John Hamilton (September 7, 1851 – 1939) was a Quebec merchant and from 1900 to 1926 the 7th Chancellor of Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
Bishop's University is a small liberal arts college in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in English. The university shares a campus with its neighbour, Champlain College Lennoxville, an English-language public college. It remains one of Canada's few primarily undergraduate universities, and is linked with three others in the Maple League. Established in 1843 as Bishop's College and affiliated with the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in 1853, the school remained under the Anglican church's direction from its founding until 1947. Since that time, the university has been a non-denominational institution. Bishop's University has graduated fifteen Rhodes Scholars. It is ranked number one in Canada for student satisfaction by Maclean's magazine.
Lennoxville is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometres south of downtown Sherbrooke.
Born at New Liverpool, Quebec, he was the son of Robert Hamilton, of Hamwood, Quebec, and Isabella daughter of John Thomson of Quebec. His father was a trustee of Bishop's University from 1871 to 1898 and the elder brother of John Hamilton and Charles Hamilton. John became a merchant and entered the family's timber business, started in Canada by his grandfather, George Hamilton. At some point, Hamilton gained the degrees of Master of Arts (MA) and of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL).
John Hamilton was one of the founding members of the Senate of Canada.
Charles Hamilton (1834–1919) was a Canadian Anglican bishop who was the first Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario and Metropolitan of Canada.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with over 80 percent of its inhabitants concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. Canada's climate varies widely across its vast area, ranging from arctic weather in the north, to hot summers in the southern regions, with four distinct seasons.
In 1900, he was elected the 7th Chancellor of Bishop's University. Following World War I, he was persuaded to withdraw his resignation from the post several times, but finally retired in 1925. He had been active in the affairs of the university for over forty years and was a generous contributor to the financial campaigns of 1913 and 1924. The John Hamilton Building at Bishop's was named for him in 1963, and the interest from his estates were still accruing to the university in 1979. [1] He was President of the Champlain Society and a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide.
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC) is a private yacht club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1852, it is one of the world’s older and larger yacht clubs. Its summer home is on a trio of islands in the Toronto Islands. In 2014, the club had approximately 4700 members, about 450 yachts and a number of dinghies, principally International 14s. Its winter home since 1980 has been a purpose-built clubhouse located at 141 St. George Street in Toronto, which includes facilities for sports and social activities.
The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (LHSQ) was the first scholarly or learned society in Canada. It was founded in 1824 by George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, governor of British North America. Its headquarters are still located in Quebec City.
In 1877, he married Ida Mary Buchanan, daughter of Alexander Carlisle Buchanan (1808-1868), Immigration Commissioner at Quebec, and Charlotte Louise Caldwell Bowen, daughter of Chief Justice Edward Bowen, the 2nd Chancellor of Bishop's University. They lived at 'Hamwood' Quebec and kept a summer house, 'Moss Craig' at Cacouna. They were the parents of four daughters, including Mrs Arthur Carington Smith.
Edward Bowen was an Irish-born lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was the first Chief Justice of the Superior Court for provincial Quebec, and the second Chancellor of Bishop's University, in Sherbrooke.
Cacouna is a municipality in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. It is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River along Route 132.
