Francis Bond Head*. During the uprisings of 1837–38 he volunteered for service in the militia, and his regiment was sent to Bytown (Ottawa) to

and other northern tribes to the St. Lawrence by way of the Ottawa River. It was Indian custom to recognize the rights of other tribes in matters of travel and trade, and not even the much stronger

history (2nd ed., Winnipeg and Ottawa, 1982). Paul Yuzyk, The Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada, 1918–1951 (Ottawa, 1981); The Ukrainians in Manitoba: a social

was acquired by Lord Durham [Lambton*], sent to London in 1840, and is now in the National Gallery of Canada’s collection in Ottawa

Pontiac. Among the Ottawa chief’s allies were some Mississaugas from the Rivière à la Tranche (Thames River); it is not clear whether any of Wabbicommicot’s warriors were also involved. Johnson

escape and immigrated to the United States. In 1850 he came to the Canadas and settled in Ottawa. Seven years later, on 7 April, he was certified as a land surveyor in Lower Canada. The following year

. Akrigg Walbran’s British Columbia coast names, 1592–1906 was first published in Ottawa and was reprinted, with an

charge during the premier’s many absences in Ottawa, and when De Cosmos resigned in February 1874, Lieutenant Governor Joseph William

Library of Ontario. During the union period there had been a library that followed the peripatetic assembly; at confederation it was located permanently in Ottawa [see Alpheus

Ottawa, Quebec, and the St Lawrence–Lake Ontario region, and then, apparently, to the west of Canada. His western sketches, about 20 in all, are, unlike his other work, not dated and inscribed by the

ideal, since it was on a source of water-power, the Rivière du Nord, and also on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway line. Wilson quickly came to terms with the local authorities, who

(Toronto, 1878) and the lyrics for two compositions by local musicians: Fair Canada: patriotic song (Ottawa, 1873), set to music by George Frederick De Vine, and Under the snow

, watercolours and drawings (Manoir Richelieu collection) (Ottawa, 1983), 8. From Annapolis Royal to the Klondike: painters in a new land, comp. Michael Bell (Toronto, 1973), 127

. 1870) added to their annoyance by communicating to them indiscreet remarks from Macdonald’s correspondence with cabinet colleagues in Ottawa. Lisgar also complained to the colonial secretary of

seven children; d. 30 Oct. 1908 in Ottawa. Thomas Greenway Sr arrived in Upper Canada from England in 1846 and took up land in Huron

letter to Laurier, from the “Nationalist clique” in Ottawa. In 1892 Barrett’s well-publicized activities in defence of the right to Catholic education had won him honorary lld

. 1882 Kate Lynde Pardon (d. 14 March 1931) in Whitby, Ont., and they had four sons and two daughters; d. 15 Jan. 1932 at sea and was buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa

Davies*, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Two days later the viceregal couple arrived in Ottawa and were greeted warmly by the prime minister, Sir Robert Laird

, where he climbed all the rungs; from 1882 to 1892 he was in Ottawa as the member for Terrebonne and a minister of the crown; from 1892 to 1897 he served as lieutenant governor at Spencer Wood

with newspapers in Gananoque (1882–84), Brockville (1884–86), and Ottawa (1887–89), each time joining the local lacrosse team. During this period he established a reputation as a star player

. His businesses were primarily located between the Bay of Fundy and the Ottawa valley, but as early as the late 1870s he was looking at opportunities in western Canada

minister of agriculture that the Island had. In many ways Ferguson was Sullivan’s right-hand man. When the province, frustrated by Ottawa’s failure to

James Bleecker; d. 15 June 1894 in Ottawa. Billa Flint had only six weeks of school before starting work, at age 11, with his

. Haliburton never established a permanent place of residence in Halifax; he spent some time in Ottawa in the late 1860s and resided in England from 1871 to 1876. The following year he set up practice in Ottawa

