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Wilcocke, Samuel Hull, approximately 1766-1833

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  • approximately 1766-1833

Samuel Hull Wilcocke was born around 1766 in Reigate, England, and died in 1833 in Quebec. He was the son of Reverend Samuel Wilcocke. He married in England sometime before 1817, but his wife’s name is unknown. Wilcocke resided in the Netherlands for a significant part of his childhood and was said to have studied in continental Europe before returning to England with his family in 1794. He wrote articles for British literary journals and translated texts written in German, Dutch, and French. Several of his publications focused on the East Indies and Buenos Aires. In 1800, Wilcocke moved to Liverpool, England, where he remained for seventeen years and participated in the literary and theatrical life of his local municipal. In 1817, Wilcocke moved to Canada with some of his children and their families, and worked as a publicist for the North West Company during its dispute with the Hudson’s Bay Company over the attempts of Lord Selkirk (1771-1820, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk) to establish a colony on the Red River. He published a book titled A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries of North America in 1817, and in 1818 and 1819, wrote reviews of three accounts of trials held during those years. In 1820, Wilcocke was suspected of possessing secret documents from the North West Company and fled to Burlington, Vermont, where he was arrested a few days later. He was imprisoned in Montreal for more than one year before going to trial and was acquitted of forgery and grand larceny, and was reimprisoned on charges of debt. He was released after pressure from the United States (where he was illegally seized) accomplished his release. In 1821, Wilcocke founded the newspaper called The Scribbler, in which he wrote about his critical stance against the North West Company and Montrealers of British origin. To avoid political discourse in The Scribbler, he founded the Free Press newspaper in 1822 to oppose the bill to unite Lower and Upper Canada. In 1823, Wilcocke moved to Rouses Point, New York, and founded the Harbinger newspaper. In 1827, he published The Colonial Magazine and returned to Montreal in 1828, where he wrote reports on the debates of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. From his notes, Wilcocke published his book titled The History of the Session of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada for 1828-29.

Wijeratne, Dinuk

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  • Person
  • 1978-

Wiglesworth, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1908-1986

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  • 1908-1986

F. W. Wiglesworth graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1931. He trained at Winnipeg General Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital and McGill University. After, he served for many years as pathologist at Montreal Children’s Hospital, and finally, in 1965, he was appointed as Professor of Pathology, McGill University. He was
President of The International Academy of Pathology from 1960 to 1961. He was President of several other associations and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Founder Fellow (F.R.C.Path) of the Royal College of Pathologists UK. He published papers on many types of congenital heart diseases and other pediatric diseases. In 1980 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Wiggs, H. Ross (Henry Ross), 1895-1986

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  • 1895-1986

H. Ross Wiggs, architect and painter, was born in Quebec City in 1895. He studied Architecture at McGill University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Montreal, he practiced architecture from 1933 to 1967, primarily on his own and with partners Lawton and Walker from 1955 to 1967. He studied drawing and painting with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. Wiggs served in the First World War and his war drawings are in the collection of the War Museum in Ottawa. Drawings of houses designed by the architect painter and executed once the houses were completed are in the family collection of his work. Wiggs was also Chairman of the Historical and Fine Buildings Committee from 1953 to 1954. He died in 1986 in Hamilton, Ontario.

Wiggin, A. B. (Albert Bowman), 1820-1911

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  • 1820-1911

Albert Bowman Wiggin was born on January 10, 1820, in Vassalborough, Maine.

He was a schoolteacher. He studied at Colby College, Waterville, Maine (M.A., 1843). He spent forty years teaching at various schools in Maine (North Yarmouth Academy, high schools in Augusta and Bath) and served as principal of the high school in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Wiggin was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a historian of the Wiggin Family Association.

In 1843, he married Abigail Almeda Clark (1820–1857), in 1859, he remarried Lucy Christina Sedgwick (1830–1875), and in 1877, Emily M. Emma Goodale (1828–1906). He died on July 11, 1911, in Pepperell, Massachusetts.

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