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Henderson & Hooke

  • Corporate body
  • Active 1843

Henderson & Hooke was a commerce based on Cobourg, Ontario. They did business with Robertson Masson & Co.

Hemphill, Henry, 1830-1914

  • no2010023536
  • Person
  • 1830-1914

Henry Hemphill was born on February 11, 1830, in Wilmington, Delaware.

He was an American malacologist, a biologist who studies mollusks. A mason and bricklayer by profession, he worked as a bricklayer in San Diego in 1865, after making gold prospecting trips in the western states. He started to collect mollusks as early as 1861. He collected extensively along the coast of California, as well as during trips to Florida and British Columbia. He published catalogues of shells for sale from the 1870s to 1890. He retired to Oakland around 1909.

In 1852, he married Martha Elizabeth Prescott (1833–1860). He died on July 25, 1914, in Oakland, Alameda, California as a result of contact with arsenic.

Hemmingford Township, approximately 1867

Hemmingford is situated in Huntingdon County, about 64 km south of Montréal and 6 km north of the U.S. border. Formerly known as Scrivers Corners, after an early settler, it took its present name from a village in Huntingdonshire, England.

Hemming, Henry, 1819-1903

  • Person
  • 1819-1903

Henry Hemming was born on November 30, 1819, in London, England.

He arrived in Canada in 1852. He was a civil servant, accountant, and bookkeeper at Canada's Secretary Office of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1848, he married Clarissa Hemming (1820–1894). He died on January 17, 1903, in Toronto, Ontario.

Hemlow, Joyce

  • n84175712
  • Person
  • 1906-2001

A native of Nova Scotia, Joyce Hemlow was educated at Queen's University (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1942) and at Radcliffe College (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948). She has taught English literature at McGill since 1945, and in 1965 became Greenshields Professor of English. Though she has taught the whole range of English Renaissance and 18th century literature, Hemlow's main research interest is the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney. In 1958 she published a biography, The History of Fanny Burney and in 1971, A Catalogue of the Burney Family Correspondence. Since 1962, Hemlow has headed a large research project to edit the Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), 1791-1840 (Oxford, 1972-). For the Burney Project, see Record Group 82.

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