substitution of English-speaking Protestant inspectors for French inspectors will meet with the same reception as before – the children will walk out of the schools.” Two years later, after Ottawa’s

Commons while Borden, exhausted by his wartime leadership, spent most of the next year away from Ottawa. Often Reid’s news was not good. The Union government was collapsing, and in October 1919 Reid

White* to allow his bank to buy the Bank of Ottawa. Mergers required cabinet approval, and White was conscious that the disappearance of many banks between 1915 and 1918 had intensified public concern

(Ottawa), 1906, app.13: 86–88. ANQ-M, CE602-S14, 19 nov. 1868. Municipal Gazette of Montreal, 31 Oct. 1904. W. H

. The huge timber limits (1,228 1/2 square miles) that Ross had inherited from his brother, mainly in the Ottawa valley, made him the ninth largest holder in Quebec in 1890. He had also gone into

Geological Survey of Canada . . . (Montreal, 1883). Ludwik Kos-Rabcewics-Zubkowski, The Poles in Canada (Ottawa and Montreal, 1968). Morris Zaslow, Reading the rocks: the story of

North America . . . , comp. C. H. Stewart ([2nd ed.], Ottawa, 1964). R. S. Allen, A history of the British Indian Department in North America, 1755

, box 102, f.3, Marius Barbeau, “The Gwenhoot of Alaska in search of a bounteous land” (typescript, Ottawa, 1959); Northwest coast files ser., folder: Gitxatin, B-F-104, box B8, ff.12-13; box B9, f.1

(Ottawa, 1873), translated into French as Relation d’un voyage à Manitoba, accompagnée d’une analyse de l’Acte concernant les terres de la Puissance et d’un extrait du pamphlet publié par le

cooperation with Captain John Le Breton, he had obtained a valuable lot near the Chaudière Falls on the Ottawa

founded a permanent organization in 1885 and nearly defeated the Norquay government in the election of the following year, mainly on the subject of Ottawa’s disallowance of provincial railway charters and

had returned from the ambulatory conference that had taken him to Charlottetown, Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), he encountered a hostile New Brunswick

Council. As a cabinet member, Starnes profited by the purchase of land in which he owned an interest for the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway, the provincially controlled railway along the

Canadian Light Infantry on 12 Aug. 1914 while passing through Ottawa, doubtless because of his family connections, he sailed with the regiment to England, arriving on 14 October. One night he

. The government’s policy of grazing leases favoured large ranches and its implementation favoured those with political connections in Ottawa. Small ranchers and farmers who were in the country before the

Company. The 1821 agreement made it the Montreal representative of the HBC and left it to run the Montreal department, which included the Ottawa River posts and, until the lease expired, the king’s posts

, 1909-10, 1913, 1918. J. S. Belrose, “Fessenden and the birth of radio communication” (unpublished paper, Ottawa, 1991; copy in possession of the contributor). Canadian men and women of the time

annum for five years, a nominal figure given that its annual profits twice surpassed $2 million in these years. Turner was equally adept at dealing with authorities in Ottawa, fending off, for

, 1863; a translation, The Canadians of old, was published in the same place in 1864) and Mémoires (Ottawa, 1866). Between 1907 and 1914 Vallée had as a colleague Michael Joseph

, Frederick Wade received his early education in the public schools of Ottawa and Owen Sound, Ont. In 1879 he entered the ba program at the University of Toronto and he graduated

vice-president under his father; Herbert moved to Ottawa. By 1900 the Toronto firm was the sole distributor in Canada of Edison phonographs and records. Richard Sr retired in 1903 because of failing

quarrels with Sandfield Macdonald and open disagreements with the federal wing of the coalition. Leading a group of ministerial mavericks at Ottawa he opposed the grant of “better terms” to Nova Scotia, and

opportunity for public service, and he accepted the job. He arrived in Ottawa in late July. The following month Mulock also offered him the position of deputy minister of labour, which he formally took up on 15

Marion Verschoyle Cronyn in Toronto, and they had two daughters, one of whom died in infancy, and a son; d. 1 April 1965 in Ottawa, and was buried there in Beechwood Cemetery

the recent Toronto printers’ strike [see James Beaty*]. In 1879 he tried in vain to rally Ottawa’s Reformers behind Daniel John

