NISSOWAQUET (Nosawaguet, Sosawaket, La Fourche, Fork), Ottawa chief; the name apparently comes from Nassauaketon, meaning forked

 March 1884 in Ottawa, eldest of the three children of John Gorman, a civil servant, and Elizabeth Rose Warnock; d. there 24 April 1933

) in Berlin (Kitchener), Ont., and they had a daughter; m. secondly 11 June 1913 in Ottawa Emily Colby White (d. 1948), daughter of Thomas

CUSHING, LEMUEL, pioneer of the Ottawa valley, businessman of Chatham, Que., volunteer militiaman during the 1837

at Quebec, son of Peter LeSueur and Barbara Dawson; m. 19 Sept. 1867 Anne Jane Foster in Montreal, and they had a son and a daughter; d. 23 Sept. 1917 in Ottawa

.; d. 19 Sept. 1878, at Ottawa, Ont., and buried at Niagara. John Simpson was a linen draper in London, England, before moving to

 Nov. 1890 Annie E. McDonald in Ottawa, and they had at least four daughters and three sons; d. 12 Sept. 1921 near Ivanhoe, Ont. Of

Harwood*, and they had seven children; m. secondly 22 March 1897 Marie-Louise Panet in Ottawa, and they had three children; d. there 14 April 1911

bishop. Aubert left the west in 1850, and until 1857 resided at the bishop’s palace in Bytown (Ottawa), where he was vicar general (1851–56), superior

at Crossac, commune of Sainte-Sigolème, dept of Haute-Loire, France, son of François Deléage and Jeanne Romeyer, farmers; d. 1 Aug. 1884 at Ottawa, Ont

Killarney (Republic of Ireland), eldest son of John O’Donoghue and Catherine Flynor (Flynn); m. 15 Sept. 1870 Marie-Marguerite Cloutier in Ottawa, and they had 11 children, of whom 3

, daughter of Donald Boyle and Catherine Twite of Kerry (Republic of Ireland), and they had no children; publicly hanged in Ottawa, 11 Feb. 1869

Cecilia Thomson; m. there 26 Dec. 1877 Janet Reid Thomson of Ottawa, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 3 May 1906 in Clifton Springs, N.Y., and was buried in Pembroke

Freiman* in Ottawa, and they had a son and three daughters, one of whom was adopted; d. 2 Nov. 1940 in Montreal and was buried in Ottawa’s United Jewish Community Cemetery (Jewish Memorial

. secondly 2 July 1889 George Eulas Foster* in Chicago; they had no children; d. 17 Sept. 1919 in Ottawa

facilitate their repatriation. He obtained grants from Ottawa enabling him to bring back 300 families. During his 18 years in the Eastern Townships Father Gendreau built chapels, churches, and presbyteries. A

. In March 1815 Le Breton had petitioned for land in Upper Canada. Four years later his grant was located in Nepean Township in the Ottawa River valley, where he settled and later erected mills. His

Maclaren came to Upper Canada in 1822 when his father gave up his hardware trade in Glasgow to settle in Richmond. The family later moved to Torbolton Township on the Ottawa River, where David MacLaren

as its explorer in the northwest. He was named dominion botanist to the GSC in November 1881 and the following year he moved with his family to Ottawa. In 1887 he was appointed the survey’s naturalist

career in business stands in marked contrast to that of a number of American families who were drawn to the Ottawa valley with the ratification of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 and later became part of

 July 1861 in Edinburgh, son of David Bell and Margaret Taylor; m. 2 Jan. 1889 Sydney MacCarthy, and they had one son; d. 1 March 1904 in Ottawa

, Scotland, son of John Burgess and Ann Davidson; m. 7 July 1873 Margaret Beatrice Anderson, and they had four daughters and three sons; d. 25 Feb. 1898 in Ottawa

(Ottawa). James Johnston immigrated to the Canadas in 1815 and in May 1827 leased property in Bytown. During the next two decades he was at the

, and whisky were Montreal and the Point (Ottawa), the bustling construction headquarters for the Rideau Canal. The legal matters which arose regularly from his businesses and land activities (including