. In November 1873 the Liberals under Alexander Mackenzie* took office in Ottawa, following the resignation of Sir John A

time there he played centre for the varsity football team and the Ottawa Rough Riders. In June 1900 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Canadian militia, and the next month he took up an appointment

brothers from each other. Donald preferred to be a leading Grit in Ottawa. Some of his colleagues, however, were suspicious of him because of his brother’s alliance with John A. The death of John

McDougall* and Catharine Cameron; m. 7 Sept. 1870 Marion Eliza Morris, and they had five daughters and six sons; d. 15 Jan. 1909 in Ottawa

they had a daughter; d. 10 July 1922 in Ottawa. Amelia McLean’s family had roots steeped in fur trade history. Her mother was the

outlined in the so-called hitherto clause. The edict unleashed a backlash from the separate-school board in Ottawa [see Napoléon-Antoine

Armour (d. September 1928), in Ottawa, and they had one son; d. 21 Dec. 1936 in Montreal. Hayter Reed’s mother was Canadian; his

Company, Burton Brothers, and the Echo Bay Lumber Company. George and John Askin Shingwauk thus embarked on complex contract talks. The Department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa eventually became quite

’Irumberry* de Salaberry, Thibault was to reassure them that Ottawa intended to respect their rights and not to treat them as a conquered people, and to convince them to lay down their arms [see

search his premises without a warrant. Council censured Travis and at a public meeting $500 was raised to send a delegation to Ottawa to protest. The situation worsened when Hugh St Quentin Cayley

 June 1909 Alice Whylie Bruce (d. 1971) in Guelph, Ont., and they had four sons; d. 18 March 1969 in Manotick (Ottawa), and was buried in Rideauvale Cemetery in Kars (Ottawa

exert a wider influence. Langevin was one of the 18 members from Quebec province who held seats in both the provincial and federal houses. In Ottawa he was also secretary of state and superintendent

 July 1872 Susan Wiggins in St Eleanors, P.E.I., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 1 May 1924 in Ottawa. Of Huguenot

. 1849 in Pictou, N.S., son of John William Dawson* and Margaret Ann Young Mercer; d. unmarried 2 March 1901 in Ottawa

Derbishire* after his death in 1863 and who now held the position of queen’s printer, followed the government to Ottawa. They set up their printing-shop on the ground floor of a building erected by the

pour venir en aide aux colons défricheurs (Ottawa, 1891). The work was prompted by political circumstances in Quebec; its sub-title, which refers to Drapeau’s book on the colonization movement in

1864 Fleming had brought his family from Toronto to Halifax. To deal more closely with the federal government, in 1869 he moved to Ottawa, where he bought the residence of George-Édouard

two children; d. 29 Sept. 1898 in Ottawa. William Kingsford was the son of an innkeeper with means sufficient to send him to the school of

Glasgow, P.E.I.; d. 12 Jan. 1914 in Ottawa. Much about David Laird was determined by the circumstances of his birth. The son of

government would recover the taxes that companies had been sending to Ottawa. The Quebec economy would also benefit from the creation of a whole range of secondary enterprises in different regions. Last of all

March Macleod and a small party rode through a late winter blizzard to Helena (Mont.) to pick up the men’s pay and receive the first instructions from Ottawa since the departure of French. While there

other guests. After a stay at Highfield House in Hamilton, Ont., and visits to Toronto and Ottawa, the couple travelled to the west coast by train. In Manitoba they met with immigrants from northeast

trek to the dreaded “sub-arctic lumbering town” chosen by Queen Victoria as the new Canadian capital. “The more I see of Ottawa, the more do I dislike and detest it,” reads a diary entry of 17

became an employee of Joseph Moore, who was exploiting the pine forests of the Rivière du Nord, in Lower Canada. Subsequently he worked for Baxter Bowman, a lumberman with camps on the upper Ottawa River

: Bulletin on typhoid fever in horses, improperly called influenza (Ottawa, 1901); Hog cholera and swine plague and verminous broncho-pneumonia (Ottawa, 1899); Maladie du coït (equine

Daumont* de Saint-Lusson, a commissary assigned “to the country of the Ottawas, Amikwas, Illinois, and other Indian natives discovered and to be discovered in North America in the direction of Lake