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Rebecca Blake (1836-1901) was the wife of lawyer, judge, social reformer, and pamphleteer Samuel Hume Blake (1835-1914).

Born Rebecca Cronyn in 1836 she married her first cousin Samuel Hume Blake, with whom she had four children.

Samuel Verschoyle Blake (1868-1923) was a lawyer and the youngest son of Ontario premier and federal Liberal Party leader Edward Blake (1833-1912).

Samuel Verschoyle Blake was born in Toronto in 1868 to Edward and Margaret Blake. He became a lawyer and joined his father's law firm in Toronto. Blake travelled in Asia and for a time practiced law in England.

Samuel Blake wrote a book of poetry during World War I entitled "Her soldier dead and other verse."

Blake married Florence Cameron; they had no children.

Samuel Hume Blake (1835-1914) was a lawyer, judge, social reformer and pamphleteer. He sat on the Ontario Court of Chancery from 1872 to 1881.

Blake was born August 31, 1835 in Toronto. He was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, following his father and elder brother Edward (later Premier of Ontario) into law. He entered into partnership with Edward in 1858, and was called to the bar two years later.

Samuel Blake was appointed junior vice-chancellor of the Ontario Court of Chancery in 1872, and 1875 he was promoted to senior vice-chancellor. He resigned in 1881, his outspoken social and religious views having caused complaint. Blake was a life-long advocate of temperance, an evangelical Anglican, and involved in many social causes.

Returning to the family law firm, Blake spent the rest of his life balancing a highly successful career as a business lawyer with an active interest in education (Wycliffe College, Bishop Ridley College, Havergal Ladies' College), evangelical societies, temperance, and other social causes such as prisoners and the humane treatment of animals. In 1904 a multi-denominational committee under his chairmanship investigated church-run schools for native children. He was instrumental in the construction of the cathedral-like St. Paul's Church on Bloor Street in Toronto (completed 1913).

Samuel Blake is the author of approximately 50 pamphlets and articles.

Blake was twice married: 1859-1901 to Rebecca Cronyn, and from 1909-13 to his secretary, Elizabeth Baird. With Rebecca Cronyn he had one son, William Hume, and two daughters, Mabel and Katherine.

Sophia Blake (1837-1909) was the daughter of lawyer and politician William Hume Blake (1809-1870) and the sister of Ontario premier and federal Liberal Party leader Edward Blake (1833-1920).

Sophia Blake married her cousin Verschoyle Cronyn (1833-1920). They had five sons, Benjamin, Hume, Verschoyle, Edward, and William, and two daughters, Sophia and Katherine.

Verschoyle Benson Blake (1899-1971) worked as an historian with the government of Ontario and was a founding member of the Architectural Consevancy of Ontario.

William Hume Blake (1809-1870) was an Irish immigrant to Upper Canada who became Solicitor- General for Canada West and the Chancellor of Upper Canada in the early and mid-nineteenth century.

Blake was born in Ireland in 1809 and was educated at Trinity College. Shortly before his emigration to Canada, he married his cousin Catherine Hume. On their arrival in Canada they settled first at Bear Creek, Adelaide Township, but moved to Toronto in the fall of 1834. They had four children: Edward, Anna, Sophy, and Samuel Hume.

William Blake was elected as a reformer to represent East York in the legislative assembly of Canada in 1847. In 1848, he became Solicitor- General for Canada West, and it was in 1848-1849 that he effected the reforms to the judicial system of Upper Canada for which he is most remembered.

In 1849 he was appointed Chancellor of Upper Canada. From 1853 to 1856 he was also chancellor of the University of Toronto.

Ill-health led to his resignation from the Chancellorship of Upper Canada in 1862, but he accepted an appointment as judge in the Court of Appeals in 1864. He died in 1870.

Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario was incorporated January 1, 1850 under the terms of the Baldwin Act, Chapter 81, Canada Statutes, 1849.

This act provided for the creation of municipal governments at the town, village and township levels and identified those which would automatically be granted municipal status when the act came into effect, January 1, 1850. Communities not named in the original act could petition the county council or legislative assembly for incorporation on reaching specified population levels.

An incorporated township, lower tier municipality, has a council consisting of an elected Reeve, Deputy Reeves, and councillors the number of which depend on the population of the township. Its responsibilities relate largely to the upkeep of the local road system and the delivery of services such as water and sewage. It has wide powers relating to the regulation of land and local administration through by-laws. It has the power to raise money through direct taxation on land and through the use of debentures.

In 1975 Blenheim Township was amalgamated with the neighbouring Township of Blandford to form the Township of Blandford-Blenheim within the Restructured County of Oxford.

