Mowat* to pass a statute instituting weekly sittings of the High Court of Justice at London and Ottawa over the strong objections of both Toronto-based legal journals, the Canada Law Journal

also contracted for logs from the Rivière de l’Achigan above L’Assomption, and by 1851 he was investing considerable capital in saw log production on the Ottawa River. That year he contracted with

; hence in 1870 he was appointed secretary to the Dominion Board of Trade. As such, he organized the annual meeting of this body, which brought to Ottawa delegates of the boards of trade throughout the

. Novascotian, 24 Aug. 1857. R. H. Whitehead, “Christina Morris: Micmac artist and artist’s model,” Material Hist. Bull. (Ottawa), 3 (spring 1977): 1–14.

created for it by McGill, the school decided to affiliate with some other better disposed university. After fruitless negotiations with the Université Laval and the University of Ottawa, the school, through

stood 13th out of 29 competitors in a well-publicized competition for an administrative building to be erected on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. His plan for the Montreal Technical School was evidently no

. Vachon, “Inv. critique des notaires royaux,” RHAF, X (1956–57), 257f. T.-M. Charland, Histoire de Saint-François du Lac (Ottawa, 1942). Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada: aux

Ottawa, in 1904–5, as assistant director of the Académie De-La-Salle, he would spend the rest of his life at Mont-Saint-Louis. According to his

ses descendants ([Trois-Rivières, Qué.], 1971), 217–37. P.-H. Hudon, Rivière-Ouelle de la Bouteillerie; 3 siècles de vie (Ottawa, 1972), 219. Gabriel Nadeau, “L’ancêtre des Piuze

(1853); Instructions for crown surveys, book 5 (1844–61): 101, 140–42, 204–8. Canada, Indian treaties and surrenders . . . [1680–1906] (3v., Ottawa, 1891–1912; repr. Toronto

the northwest coast of North America, 1579–1809 (Vancouver, 1980). J. T. Walbran, British Columbia coast names, 1592–1906 . . . (Ottawa, 1909; repr. Vancouver, 1979

superintendent of the journal department for both the Toronto District WCTU and the Parkdale union between 1895 and 1897. This department sought subscribers for the WCTU’s Woman’s Journal (Ottawa) and

, “Les entreprises de William Price, 1810–1850,” Social Hist. (Ottawa), no.1 (April 1968): 16–52.

of the Napoleonic wars, obtained a monopoly on orders of Canadian lumber for the Admiralty. Price devoted most of his time to filling such orders, travelling through the forests of Vermont, the Ottawa

Canal, Report (Ottawa, 1887). Canadian Soc. of Civil Engineers, Trans. (Montreal), 26 (1912): 33. Directory, Montreal, 1863–1900. Guide to the manufactures of Ontario and

. Nothing is known of George Purvis before he immigrated to British North America in 1867. Shortly after his arrival an English company engaged him to oversee its lumber and farming operations in the Ottawa

; TP1, S28, P3553; TP1, S28, P3556; TP1, S36, P262. Library and Arch. Can. (Ottawa), MG 18, H8, 11 janv. 1652.

, 28; RG 14, 73. Private arch., F. H. Hicks (Ottawa), Memoranda written by John and James Quirk. [James Lumsden], American memoranda, by a mercantile man, during a short tour in the summer

Raizenne, named] Sœur Saint-Jean l’Évangéliste, Notes historiques sur la famille Raizenne . . . ([Ottawa], 1932). E. J. Lajeunesse, “The coming of the first nun to Upper Canada,” CCHA

on the understanding that construction of a transcontinental railway was imminent. He went on to Ottawa, where according to family tradition his first job involved stone work on an extension to the

Daily British Whig, September 1877–May 1878. Evening Telegram (Toronto), May 1877–October 1878, October 1881–July 1882. Free Press (Ottawa), 20

 1877 to 1881 to obtain control of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway Company. He went to the universal exposition in Paris in 1878 with his friend Drolet, the Canadian delegate, and both

. Allen, “The British Indian department and the frontier in North America, 1755–1830,” Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History (Ottawa), no. 14 (1975), 5–125.

subdivided. In the 1850s the government decided that the land lying between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay should be opened for settlement and planned a

