*, inspector general of fortifications at the Board of Ordnance, to be superintending engineer for the construction of a canal system that would link the Ottawa River and Lake Ontario by way of the Rideau and

Alexander, an engineer and bridge builder; d. 13 Nov. 1843 at Bytown (Ottawa), and was buried at Glencairn, his farm in March Township, Upper Canada

leader, and office holder; b. 14 Oct. 1859 in Montreal; d. 14 March 1916 in Ottawa. Victor Dubreuil became involved in the

Pakenham, and was reported as itinerating in the area west of Bytown (Ottawa) along the Ottawa River in the townships of Torbolton, Fitzroy, Pakenham, McNab, and Horton and in some unsurveyed territory. On 1

Renaud Dubuisson, the commander of the fort, blamed Fox restlessness on English intrigue, the fighting had its origin in the animosities between the Mascoutens and the Ottawas who clashed on the

Ottawa. All these paintings are characterized by a vibrant linear quality and overtones reflecting an interest in genre. This same interest is found in works of such contemporaries as Cornelius

dry-salter, and Agnes Allison; m. 5 April 1899 Maud (Maude) Mary Buckley in Paris, Ont., and they had two daughters, one of whom predeceased him; d. 26 Feb. 1932 in Ottawa and was

. 1908 in Ottawa. Unlike most lawyers of his day, George Wheelock Burbidge began his career with a university education: he read classics at Mount

stretched from Lake St Francis to the Ottawa River, had to be surveyed several times, beginning in 1859, and it was finally settled in 1862. The following year Fletcher explored the Saguenay region with

GRANT, ROBERT HENRY, farmer and politician; b. 5 Aug. 1860 in Ottawa, eldest child of Robert Grant and Eliza Hardy; m

, 1st grade, at Eastern Command. In the summer of 1911 Gwatkin returned to Ottawa as general staff officer, mobilization. Though he believed that war

bridges on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway between Montreal and Ottawa, from 1882 to 1884 he took pictures of bridges built by the Dominion Bridge Company Limited for the Canadian

., Rachel Louisa Piper, née Hughson (d. 1904); d. 15 July 1913 in Ottawa. Hugh Richardson immigrated with his family to York (Toronto

project with which Rubidge was associated was the design and construction of public buildings in Ottawa. In 1856 he estimated the cost of projected public buildings when a new capital was selected for the

James Scott, a builder and manufacturer, and Margaret McEwan; d. unmarried 27 Jan. 1925 in Ottawa. William D. Scott was descended from

nothing to Catholic institutions in Hull, where his business was located and though he had been its mayor. The eleemosynary institutions he favoured were Protestant and on the Ottawa side. Quebec, in

abroad, studying in England, France, Germany, and Austria. Back in Canada in the late fall of 1904, Bell established a practice in Ottawa and accepted a

Herridge* in Ottawa, and they had one son; d. 12 May 1938 in New York City and was buried six days later in Vancouver. Mildred Mariann

Saint-Pé* to Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) where he first met the Ottawa Indians, to whom he would minister for nearly 30 years. The risk

College there; they had no children; d. 31 July 1929 in Ottawa and was buried in Cobourg. Charles Harriss was an ardent and outspoken British

, having recovered from what she called a “breakdown,” she took on a class at Blezard Valley. At the English-French summer model school in Ottawa in 1922, she had obtained an English-French district

in 1857 entered the College of Bytown in Ottawa [see Joseph-Henri Tabaret*]. After three years there he completed three years

. 10 June 1907 in Ottawa. Thomas Macfarlane left school at the age of 11 to enter a lawyer’s office in Pollokshaws. His real

James McKenna, a merchant, and Rose Ann Duffy; m. 7 Aug. 1888 Mary Joanna Josephine Ryan in Ottawa, and they had five daughters and two sons; d. 30 May 1919 in Victoria

PAC, MG 26, A (Macdonald papers), 188, 194, 204, 228, 339; B (Mackenzie papers), ser.2, 1; MG 27, 1, 117 (James O’Reilly papers). PAO, Sir Alexander Campbell papers, 1872. Ottawa

. 1870, however, Ritchot was once again in the public eye when he was named a delegate to the Canadian government in Ottawa, together with John