The Blokol Corporation of Toronto, incorporated in 1937, invented and produced equipment for pulverizing coal for burning.

The Blokol Corporation was incorporated on August 13, 1937 and closed for business on May 21, 1954.

James Blomfield (1872-1951) was a watercolour artist who worked in the Toronto area from the 1920s to 1940s.

James J. Blomfield (originally James Jerris Bloomfield) was born in Maidenhead, England in 1872. He was the son of artist and engraver, Henry Bloomfield.

James studied architecture and worked as a junior draftsman before emigrating to Canada with his family in 1887. He studied painting and engraving in Calgary, Alberta between 1887 and 1889. He was a skilled designer, stained glass artist, water colourist, and etcher and likely received early instruction from his father in watercolour and stained glass.

In 1889, James moved with his family to New Westminster, where he, his father Henry, and his younger brother Charles opened British Columbia's first art glass business. The Bloomfields designed, fabricated and installed numerous stained glass projects, including windows for the new Parliament Buildings, Government House and Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria.

In 1902, James married Mary Diamond of Belleville, Ontario. In 1920, they moved to Toronto where he sketched and painted many local scenes. His work was shown in several galleries including The Carroll Gallery and the Eaton Fine Art Gallery.

James Blomfield died in Toronto in 1951 as a result of injuries he suffered when struck by a car.

The Board of Examiners in Sex Therapy and Counselling in Ontario (BESTCO) is a multidisciplinary, self-regulating association of specialized sex therapists.

The Board of Examiners in Sex Therapy and Counselling in Ontario was originally formed in 1975 as a committee of the Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (OAMFT), a division of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT). BESTCO operated under OAMFT as an ad hoc committee and then a commission, until becoming officially independent.

In the absence of government legislation regarding sex therapy, BESTCO operates as an accrediting board to develop and implement criteria by which sex therapists in Ontario would be deemed to be qualified as Registered Sex Therapists. Essential to its mandate is the need for sex therapists to be skilled in relationship therapy.

The Botha family, headed by Frank C.B. Botha, originated in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Frank C.B. Botha immigrated to Canada ca. 1907 and eventually settled in Montréal, Québec.

Francis Carr Bayly Botha, the son of Schalk Jacobus Botha (1848-1930) and Catherine Ann Bayly Botha (1841-1904) was born ca 1882-1884 in South Africa. He immigrated to Canada ca. 1907 and first lived in the District of Yale and Cariboo in British Columbia. Frank married Gertrude May Young (1892-1963) ca. 1919 in Québec. Gertrude was one of six children of Thomas Samuel Young (1864-1926) and Jenny / Jeanie / Jane Campbell (1862-1938). Frank and Gertrude Botha had one child, Beatrice Irene. Beatrice married Murray Stewart on the 22 January 1944 in Montréal, Québec, and they had three children: Brenda, Murray, and Theresa.

Henry John Boulton (1790-1870) was a member of the Legislative Assembly for Upper Canada, and served as Solicitor-General and Attorney-General for Upper Canada.

He was born in England, moved to Canada in 1797 with his parents, and returned to England for his education. He was called to the bar in England in 1815. Soon afterwards he returned to Canada and began to practice at York (later Toronto). In 1820 he was appointed Solicitor-General of Upper Canada (he had been acting Solicitor-General since 1818). From 1829 to 1833 he served as Attorney-General. In 1830 he was elected to represented Niagara in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada. He was Chief Justice of Newfoundland from 1833 to 1838, then returned to Toronto. In the Legislative Assembly of the province of Canada he represented Niagara (1841-1844) and Norfolk (1848-1851). In 1846 he was appointed to the Executive Council of Canada.

James Roos Breithaupt (b. 1934) was a Liberal politician who served in the Ontario legislature between 1967 and 1984.

He was born on September 7, 1934 in Kitchener, to Major Rudolph A. Breithaupt and Marion E. Roos. He was educated at Waterloo schools and acquired a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. In 1962 he was called to the Ontario bar.

In 1967 he won election to the Ontario Legislature as the Liberal member for Kitchener. He was re-elected in 1971, 1975, 1977 and 1981. From 1973 to 1978 he acted as Liberal House Leader. He retired from politics in 1984.

The Hon. Edmund Bristol (1861-1927) was a businessman and federal politician in Ontario.

He was born at Napanee, Ontario, and was educated at Napanee High School, Upper Canada College, and the University of Toronto. He became a barrister in 1886, and was made a K.C. in 1908.

