary schooling, “Ebb,” as he was nicknamed, returned to Toronto, where the family had settled again in 1867, and entered the University of Toronto. Living in Quebec increased his interest in French Canadian history and culture and made him a strong advocate of evangelization of French Canadians. 3: Publisher: University of Toronto/Université Laval: Year of publication: 1974: Year of revision: 1974: Access Date: January 12, 2021: We acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage. Dadson’s death at 54 resulted from cancer that developed after a back injury sustained three years earlier in a fall from a church roof under construction near his summer home in the Muskoka district. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–". Biography – BURNS, ALEXANDER – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. In 1857 the family returned to England, but one year later they came back to Toronto; shortly thereafter Stephen opened a hat-making business in Guelph. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. At the church’s London conference in 1882 he was accused of heterodoxy by the Reverend David C. Clappison of the Brussels circuit. 25 Sept. 1803 in Saint-Armand, Lower Canada, daughter of Asahel Barber and Polly Armes; d. 23 Feb. 1898 in Scottsmore, Que. Possibly because of his failure to garner sufficient support for this cause, he ended his association with Wesleyan Ladies’ College in 1897 and retired to Toronto. Although no longer holding a regular charge, he continued to preach in various churches and was active in support of the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium in Gravenhurst, a centre for the treatment of victims of tuberculosis. Responsible Government. A. BARBER, POLLY (named Mary at birth) (Scovill), teacher, farmer, and businesswoman; b. Over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history – perform advanced search; Life of the day now available by email or RSS feed. 12, 1990, p. 300-305). CIP. . The Dictionary of National Biography (or DNB)is a biographical reference for deceased persons notable in Britishhistory.The current editionofthis work has been published online by Oxford University Press since2004. files. 1831), a notary, being a member of the first legislative assembly for Lower Canada, established in 1791. Hugh Allan (vol.… Whether because of his early education under Samuel Sobieski Nelles* at Victoria College, his experience in the United States at a time of social ferment, or his wide reading, he had become an advocate, as journalist and historian John Charles Dent* put it in 1880, of “the supremacy of reason in matters theological, as well as in the ordinary affairs of life,” and believed “that whatever is repugnant to reason should be eliminated from modern theology.” Dent concluded, “He is a foe to infidelity, but believes in combating infidelity by arguments drawn from human knowledge and experience, rather than by the suppression of free and honest inquiry.”, Given Burns’s reputation, it is understandable that some members of the Methodist Church of Canada viewed his commitment to critical inquiry as a threat to evangelical orthodoxy. He firmly believed that neither churches nor governments should support privilege. The impressive tradition set by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography continues with the fourteenth volume in the series, covering the years from 1911 until 1920. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1990. DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME XII: 1891-1900. Dadson returned to the Canadian Literary Institute in 1873 to study theology, and after student service at Buckhorn, Clarence, and Haldimand he became pastor of the Baptist church at Denfield in southwestern Ontario in 1876. MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (1822–1892), first liberal premier of the Canadian Dominion, born on 28 Jan. 1822 at Logierait, near Dunkeld in Perthshire, was third son of Alexander Mackenzie (d. 1836), a builder and contractor, by a daughter of Donald Fleming. 21, Marris E. Starr,--v. 22, Robert Livingston Schuyler Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada: Volume XV, 1921-1930 Hardcover – Nov. 19 2005 by Ramsay Cook (Editor), Réal Bélanger (Editor) 5.0 out of 5 … Burns died at his home in Toronto on 22 May 1900 of what was described as “inflammatory rheumatism.”. Alexander Burns attended school in Ireland until 1847, when his parents emigrated to British North America. Edited by Francess Halpenny. H. U. Trinier, A century of service: story of the “Canadian Baptist”, 1854–1954 ([Toronto, 1958]). ISBN 0-8020-3452-7.. UCC-C, Biog. The DCB, which was initiated in 1959, is a collaboration between the University of Toronto and Laval University. During these years in the United States, Burns was much in demand as a public speaker on college and church occasions; in 1876 he was also a delegate from the Iowa conference to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Md. 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