Clendennan to Benson Bargain and Sale, 1846 [photocopy]

In 1846 Levy Clendennan, a school master sold part of lot 18, sixth concession (one and three-quarter acre) to James Rae Benson, a merchant. The land was situated at the corner of James and Academy (now Church St.) streets. The existing Clendennan-Benson home would later be repurposed to serve as the location for the first city hall for the city of St. Catharines, Ont. The home was demolished in the 1920s when the city outgrew this location. Today the current city hall, facing Church Street, occupies this location.

Dr. Dock's clinic - Hospital Amphitheatre - Jan. 1898

George Dock (with percussion hammer) and James Arneill (behind Dock) teaching in amphitheather of Catherine Street Hospital (source: Not Just Any Medical School by Horace W. Davenport). Handwritten on mount: G. M. Livingston. Ann Arbor, MI. On verso: George Dock (Pathology)

University of Michigan Men's Basketball Team, 1939

Back Row: mngr. Robert Lindgren, John Nicholson, Dan Smick, Russell Dobson, trainer Ray Roberts

Middle Row: Charles Pink Tom Harmon, asst. coach John Townsend, captain Leo Beebe, head coach Bennie Oosterbaan, James Rae, Edmund Thomas

Front Row: Milo Sukup, Michael Sofiak

University of Michigan Men's Basketball Team, 1940

Back Row: trainer Ray Roberts, William Cartmill, Joseph Glasser, James Grissen, mngr. Lorenz Rinek

Middle Row: George Ruehle jr., Charles Pink head coach Bennie Oosterbaan, captain James Rae, asst. coach John Townsend, David Wood, Wayne Fitzgerald

Front Row: Michael Sofiak, Herbert Brogan

1940 UM Track Team

Top Row: asst. coach Chester Stackhouse, John Keller, John Dobson, Howard Egert, Thomas Lawton, Charles Decker, Raymond Gauthier, st. mngr. Tom Adams

3rd Row: John Kautz, Wilbert Ackerman, William Dobson, Robert Hook, Jack Leuritz, George, Ostroot. Alfred Piel, Robert Barnard, William Harnist

2nd Row: Edward Barrett, Harry Wisner, Warren Breidenbach, Carl Culver, James Rae, Fred Culver, Henry Heyl, Sherman Olmstead, Geoffrey G. Hall,

Front Row: Alan H. Smith, Stanley Kelley, Philip Balyeat, captain Ralph Schwarzkopf, coach Ken Doherty, Don Canham, Francis Hogan, David Cushing

Voucher from the Engineer Department of Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway Extension for April and May, paid to James and Benson Co. for fence repairs, May 11, 1857

Voucher from the Engineer Department of Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway Extension for April and May, paid to James and Benson Co. for fence repairs, May 11, 1857.

A preliminary assessment of the hydrologic characteristics of the James River in South Dakota /

Mode of access: Internet.

Rejoinder to James Hamilton

Hamilton (2001) makes a number of comments on our paper (Harding and Pagan, 2002b). The objectives of this rejoinder are, firstly, to note the areas in which we agree; secondly, to define with greater clarity the areas in which we disagree; and, thirdly, to point to other papers, including a longer version of this response, where we have dealt with some of the issues that he raises. The core of our debate with him is whether one should use an algorithm with a specified set of rules for determining the turning points in economic activity or whether one should use a parametric model that features latent states. Hamilton begins his criticism by stating that there is a philosophical distinction between the two methods for dating cycles and concludes that the method we use “leaves vague and intuitive exactly what this algorithm is intended to measure”. Nothing is further from the truth. When seeking ways to decide on whether a turning point has occurred it is always useful to ask the question, what is a recession? Common usage suggests that it is a decline in the level of economic activity that lasts for some time. For this reason it has become standard to describe a recession as a decline in GDP that lasts for more than two quarters. Finding periods in which quarterly GDP declined for two periods is exactly what our approach does. What is vague about this?