inherited property. They may have already left Halifax by 1874 when Clotilda published Isabel Leicester, a romance with the Hamilton Spectator, for there was nothing distinctively

fiction, and in the opinion of the noted Johnson scholar Milton W. Hamilton, it was the novels of Robert William Chambers that “gave many Americans their only conception of Sir William.” Johnson

.), are found among the archival holdings of the Thunder Bay Hist. Museum Soc. Certain aspects of Isabel’s character were confirmed by two 1923 McKellar graduates, the late Jessie McLaren Hamilton of

local school. In 1817 John and Peter accompanied their father and stepmother to their new farm on the Grand River. Six years later John was studying his father’s profession, surveying, in Hamilton

(Charlottetown), 27 June 1811. W. B. Hamilton, Local history in Atlantic Canada (Toronto, 1974), 171. M. A. Macqueen, Hebridean pioneers (Winnipeg, 1957), 42–43, 48

with his family to Hamilton, Upper Canada. Possibly attracted by the mercantile prospects offered by Toronto, he settled there between 1842 and 1844 and opened a business on King Street near the St

Details concerning the Japanese Canadian veterans were drawn from interviews conducted by Roy Kawamoto with the late Masumi Mitsui of Hamilton, Ont., transcripts of which are in the author’s possession

Hamilton Holton* in founding the Free Trade Association of Montreal. A member of the association’s council, Kay felt that he had a great

KILLALY, HAMILTON HARTLEY, engineer and civil servant; b. in Dublin, Ireland, in December 1800, son of John A. Killaly

between Burlington Bay (Hamilton Harbour) and the Credit River, they agreed in 1784 to the surrenders on the understanding, in Kineubenae’s later words, that “the Farmers would help us,” and that the

Hamilton, who had been backed by Charles Robin and Company. Le Boutillier played a rather inconspicuous part in the assembly, but he was a member of two of its select committees, one to inquire into the

coast of Labrador at Grand Saint Modet, Chateau Bay, and Baie des Esquimaux (probably Hamilton Inlet). They also became directly involved in the fur trade by joining a company that leased the King’s Posts

visited Hamilton for that purpose, but finding that there was a foundry at nearby Ancaster, he and his father decided instead upon St Thomas. On 7 May 1834 they formed a partnership with

Georgia loyalist was edited by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton* and published in New York and London in 1901

PAC, MG 24, L3, 3. PRO, WO 34 (copies at PAC). Bougainville, Journals (Hamilton); “Journal” (Gosselin), APQ Rapport, 1923–24, 202–393. “Correspondance de Vaudreuil,” APQ Rapport

Quebec in October 1819. In the latter year he was licensed to Hamilton, now Cobourg, as missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Here he built the first St Peter’s Church and

much of his estate, Macbeth ran successfully as the Conservative candidate against Archibald McIntyre. In 1857 he was re-elected, defeating W. A. McKinnon, editor of the Hamilton Daily

); The strangers’ guide to the cities of Montreal and Quebec, together with sketches of the cities of Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton, and of the towns of Bytown, London, &c., and a glance at the most

disillusioned, doubting whether the canal would ever become operational [see William Hamilton Merritt

Chiniquy*’s schismatics in Illinois. Returning to Canada, he was parish priest of Saint-Bonaventure-d’Hamilton (Bonaventure County) from 1863 to 1865. After that, preaching and writing took up the rest

. H. Land, “The recollections of Lieut. John Land a militia man, in the rebellion of 1837,” Wentworth Hist. Soc. Papers and Records (Hamilton), VIII (1919), 20–24. Brantford

, 1847, 1: app.T, no.96. Source materials relating to N.B. Indian (Hamilton and Spray), 110–13. New-Brunswick Courier, 23 April 1842. Upton, Micmacs and

MARJORIBANKS, ISHBEL MARIA (Hamilton-Gordon (Gordon), Countess of ABERDEEN and Marchioness of ABERDEEN and TEMAIR

1801 he ran a hotel in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake) in partnership with one of Robert Hamilton*’s sons; they also operated a local stage line

Furniture Warehouse in Hamilton, the Dominion Life Assurance Company, and the Canadian Manufacturing Company, which had taken over the Simpson firm. It was said by the Canadian parliamentary companion

in 1826 and worked as a millwright, first for George Hamilton* at Hawkesbury, Upper Canada, and later for Levi Bigelow at

