of Queen Victoria’s selection of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. Moreover, Lindsey received occasional perquisites: in 1855 he was appointed an honorary commissioner to the universal exposition

been in power in Ottawa and had Fielding not been a powerful minister in Sir Wilfrid Laurier*’s cabinet, Longley would never have secured

(Winnipeg), 77 (1997–98), no.2: 9–19. Can., House of Commons, Select committee on the causes of the difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869–70, Report (Ottawa, 1874). The Canadian north

; d. 21 March 1912 in Ottawa. Andrew A. Macdonald is best seen as part of a family dynasty that dominated the political and economic

were involved. From 1870 to 1874 Manning joined with Toronto builder William Farquhar to do the masonry and brickwork for the Library of Parliament in Ottawa. Manning’s role in the project is uncertain

. Ottawa Citizen, 9 July 1929. Spokesman (Drummondville, Que.), 22 Jan. 1929. Canadian directory of parl. (Johnson). J. L. Granatstein

Druillettes in the study of Montagnais and other Indian languages – among which, by 1673, he was fluent in six. On 20 May 1668, he left Quebec for the Ottawa mission, joining Father Claude

construct a line from Perth to the Credit Valley Railway northwest of Toronto so as to provide the CPR with a connection between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. In 1884 he succeeded Stephen as president of the

elected to the House of Commons for Rouville on 28 Aug. 1872, thanks to the backing of the curé of Saint-Césaire. A Mercier, fired with enthusiasm, moved to Ottawa, perhaps not sufficiently conscious

Protestant mission, his wife spent considerable time at the Mitchells’ attempting to learn the Ottawa language. She was frustrated, however, because their time was taken up by card parties for ladies and

requests were evidently numerous, for his memoirs, government correspondence, and newspaper reports reveal his involvement in cases in a multitude of communities including Cornwall, Ottawa, Pickering

Conservation Instit. (CCI) in Ottawa for authentication. The CCI’s report was delivered in September 2016. On 15 December 2023 the gallery issued a press release, which was linked at the bottom of the web page

proceedings of that body; those in the Senate of Canada, for 1867–68, in Senate debates, 1867–68, ed. P. B. Waite (Ottawa, 1967). The later Senate debates to 1870 have not yet been

Montreal for three years and then, in 1848, settled on a comfortable farm by the Ottawa River, near St Andrews. McDonald played an active role in local affairs, serving as justice of the peace and

opposition to the Liberals in Quebec and Ottawa, who in its view “were playing into the hands of British imperialism in Canada.” La Nation did not outlive its founder, and disappeared in 1909

. 1819; 6 April 1820; 4 Oct. 1821. J. R. Harper, Everyman’s Canada; paintings and drawings from the McCord Museum of McGill University (Ottawa, 1962). Massicotte

-confederation premier in September 1873. Why he was selected is not at all clear. The best explanation is that most of the available talent of the day, including Pope, had headed off for Ottawa after the Island

. Edmund Burke, bishop of Zion, first vicar apostolic of Nova Scotia (Ottawa, 1894); and three articles in the RSC Trans.: “The supernatural in nature considered in the light

. parus, Québec, 1887–  ), [6]. Séraphin Marion, Les lettres canadiennes d’autrefois (9v., Hull, Qué., et Ottawa, 1939–58), 6; “La querelle des humanistes au XIXe

the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers that today bears his name. He established a fur-trading post on the island, employed coureurs de bois, and forestalled the fur-traders of Montreal. Such

Sabrevois* de Bleury. Oil paintings by Raphael of Canadian governors general were reputed to have hung in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. A photograph of a full-length painting, Gladstone and

, [Ross] was elected fair.” In Ottawa Ross looked after the interests of his constituents as best he could, lobbying for facilities for Selkirk and enquiring about land titles as well as timber and mining

”: www.findagrave.com (consulted 11 Aug. 2020). Jewish Public Library, Arch. (Montreal), Fonds 1066 (Steinberg/Rafman family fonds). Library and Arch. Can. (Ottawa), R233-114-9, Que., dist. Georges-Étienne

Borden to Ottawa, while their Catholic running mates, Thomas Edward Kenny* and Michael Edwin Keefe, were defeated. When

. Lawrence. Courcelle was also very disturbed over attempts made by the Ottawa nation, the chief suppliers of furs to the French, to trade with the Dutch and

