been settled by Ottawa and Winnipeg politicians during the spring of 1879, readers were no doubt concerned about any future influence he might be able to exercise. As solicitor, Wood was responsible

,” Toronto Star, 4 Dec. 1993. Can., Royal commission to investigate methods by which Oriental labourers have been induced to come to Canada, Report (Ottawa, 1908). Harry Con et al

curling and cricket: he had captained the Gait Cricket Club in the 1850s and 1860s, and in Ottawa led the Commons Cricketers to numerous victories

., Ottawa, 1963), 359. Waite, Life and times of confederation, 113, 129. B. J. Young, Promoters and politicians, 16, 21.

intercolonial conference, to meet in Ottawa at the end of June to discuss intercolonial trade and imperial preference. The conference was really Bowell’s idea. Six of the seven Australian colonies sent delegates

: government control of liquor in British Columbia from Prohibition to privatization (Ottawa, 1991). Canadian annual rev., 1910–27. CPG, 1896–1924. R. A. J. McDonald, “Sir

. Clearly the territories were becoming ungovernable, and some change was essential. In May 1891 Brett and fellow councillor John Felton Betts travelled to Ottawa to try to induce the government to

–1981), and they had one son and three daughters who survived infancy; d. 1 April 1940 in Ottawa and was buried three days later in Athelstan

employment agencies, Report of commissioner and evidence (Ottawa, 1905). Canada Gazette, 1908: 2016. Directory, Montreal, 1850–1938. Y. C. L. Gadler, “The education of

see of Bytown (Ottawa). He had gone too far. He was turned out. In October 1847 he withdrew to the home of his friend Louis-Moïse Brassard

a state procession. The eight pallbearers represented the military and Conservative élites of Toronto. In Ottawa, Tupper announced his death to the commons and Wilfrid

, 1873; réimpr., Ottawa, 1980). Quebec Gazette, 1764–1802. “Archives Gradis,” ANQ Rapport, 1957–59: 35, 41, 52. Bouchette, Topographical description of L.C. “Cahier des

in November 1887 to work for the Montreal Star and in February she became its parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa. In May 1885

the broader issue of aboriginal land rights in a province where no treaties with any government existed, the situation became explosive. Authorities in British Columbia, Ottawa, and London, unable to

receive my friend Monsieur Fabre.” They had, in fact, often met in Ottawa during the preceding years. Fabre would be on easier terms with the

. Robert Baillargeon, Ægidius Fauteux, bibliophile et homme de lettres: étude monographique (Laval, Québec, 1992). Biographies canadiennes-françaises, J.‑A. Fortier, édit. (Ottawa), 1920

(Ottawa); the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ont.), the Art Gallery of Ontario, the CTA, and the Hist. Picture Coll. of the

Ottawa, in October 1886 Mercier had gained ground in the provincial elections in Quebec at the head of the Parti National, which he had founded following the Riel affair [see Louis

the judicial district of Montreal, an elongated triangle with its base on the United States border, its western boundary on the Ottawa River, and its eastern at the districts of Trois-Rivières and Saint

in 1875 and participated as the government’s representative in the creation and administration of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. On the question of immigration, he oversaw the

. At Ottawa in 1877 parliament passed a bill to amend the North-West Territories Act. Before its third reading, while the Senate was in committee of the whole, Girard proposed an amendment, modelled on

judicial recount was declared elected for the Conservatives in the federal riding of Jacques-Cartier, would spend most of his time in Ottawa. Édouard Percy attended the Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois

war of 1812–1814 on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain (Ottawa, 1977). R. A. Preston, “The fate of Kingston’s warships,” Historic Kingston, 1 (1951–52), no.5: 3–14. A. J

confederation, a smouldering dispute over costs between the Department of Public Works and the contractors for the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa flared into life. As a result, it was announced in 1864 that a

deputy minister of labour in Ottawa, who opened doors to the Canadian bureaucracy. King also introduced him to the writer Norman McLean Duncan

Lyon] in 1895, served much the same goal. Efforts to assert a common purpose and history were similarly evident in the Aberdeens’ sponsorship of historical pageants in Ottawa, Toronto