. 1919 in Ottawa. According to some sources, Wilfrid Laurier’s ancestor François Cottineau, dit Champlaurier, a native of Saint-Claud, France

paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee painted buffalo robes in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, 1993). Can., Dept. of Indian Affairs, Annual report (Ottawa), 1887: 100; 1898: 126. J. [S

of a profession (London, 1968). D. W. Thomson, Men and meridians: the history of surveying and mapping in Canada (3v., Ottawa, 1966–69), I, 225–26, 231. “Alexander

expedition followed the route of the Rivière des Outaouais (Ottawa), and it was anticipated that Allemand would be able to take command of an English ship if the French succeeded in capturing one, which

 H. M. Carscallen (Ottawa) and Mrs C. R. T. Cunningham (Toronto). Rebecca Almon also had her portrait done by Field at the same time, but the whereabouts of the work, said to be one

[James Anderson], “Chief Factor James Anderson’s Back River journal of 1855,” ed. C. H. D. Clarke, Canadian Field-Naturalist (Ottawa), LIV (1940), 63–67, 84–89, 107–9, 125–26, 134

by his correspondence with the de Salaberry family, never before published, extending from 1791 to 1814 (Ottawa and Toronto, 1870); The lower St. Lawrence

Indian Exhibition at South Kensington, 1886 (Ottawa, 1887), 44. Gazette (Montreal), 16 July 1860; 6 May 1863; 17 April 1865; 16 Feb., 19 Dec. 1867

for the North West Company and during this trip he kept a diary in which he described the journey from Lachine, Lower Canada, up the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing (Ont.) and from there to Georgian Bay

province of British Columbia on pp.8–36 of its Minutes of evidence (Ottawa, 1904), also available as Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1904, no.36a

. Lawrence and Welland canals (Ottawa, 1882). John Mactaggart, Three years in Canada: an account of the actual state of the country in 1826–7–8 . . . (2v., London, 1829). Montreal

, preliminary hearing transcript. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters (Ottawa), 33-HQ-681-F-10 (Edward Bates murder file). [W. A.] Waiser, Saskatchewan: a new history (Calgary

. However, this project, which would eventually connect Montreal and Ottawa, was set in a much broader context than what the ultramontanes called “the national task” of colonization. The company directors

*. In elections held in 1843 Mother Beaubien was chosen assistant superior. In the autumn of 1844 she was named superior of the new community of the Sisters of Charity at Bytown (Ottawa

.] Can., Dept. of National Defence, National Defence Headquarters, Directorate of Hist. (Ottawa), Awards and decorations file. NA, RG 150, Acc. 1992–93/166. Elizabeth [Bell-Irving] O’Kiely

ANQ-M, CE1-51, 22 févr. 1897. Can., Royal commission on labour and capital, Report (5v. in 6, Ottawa, 1889). Le Monde (Montréal), 1893–94. La Presse, 20

parliamentary procedure. He eventually became president of the Nova Scotia Press Association and the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa. Bertram sold the Herald in 1906

Library and Arch. Can. (Ottawa), MG11-CO220CapeBretonB, vol.7 (Minutes of Executive Council, Cape Breton B, 1790–93), 6 Feb. 1792 (copy at

Scotland, Synod papers. UCC, Montreal-Ottawa Conference Arch. (Montreal), St Gabriel Street Church, parish records, box II. Montreal Gazette, 13 May 1845. Borthwick, Hist

(Ottawa, [1967]). J. W. Longley, Sir Charles Tupper (Toronto, 1926). C. J. Townshend, “The Honourable James McDonald,” N.S. Hist. Soc. Coll., XX (1921), 139–53. The

 1795. ASQ, Polygraphie, XXXVI: li. F.-X. Garneau, Voyage en Angleterre et en France dans les années 1831, 1832 et 1833, Paul Wyczynski, édit. (Ottawa, 1968). Le Canadien

. The years from 1867 to 1875 were the most active of Blanchet’s career. In addition to duties as a federal member in Ottawa and as speaker at Quebec which kept him busy for more than half the year

, The development of Canadian art (Ottawa, [1963]). Gérard Morisset, L’architecture en Nouvelle-France (Québec, 1949). Ramsay Traquair, The old architecture of Quebec (Toronto, 1947

subsequently practised at L’Isle-Verte and Trois-Pistoles. He then spent a year as a novice with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Ottawa, with the intention of becoming a lay brother and afterwards a missionary

. . . (Ottawa, 1879), 40–42, 90–91. Canadian directory of parl. (Johnson), 61–62. J. Desjardins, Guide parl., 180, 294. Pierre Brault, Histoire de L’Acadie du Haut-Richelieu