Cartier was generously rewarded in 1873. Acting on advice from Ottawa, the new premier of Quebec, Gédéon Ouimet

. (4v. to date, Hamilton, 1981 –  ).]. Canadian Labour Congress Library (Ottawa), Toronto Trades Assembly minutes, 18 April 1872–27 March 1873. Globe (Toronto

 April 1913 in Ottawa. William James Scott, a descendant of a family from County Clare (Republic of Ireland), served as a hospital mate in the

, daughter of Étienne Parent*, in Ottawa, and they had two children, neither of whom survived; d. 6 Aug. 1923 in Ottawa and was buried on

century, and Pondiac, Pondiak, or Pondiag by the French; called Obwandiyag in the Ottawa tradition of

, England, son of Thomas Fuller, carriage-maker, and Mary Tiley; m. 1853 Caroline Anne Green of Bath, and they had one son and two daughters; d. 28 Sept. 1898 in Ottawa

Céloron de Blainville, the commandant, realizing that two smiths were needed for the rapidly growing community and the neighbouring Ottawas and Ojibwas, advanced Amiot the funds to continue

. in Toronto, Jennie Thomas, 11 Nov. 1864; d. Ottawa, 19 Dec. 1880. Charles Belford came to Toronto with his two younger

and one daughter; d. 23 Aug. 1881 at Ottawa, Ont. William Henry Brouse’s ancestors, the Krausse family, emigrated from Germany to the

. Father Brunet and Father Eusèbe Durocher were the first Oblates to undertake the difficult work as missionaries to the lumber camps on the Gatineau and Ottawa rivers. He went there as early as January 1845

councils held by Indigenous people before being shot by Ottawa (Odawa) warriors. DELHALLE (De la Halle), CONSTANTIN, priest, Recollet

to be used as a vehicle for official propaganda. He got his rewards in 1841. Under Sydenham’s patronage, Derbishire was elected to the assembly for Bytown (Ottawa), although he had no connection with

. Desbarats was an astute and successful businessman. In 1847, with Derbishire, he bought the Ottawa Glass Works at Pointe-à-Cavagnal (Como-Est, Que.), the first glass factory in the province and then just in a

musical studies in Berlin with Carl August Haupt (organ) and Carl Albert Loeschhorn (piano). In 1875 he moved to Ottawa, where he became music director of the Ottawa Ladies’ College, conducted the Ottawa

Ottawa River downstream from Hawkesbury, Upper Canada. He designed a number of road bridges in the period immediately before the union of the Canadas: two near Coteau-du-Lac, one at Cap-Rouge, and one over

lived with him in Kingston. Agnes and Kate Forneri trained at the nursing school of the Lady Stanley Institute in Ottawa, Agnes from 1903 to her graduation in 1906 and Kate from 1908 to 1911, when

camps of the timbercutters on the lands leased by the firm on the Ottawa River and its tributaries. Of wiry constitution, they adapted quickly to Canada, became great hunters, particularly of moose, and

The Jesuit missionary Jacques Gravier (1651–1708) served as “Superior of the Missions among the Ottawa, the Illinois, the Miami

.” Rather than retire to England, Hodgson decided to settle on the Ottawa River with his wife, Caroline Goodwin (daughter of HBC officer Robert Goodwin and Mistigoose, an Indian), and several of their nine

leaders in public life and business in Canada West, and they supplied some of the finest institutional furnishings of their time. Sword’s Hotel and Osgoode Hall in Toronto, and Rideau Hall in Ottawa, were

[The most complete collection of documents pertaining to Charlotte Mount Brock Schreiber is in the possession of Mrs Beatrice Geary of Ottawa, who kindly shared her archive with the authors. This

 Lucius O’Brien of the Royal Artillery and Mary Callender-Campbell; d. 14 Aug. 1870 at Ottawa, Ont. Raised at Cork, Ireland, where his

., daughter of Edward Mulberry Hodder*, and they had one son and two daughters; d. 26 Dec. 1888 in Ottawa, Ont

Perrault*, and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 27 June 1893 in Ottawa. Toussaint Trudeau received his early education in Montreal