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

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, ...

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 ...

Canadian politician and brewmaster, Alexander Keith was mayor of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Conservative member of the provincial legislature, and the founder of the Alexander Keith's brewing ...

Earl Jellicoe GCB OM GCVO PC (the Right Honourable Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe), 1st Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (UK 1918), and Earl Jellicoe and Viscount Brocas of Southampton (UK 1925). Jellicoe led ...

An early pioneer in modern advertising, John Wanamaker was an American merchant and political figure, founding the first department store in Philadelphia in 1875, and serving as United States ...

With four friends, school teacher and federal government employee, Justus Henry Rathbone founded the Order of Pythias on 15 February 1864, based on "Damon and Pythias", a dramatic play by Irish poet ...