In making a selection of names for the Biographical Dictionary, the Publishers have aimed to give a view of the representatives of the various interests of this Province: the Statesmen, the Preachers, the Lawyers, the Merchants, the Manufacturers, the Engineers, Educational and Medical Men, and indeed all who take part in the intellectual, social, and material progress of the people. If all are not represented, it is because our efforts have failed to reach them, or because the parties themselves were not familiar with the importance of the work, and have failed to furnish the necessary information. There are some who, from vain pride, have refused information; they feared that their names might be associated with names which did not come up to their standard ; others again, who are worthy citizens, have from a false modesty refused to give particulars, as they said their lives were not of sufficient importance, thereby accepting the position of being supernumeraries in society, who have no share in the common interest-forgetting that in a few years their names, without a record, will be lost in oblivion, and their posterity deprived of the gratification and advantage of reference to an honorable ancestry.
The Biographical Dictionary will present a galaxy of men whose career will do honor to any country, exhibiting a variety of enterprise and the best illustration of social life ever published. The portraits have the accuracy of photographic art transferred to steel by the ablest engravers of England and America.
The Canadian Biographical Dictionary contains 527 biographies of men who were deemed by the publishers to be representative of all who took part in the social, intellectual, and material progress of the Country of Canada. Our presentation currently consists of volume 1 only, which was specifically devoted to the County of Ontario.
The Canadian Biographical Dictionary
- Abbott, Alexander Samuel
- Aikins, Hon. James C.
- Allan, Absalom S.
- Allan, Lieut.Col. William
- Allen, Thomas W., Rev.
- Allison, William H.R.
- Ardagh, William D.
- Armour, Robert
- Austin, James A.
- Badgerow, George W. M.P.P
- Baird, Andrew H.
- Baird, Robert
- Baker, Adam J. M.P.P.
- Baker, Godfrey P.
- Ball, George P.M.
- Bangs, Chauncey Ward
- Bannerman, William M.P.
- Barclay, Francis
- Barclay, John
- Bates, Ezra A.
- Baxter, Alexander B.
- Baxter, Jacob, M. D., M. P. P.
- Beaty, James Jr.,Q.C., D.C.L.
- Beaty, Robert
- Bell James, T.
- Bell, David
- Bell, John Q.C.
- Bell, Rev. George, LL.D.
- Bell, Robert
- Benson, Thomas
- Bergin, Darby, Col., M. D., M. P.
- Bethune, Alexander N., Right Rev., D. D., D. C. L.
- Bethune, Charles J. S., Rev., M. A.
- Bethune, James LL.D.
- Birrell, John
- Blain, David, LL. D.
- Blain, Richard
- Blake, Edward Hon. Q.C.
- Bleasdell, Rev. William M.A.,D.C.L.
- Bog, Thomas J.P., Lieut.-Col.
- Bogert, Rev. James T. M.A.
- Bolton, Lambert R.
- Bonfield, James M.P.P.
- Boomer, Rev. Micail LL.D.
- Boultbee, Alfred M.P.
- Bowell, Mackenzie, Hon. Lieut-Col.
- Bowlby, Adam
- Bowlby, David S. M.D.
- Breithaupt, Louis
- Bristol, Amos Samuel, Surgeon-Major, M. D.
- Britton, Byron M. M.A. Q.C.
- Bronson, Henry Franklin
- Brouse, Hon. William H., M. S., M. D.
- Brown, Homer P.
- Brown, Hon. George
- Brown, James
- Brown, Nicholas W. M.P.P.
- Brown, Thomas
- Brown, William P.
- Buck, William
- Bucke, Richard Maurice M.D.
- Bucking, William
- Burden, Samuel
- Burnfield, Rev. George, M.A.
- Burnham, George M.D.
- Burnham, John MX.
- Burnham, Mark Rev.
- Burnham, Zacheus
- Burritt, Horatio C., M. D.
- Burton, Hon. George W.
- Burwash, Prof. Nathaniel, A.M., S.T.D.
- Butterfield, John