Peel 2498 : Davin, Nicholas Flood, Strathcona Horse: Speech by Nicholas Flood Davin at Lansdowne Park, March 7th, A.D. 1900 on the occasion of the first parade of the Strathcona Horse, when a flag from the town of Sudbury was presented by Her Excellency the Countess of Minto (1900)

Author Bio

4374: Incidents in the life of John L. Sullivan and other famous people of fifty years ago As related by William C. Burns (blind) . 1928?.: Burns, William C. (1857-1934.); 1857-1934. Born in London, Ontario; before 1886 on a freighter which sank 400 miles off Melbourne, Australia, and one of two men who survived on a raft for 72 hours; boxer in the U.S.A. and attended big fights as a sparring partner; member of John L. Sullivan's troupe for several tours; employed on construction of G.T.P. in 1910; homesteader and woodcutter for river steamers in the country around Lesser Slave Lake and along the Athabasca River; blindness forced retirement to Edmonton where he was a non-paying guest at the Selkirk Hotel, 1927; began writing to raise money.