GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835-1902), principal of Queen's university, Kingston, Ontario, was born in Nova Scotia in 1835 and educated at Glasgow university, where he had a brilliant academic career ; and having entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, he obtained a pastoral charge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which he held from 1863 to 1877. When Canada was federated in 1867 Nova Scotia was strongly opposed to federal union. Grant threw his influence in the federal scale, and his oratory played an important part in securing the success of the movement. When the consolidation of the Dominion by means of railway construction was under discussion in 1872, Grant travelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the engineers who surveyed the route of the Canadian Pacific railway, and his book Ocean to Ocean (1873) helped to show Canadians the value of the heritage they enjoyed. In 1877 Grant was appointed princi pal of Queen's university, Kingston, Ontario. A tour in 1888 to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa strengthened the Im perialism which was the guiding principle of his political opinions. He died at Kingston on May 1 o, 1902.