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Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1847-1935

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  • Person
  • 1847-1935

James Laughlin Hughes was born on February 20, 1846, in Orono, Ontario.

He was a teacher, school inspector, and author. In 1866, he graduated from the Normal School of Toronto and became headmaster of the Frankford (County Hastings) school. In 1867, he became a teacher and later principal in the Provincial Model School, Toronto. He specialized in the study of the psychology of children. In 1874, he was appointed Chief Inspector of schools for the city of Toronto, a position he held until his retirement in 1913. He earned an international reputation in the field of primary education. The development of the public school system in Toronto over nearly four decades was in a great measure his work, as his advice was always sought and almost invariably accepted when innovations or expansions were under discussion. He was the author of several works, including "Dickens as an Educator" (1902), "Mistakes in Teaching” (1906), and "Froebel's Educational Laws" (1910).

About 1875 he married Annie Sutherland (1849-1884), in 1885, he married Adaline Augusta Marean (1848–1929), and in 1930, he married Estella Rounding (ca. 1894- ). He died on January 5, 1935, in Toronto, Ontario.

Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983

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  • Person
  • 1897-1983

Everett Hughes was born in Ohio and received his B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1918. He earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1928. He came to McGill as Assistant Professor of Sociology in 1927 and remained until 1938 when he received an appointment at the University of Chicago. Hughes' special field of research was racial, cultural and religious group organization and conflict. In 1931-1932 he took a leave of absence from McGill to study Protestant-Catholic relations in southern Germany. Much of his published work concerns the French and English in Québec, and in 1965 he returned to McGill for a year as Visiting Professor in the French Canada Studies Programme.

Hughes & Stephenson (Firm)

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Hughes & Stevenson, a Montreal plumbing, steaming, and gas fitting company active in the 1880s and 1890s.

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