Campbell*, who was a hostage in the Ottawa camp. Enraged over the loss of their prisoner, the Ottawas determined to execute John Rutherford, a prisoner of the Ojibwas. Wasson intervened, took Rutherford

, a farmer, and Rosetta Goodall; m.— Carr; they had no children; d. 6 July 1907 in Ottawa. Rosetta Ernestine Watson’s paternal

 Ottawa. Joseph Frederick Whiteaves attended schools in Brighton, London, and Oxford, England. His early studies of the geology and palaeontology of the

. After two years with the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain system – he would return to the Central Vermont as president in January 1913 – Chamberlin moved to Ottawa to become general manager on

Royal College of Music. Chambers left Montreal for Ottawa as a result of his prestigious appointment on 1 March 1904 as gentleman usher of the

*; m. 25 June 1878 Eleanor Platt in Montreal; they had no children; d. 27 June 1930 in Ottawa. Educated at Halifax Grammar School

1818 in Redhaven, near Portsoy, Scotland, tenth child and eighth son of John Dawson and Anne McDonell; d. unmarried 30 Oct. 1902 in Ottawa

surveyors [see Samuel Anderson*], but reports of fighting near the border between natives and the United States army caused Ottawa to

. 1932 in Ottawa and was buried there in Beechwood Cemetery. Andrew Haydon gained his early education in Pakenham and Almonte before attending Queen’s

of routes north and south sides of Ottawa River, for the Montreal Northern-Colonization Railway from Grenville to Ottawa city and by 1874 he had made surveys as far as Georgian Bay. However

), England, son of James Lowe and Anne Clarke; m. 16 Aug. 1852 Almira Chamberlin in Frelighsburg, Lower Canada, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 7 Nov. 1913 in Ottawa

was inspector of Catholic schools for the Ottawa district of Lower Canada (and Quebec), and apparently continued to reside in Aylmer. Meanwhile he undertook the study of law and in 1868 was called to

sections of the Brockville and Ottawa Railway. In the early to mid 1860s Hugh undertook contracts on railways in Michigan, Kentucky, and Illinois. No doubt some of this work was available because of the

Emma Catherine Bradley, and they had at least four sons and three daughters; d. 13 April 1888 in Ottawa, Ont. After completing his

. in 1845 Sarah Anne St John, and they had four sons and a daughter; d. 22 Jan. 1884 at Ottawa, Ont. Alpheus Todd came to York (Toronto

in Ottawa. Thomas Willson’s father ran a farm near Princeton but a bad investment resulted in its loss and the family’s move to Bridgeport, Conn

Le Foyer canadien, Hector Fabre* took over the column from Gérin, who had accepted the editorship of the recently established Ottawa

and the canal at Saint-Ours on the Richelieu River, and carried out preliminary surveys for a canal at Sault Ste Marie. He designed the suspension bridge over the Chaudière Falls at Bytown (Ottawa

Cummings Newcombe (Newcomb) and Abigail Hovey Calkin; m. 6 June 1887 Annie Elizabeth Freeman in Liverpool, N.S., and they had one son; d. 9 Dec. 1931 in Ottawa

in Ottawa, second son of James Adamson and Mary Julia Derbishire; m. 15 Nov. 1899 Ann Mabel

Pitt Archibald and Phœbe Ann Huestis; m. 25 Jan. 1893, in Hamilton, Ont., Captain Jessie Butler of the Salvation Army, and they had two daughters; d. 17 Jan. 1922 in Ottawa

to Ottawa to discuss the terms of British Columbia’s union with Canada. In Ottawa, Carrall was the only delegate to have an interview with Macdonald, who was too ill to take part in the general

Americans in 1775–76; d. at Ottawa, Ont., 28 Jan. 1878. In 1813, William Foster Coffin’s family came to Quebec. His father being in the army

Belleville, and they had one son and three daughters; d. 2 May 1917 in Ottawa. Although William Coutlée’s family claimed an aristocratic

