William Stewart Wallace

“ BOURINOT, Sir JOHN GEORGE (1837–1902) , writer on Canadian constitutional history, born at Sydney, Cape Breton, on 24 Oct. 1837, was eldest son in the family of five sons and two daughters of John Bourinot, a member of the Canadian senate, by his wife Mary Jane, daughter of Judge John Marshall, well known as a temperance advocate of Nova Scotia. The father, of Huguenot extraction, came to America from Jersey. After private education, Bourinot entered in 1854 Trinity College, Toronto, where he graduated B.A. with distinction in 1857. ”

“ He died at Ottawa on 13 Oct. 1902, and was buried in Beech wood cemetery, Ottawa.
Bourinot married three times: (1) in 1858 Delia, daughter of John Hawke; (2) in 1865 Emily Alden, daughter of Albert Pilsbury, the American consul in Halifax; and (3) in 1889 Isabelle, daughter of John Cameron of Toronto. He had one daughter and four sons. ”

“ Other works are : 'The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People' (1881) ; 'Local Government in Canada ' (1887) ; 'Federal Government in Canada' (1889) ; 'How Canada is Governed' (1895) ; and 'Builders of Nova Scotia' (1900) . ”