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as co-counsel for the appellant Eastern Trust Company (of which Harris was president). According to oral tradition, a telegram from Ottawa arrived at the firm asking

Pope*, and George William Howlan* to Ottawa in search of better terms, but the die was cast. Except for two members, Cornelius

whether Herron’s geological speculations were valid. But exploratory drilling was not Imperial’s first objective, and by 1923 he was again pleading with Ottawa to extend the due dates for his lease payments

Vail* entered the cabinet of Alexander Mackenzie in Ottawa. “We silvered him over with brilliant

secure for the Macdonald Institute the exclusive right to certify home economics teachers. She disparaged initiatives elsewhere in the province, notably in Ottawa and at the University of Toronto, where

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Huot is the author of “Causerie artistique: l’œuvre de Tissot,” La

for the Carmelite monastery in Montreal, and Good shepherd (now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa). A few sculptures in the round also bear witness to his skill in statuary. It was in

la Châteauguay (Ottawa, 1983). L.-P. Hébert, Le Québec de 1850 en lettres détachées (Québec, 1985). Hélène Lafortune, “La situation de la profession notariale à L’Assomption entre

. Privately, he described Ottawa as an “abominable hole,” where he felt out of place. In March 1886 he defended Louis Riel*: “If anyone stirred up

(Toronto, 1983). Christina Cameron and Janet Wright, “Second Empire style in Canadian architecture,” Canadian Hist. Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and Hist. (Ottawa), no

. Earlier, in the mid 1890s when Atkinson was the Toronto Globe’s Ottawa correspondent, he had interviewed Larkin about the Liberal party’s policy of unrestricted reciprocity. Likely the tea

(Ottawa, [1967]). Can., House of Commons, Debates, 1904–17, 1921–26; Journals, 1904–17, 1921–26; Special committee on representation in the House of Commons, Minutes of proceedings and

superintendent of insurance, 1875–1921; Royal commission on life insurance, Minutes of evidence (4v., Ottawa, 1907); Report (Ottawa, 1907). Canadian annual rev., 1911, suppl.: 39–48

the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. This collaboration reinforced his Canada-wide reputation, which he had already acquired in erecting the cathedral at St Boniface in Winnipeg (1904–8

, relative to the Canadian fisheries and the navigation of the St. Lawrence River ([Ottawa?, 1870?]), and may also have written The route of the Intercolonial Railway in a national

little admiral (London, [1924]); and Kinsmen at war (Ottawa, 1927). She also authored many articles and stories. These include her teenage writing as “Jeannie Newton” for children’s magazines

(Ottawa), 17 (1984): 155–61. Jean Burton, “Alexander McLachlan – the Burns of Canada,” Willisons Monthly (Toronto), 3 (1927–28): 268–69. James Duff, “Alexander McLachlan,” Queen’s

exploded in popularity across North America via the network of YMCA branches, coming to Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto that same year, and St Stephen (St Stephen–Milltown), N.B., the following year

Duhamel* of Ottawa, who stood to lose dozens of teachers from Quebec-based orders if the Ontario government demanded their certification along the standards set for secular teachers. O’Connor had

Columbia, he journeyed to Ottawa to seek the position. The difficult negotiations between the federal government and British Columbia over the allocation of lands to be reserved for Indians in the province

. Once the Liberals were in power at both Quebec and Ottawa, they wasted no time in placing their men in the key administrative posts. On 14 June 1878 Henri-Gustave

bought a small Ottawa chain in December 1929 and 12 Canadian Stop and Shop outlets two years later. It began to mark up prices as operating expenses increased. Within the company Pentland continued to

 March, 5 Sept. 1930. Hamilton Spectator, 16 April, 9 July 1925; 30 Oct., 9 Nov. 1926; 22, 23 April 1929; 1 March 1930. Ottawa Citizen, 26 April

. In Ottawa Roddick had strongly advocated that Newfoundland enter the Dominion of Canada. He supported various projects in the colony, including in 1901 the organization of medical care for the fishing