Fisher and Susan Corse; d. unmarried 10 April 1921 in Ottawa. Originally from Scotland, Sydney Fisher’s paternal great-grandfather

 June 1923 in Ottawa. Born to a devoutly Roman Catholic family, Amédée-Emmanuel Forget attended the village school in Marieville, the School of

invited to exhibit and take part in preparing the Canadian presentations for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 and 1925, which was held at Wembley (London) and sponsored by Ottawa’s National Gallery of

undressed through the carriages of an Ottawa-to-Regina train. In 1889 Davin, with the help of Charles Edward Dudley Wood of the Fort Macleod Gazette and disgruntled members of the police, launched a

frequently. Residing first in Montreal, he travelled extensively along the St Lawrence and Ottawa rivers (1863–65) before settling once more, but he probably did not, as has been asserted, establish

 Lawrence route. This alternative followed the Ottawa and Rideau rivers to Kingston (a section completed in 1832) and contemplated that supplies in wartime would pass into the Bay of Quinte and go by the

prevent the Liberals from being returned to power at Quebec and in Ottawa. The bills creating the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, which

). In 1917 he moved to Ottawa to become administrative chairman of the nine-member Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (later the National Research Council). It had been

. Throughout his life, Charles Mair, the “warrior bard,” considered it his patriotic duty to crusade for Canada. He attributed this conviction to his origin in the Ottawa valley “in its primitive day.” His

. 8 May 1903 in Ottawa and was buried in Palmyra, Ont. David Mills’s father, a native of New York State, and his mother, from County Cavan

. In 1884 the government’s bill of fare was again meagre. After several trips to Ottawa, Pipes and Fielding decided that the federal government’s conditions for the transfer of the Pictou branch were

1924 Mary Frances Parker Keirstead in Wolfville, N.S., and they had two sons; d. 10 June 1940 near Newtonville, Ont., and was buried in Ottawa. Norman

clubs later collaborated with those of Kingston and Ottawa in establishing the Ontario Motor League, and they elected Russell as the first president in 1908. He was probably also the OML’s first approved

sessions at which civil servants and representatives of various organizations were heard. Eighty-five days of hearings were held in the provincial capitals and in Ottawa, with 397 witnesses making

1884, Agnes, then Mrs Chamberlin and settled in Ottawa, undertook negotiations for publication there of Catharine’s fullest nature work, Studies of plant life in Canada; or

Françoise Lepage in Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski, and they had six children, three of whom died at an early age; d. 15 April 1894 in Ottawa. Joseph

withdrew, it took in new partners. McPherson LeMoyne, a Montreal lumber merchant, and Robert J. Lusk, a Buckingham businessman, became the Thomsons’ chief representatives in the Ottawa valley; the two

Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway, which the cabinet of Charles Boucher* de Boucherville advocated (that is, to

1921 Jean Kilbourn Smith, and they had one daughter; d. 12 March 1930 in Rockcliffe (Ottawa) and was interred in the Mount Pleasant Mausoleum, Toronto

Sound district, and developed as the centre-piece of Bertram’s business empire. As the Ottawa valley became lumbered out, the attention of Canadian operators shifted to Georgian Bay. At the same time

(Ottawa), HPF 4191.C75R, no.127 (Grouard à Sœur Marie-Colombe, 4 déc. 1865). NA, MG 17, B2, C, C.1/I; C.1/L; C.1/O; C.2/O; G, C.1/I; C.1/L; C.1/O; C.2/O (mfm.). PAM, MG 12, E; HBCA, E.78/1–2

States, and Canada; a concert hall was used for rehearsals and other purposes. In 1882 Boucher and his son François opened a store in Ottawa. He dropped a number of duties he could have carried out

Headquarters Staff at Ottawa.” Following these revelations, the Conservatives introduced an amendment to the motion on the report – an action that was, in effect, a motion of censure against the government. This

“Carnival of novelties” (Ottawa, 1872), reflected the new direction. Theatre historian Gerald Lenton-Young postulates that the name of Burgess’s Gaiete Vaudeville Company, which operated in Ontario in 1871

