-Pépin Germain, a notary at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, and Joseph-Gérasime, an Ottawa doctor, were also Césaire Germain’s sons
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. concessions, I, IV, 51; V, 1, 33; Inv. contrats de mariage, III, 132. Régis Roy, “Armoirie de la famille Gourdeau,” Annales de l’institut canadien-français d’Ottawa
the Saint-François-Xavier mission near Bécancour before leaving the St Lawrence valley for his first stay of five years in the western missions, particularly among the Ottawas. On 2 Feb. 1718
highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York through the Dominion of Canada in the year 1901 (Ottawa, 1903). S. A. Speisman, The Jews of Toronto: a history to 1937 (Toronto, 1979).
of leading citizens of the province of New Brunswick, ed. I. A. Jack (Boston, 1900). Census of Canada, 1870–71 (5v., Ottawa, 1873–78), 111. F. W. Wallace
Assembly, 1767–1967 (Ottawa, [1967]). George Patterson, Studies in Nova Scotian history (Halifax, 1940). G. G. Patterson, A history of the county of Pictou, Nova
licence in 1892. Little is known about her early career. It is likely that she followed her family which had moved to Ottawa around 1890. Biographical sketches claim that she was involved in mission work
missionnaires oblats de Marie-Immaculée dans l’est du Canada (12v., Ottawa, 1957–75), 4: 42–45; 8: 251–56. [J.-B.-A.] Ferland, Louis Gamache, le Labrador, opuscules (Québec, 1877). Marc Gagné
farmer, and Catherine Stewart; m. 25 Sept. 1866 Margaret Colcleugh in Mount Forest, Upper Canada, and they had 11 children; d. 7 Feb. 1928 in Ottawa
bar in 1823. Two years later, at age 28, he was appointed judge of the Ottawa District (Prescott, Russell, and part of Carleton counties), and for the rest of his life he held a series of appointments
County, in the Ottawa valley. He was skilled as a blacksmith, and this trade helped to augment his farm income. His first wife died in 1881, when she fell down a well, leaving him with two sons. He
, then spent some years at Longueuil, and after that resided at Montreal; in 1847 he stayed some time at Bytown (Ottawa) to give a helping hand to his confrères during the typhus epidemic. In 1853
businessmen, Laidlaw became president of the Victoria Railway, an extension of the Toronto and Nipissing, from Lindsay to the upper Ottawa River valley. Track reached the town of Haliburton in 1878 but went no
. de la pêche française de la morue, II, 601–3. David Lee, “The French in Gaspé, 1534 to 1760,” Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History (Ottawa), no.3
affair in Detroit, 1706–7. Le Pesant, after instigating the Ottawa-Miami brawl at Detroit, fled to Michilimackinac. Saint-Pierre was instructed by Vaudreuil to apprehend him. This he did, but only
posted to Hawkesbury, on the Ottawa River. In 1851 he married a daughter of former attorney general Henry Sherwood*, who had connections to
*, and Alexander Greenfield Macdonell*, member of the assembly and sheriff of the Ottawa District
Trudel, Le calvaire d’Oka (Ottawa, 1974). M. Trudel, L’Église canadienne. J.-A. Cuoq, “Anotc kekon,” RSC Trans., 1st ser., XI (1893), sect.i, 137
day and on the following days numerous witnesses appeared before the court. The slave, knowing only the Ottawa language, spoke through an interpreter appointed by the court, the armourer Joseph
trading heavily from Montreal to Michilimackinac. The company was particularly active in 1743 and 1744; for example, in March 1743 it provided supplies for 60 Ojibwas and Ottawas who were going
, Minweweh did not resist but moved his band westward. In 1765 he travelled through the Illinois country and the region around Fort Saint-Joseph (probably Niles, Mich.), planning with the Potawatomis, Ottawas
. That he is remembered today as a photographer is the result of a gift of some 225 negatives made to Prince Edward Island by Mitchell’s grandson, a resident of Ottawa, in 1972. A number of the negatives
throughout the vast region of the Ottawas, carrying out his ministry among the Indians and scattered whites. He left this post on 14 Sept. 1844 and was appointed parish priest of Saint-Joseph-de
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of the rebellion in the North-West Territories, and matters in connection therewith, in 1885 (Ottawa, 1886). Daily Manitoban (Winnipeg), 14 Feb. 1887. Hamilton Spectator
of work, with a list of provincial superintendents,” Woman’s Journal (Ottawa), 7 (1890–91), no.5, supp.: 1 (mfm. in AO, F 885). Canadian White Ribbon Tidings (London, Ont.), 1
sent to the mission to the Ottawas, which was centred at Michilimackinac. He took charge of the Saint-Joseph mission (probably Niles, Mich.), where he made great efforts to reconcile the Foxes with the
Charity of Ottawa, who took over educational responsibilities and founded a hospital.
