); d. 25 March 1888 in Ottawa, Ont. George Hugo Perry entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman and served seven years. He commenced the

., son of Nathaniel Merrill and Sarah Huse; m. in 1842 Adaline Church, and they had nine children; d. 22 May 1883 in Ottawa, Ont

Melina— at Quebec; m. secondly Emilie—; he had a son and four daughters; d. 30 Sept. 1897 in Ottawa. Étienne Leblanc left no surviving

1869 at Ottawa, Ont. Henry James Friel was born of Irish Catholic parents. In 1827 the family moved to Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, where

), England, eldest son of William Skead and Mary Selkirk; m. in 1842 Rosena MacKey and they had six children; d. 5 July 1884 in Ottawa, Ont

Berlin, daughter of Lewis Lehman; m. 27 March 1867 Aaron Rosenthal, and they had five sons; d. 10 Dec. 1922 in Ottawa. Bertha Lehman met and married

Robichaud; m. Jane Cumming, 21 April 1833, by whom he had five sons and three daughters; d. 9 Nov. 1879, in Ottawa, Ont. Joseph

officer in the War of the American Revolution, and United Empire Loyalist; d. 25 March 1875 in Ottawa, Ont. Edward Van Cortlandt was

Ottawa, son of John Ahearn, a blacksmith, and Honorah Power; m. there first 25 June 1884 Lilias MacKey Fleck (d. 22 Aug. 1888 in childbirth), and they had a son, future

Dufresne, carpenter, and Éléonore Perrault; m. there 1 May 1866 Delphine Bédard, and they had three daughters and a son; d. 16 July 1896 in Ottawa

MISCOUAKY (Miskouaky, also miscopied as Misconky, Miscoualzy), minor Ottawa chief at Detroit and then at

ST JEAN, PIERRE, physician, politician, and civil servant; b. 23 Sept. 1833 in Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, son

.; d. 25 April 1910 in Ottawa. George Hay was educated at Keith Grammar School and at Croy Parish School in Nairnshire. He came to the

 April 1890 at Ottawa, Ont. William Goodhue Perley was educated at the common school in Enfield and probably entered the lumber trade during

. Peter Aylen, the “King of the Shiners,” had a brief and bloody period of fame in the mid 1830s when he dominated the Ottawa valley by violence. He came to Canada about 1815, according to legend a runaway

and two daughters; d. 29 Nov. 1901 in Ottawa. John William McRae was educated at Renfrew, Upper Canada, and worked for a number of

whom died in infancy; d. 4 Jan. 1923 in Ottawa. After Moses Bilsky arrived in the Canadas in 1843, he lived with his father in Montreal and

a provincial land surveyor. Bell moved to Bytown (Ottawa) and quickly established a sound reputation as a surveyor. He worked at first largely in

North Troy before moving to Canada in 1837. He entered the lumber trade in the Ottawa valley as an employee. Later he managed Levi Bigelow’s mills at Buckingham (Que.), and then the lumber business of

to Plymouth but soon sailed back, arriving at Quebec on 20 Oct. 1817 and locating once again in Nepean, on the site of present-day Ottawa. Honey qualified as a land surveyor in Hull, Lower Canada

, son of Alexander McDougal and Margaret Macdonald; m. 1858 Amelia McGillis (d. 1901) of Alexandria, Upper Canada, and they had three sons; d. 6 March 1910 in Ottawa

KINOUSAKI (Qinousaki, Quinousaquy?), an Ottawa chief at Detroit; fl. 1700?; d. 1752

. Lewis of the 88th Light Infantry; he was married three times, to Anna Eccles in 1840, to Helen Street in 1843, and to Elizabeth Susan Wilson in 1856, and had 11 children; d. in Ottawa, Ont., 24 Jan

because of the whiteness of his mother’s skin), an important chief of the Ottawas du Sable, and son of the chief Le Talon; figured prominently in the Ottawa-Miami feud at Detroit in

. Moving to Kingston in 1844, Dickinson purchased his own steamboat and barge to forward agricultural produce on the Rideau, Ottawa, and St Lawrence waterways and to ship Ottawa valley lumber via the

an occupation he did not much like. His father-in-law, who had been employed by Philemon Wright, had made his fortune by purchasing what was later to become the centre of Bytown (Ottawa). He had

and Dora Gunon (Ganon); m. 28 Oct. 1926 Rose Florence in Montreal; they had no children; d. 20 March 1934 in Ottawa and was buried there in the United Jewish Community Cemetery

