Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius was born in Hämeenlinna. After early training in Helsinki and later in Berlin, Sibelius made his career in Finland, where he was awarded a state pension. He wrote seven ...

The youngest child and only surviving son of freemason, Leopold Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus was born in Salzburg in 1756, He showed early precocity both as a keyboard-player and ...

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 ...

Born in Dublin, Swift took religious orders in 1694 and was appointed Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. Author of such social satires as Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest ...

General, Sir Arthur Wm. Currie, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., etc., commanded the First Canadian Corps in France in the War of 1914-18 from June 1917 to the signing of the Armistice. In August 1919 he was ...

Born in Rexton, New Brunswick, Bill Bowser graduated from Dalhousie University, being called to the bar in 1890. Moving to Vancouver in 1891, he quickly became involved in local politics, running for ...

Born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., and developed basketball’s original 13 rules Author of ...

William John Chetwode Crawley, for many years Head Master of the Queen’s Service Acadamy, Dublin, was, after a lengthy university career, elected a life member of the senate of Trinity College, Dublin ...

Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller’s major poetic and dramatic works — Die Räuber (1782), Don Carlos (1787), Wallenstein Stuart (1800) and Wilhelm Tell (1804) — all express a yearning for ...

Born in Kiel, Holstein Germany, brewer and hotelier, Otto Klotz, immigrated to Preston, Ontario in 1837. Within a year, he was elected to the Board of School Trustees where he served as ...

Born in Harvey, New Brunswick, Harlan Brewster became a sailer and later a printer before moving to British Columbia. First elected to the Legislature in February 1907, he served as leader of the ...