In addition to the church at Mattawa, the missions in the lumber
drove off a large band of Iroquois, who had come to Michilimackinac to trade with the Hurons and Ottawas in hopes of luring them out of the French alliance. Later, Father
with the prisoners.” He accepted the presidency of the commission in 1869, and the following year went to Ottawa to live, with his wife Anne. It was during this same year that the federal government
Communes, Rapport du comité spécial sur les causes des troubles du Territoire du Nord-Ouest en 1869–70 (Ottawa, 1874), 21–23. “Letter of Louis Riel and Ambroise Lépine to Lieutenant-Governor Morris
. 1972 in Ottawa.
Born on St George’s Day in the year of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, Lester Pearson would be brought up in a home that reflected
Laurier took power in Ottawa in 1896, Pelletier was one of those who advised him on the composition of his cabinet. Knowing his reliability, Laurier made him speaker of the Senate on 13 July 1896
1904 in the Ottawa General Hospital and was buried 5 March in Saint-Lin, Que.
Following classical and theological studies in Lower Canada at the
–1904), II, 1–3. Guy Frégault, “La Compagnie de la colonie,” Revue de l’université d’Ottawa, XXX (1960), 127–49. “Madame veuve Regnard Duplessis,” BRH, XLII (1936
escorted in the Ottawa River region 43 Frenchmen who were making their way from Montreal towards Michilimackinac. The following year La Noue led a party of 625 men which set out from Montreal
.
After confederation, and the assumption of fisheries management by the new government in Ottawa, Rogers was appointed inspector of fisheries for Nova Scotia. His perambulations through the province and
La Porte de Louvigny on his expedition against the Iroquois of Grande Presqu’île, between the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. He was also a member of
that Henri-Thomas Scott attended school in Ottawa, Saint-Jérôme, Que., and Montreal. When he was about 15, he had his first physical education classes. At the end of his adolescent years, an interest in
-de-Sorel and Montreal with the Yamaska at the beginning of 1858, between the Saint-François River and William Henry with the Cygne, and between Quebec and Montreal with the Ottawa
SHAWANAKISKIE, Ottawa and convicted murderer; m. with at least one child; fl. 1813–26 in Upper
assembly’s debates concerning the construction, government management, and eventual sale of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. He wanted to make sure that Quebec City, which had invested a
Berton, Vimy (Toronto, 1986). Can., Dept. of Militia and Defence, Canadian Expeditionary Force: nominal rolls (13v., Ottawa, 1915–18), 1, 18th Battalion. Nicholson, CEF
mercantile community. As a politician, he was active in Quebec interests. In the debates on a capital for the united province, he strongly supported Quebec City and when Ottawa was chosen in 1857 he bitterly
). Gérard Morisset, La peinture traditionnelle au Canada français (Ottawa, 1960). W. A. Craick, “Letters; Cornelius Kreighoff,” Atlantic Advocate (Fredericton), 53 (1962–63
eldest son, Wilson Mills, who had been his father's executive assistant at the Spectator, moved to Ottawa to manage the newly acquired Ottawa Citizen. Wilson's place at the
prime minister of Canada, to have it purchased for Ottawa. The province of Quebec would acquire it only in 1923.
From 1907 to 1927 Suzor-Coté