Charles Fox Bennett

Charles James Fox Bennett was a merchant and politician who successfully fought attempts to take Newfoundland into Canadian confederation. Bennett was a successful businessman and one of the colony's richest residents with interests in the fisheries, distillery and brewery industry and shipbuilding. His brother Thomas Bennett, a magistrate and member of Newfoundland's first House of Assembly, was a partner in the business.

Alexander Stirling MacMillan

Alexander S. MacMillan was a Nova Scotia politician and businessman, the 13th premier of Nova Scotia, from 1940 to 1945

James Alexander Murray

James Alexander Murray was a Conservative politician and the 16th premier of New Brunswick. Murray was first elected to the legislature in 1908 and served as Minister of Agriculture before becoming Premier in 1917 only to have his government defeated in

Conservative parties in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation)

The Conservative Party of Newfoundland was a political party in the Dominion of Newfoundland prior to confederation with Canada in 1949

Robert Thorburn

Sir Robert Thorburn was a British-born Newfoundland merchant and politician who served as the colony's Premier from 1885 to 1889

Newfoundland People's Party

The Newfoundland People's Party was a political party in the Dominion of Newfoundland before it joined Canada

James William Johnston

James W. Johnston was a Nova Scotia lawyer and politician. He served as Premier of the colony from 1857 to 1860 and again from 1864. He was also Government Leader prior to the granting of responsible government in 1848. He was a Conservative and supporter

John Treworgie

John Treworgie was the last Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland. Treworgie had worked as an agent at a Kittery, Maine trading post from 1635 to 1650. In 1651 he was named as one of a party of six sent to Newfoundland to arrest Sir David Kirke who had

Michael Patrick Cashin

Sir Michael Patrick Cashin, was a Newfoundland businessman and politician

William F. Lloyd

Sir William Frederick Lloyd was a newspaper editor and Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1918 to 1919

Andrei Simonov

Andrei Dmitrievich Simonov was a Russian Armed Forces major general serving as Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the 2nd Army of the Western Military District