1701, for he officiated at a baptism on 24 July. Shortly afterwards, named a missionary to the Ottawas, he went to stay among them, at the time when peace with the Iroquois was being signed in

Ottawa, Ont. Solomon Yeomans Chesley’s parents left Shodack “for the wilds of Canada” in 1800, settling in Cornwall, Upper Canada. In February

.-[J.] Grandin, copies des lettres à Clut, 1858–86). Can., Senate, Select committee to enquire into the resources of the great Mackenzie basin, Report (Ottawa, 1888), 135–43, 156–70

. Summoned to Ottawa in May, he was instructed to survey conditions in the Yukon. The government was concerned about the influx of American miners, the liquor trade and its impact on the natives, and the

, son of Duncan Drummond and Margaret Fraser; m. 1891 or 8 Dec. 1892 Catherine McEwen, and they had three sons; d. 24 May 1925 in Ottawa and was buried near Nairn in Middlesex County

Mélanges religieux (Montréal), 1843–1845. Allaire, Dictionnaire. Alexis de Barbezieux, Histoire de la province ecclésiastique d’Ottawa et la colonisation dans la vallée de l’Ottawa

Canadian museums, including the National Museum of Man (Ottawa), the Musée du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the McCord Museum (Montreal), and the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto). Farrar family

NA, MG 24, I104; RG 3. Can., Post Office Dept., Report of the postmaster general (Ottawa), 1867–88. Can., Prov. of, Post Office Dept., Report of the postmaster general (Ottawa), 1851

, Saint-Maurice County, not far from Yamachiche, L.C., of the second marriage of Joseph Gélinas, with Théotiste Hudon-Beaulieu; d. 7 Jan. 1873 at Ottawa, Ont

. Raised in the upper Ottawa valley, Benjamin Hollinger struck out on his own at 18. He was first employed as a tool sharpener at Copper Cliff (Sudbury), and then he moved to the boom town of Cobalt in 1905

of the Ottawa valley and in the Bay of Quinte region. In 1874–80 he was a supernumerary at Belleville and in 1880–82 he was listed as a superannuated minister at Vankleek Hill in the lower Ottawa

busy with close-order drill and physical training, but as the months passed with no further word from Ottawa the men became bored and restless. When the corps was criticized in March 1916 by a rival

, the Hurons did not readily integrate with the Algonkian community, being visibly separated from the Kiskakon [Ottawa] village by a thin palisade. Although they were nominally allies of the Algonkians

 April 1666, when he made a contract with Adrien Jolliet and Denis Guyon whereby he would undertake a “journey to the Ottawas.” The following year he obtained from Jean

resented Ottawa’s active regulation of the fishery. In 1888, at Mowat’s urging, the Department of Marine and Fisheries proposed limitation of the number of fishery licences issued on the Fraser River. The

. Teresa McDonell’s mother died at her birth, and an aunt looked after her until she reached the age of her first communion. She was then sent to the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Bytown (Ottawa

and portrait are held by the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. James Ernest Nix

had to make provision for farm instructors, mills, forges, mechanics, more tools and machinery, and medical assistance. He was assured that these new demands would be forwarded to Ottawa to determine

smoke and dust.” A protracted correspondence ensued between the Office of Internment Operations in Ottawa and military officials over responsibility for

diploma work, Landscape (in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa), and a water-colour, Cliff and cove (in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto), are landscapes characterized by minute

Robinson and Sarah —; m. 1833 Jane Scholey; d. 13 April 1896 in Ottawa. Joseph Hiram Robinson, subject to strong religious influence

attended the School of Military Instruction of Quebec for two months in 1864. He studied medicine at the Université Laval and once he had received the necessary degree, in 1870, he practised at Bic, Ottawa

. 24 July 1923 in Ottawa. As a boy, John G. Rutherford attended the parish school in Mountain Cross and the high school in Glasgow

Savary, substitut du procureur général in the royal court at Caen, and Charlotte-Éliane Quénault; d. 9 Sept. 1889 in Ottawa