; with remarks . . . (London, 1830). Pierre de Sales Laterrière, Mémoires de Pierre de Sales Laterrière et de ses traverses, [Alfred Garneau, édit.] (Québec, 1873; réimpr. Ottawa

–1960” (phd thesis, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, 1997). Barry Mack, “From preaching to propaganda to marginalization: the lost centre of twentieth-century Presbyterianism,” in

, as a member of an American delegation of nurses, she had had tea with Queen Victoria.) In 1897 Lady Aberdeen asked Scovil to speak in Saint John, Ottawa, and Victoria on behalf of her

$6,500. This was a handsome sum, but not enough to repay his brother and erase all his outstanding debts. So, while he commuted between Toronto and Ottawa to administer Intercolonial affairs, he kept an

(Toronto, 1978); J. A. Tuck, Newfoundland and Labrador prehistory (Ottawa, 1976); and L. F. S. Upton, “The extermination of the Beothucks of Newfoundland,” CHR, 58

Year at Lyons (1671–72). Silvy arrived at Quebec 30 Sept. 1673, and the following year he was assigned to the missions to the Ottawas. It was

Tangué, a mason, and Reine Barthell; d. 28 April 1902 in Ottawa. Cyprien Tanguay attended elementary school at Quebec. When he was just

alternative designs, one in a Gothic style reminiscent of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and another in an eclectic mix of Second Empire and Classical styles. These, however, were quickly set aside by the

among the tribes living nearby, who were allies of the French but who distrusted one another. When the Ottawas [see Le

Chronicle, 20 Feb. 1922. A. F. Duguid, Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War, 1914–1919 (only 1v. in 2 pts. [1914–September 1915] was published, Ottawa

, Scotland; m. first 1849 Elizabeth Somerville, and they had six sons and one daughter; m. secondly – Scoville; d. 25 March 1905 in Ottawa

Bertram*]. In 1900 White and Thomas Southworth, of the department’s bureau of forestry, were the province’s representatives at the founding conference in Ottawa of the Canadian Forestry Association

son of Benjamin and Phebe Wier; d. 14 April 1868 at Ottawa, Ont. The Wier family migrated to Nova Scotia in the early 1760s as part of a

 – their own Ottawa, so to speak; their own Lieutenant-Governor, and their own Parliament?” In support of his arguments, Fair Play makes use of Wilson’s trips to the American southwest, particularly his

studied law, Wood sought and won the Conservative nomination in 1882. Although the possibility of losing her husband, already frequently absent on business, to Ottawa rather disconcerted Laura Wood, it was

Arch. Can. (Ottawa), R233-35-2, Ont., dist. Toronto (134), subdist. St Patrick Ward (H), div. 1: 120. British Colonist (Toronto), 14 Jan. 1848. Globe, 12, 14, 15 Jan

, ed. William Cowan (Ottawa, 1982), 53–63. J. S. Long, “‘Shaganash’: early Protestant missionaries and the adoption of Christianity by the Western James Bay Cree, 1840–1893” S.C. ed. thesis

 août 1683. Germain Lesage, “L’arrivée du régiment de Carignan,” Rev. de l’univ. d’Ottawa, XXXV (1965): 11–34.

missionaries in Canada and North America, 1732–1839 (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1962). Frédéric Landry, Capitaines des hauts-fonds (Ottawa, 1978). Robert Rumilly, Histoire des Acadiens (2v

for us by the Relation for 1667, was the most arduous of all, and it enables us to gauge the spiritual stature of Father Allouez. Scorned by the Ottawas, who did not want him among them, and

, Histoire des Abénakis d’Odanak (1675–1937) (Montréal, 1964), 188–95; Histoire de Saint-François-du-Lac (Ottawa, 1942), 224–33. P.-G. Roy, “La

of Labour in Ottawa, taking the place of Victor Dubreuil*, who had recently died. He resigned in a huff at the end of August, after

royale sur les relations du capital avec le travail, Rapport (5v. en 6, Ottawa, 1888–89), Québec, [II]. Canadian Labor Reformer (Toronto), 25 Feb., 10 March 1888

[Works by Michael Arnoldi are held in Quebec City at the Musée du Québec and at the archbishop’s palace; in Montreal by the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph; in Ottawa in the Henry Birks Collection

of the Royal Astronomical Society (of which he was a fellow). It, too, had been controversial and, in fact, was soon proved incorrect. In 1875 Ashe ascertained a number of longitudes along the Ottawa