at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) there are four sets totalling 25 teaspoons as well as two single items, one of which is the Nova Scotia Provincial Prize Cup (Birks 24230

Thomas William Nicholls, a silversmith, and Elizabeth Pitkin; m. 29 May 1875 Florence Theresa Mary Graburn (d. 27 April 1909) in Ottawa, and they had four sons and three daughters; d

children; d. 10 Sept. 1924 in Ottawa. Born into a devout family of modest means, who moved to Dublin in 1857, Edmund James Peck was the

Island’s population justified only three seats, that Ottawa agreed to a compromise ensuring that no province should have fewer members in the commons than it had in the Senate. This agreement gave the Island

the government. Perhaps as the result of favourable impressions Phelan made on missionary visits to the Ottawa valley in 1838 and 1841 (the latter in

missionary at Drummondville (1827–31) and subsequently served as pastor at Montebello in the Ottawa valley (1831–33), at Sainte-Martine, near Valleyfield (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield) (1833–39), and at La Prairie

Swainson, Kingston: building on the past (Westport, Ont., 1988). H. S. de Schmid, Feldspar in Canada (Ottawa, 1916); Mica, its occurrence

Bishop Taché, who called at Ottawa on his way to Rome, also warned the government. But all representations were ignored by Macdonald. Indeed, in late September matters worsened when it was announced

and selling the pulpwood and wood pulp to his American cohorts. During the 1890s he greatly expanded his operations in Merritton and constructed a sulphite mill at Hawkesbury on the Ottawa River that

, during Wright’s presidency, the Dominion WCTU launched Canada’s White Ribbon Bulletin (Ottawa) for the discussion of pan-Canadian issues. In the 1920s Wright would resume her association with

was made its director. Turning over his pharmaceutical business to his sons William Edwin and Henry Scholey, Saunders moved to Ottawa in 1887. By this

 Nov. 1898, in Ottawa, Julia Maude Gwynne, daughter of John Wellington Gwynne*; d. there 23 March 1918

shrink from crossing the Straits of Northumberland. The interest of this Province is evidently neglected because it is small as compared with the other provinces.” When Laird left Ottawa to become

large stone house in Hull. He was educated privately and then at the Ottawa Collegiate Institute, and in 1876 he was admitted as a student-at-law by the Law Society of Upper Canada

the Great Lakes; characteristics of the power, and the effects of its diversion (Ottawa, 1907). For a modern perspective, K. J. Tinkler, “Déjà vu: the downfall of Niagara as a chronometer

(Ottawa), 1 (1900–1)–30 (1930). Ian McKay, “Strikes in the Maritimes, 1901–1914,” in Labour and working-class history in Atlantic Canada: a reader, ed. David Frank and G. S. Kealey (St

Morrin*, to present Quebec’s claim to be the permanent capital of Canada. Queen Victoria chose Ottawa instead [see Sir George-Étienne

*], and Ottawa, in 1914, but he preferred to remain at his post. He was also nominated for the bishopric of Nova Scotia in 1904, and five years later he found himself in a tight race with Henry John

. Trestler’s strategic location on the banks of the Ottawa River enabled him to participate in the lucrative fur trade. Although at that time competition and high operating costs were causing the merchants in

, which he was not above encouraging, but the fear then was “too much Tupper” – one in London (where his father was serving as high commissioner), another in Ottawa. So he became minister of justice in

. Tye was educated at the College of Ottawa and the School of Practical Science in Toronto, where he passed his civil engineering examinations in 1881. After a season of employment with the Dominion Lands

, 1893–1993 (Ottawa, 1993). Wendy Heads, “The Local Council of Women of Winnipeg, 1894–1920: tradition and transformation” (ma thesis, Univ. of Man., Winnipeg, 1997

the inaugural music and drama competition organized in Ottawa by Lord Grey*, the governor general of Canada. The judge on that

, attended the first exhibition of the Canadian (soon to become Royal Canadian) Academy of Arts (RCA) in Ottawa. So taken was Lorne by Watson’s Pioneer mill that he purchased it for the queen’s