, second son of Captain John Benning Monk and Eliza Ann Fitzgerald; d. unmarried 24 Aug. 1896 in Ottawa. Henry Wentworth Monk was the son

children; d. 28 May 1925 in Ottawa and was buried there in Beechwood Cemetery. Edward W. B. Morrison was educated at schools in Galt

the Department of National Defence camp at Dundurn during the spring of 1935. As soon as word of a march on Ottawa by unemployed men from British Columbia reached the camp, some 200 men headed

1900 Catherine Mary Wilson in Chicago; they apparently had no children; d. 10 Nov. 1930 in Ottawa. Little is known of John G

, son of William Pinhey and Mary Townley; m. 12 Dec. 1812 Mary Anne Tasker in London, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 3 March 1857 in Ottawa and was buried in the graveyard

, across Lower Canada, up the Ottawa and Trent river systems, and as far west as Fort Frances (Ont.) and Rainy Lake. He also carried out a limited private practice as a surveyor, and his signature on

., son of François Brunet and Léocadie Joly; d. 7 Jan. 1922 in Montreal. In 1873 François-Xavier Brunet’s parents settled in Ottawa, where his father

-Louise Le Moine in Ottawa; they had no children; d. there 28 Oct. 1935 and was buried three days later in the Le Moine-des-Pins family vault in Château-Richer, Que

 Aug. 1816 in the parish of Shotts, Scotland, only son of David Gilmour, a farmer, and Betty —; d. unmarried 25 Feb. 1895 in Ottawa

 Ottawa. Otto Klotz Sr immigrated from Kiel (Germany) to New York City in 1837 and then settled in Preston. Married in 1839 to the German-born

, and Lucy Bowen; m. there 15 June 1865 Mary Jane Walker, and they had five daughters and two sons; d. 2 Nov. 1929 in Ottawa. The

. McGuckin’s record and the Oblate order’s need of a new head for the College of Ottawa led to his appointment as rector there in 1889. Founded some 40 years earlier by French-speaking Oblates, the

. The McIntyre firm had extended its reach up the St Lawrence and Ottawa valleys and into the Eastern Townships. In the early 1860s McIntyre began to invest in two railways which supplied many of his

sons and two daughters; d. 5 May 1847 in Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada. Charles Shirreff came from a Scottish family of merchants and

Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island. Jean-Baptiste Assiginack was for a long time prominent in the Ottawa band on Manitoulin Island, acting as a bridge between his

, and Abbie Whidden Brown; m. 25 April 1882 Ada Jane Borradaile (d. 1913) in Ottawa, and they had at least one son and three daughters; d. 11 Feb. 1924 in Royal Leamington Spa, England

), Ottawa war chief; b. c. 1730, probably in the Detroit River region; d. c. 1800 in southeastern Michigan. Egushwa

deCarteret, a servant, who later married Thomas Godfrey; m. 15 Nov. 1884 Annie Storey of Ottawa, and they had three daughters and one son; d. 18 or 19 Jan. 1908 in Westmount, Que

included a year as an intern at the Montreal General Hospital and one as medical superintendent at the Garrett Hospital for Children in Baltimore, Md. He then moved to Ottawa, where he was associated

, in Ottawa, and they had a daughter; d. there 4 May 1920. Donald Macdonald was educated in local schools before entering the 2nd

Ottawa River and Timiskaming districts. During that period, Governor George Simpson wrote in 1832, he proved to be

Saint-Maurice River and Île d’Orléans in 1852. Richardson played a major role in the collection of mineral specimens from the Ottawa and Quebec, regions

 1908 in Ottawa. Beaufort Henry Vidal and his brother accompanied their father to Upper Canada in 1850 when he went to settle on lands he had acquired

. The newly-weds were soon transported from the gaity of Quebec society to the sombre bush of the Ottawa valley. On William’s retirement George was joined in the business by his brothers Robert and John

ecclesiastical studies, he came to New France, arriving at Quebec on 7 June 1669. The following summer he was sent to the Ottawa mission at Sault Ste Marie with Father Gabriel

 Aug. 1912 in Ottawa. In 1865 the Bouchettes, like other families of office holders in the city of Quebec, moved to Ottawa, the new