He served as a Member of Parliament for the riding of Toronto Center from 1905 to 1925, and became a member of the Privy Council, and a Minister without Portfolio in 1921. In 1917 he served in England as a special representative of the Canadian Ministry of Marine. He was a recognized authority on corporation and international law, and served as a Director of various companies, including the Dominion Steel Company and Canada Steamship Lines. In 1889, he married Dorothy Armour, daughter of Mr. Justice John Douglas Armour of the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Britnell family originate from Chinnor in Oxfordshire, England, but immigrated to Toronto, Ontario in 1881, where they were the owners of a concrete business.

William Britnell (1858-1943) was born in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England. He married Agnes Mary Hursey (1860-1958) and they had ten children: George William, Albert Edward, Agnes Marion, Charles Sulston, Edward Ernest, Vera Narcissa, an unnamed infant daughter, Gertrude Ardella, Wilfred Thomas and Hilda Edith Ann.

George William Britnell was born in London, England on the 5 February 1880. George married Annie Priscilla Aldous (1880-1976) in September of 1920 and they had two daughters: Winifred Agnes and Muriel Ethel Britnell. George and Annie Britnell lived at 112 Summerhill Avenue in Toronto. George was a WWI veteran, active member in the Ontario provincial Liberal party, and a member of the St. George's Society of Toronto (1929-1956).

The Britnell family's Toronto based concrete business was owned and operated by William, and then his son George William Britnell. The Britnell business had various titles: Dual Mixed Concrete and Materials Limited was at one time located on Kenwood Avenue in Toronto; and Britnell and Company Limited at 1200 Yonge Street.

William, Agnes, George, and Annie Britnell are all buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.

The Brock Monument Committee was organized in 1840 to erect a second monument to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Upper Canada, at Queenston Heights in the present-day municipality of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

The first monument to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was destroyed by vandals. The Brock Monument Committee raised money for the monument through subscriptions, solicited and selected designs for the monument, and oversaw its construction. The committee was disbanded in 1857 when the new monument was completed.

The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, New York as a protective and insurance organisation and was active in Canada from 1885.

Members of the BRT included rail and yard service workers. A Grand Lodge Convention was held every four years to elect officers, including a Canadian representative. Since 1957 it has been affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress. In 1969 it was part of a merger that resulted in the formation of the United Transportation Union.

Alexander Thurtell Brown was a druggist and stationer in Acton, Ontario who also was an amateur photographer.

Alexander Thurtell Brown, son of Alexander H. Brown and Mary Thurtell, was born in Ontario on 9 December 1872. A druggist in Acton, he married Carmina Maud Walker there on 6 August 1901. He was also an amateur photographer, with photographs from Acton, Toronto, and elsewhere in Ontario.

George Brown (1818-1880) was a journalist and statesman in Upper Canada, Canada West and Ontario.

Born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Brown migrated to the United States in 1838, where he and his father founded the newspaper "British Chronicle" in New York in 1842-1843. In 1843 the family moved to Toronto, Ontario and founded the "Banner," a Presbyterian weekly newspaper. In 1844 the "Globe," a political journal, was established, with George Brown as its editor. The "Globe" eventually became a daily newspaper.

In 1851 Brown was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Canada as a Reform member from the county of Kent. In 1858, with A.A. Dorian, Brown formed a short-lived administration after the MacDonald- Cartier government resigned. Brown was later included in 1864 as a Reformist representative in the "Great Coalition" of political leaders brought together to bring about the Confederation of Canada. However, Brown resigned from the government before Confederation occurred, and in 1867 was defeated in the first elections to the Canadian House of Commons. Brown was appointed to the Senate in 1873.

In 1862 Brown married Anne Nelson, daughter of publisher Thomas Nelson, and they had one son and two daughters. Brown died in 1880 in Toronto.

Lewis Kitchener Brown (1898-1991) was a Clerk and Wine Inspector (1928-1945) and later Chief Inspector Wineries (1945-1966) with the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario. He was also a member of the Canadian Wine Institute Quality Standards Committee.

Brown was born in Ottawa, Ontario on 24 November 1898 and educated at Queen's University. He was a veteran of the First World War, serving in the Queen's University Field Ambulance where he was responsible for the medical needs of five hundred German prisoners of war. Brown married Anita Edna Henry in Ottawa in 1924, before moving to Toronto in 1928 to join the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO).

Brown was one of two men appointed by the LCBO to the winery inspection department in 1930, thee years after the end of Prohibition. As a government inspector, Brown helped to set standards for the wine industry in Ontario. By 1945, he had attained the position of chief inspector of wineries and retained that position until his retirement in 1966. He wrote the LCBO study "The Ontario Wine Industry" shortly before his retirement.

He died in Toronto on 10 October 1991.