, the United States, and Canada. In 1910 the National Gallery in Ottawa had purchased a print by Caroline, Le quai vert, Bruges (1908), and in 1911 it acquired two additional items, The

. 1746. In his early twenties Paul d’Ailleboust de Périgny turned his attention to the west. For several years he invested in fur trade with the Ottawas

) (Ottawa, 1983). J. R. Harper, Early painters and engravers in Canada ([Toronto], 1970). J. C. Webster, Catalogue of the John Clarence Webster Canadiana collection, New Brunswick

Mallet*, of the Soeurs de la Charité de Québec; Élisabeth Bruyère*, of the Sisters of Charity of Bytown (Ottawa); and Émilie

. He was first sent to the mission at Sillery. The following year he was assigned to the mission to the Ottawa of the Great Lakes. The Jesuits had also just opened a mission for the Miami, who had taken

early as 1668, and for many years thereafter, he traded with the Indians of the upper Saint-Maurice and upper Ottawa rivers, and was among the government-accredited merchants who participated in the great

Musgrave*, coupled with extremely favourable terms from Ottawa (including a transcontinental railway and a graving dock), eventually turned the tide

, commercial, shipping, lumber and fishing interests, Report (Ottawa, 1876); Select committee on the manufacturing interests of the dominion, Report (Ottawa, 1874); Royal commission on the

, ed. Helmut Kallmann et al. (Toronto, 1981). The service of British regiments in Canada and North America . . . , comp. C. H. Stewart (Ottawa, 1962

, the St. George, and the Canada, were also built for the Torrances under Brush’s watchful eye. In 1834 he was hired by the Ottawa and Rideau Forwarding Company, of which

 Minerve (Montréal), 3 nov. 1879. Ottawa Daily Free Press, 4 Nov. 1879. Dom. ann. reg., 1879, 386. Stanley, Louis Riel, 193, 194, 210

-confederate, once in Ottawa Campbell generally supported the government of Sir John A. Macdonald* and was the first member of

, July 1, 1867–January 1, 1957 (PAC pub., Ottawa, 1957), 12. Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada . . . (Toronto, 1881), xviii. George Chandler, The

Churchill and Elizabeth Trefry; d. 8 May 1874 in Ottawa, Ont. Ezra A. Churchill’s father, a mate on a Yarmouth brigantine, was lost

Canadian Biology: Being Studies from the Biological Stations of Canada (Ottawa and [Toronto]): “Are migrating eels deterred by a range of lights – report on experimental tests,” 1916: 115–18; with

1928. “Revered scholar passes,” Canadian Jewish Chronicle (Montreal), 11 May 1928. Archival sources for the study of Canadian Jewry, comp. L. F. Tapper (2nd ed., Ottawa, 1978).

(Can., Parks Canada, National Hist. Parks and Sites Branch, Manuscript report, no.312, Ottawa, 1977).

, known increasingly for his bold projects. Named to the federal planning commission for Ottawa and Hull in 1913, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects two years later

and C. P. Stacey published “Thomas Davies, soldier and painter of eighteenth-century Canada,” Canadian Art (Ottawa), 13 (1956): 270–76, 300. Preparations for the National Gallery of

away from the colony did not suit him at all. Abbé Davion and his fellow religious set out from Lachine on 24 July 1698, accompanied by 12 paddlers. The travellers followed the Ottawa River route

population of the districts of Montreal, the Ottawa valley, and Saint-François, and of the town of Trois-Rivières and the part of the district of Trois-Rivières to the west of the town

accompanied Bishop Ignace Bourget on an extensive visitation of the Ottawa valley in 1840. Struck by the lack of

Office, June, 1824, to the 31st of August, 1872 (Ottawa, 1882). Pioneers of Man. (Money et al.). U.S., Patent Office, Annual report

Bay, tr. from the French ed. of 1720 with notes and intro. by R. Douglas and J. N. Wallace (Ottawa, 1926), 28–30. N. M. Crouse, Lemoyne d’Iberville: soldier of New

Ottawa until demobilization, and the organization of the peacetime army prompted his retirement in 1921. For his wartime service Foster was awarded an honorary lld by McGill

. John N. Jennings Royal Canadian Mounted Police Arch. (Ottawa), Service