Guigues*, the future bishop of Bytown (Ottawa), Father Baveux undertook a recruiting campaign in France, Belgium, and Savoy, and is said to have attracted more than 70 individuals to noviciates in

Austrian army who had immigrated in the early 1850s and found employment as a draftsman in the Province of Canada’s Crown Lands Department. The couple lived first in Ottawa and then in Quebec City

); along the Muskoka River (1852) and Indian River (1853); on Rama Island (1860); and in the Huron and Ottawa territory (1861–62). His reports frequently have a distinct literary flavour. To describe land

Walkerton, Ont., and they had three daughters and one son; d. 1 Jan. 1918 in Ottawa. Thomas Swainston Campbell served at Farmersville

CHARTIER, LOUIS, surgeon; b. c. 1633 in France; drowned 1660 in the Ottawa River

the great Onondaga warrior brought four Ottawa prisoners back to Montreal. In revenge for being badly received by the governor of the place, François-Marie Perrot, Chaudière Noire pillaged Fort

 Oct. 1925 in Ottawa. After attending the primary school in his native village, Alfred Duclos De Celles enrolled

Indigenous peoples of the plains, he observed. Instead, “a dozen, or so, of the principal chiefs of the different tribes of the N.W. Indians” should be taken to Ottawa to meet with the prime minister. “Good

lower Ottawa River and from the Gatineau, Rideau, Rouge, and South Nation rivers, and this supply was supplemented by wood bought from smaller contractors at the Hawkesbury mills. Hamilton and Thomson

, Lamorinie studied the language of the Ottawas. Although he would serve briefly in other areas – among the Miamis at Fort Saint-Joseph (probably Niles, Mich.) in 1746 and 1749, and among the Assiniboins

 1799, son of Dr William Lee, from Ireland, who was on the army medical staff in Upper Canada; d. Ottawa, Ont., 11 Sept. 1878. William Henry

Marest was to earn repute as cleric-diplomat, played a threefold role – Jesuit mission, garrison post, and rendezvous for fur-traders. The Ottawas, over whom Marest became superior, occupied their own

. secondly 9 Jan. 1917 Mathilde Casgrain in the parish of Sacré-Cœur, Ottawa; no children were born of this marriage; d. 25 Sept. 1933 in Carleton County (Ottawa) and was buried three days later

, National Defence Headquarters, Directorate of Hist. (Ottawa), Biog. file; Card index of Canadians in the British flying services, 1914–19. Evening Telegram (Toronto), 29 April 1918

the Ottawa village on the south (Canadian) shore granted him a tract near by. The Detroit census of 1782 shows him to be a well-to-do farmer, whose holdings included a female slave (another slave had

, 1854–58; d. at Ottawa, Ont., 15 April 1876. Thomas Scatcherd attended the London District grammar school, then articled in London with

he left to become an overseer, probably in the provisioning of the workers, on the section of the Rideau Canal from Smiths Falls to Bytown (Ottawa). He was a member of the Carleton and Lanark militias

March 1613 to try and reach Hudson Bay by way of the Ottawa River. To get there they had to pass through the territory of the Nipissing. But Tessouat’s Algonquin, on their island, controlled the head

sense. There is a distinct possibility that she worked for a time in a Halifax shop, which seems to have created some awkwardness later in Ottawa, people being reluctant at first to call on her

who were allies of the French, since these tribes were competing with them for furs. In 1699, however, an Iroquois attack on the Miami Indians led to reprisals by the Ottawas, Illinois, and other tribes

, Potawatomis, Ottawas, and Kickapoos. His efforts eventually attracted the attention of American troops, who plundered his post and detained him for three months before releasing him on parole. The British

. Educated at L’Orignal, Upper Canada, Robert Bell was the son of a Presbyterian clergyman and respected amateur geologist who made an important collection of rocks and fossils in the lower Ottawa River region

. Noticing that a large number of mail orders came from Ottawa, in 1901 the company opened a store there, its first outside Montreal. This move would be repeated many times, and before World War II the

the same at the Collège Masson in Terrebonne and to have been in charge of teaching art at the Collège d’Ottawa in 1865–66. In 1866 he founded his own art school in Ottawa. Accused in 1867 of being too