, Illustrated guide to the House of Commons of Canada . . . (Ottawa, 1875), plate xxxv and no.29; there is a good caricature, signed J.T. [Joseph Tinsley], in the Hamilton Spectator, 15

arrival his superior, Pierre de La Chasse, sent him to the mission to the Ottawas. Did he, at the

(Ottawa, 1962). R. M. and Joyce Baldwin, The Baldwins and the great experiment (Don Mills [Toronto], 1969). G. E. Boyce, Historic Hastings (Belleville, Ont., 1967); Hutton of

. Jean Trudel [Many of François Sasseville’s works are held by the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Henry Birks Collection

. Faillon, Histoire de la colonie française, III, 222. Germain Lesage, “L’arrivée du régiment de Carignan,” Revue de l’Université d’Ottawa, XXXV (1965), 11–34. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Le

younger, Raoul, represented Soulanges in parliaments in Quebec and in Ottawa and died prematurely at the age of 40. Jean

NWC at the Lac des Chats post (near Quyon) on the Ottawa River. In 1807, having been charged by Duncan McGillivray

 farmers to Ottawa to put their grievances directly before the Canadian government. At the meeting there, Scallion spoke in support of the removal of the high tariff that crippled farmers who were dependent

Abraham* and Samuel Nordheimer of Toronto. An arrangement by Sefton of the hymn “Rock of ages” appears in The Canadian musical heritage, ed. Elaine Keillor et al. (9v. to date, Ottawa

Klondike (Seattle, Wash., and Ganges, B.C., 1990). William Ogilvie, Early days on the Yukon: & the story of its gold finds (Ottawa, 1913).

communicated with specialists in Ottawa and at the Iowa Agricultural College but was critical of the fruit-growing methods they advocated. His cultural practices were a testament to his acumen for he discovered

from June 1813 through 1814 for the Johnstown and Eastern districts (eastern Ontario between the St Lawrence and Ottawa rivers). Besides issuing pay, he purchased clothing and supplies for “all

. He is credited with persuading Ottawa to impose a 0.5 per cent tariff on fish imported from the United States and to lower rates for shipping fresh and processed seafood by rail from the east

. . . , ed. R. E. Leader (London and New York, 1897), 8–17. F.-J. Audet, “Les députés de la vallée de l’Ottawa: John Simpson (1788–1873),” CHA Report, 1936, 32–39.

Intelligencer (Belleville), 21-22 Aug. 1922. G. A. Hallowell, Prohibition in Ontario, 1919-1923 (Ottawa, 1972).

- and nineteenth-century Newfoundland gravestones: self-sufficiency, economic specialization, and the creation of artifacts,” Material Hist. Bull. (Ottawa), 12 (1981): 1–16.

was a victory both for the Irish, who gained a broker in Ottawa, and for Macdonald, who retained Irish Catholic support. Not all the Irish were satisfied: Patrick

ANQ-M, CE1-63, 4 avril 1808; CE1-68, 5 juin 1837. ANQ-Q, CE1-66, 8 juill. 1805. UCC, Montreal–Ottawa Conference Arch. (Montreal), St Gabriel Street Church, parish records, box I. UCC

Farrell, and the bishop of Ottawa, J.-B. Guigues, and in 1857 the bishop of London, Adolphe

University. He served several Methodist circuits, including Montreal, Aylmer, Que., Ottawa, Quebec City, and Kingston. From the outset, his leadership was recognized not only by the congregations to which he

and His Majesty’s Theatre. His empire extended to Toronto, Ottawa, Boston, and even New York. He reorganized his firm that year under the corporate name of J. B. Sparrow Theatrical and Amusement

., Quebec City: architects, artisans and builders (Ottawa, 1984), 507-17. The storied province of Quebec; past and present, ed. W. [C. H.] Wood et al. (5v

wrote to the Nor’-West Farmer and Miller reporting on the results of growing forest-tree seedlings which he had obtained from the experimental farm in Ottawa. He described their survival rates

increased subsidies or financial compensation over a series of issues, chief among them Ottawa’s failure to fulfill the clause of the 1873

in Ottawa. Some of Stone’s responsibilities with the Board of Trade obliged him to travel east occasionally, and in 1897 he contracted a serious

the admission of the province into the dominion (Ottawa, 1880). I. V. D. Heard, History of the Sioux war and massacres of 1862 and 1863 (New York, 1863), 159–65. M. A