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George William Henry Comer was born the third son of John F.R. Comer and Elizabeth Barbara Comer on October 21, 1840 in Niagara, Upper Canada. The Comer family moved to a number of different places in Upper Canada including Port Robinson, Chippewa and Kingston. While in Kingston, George Comer attended grammar school from 1850 to 1854.

After leaving school Comer studied the business of printing, working at the Commercial Advertiser office in Kingston. George Comer continued to work in printing over the next ten years though not exclusively in Kingston. He worked for The Constitutional in St. Catherines, The Times in Hamilton, The Herald in Cleveland, Ohio and The Lorain County News in Oberlin, Ohio.

Comer returned to Kingston, Canada in 1861where he continued working at a variety of printing and accounting jobs. In 1868 George Comer was granted a Purser's position with the Canadian Navigation Company. His first appointment was on the Steamer Corinthian, and throughout the next twenty seasons worked on that ship as well as the Algerian and Spartan. During the winters Comer worked as a bookkeeper for a variety of companies and businesses in the area.

On April 1, 1891 George Comer was personally appointed to the Customs Department as a Preventative Officer by Sir John A. Macdonald. He worked for the Department for over 25 years and in 1919 received the Long Service Medal from King George IV.

George W. H. Comer died on January 5th, 1929. He had been predeceased by his wife Ellen Elizabeth Charles, of Garden Island and was survived by three of his seven children, Jessie Comer, Bessie Comer and Elizabeth Cassa White.

PUNSHON, WILLIAM MORLEY, Methodist minister and author; b. 29 May 1824 at Doncaster, England, the only child of John Punshon and Elizabeth Morley; m. first 22 Aug. 1849 Maria Vickers (d. 1858), and they had at least four children; m. secondly 15 Aug. 1868 Fanny Vickers (d. 1870); m. thirdly 17 June 1873 Mary Foster; d. 14 April 1881 at Tranby Lodge, Brixton, Devon, England.
William Morley Punshon was one of the most highly regarded English religious leaders to serve in Canada during the Victorian period. His public lectures and sermons during his long career achieved widespread popularity throughout the empire while his administrative ability, especially in support of conciliation, church expansion, and missions, served the British Wesleyan connection well for almost 40 years. Punshon also composed poetry of a meditative and devotional nature. All his writing tended to be parabolical in form and moral in intention; unfortunately, it has not aged well. He is now remembered in Canada primarily for his important contributions to the progress of Wesleyanism in the years immediately following confederation.

Dr. Robert B. Stewart

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Knights of Labor, the major labour reform organization of the late 19th century, organized December 1869 by Philadelphia garment cutters. Growing slowly in the 1870s, the secret organization emphasized co-operation and education. The Knights believed in organizing all workers, without regard to skill, sex or race. Their major organizational breakthrough was the mixed assembly of various types of workers, which allowed the order to expand into small towns and villages. Entering Ontario, perhaps in 1875, and certainly in 1881 in Hamilton, the order organized some 450 local assemblies across Canada. Strongest in Ontario, Québec and BC, the Knights also enjoyed success in Nova Scotia and Manitoba and established locals in New Brunswick and present-day Alberta.

In Ontario and Québec, leading Knights played key roles in organizing the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and were prominent in independent labour political campaigns in the 1880s and 1890s and in considerable parliamentary lobbying. The Knights peaked in Ontario and the West in 1886, but were most successful in Ottawa and Québec in the 1890s. Their expulsion for dual unionism from the TLC in 1902 at Berlin [Kitchener] abetted the development of distinctive Québec unions.

Key Knights' strongholds were Toronto, Hamilton, Montréal, Québec, Ottawa, St Catharines, St Thomas, London, Kingston, Winnipeg and Victoria. Canadian Knights such as A.W. Wright, Thomas Phillips Thompson and D.J. O'Donoghue made important contributions in the US as well. The Knights' major contributions to the Canadian working class lay in the notion of the organization of all workers and in their efforts to formulate social alternatives to the growth of monopolistic capitalist society.

Sir Francis Moore. Lawyer and politician. He entered St. John's College, Oxford in 1574 where he received an MA as under-steward to the University in 1612. Moore gained admittance to the Middle Temple in 1580, and was called to bar in 1587. In 1589, Moore was elected to Parliament for Boroughbridge in Yorkshire and was appointed to the bench of Middle Temple in 1603. In 1614, he was made a sergeant and, three years later, became a knight. Moore died in 1621 and was buried in Great Fawley, Berkshire.

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