=Davies, Sir Louis Henry= (1845- ). Born in Prince Edward Island. Educated at Prince of Wales College; studied law and called to the bar of Prince Edward Island, 1866. Sat in the Assembly, 1872-1879; premier and attorney-general, 1876. Elected to the House of Commons for Queen's, 1882; minister of marine and fisheries in the Laurier administration, 1896; counsel for Great Britain before the International Fisheries Commission at Halifax, 1877; one of the joint high commissioners on behalf of Great Britain to settle differences between the United States and Canada, 1898; knighted, 1897; appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1902. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Davis, Captain Sylvanus.= =F= Captured at Fort Loyal, 252; a prisoner in Quebec, during siege by Phipps, 294. =Davost, Father.= =Ch= Jesuit missionary in Cape Breton, 237. =Dawson, George Mercer= (1849-1901). Son of Sir J. W. Dawson (_q.v._). Studied geology and palæontology under Huxley, Ramsay and Etheridge at the Royal School of Mines, London. Geologist and botanist to North American Boundary Commission, 1873-1875. Appointed to staff of Geological Survey, 1875; assistant director, 1883; director, 1895. One of British commissioners in Bering Sea Arbitration, 1892. =Bib.=: For his numerous reports and papers on geological and allied subjects, _see_ _General Indexes to Geological Survey Reports_, 1863-1884, and 1885-1906; and _Bibliography of the Royal Society_ (R. S. C., 1894). For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_. =Dawson, Sir John William= (1820-1899). Born at Pictou, Nova Scotia. Educated at Edinburgh University. Accompanied Sir Charles Lyell on his geological explorations in Nova Scotia. Appointed superintendent of education for Nova Scotia, 1850. Principal of McGill University, 1855-1893, and mainly instrumental in building up the institution from a small college to one of the first rank. Elected F. G. S., 1854, and F. R. S., 1862; knighted, 1884. First president of Royal Society of Canada. Author of many works on geology and palæontology. =Index=: =T= Commissioner to investigate King's College, 48. =Bib.=: Works: _Acadian Geology_; _Story of the Earth and Man_; _Science and the Bible_; _Dawn of Life_; _Origin of the World_; _Fossil Men_; _Change of Life in Geological Times_; _Chain of Life_; _Egypt and Syria_. For biog., _see_ _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Dent, _Can. Por._; Taylor, _Brit. Am._; Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._; Dawson, _Fifty Years' Work in Canada_.