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At the end of his apprenticeship, Ashdown headed west and worked for ten months on the construction of a blockhouse at Fort Zarah in Kansas. His experiences in the west left him restless and eager for
BLAIN, JOSEPH (baptized Marie-Joseph-Théophile), Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, teacher, lecturer, and astronomer; b
landmarks in Niagara, such as Butler’s Burying Ground, forts George and Mississauga, and the military reserve, or commons.
Janet Carnochan was
Minto [Elliot*] confided to Colonial Secretary Joseph
provincial government, in sponsoring a report on Nova Scotia’s pulpwood lands by Robert Mason of New York and Joseph Bureau of Quebec. Two years later his Nova Scotia and Labrador properties were offered for
DOUCET, STANISLAS-JOSEPH, priest, Acadian patriot, homeopath, inventor, and author; b. 8
office of Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau*. Called to the bar in 1871, he continued to work with Chapleau, whom he accompanied to Winnipeg in
to novices who were completing their theological studies prior to ordination. Three years later he was appointed the first resident priest in Fort Edmonton (Edmonton) and curate of St
served as a stretcher–bearer during the Franco-German war of 1870–71. He returned to Canada but by the spring of 1872 he had left his business in the care of an employee, Joseph Emm
, colonizer, preacher, and author; b. 9 March 1845 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Cassé, a farmer, and
*, a fellow barrister and judge, would candidly observe, Longley’s heart “was not in the profession.” Politics was his forte and obsessive love; law was but the stepping stone to preferment
, to Joseph Chevaudier, dit Lépine, and Marie-Anne Pellerin. His mother, the daughter of an English fur trader and an Indian woman, was a native of Ste
the twelve children of William McKay and Mary Bunn, who were both of mixed blood; brother of Joseph William McKay*; m. 4 Aug
of the Presbyterian College. In addition, he was one of the founders in 1871 of Fort Massey Presbyterian Church, where he served as elder, clerk of session, chairman of the managing committee, trustee
Catharines fell ill, Mair went instead to visit her. At the point of leaving in October, McDougall appointed him paymaster for the construction of a road from Lake of the Woods to Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg
veterinary courses were taught by French-speaking graduates of the college, including Orphir Bruneau and Joseph-Alphonse
November he and his brother Benjamin forced McDougall’s representatives, Captain Donald Roderick Cameron and Joseph-Alfred-Norbert
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