In 1882 Samuel Mathers was admitted to the Rosicrucian Society of England (SRIA) where he met Dr. Woodman and Dr. Westcott who commissioned his English translation of Knorr Von Rosenroth’s Latin ...

Born in Newry, Ireland, at the age of ten he moved to Quebec City with his parents. He was called to the bar in Canada East in 1858 and three years later in Upper Canada. Moving to the Cariboo in 1862 ...

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 ...

In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after ...

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 ...

Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention. In Un ...

Lawyer and Dean of Law at McGill University, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was elected as Conservative MP in 1857 and appointed to the Senate in 1887. On June 13, 1891 he was chosen as caretaker Prime ...

Born Erich Weiss, Harry Houdini was a world famous escape artist and trapeze performer, as well as the inventor of the diving suit, and the first successful aviator in Australia. Houdini was not alone ...

Born in Culloden, P.E.I., John MacLean gave up farming to travel west in 1892. He became a school principal in Rossland and later a medical doctor. With little political experiance, he was elected to ...

Remembered today for Butchart Gardens—now a famous tourist attraction near Victoria, British Columbia—created by his wife, Jeannie, in the abandoned quarries surrounding their home. BUTCHART, Robert ...

Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin, Ireland, graduating from Trinity College with honours in mathematics. In 1872, Stoker published his first melodrama, The Crystal Cup, a dream fantasy. While ...

William Penn Adair Rogers was educated early in his life mostly at Indian territory schools. He began his show career in 1902, when he was "The Cherokee Kid" with Texas Jack’s Wild West Show in South ...