; m. May Elizabeth Parker (d. 1913), and they had at least seven children; d. 24 March 1893 in Ottawa. Andrew Robertson Gordon

. 24 March 1898 in Ottawa. Educated in Hespeler, Louis P. Kribs worked as a youth in the “lumber camps north of Barrie.” In the

 Oct. 1813 in Annapolis Royal, N.S., third son of Thomas Ritchie* and Elizabeth Wildman Johnston; d. 25 Sept. 1892 in Ottawa

to those of his flock scattered in missions along the Ottawa River. He founded the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (at Montebello) in 1821 and established several other places of worship along the

upper Ottawa River. From the early 1820s the HBC monopoly in the Ottawa valley was being threatened by the activity of lumbermen and tavern-keepers who

can be followed through his children’s births, rather than through his artistic activities, to Cornwall in Upper Canada around 1836, Williamstown around 1838, and finally the Bytown (Ottawa) region. In

. Stirling’s principal interest, however, was architecture. Following his unsuccessful application to become clerk-of-the-works for the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, he returned in 1862 to Halifax, then

George Keefer* and Jane Emory, née McBride; m. first 27 Sept. 1848 Elizabeth McKay (d. 1870) in New Edinburgh (Ottawa), and

Archibald Lampman and Susannah Charlotte Gesner; d. 10 Feb. 1899 in Ottawa. Archibald Lampman is commonly identified with a group

nine children of John Henry Brown and Emma Wardle; m. 25 Dec. 1910 Florence Maud Sturton in Toronto; they had no children; d. 6 April 1939 in Ottawa

charge of archives (he would become head of the Canadian archives) took the family to Ottawa. William found work as a clerk in the same department and by 1874 as a draftsman in the Department of Public

settlement along the banks of the main tributaries of the Ottawa River, especially in connection with lumbering, the region was still widely regarded as unsuitable for colonization. Thus the plans put forward

had no children; d. 20 April 1939 in Ottawa. On the night of Andrew Thorburn Thompson’s birth in May 1870, his father, David, was

White’s position all the more unpopular, particularly in the archdiocese of Ottawa, where many French schools had come to depend on religious. Although a model school for training French-speaking teachers

Buildings. On 7 May 1859 the Department of Public Works announced a competition for the design of buildings in Ottawa to house parliament and the various government departments [see Thomas

Bytown (Ottawa) by Bishop Joseph-Bruno Guigues* on 1 April 1849. Father

ASSIGINACK (Assikinock, Assekinack), JEAN-BAPTISTE (also known as Blackbird), Ottawa chief and public servant; b

Toronto, and they had three sons; d. 27 July 1914 in Ottawa. Archibald Blue’s father, a native of Argyllshire, Scotland, located in Orford

, son of Cameron John Campbell and Elizabeth McLachlan; d. unmarried 9 May 1927 in Ottawa. Archibald Campbell’s father had immigrated to

Dominion Experimental Farms, who in November 1886 selected him to become the first horticulturist at the central farm in Ottawa. There Hilborn would work with such agricultural scientists as James

in Ottawa. Eugene Lafleur was of Swiss lineage on his mother’s side of the family. His father’s ancestors, of Swiss or French origin, had

Ottawa Collegiate Institute. In August 1894 he started his business career at age 17 as a junior clerk in the head office of the Bank of Ottawa, supporting his widowed mother and his sister, with whom

lands of Nathaniel Hazard Tredwell on the lower Ottawa River. Arriving on 3 June 1803, Pattee

briefly in Quebec City, but he moved with his wife to Ottawa to take up a position in 1874 in the secretariat of the minister of public works. There he began his long career in public life, including work

Angers*; m. 28 Sept. 1909 Emma Gingras, widow of Louis Coursolles, in the parish of Sacré-Cœur in Ottawa; they had no children; d. 23 Feb. 1917 in Ottawa and was buried four days

Ottawa people to go to Cadillac’s aid at Detroit. The reports of this event disparage Cadillac’s role, but Argenteuil performed well and had the confidence of all the warring factions