By*, superintending engineer of the Rideau Canal, as the principal designer of a bridge across the Ottawa River at the Chaudière Falls, spanning a cauldron known as the Big Kettle. Described as a

abroad to the essential ruggedness of the Canadian landscape. Typical of his subjects are the early “Sheep in landscape” (the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa); “The coming storm over Lake Memphremagog

entire family made its way to the lands west of the Ottawa River set aside for loyalist units. The men of Jessup’s Rangers were allotted townships No.6 (Edwardsburg), No.7 (Augusta), and part of No. 8

in central Canada, he was not given a military secretary and therefore took an officer, Fletcher, as his private secretary to Ottawa. Fletcher’s wife was considered a suitable companion for the

Langlois*]. From 1900 to 1924 Fortier worked as a Hansard translator for the federal government in Ottawa. He divided his time between the activities

-Rivières to serve as an interpreter and a missionary among the Algonkins. He was also a parish priest there for some time in 1656. That same year he set out with a large expedition of Ottawa braves to

, Strangers in blood: fur trade company families in Indian country (Vancouver and London, 1980). Can., Dept. of the Interior, Annual report (Ottawa), 1878–79, reports of the deputy superintendent

and sought a government appointment. However, the transfer of the Indian file to Ottawa at confederation caused a bureaucratic backlog, and it was not until 1871 that he was officially named chief. The

contemporaines (Montréal, 1867), 481. Alexis De Barbezieux, Histoire de la province ecclésiastique d’Ottawa et de la colonisation daps la vallée de l’Ottawa (4v., Ottawa, 1897), 1

Simon Le Moyne’s diplomatic mission, and went to spend two years among the Iroquois. In 1660 he accompanied an expedition of Ottawas who were returning to their home in the region of

Payen* de Noyan, whom Beauharnois passed over. At Detroit Noyelles was confronted with an Ottawa-Huron feud which threatened to ignite an Indian war

, a mason, and Ann Redmond; m. there 26 April 1900 Ellen Mary Veale, daughter of a ship captain, and they had three daughters, one of whom predeceased him; d. 16 Dec. 1940 in Ottawa

provincial surveyor. He was required to amend earlier plans and surveys and to make new ones, including a survey of the rivers St Lawrence and Ottawa above Repentigny in 1793; some of these were compiled

sons and two daughters; d. 26 Jan. 1889 in Ottawa, Ont. William Buell Richards was educated at the Johnstown District Grammar School in

had a daughter and two sons, one of whom died in infancy; d. 30 Sept. 1937 in Ottawa and was buried there in Beechwood Cemetery. William James Roche

learned to speak French, the trade language of the region. During the 1870s he competed against the HBC in the Temagami region by purchasing furs with goods supplied by merchants from the Ottawa River. His

, he is the author of Canada at the great International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883 (Ottawa, 1884). A portrait of Wilmot is reproduced in John Squair’s study, cited

Assignack*, a devoutly Catholic Ottawa Indian who had won much fame as a warrior and orator. Aisance served the crown loyally in the Upper Canadian

moved from Montreal to Ottawa, Barlow retired. He and his long-time colleague, James Richardson, were

whose principal centres were Granby, Stanbridge, Dunham, and Stanstead. He stayed at Bytown (Ottawa) in 1846 and 1847 to help his confrères who were wrestling with a typhus epidemic

(1832)and Tay (1834) canals. In October 1839 William represented Perth at a meeting to form the Inland Steam Transportation and Insurance Company to oppose the Ottawa and Rideau Forwarding Company

where deeply moved spectators watched the return of the French colours, the sailor’s passage was a triumph; towns such as Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto, despite some reservations, felt obliged to extend a

a few days at the lake. Bernard, ruefully, said no. “Do not think me conceited,” he wrote to Campbell, “when I tell you that I do not think I ought to be away from Ottawa for an hour

(Ottawa, 1984). Leslie Maitland, L’architecture néo-classiques au Canada ([Ottawa], 1984). A. J. H. Richardson, “Guide to the architecturally and historically most significant

, Hull, 1800–1950 (Ottawa, 1950); Ottawa old & new (Ottawa, 1946). T. R. Millman, The life of the Right Reverend, the Honourable Charles James Stewart, D.D

college. In 1686, he was sent as a missionary to the Ottawa (Odawa) and Huron (Wendat) and stationed at the mission of Saint-Ignace near the Straits of Mackinac