, 1879–82; 1884. [W. E. Hamilton], Guide book & atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound districts, 1879 (Toronto, 1879; repr. Port Elgin, Ont., 1971), 2, 15–17, 31. T. W. H. Leavitt

and who were being held in the Hamilton jail. The scheme failed, as the result, Miller said, of the activities of the “Prince of Traitors, Jacob Beemer

teacher and invited him to the province. Later that year Mulvey took up a position at Central School in Hamilton, but he subsequently moved to Haldimand County, where he taught school, edited the local

MacINNES, DUNCAN SAYRE, army officer; b. 19 July 1870 in Hamilton, Ont., son of Donald

., son of Thomas Anthony Maitland McCarthy and Jennie Frances Stewart; m. 26 May 1900 Eva Florence Watson in Hamilton, Ont., and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 17 May 1930 in

participated in the rebel attack on Fort Sackville (Vincennes, Ind.) in which Henry Hamilton was taken prisoner. Thereafter McCarty was appointed captain in the regular forces of the state of Virginia (within

. The Oxford gazetteer; containing a complete history of the county of Oxford, from its first settlement . . . , comp. T. S. Shenston (Hamilton, [Ont.], 1852

Hamilton’s capture of Vincennes (Ind.) in 1778, Henry Bird’s expedition against Kentucky in 1780, and the attack on Bryant’s Station (near Lexington, Ky) in August 1782

Township, Upper Canada, one of the six children of James McLean and Clementine McMurchy, farmers; m. 15 Dec. 1904 Margaret E. Duncan in Hamilton, Ont., and they had a son; d. 13 Oct

1930 it moved to Hamilton. Its subsequent growth into an important Canadian educational institution gives a special significance to McMaster’s philanthropy, an activity he came to late in life after

. in municipal politics in Picton. Huldah was educated in the common and grammar schools of Picton and at the Hamilton Ladies College. McMullen

importance in the government. By July 1857 he and his “compact” colleagues were back in the opposition [see John Hamilton Gray

extreme verge of civilization in Goderich.” In 1852 he took the editorship of a new Reform journal, the Hamilton Canadian, at £200 a year. During the next two years the Canadian developed

Robert McVicar, Letters on emigration from the British Isles, and the settlement of the waste lands in the Province of Canada (Hamilton, [Ont.], 1853), 1–116. HBC Arch. B.39/a, 1816–17; B

the Oreg. Hist. Soc. as J. K. Duncan, Minority without a champion: Kanakas on the Pacific coast, 1788–1850 (Portland, 1972)]. Bea Hamilton, Salt Spring Island

Nation,” and Pakakis, his wife, was born in the territory of the Senecas, allies of the Ojibwas. The family apparently resided in the vicinity of the head of Lake Ontario (Hamilton, Ont.), and there

Hill*, and in 1842 an edition in Mohawk of the Book of Common Prayer; both were published in Hamilton, Upper Canada. Active in the affairs of the Anglican diocese of Huron after its formation in 1857

Brantford. His company appeared regularly at Montreal, Quebec, Kingston, and Hamilton. He raised a militia company of rifles during his stay in Toronto. In

manufacturers as Stodart and others in New York and Boston. About 1848 a piano and music store was opened in Montreal and before Abraham’s death branches were established in Hamilton and London. The Nordheimers

. B. Hamilton, “Education, politics and reform in Nova Scotia, 1800–1848” (unpublished phd thesis, University of Western Ontario

 22, ser.305, no.22623. An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826–1975, comp. C. G. Roland and Paul Potter ([Hamilton, Ont.], 1979

of Simcoe in 1849, of Wellington (with Halton) in 1867, and of North Wentworth and Halton in 1875. In 1883 he was named a canon of Christ’s Church Cathedral, Hamilton

Hamilton* that year. In 1789, when Carleton (now Lord Dorchester) set up a land board for the District of Gaspé, O’Hara agreed to be a member of

. Shortly after Pattin’s return late in 1753, Governor James Hamilton of Pennsylvania approached him to undertake a clandestine mission to the Ohio country for the purpose of investigating French military