British naval officer, won fame as a leading naval commander before his death at the Battle of Trafalgar made him one of Britain’s greatest national heroes. His title in full was Vice Admiral of the ...

Born and educated in Massachusetts, Thomas Smith Webb was either a bookbinder or printer whose trade first took him to New Hampshire and then to Albany, New York. He later relocated to Providence, ...

Robert Gordon McBeath was awarded the Victoria Cross for single handedly capturing an emplacement of five machine guns during the battle of the Somme, in Cambrai France, on November 20, 1917. He ...

Sam Spade to Brigid O'Shaughnessy : "You never played square with me for half an hour at a stretch since I've known you." [01:35:20] Earlier, Barton MacLane, as Det. Lt. Dundy tells Sam : "You know me ...

"Stephen Jones was born in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario in 1869. The family came to Victoria in 1872, where he went to the old Boys Central School. His father established the Dominion Hotel on Yates ...

English Christian mystic and writer on masonic and occult subjects, best remembered for the design of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck published in 1910, A.E. Waite wrote A New Encyclopaedia of ...

Australian-born William Bevan Harris was a prolific stage and screen actor, with a career that spanned the 1910s through 1950s. He appeared in Mack Sennett comedies during the silent era.

Born Adolph, he changed his name to Arthur during World War I but was known professionally as Harpo. The second oldest of the four Marx brothers comedy team, Harpo rarely if ever spoke while in ...

An early science fiction writer, Wells also wrote historical and scientific texts, and much fiction. Author of "The Rediscovery of the Unique", published in The Fortnightly Review (1891), Wells' early ...

Dr Andrew Henderson was born in Sorel, Québec, studying medicine at McGill University before travelling west. As surgeon for the Canadian Pacific Railway he later found himself in Minnesota where he ...

The son of an Anglican clergyman, Robert Beaven was born in England, moving to Upper Canada in 1842. Travelling to the Cariboo in search of gold, he later settled in Victoria, becoming a commission ...

Arriving in Vancouver in 1887, Robert Alexander served as Vancouver mayor for 1894. Anderson was elected alderman for 1892-93. A realtor, once elected mayor he continued layoffs of civic employees ...