Hugh McColl was born 4 August 1844 in Murray Township, Canada West. His parents were John S. McColl (1818-1902) and Phoebe McPhail (1822-1891). He married Iona Scott (1845-1902), daughter of Warren Scott and Samantha Comstock, 11 February 1866. They had seven children. Hugh died in Codrington, Ontario in 1927. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ontario, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in England dangling a peerage over his head, now he must get to Montreal as fast as he can to do the same thing there. Enter “The Stagecoach King,” William Weller, who is famous for operating the Royal Mail Line of stages between Toronto and Montreal. Weller utilizes a complex system of stage stops staffed with experienced workers and is confident he can take the governor general to Montreal in under thirty-eight hours. Driving a very unique sleigh, specially modified for this trip, Weller pilots the governor general and his aid-de-camp Captain Thomas Le Marchant over 370 miles of snowy and muddy roads, avoiding dangerous obstacles and constantly moving forward. In a meticulously researched account of this epic trek, author Dan Buchanan brings the reader along on a breathlessly exciting journey that intricately explores Canadian history through the people, places, and buildings that existed along those treacherous roads in 1840.
Jack Williams is a bit of loner, carrying out petty scams until the day he comes across Phylamina. From that day on Jack has a burgeoning desire to go straight, but sometimes good plans go awry. In George Jackson's Jack the author mixes romance with crime as the fine-looking but tainted eponymous hero uses his talents to head up the shaky ladder towards becoming a model citizen. From a fatal accident, through a tense court-room drama and on into his newly chosen path, Jack must use all his guile and good looks to succeed.Jack offers plenty of twists and turns and fine characterisation in this well-written and strongly plotted story of love and crime.
