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John Hallam (alderman)
John Hallam (1833–1900) was a merchant, and alderman, living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is best known for being the prior owner of Chorley Park, a large estate, that backed on to the valley of the Don River, acquired after his death, on which was constructed an opulent official residence for the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, UK, and started work in a calico print mill at the age of seven. He emigrated to Canada in 1856. In 1882, Alderman Hallam prepared a report for Toronto city council on free libraries. In 1883 Hallam championed a ballot initiative that authorized the city to start providing a free library service. In 1894, ''The New York Times'' noted that Hallam was a prominent Toronto resident backing a plan to build a canal from Collingwood, Ontario, on Lake Huron, to Toronto. The New York Times described this canal as representing competition to New York state's Erie Canal and Oswego Canal. In 1896 Hallam stood in for mayor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
View From Chorley Park, Summer Residence Of Mr John Hallan, From %27Toronto Old And New
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, it also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages – these included word processor ''VIEW'' and the spreadsheet ''ViewSheet'' supplied on ROM and cartridge for the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron and included as standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. History Acornsoft was formed in late 1980 by Acorn Computers directors Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry, and David Johnson-Davies, author of the first game for a UK personal computer and of the official Acorn Atom manual "Atomic Theory and Practice". David Johnson-Davies was managing director and in early 1981 was joined by Tim Dobson, Programmer and Chris Jordan, Publications Editor. While some of their games were clones or remakes of popular arcade games (e.g. ''Hopper'' is a clone of Sega's ''Frogger'', ''Snapper'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |