Sentence examples for general merchant from inspiring English sources

Mackenzie emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1820 and became a general merchant.

Achutten, Esqr., General Merchant, Bramagiri, Udipi" – were franked "Karachi-Madras, First Airmail".

His father was a respected general merchant in the community until 1836, when he suffered the permanent disgrace of going bankrupt.

Sears, Roebuck & Company's chairman and chief executive, Alan Lacy, said yesterday that Sears might reduce or eliminate some product lines to make more room for top-selling categories like appliances, but that the company would continue to be a general merchant.

The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant's brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.

The tax office records 7,883 new businesses in Port-au-Prince from November 2010; most (1,302) are "general", while 1,207 are "small grocers and general merchants".

Belfast's second General Merchants (the original is in Ballyhackamore) had not been open for a week when I visited, but it was packed.

A bill was drawn up in 1698, with support from wool traders in Leeds and general merchants in Wakefield.

In 1876, he went west and relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba to establish Cameron & Company general merchants, where he remained until 1881.

Until the democracy of the camera, portraits were of the wealthy and powerful - generals, merchants, and kings.

As comptroller general of merchant shipbuilding in 1918, he helped replace British shipping lost to submarine warfare.