1906–7 he also sat on the federal board of assessors appointed to select, from an open competition, a design for departmental buildings in Ottawa. When a bitter dispute erupted over the government’s

were enthusiastically received by Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* and his cabinet when Butler reached Ottawa in April

discussing the selection of a permanent capital: the cities of Quebec, Montreal, and Bytown (Ottawa) had been suggested. In 1857, nonplussed by varying opinions, the Macdonald–Cartier ministry obtained

on the grounds that his candidature would not only be an embarrassment to the government at Ottawa but also personally dangerous. Failing to convince Riel, Clarke accepted nomination in Provencher in

Selected stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford, edited by Penny Petrone and published in Ottawa, appeared and, in 1977, a previously undiscovered poem, named Hugh and Ion, was published by Glenn

, Curry used his political connections in Ottawa to secure munitions contracts [see Sir Joseph Wesley

returned to Ottawa with McDougall, leading Macdonald to reflect sourly that they had “done their utmost to destroy our chance of an amicable settlement” with the Métis. On 12 Feb. 1870 Dennis

France, petitioned Ottawa in 1917 for an elected council. That same year Louise Miller, the matron of the Young Bear clan of the Cayuga

. This then was the man who, in the spring of 1660, assumed the leadership of an expedition to the Ottawa. Like him, his 16 companions all came from Montreal and all were unmarried. Eight of them had

Canadian Mining Review (Ottawa) or the Canadian Mining Institute’s Journal (Ottawa and Montreal). His growing reputation in the field of iron and steel production earned him one of the vice

Marmier et le Canada, avec des documents inédits: relations franco-canadiennes au XIXe siècle (Quebec, 1967) and Bernard Pothier’s The Quebec model (Ottawa, 1978), a

. 22 March 1911 in Ottawa. Désiré Girouard attended a parish school in Saint-Timothée from 1844 to 1848 and the college of the Brothers of

orders in Canada. Montreal was Sulpician territory, Ottawa the province of the Oblates, and Quebec City a fief of the Séminaire de Québec. The community itself was divided over its future direction. Many

, a position he held for about two years. In 1906 he accompanied Conservative premier Richard McBride* to Ottawa and the next year to England

Indians had been plundered by the Ottawas who acted as middlemen between them and New France [see Kinongé]; as a

Statute of Westminster, repressed Communists, and supported Bennett’s decision to stop the On-to-Ottawa Trek. GUTHRIE

he kept a studio at the Art Association of Montreal for several years, and he frequently exhibited and sold his paintings at commercial galleries there and in Toronto and Ottawa. By 1901 he was earning

interest in the seigneuries of L’Islet-du-Portage, Pointe-à-l’Orignal on the Ottawa River, and Soulanges, to the latter of which he added in 1733 lands originally conceded to Gabriel and Pierre Hénault. The

of the National Council of Women of Canada, which was held in Ottawa. At the conclusion of her talk on literary clubs, she expressed a wish for closer harmony between Canada’s two linguistic groups

 … and God will not permit Canada, either at Ottawa or Victoria to carry out an unjust law discriminating against people who have received citizenship in our land.” Odlum also suggested that the Indigenous

), 1972: 36–76. Can., House of Commons, Special committee on Beauharnois power project [Minutes of proc. and evidence] (Ottawa, 1931); Senate, Debates, 1928–33; Special committee appointed

Rome or with Petitot’s relatives in France. All of these resources are, however, available in originals or copies at the Arch. Deschâtelets, Oblats de Marie-Immaculée, Ottawa. Photocopies of the Petitot

(4v., Ottawa, 1876), 3: 295. Michel Bibaud, “Littérature,” La Bibliothèque canadienne (Montréal), 2 (1825), no.1: 16–17. Yves Chartier, “La reconstitution musicale de Colas et

Ottawa; they had no children; they separated in December 1912; d. 12 July 1939 in Los Angeles and was buried eight days later in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in Montreal

capital had been referred to Queen Victoria and, to the annoyance of larger cities such as Toronto, she had selected Ottawa. Robinson was expected to support the queen’s (and hence the ministry’s

. Adolphe Routhier, “Quelques notes historiques sur l’Ô Canada,” Le Droit (Ottawa), 22 juill. 1980: 6. F.-J. Audet, Dictionnaire biographique des gouverneurs, lieutenants