William Miller was an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century North American religious movement now known as Adventism. Preaching the impending return of ...

Born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., and developed basketball’s original 13 rules Author of ...

Although there is no definite masonic record for Ludwig van Beethoven, there are strong grounds for believing that he was a mason. "Many of his friends and fellow musicians were masons and there are ...

Born in Dublin, Swift took religious orders in 1694 and was appointed Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. Author of such social satires as Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest ...

Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius was born in Hämeenlinna. After early training in Helsinki and later in Berlin, Sibelius made his career in Finland, where he was awarded a state pension. He wrote seven ...

The second son of an Anglican clergyman, Edward Prior was born in Yorkshire, England. After leaving school he qualified as a mining engineer and left for North America, reaching Vancouver’s Island on ...

George Washington was Commanding General of the American Continental Army during their War of Independence (1776-1781). He was President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and from 1789 to 1796 ...

The youngest child and only surviving son of freemason, Leopold Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus was born in Salzburg in 1756, He showed early precocity both as a keyboard-player and ...

Born in Kiel, Holstein Germany, brewer and hotelier, Otto Klotz, immigrated to Preston, Ontario in 1837. Within a year, he was elected to the Board of School Trustees where he served as ...

Militant American abolitionist, John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional ...

General, Sir Arthur Wm. Currie, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., etc., commanded the First Canadian Corps in France in the War of 1914-18 from June 1917 to the signing of the Armistice. In August 1919 he was ...