. 1811 in the town-land of Lissavahaun near Aughrim, County Galway (Republic of Ireland); m. 13 Aug. 1839 Anne Margaret Gibson in Bytown (Ottawa), and they had three sons and five daughters; d

KOUTAOILIBOE (Katalouibois, Koutaouileone, Outaouliboy), a leading Ottawa chief of the Kiskakon clan, from Michilimackinac; fl

 Oct. 1855 in New Edinburgh (Ottawa), Upper Canada. On leaving school Thomas McKay was apprenticed to the mason’s trade. Induced by the depression

Saint-Marcellin, France, son of Antoine Tabaret, a locksmith, and Adélaïde Forêt; d. 28 Feb. 1886 at Ottawa, Ont. Joseph-Henri Tabaret

Ottawas du Sable, he provoked inter-tribal warfare at Detroit in 1706; fl. 1703–12. In his attempt to build up Detroit at the expense of

Allan John Scott and Margaret Cathleen Teresa Heron; m. 29 April 1903 William Patrick Davis in Ottawa, and they had two daughters; d. 19 Nov. 1927 in Paris, France

KAY, temperance advocate, journalist, editor, publisher, and civil servant; b. 17 Aug. 1851 in Bytown (Ottawa), daughter of Alexander Scott and Allison (Alison) McKay; d. unmarried 24 Oct. 1932

them; d. 11 Feb. 1925 in Ottawa. Ella Hobday Webster’s father, a cousin of the American politician Daniel Webster, was a prominent

divorcee (d. 29 April 1947), in Ottawa; they had no children; d. there 31 Oct. 1940. Ernest George Pulford, his wife, Minnie, and

survived infancy; d. 6 Feb. 1896 in Ottawa. Despite his name and birthplace, Charles-Gustave Smith’s culture and main language were French. His

moving in March 1827 to Bytown (Ottawa), then a construction camp. There, in partnership with John G. McIntosh, Stewart acquired property adjoining the projected route of the Rideau Canal and

appointed crown attorney for Ottawa District, and on 22 Oct. 1874 he was made a qc. He also practised law in Montreal with noted lawyers such as Joseph-Adolphe

, daughter of Gédéon Ouimet*, superintendent of public instruction, and they had one son; d. 21 Sept. 1924 in Ottawa

. On his return to Canada that year, Lavoie assumed the post of director of studies at the College of Ottawa. Founded in 1848 by Bishop Joseph-Bruno

 Nov. 1882 in Ottawa, one of at least three sons of John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Crotty; d. unmarried 16 Sept. 1916 near Courcelette, France

. 1805 in the hamlet of La Garde, in the commune of Gap (department of Hautes-Alpes), France, son of Bruno Guigues, army officer and goldsmith, and Thérèse Richier; d. 8 Feb. 1874 at Ottawa

, and Christina Hendry; m. 12 Oct. 1888 Rachel Waddell in Ottawa, and they had two daughters; d. there 26 Feb. 1928. Educated

. Daniel McLachlin, the son of a Highland Scot Presbyterian, entered the Ottawa timber trade. The first record of his activity is in November 1834 when he and his brother William signed a contract with the

Canada. He was sent to Bytown (Ottawa), was assistant to Bishop Joseph-Bruno Guigues in the surrounding

 children of François Duhamel, a blacksmith, and Marie-Josephte Audet, dit Lapointe; d. 5 June 1909 in Casselman, Ont., and was buried in Ottawa

ROCQUE, OVIDE-ARTHUR, politician, businessman, and office holder; b. 19 Sept. 1847 in Bytown (Ottawa), son of Pierre Rocque

(Rowley); m. 7 Jan. 1853 Rosalinda Cooke (d. 1886) in Kingsey township, Lower Canada, and they had five daughters and three sons; d. 8 Dec. 1925 in Ottawa

Alpha Mary Turquand; d. unmarried 6 Nov. 1910 in Ottawa. Annie Amelia Chesley was born into a family that had a lengthy association with