 June 1850 Henrietta Jane Cater Busby in Saint John, N.B ., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 6 March 1897 in Ottawa

surrenders . . . [1680–1906] (3v., Ottawa, 1891–1912; repr. Toronto, 1971), 1: 1–3, 30–31. Indian affairs: laws and treaties, comp. C. J. Kappler ([2nd ed.], 2v., Washington

, however, he travelled to Lower Canada by the Ottawa River with members of his family, including his daughter Charlotte and her husband, Peter Spence. He settled at Vaudreuil, where some of his collateral

performed every week for a year in a salon of the city hall which he dubbed the Theatre Royal. From June 1865 to September 1867 Townsend was the lessee of Her Majesty’s Theatre in Ottawa, and in 1868

Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History in Regina), and, in Ottawa, the National Herbarium of Canada and the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Never short of energy, Willing was also a founding member in

to make this change, and encouraged the other chiefs in File Hills not to fear what Ottawa would do. They all rejected the plan, which was abandoned for a time

undertook theological studies, first in Marseilles, and from 1849 to 1851 in Maryvale, near Birmingham, England. He was sent to Canada in 1851 and was ordained to the priesthood in Bytown (Ottawa) by Bishop

southwestern Ontario as his father accepted different charges. After Thomas’s death in 1886 the family settled in Ottawa, and Brock graduated from the Ottawa Collegiate Institute in 1890. He entered the

South African War veterans, he was an obvious choice to replace Major-General Richard O’Grady Haly as general officer commanding the Canadian militia (GOC). Dundonald, who would arrive in Ottawa in July

Mortimer; m. 5 Oct. 1870, in Ottawa, Mary Elizabeth Sophia Taylor, daughter of John Fennings Taylor*, and they had a son; d

flower drawings for identification to Ottawa, where they attracted the attention of the dominion entomologist and botanist, James Fletcher*. On

Middleton* for “the way in which he handled his men” at the battle of Batoche (Sask.). After his return to Ottawa and the interior department in 1885

over the archives in 1904, the two established a good relationship. Gaudet moved to Ottawa to become genealogist at the archives. Under pressure from Doughty, he produced a genealogy of Acadian families

Canadian government and obtained four townships for the future colony of Gravelbourg. Ottawa assigned the new settlement a post office in March 1907: Gravelbourg was officially founded

erected on Parliament Hill in Ottawa the following year. Also in 1912, Hill won the prestigious competition to erect a monument to Sir George

studies at the College of Ottawa, he was ordained to the priesthood on 27 April 1873 by Bishop Joseph-Bruno Guigues*. Within a few

District No.6 and fortress commander at Halifax, where his main task was to apply Ottawa’s plans to reduce the garrison (to free up reinforcements) and increase fighting efficiency. Then in late March 1918

tailor, and the incident had to be smoothed over by the governor general. In 1882, while attending the Dominion Rifle Association matches at Rockcliffe Park (Ottawa), Luard personally arrested, supposedly

(5v., Ottawa, 1873–78), 3, table no.lv; Census of Canada, 1880–81 (4v., Ottawa, 1882–85), 3, table no.lvi; Census of Canada

first reports, completed the following year, assessed the conditions of English-French schools in the Ottawa valley, where he observed that “the atmosphere of the schools is undoubtedly French

College of Ottawa in 1903 and a dcl by King’s College in Windsor, N.S., two years later; he became a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1904. Morgan died in 1913 at his

, dit La Ronde, and they had two daughters; he also had a son Charles by an earlier liaison with an Ottawa woman; d. during the winter of 1800–1 at La Baye (Green Bay, Wis

Voyageurs and, after only three weeks of service, was taken prisoner at the battle of Saint-Régis. In April 1813 he was established in the lower Ottawa valley, where he purchased 1,000 acres of land in

 Ottawa. Colin McKay’s paternal great-grandfather, Donald McKay, a native of Scotland, settled in Shelburne in 1816. His grandfather, Colin Campbell

its governing institutions while promoting a vision of state-backed, pan-Canadian amateurism. After completing his local schooling, Nelson attended the Oblate-led College of Ottawa, where, according to

the farming community, Ivan Dorundiak, set out on a fact-finding mission as guests of the Canadian government. They arrived in Montreal on 12 August, met with immigration officials in Ottawa, and