Allen, Charles Grant Blarfindie
(male)
02/24/1848 - 10/25/1899
Canadian
Merton College, Oxford
Science writer and novelist; supporter of evolution; wrote Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886) and other scientific works; wrote The Woman Who Did (1895) and other novels
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bliss, Henry
(male)
1797 - 07/31/1873
Canadian
King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia
Author, lawyer, and provincial agent; went to England in 1824; admitted to English Bar and served as Queen's Counsel; wrote pamphlets on colonial questions; wrote verse plays
State trials (1838);
Cicero; a drama (1846);
Philip the second; a tragedy (1849) and others under the pseudonym Nicholas Thirning Moile. See
Boase I: 313,
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bliss_henry_10E.html
Bockus, Charles Edwin
(male)
09/02/1834 - 01/11/1901
Canadian
Magill University
At least two "C. E. Bockus's" exist that might have written for Once a Week. Levana Taylor suggests that the most probable is Charles Edwin Bockus, a Canadian who emigrated to the US, was a Boston businessman, and wrote for the Boston Herald.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette
(female)
12/22/1861 - 07/22/1922
Canadian
Novelist and journalist; wrote articles for Canadian and US newspapers; wrote A Social Departure: how Orthodocia and I Went Around the World by Ourselves (1890), A Daughter of Today (1894), An American Girl in London (1891), and other works. See ODNB.
MacDonald Moreton, A. H.
(male)
1804 - 1855
Canadian
Nova Scotia barrister.
McDougall, Alexander
(male)
1804 - 1855
Canadian
Nova Scotia barrister.
Munro, Georgina C.
(female)
1825 - 1854
Canadian
Author of De Montfort: or, the Old English Nobleman( 1842); Charles Harcourt: or, the Adventures of a Legatee (1843); The Voyage of Life: A Tale of the Land and Ocean (1844); The White Rose of the Huron (1852). See Valerie Letcher, "Two Writing Lives" English in Africa 37.2 (October 2010): 111.
Munro, Isabella
(female)
1827 - 1875
Canadian
Sister of Georgina C. Munro; wrote about colonial life in Canada; See Valerie Letcher, "Two Writing Lives" English in Africa 37.2 (October 2010): 111.
Murray, George
(male)
03/23/1830 - 03/13/1910
Canadian
King's College, London
Educator, poet, and journalist; awarded Lusby scholarship at Oxford; went to Canada in 1859 and was senior classical master at Montreal High School; contributed to Canadian press and published Verses and Versions (1891); edited "Notes and Queries: for the Montreal Star.
Parker, Sir Horatio Gilbert George
(male)
1860 - 09/06/1932
Canadian
University of Toronto
Novelist and politician; Correct date of birth: born 1860, not 1862. Wellesley, following the DNB, gave 1862 as Sir Gilbert’s year of birth; however, John Coldwell Adams, Seated with the Mighty. A biography of Sir Gilbert Parker (Ottawa, Canada: Borealis Press, 1979), based on careful research and archival sources, corrects this to 1860, as do Elizabeth Waterston, Gilbert Parker (1860-1932) (Toronto: ECW Press, n.d. but after 1986) and the ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Richardson, John
(male)
1797 - 1852
Canadian
Author; served in Canadian militia and fought in Carlist War; wrote Journal of the Movements of the British Legion (1836); Times correspondent in Canada; published Canadian periodicals. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Tremlett, Rev. Francis William
(male)
1821 - 1913
Canadian
Founder and first vicar of St. Peter’s Church in Belsize Park, London; born in Newfoundland / Labrador, Canada of English parents and emigrated to Massachusetts, before settling permanently in London.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Wilby, George Robbins
(male)
? - 1868
Canadian
Graduated from Acadia college (a Baptist school in Nova Scotia) in 1844; went to India about 2 years later; became assistant editor of the Friends of India newspaper.
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