Surgeons, who had earlier spent five years in Canada. There is, however, no evidence that Smith ever qualified as frcs. He became surgeon to the emigrant ship Amazon and, perhaps in this

the United States and Canada, was widely read in Galicia and thus became the first major link between North America and Austrian Ukraine. After

Associate Synod. He was ordained by the secession presbytery of Cupar on 11 July 1838 to be a missionary to Canada. The next day he married Margaret Cumming of Cupar

. In 1855 Kemp accepted a call to the St Gabriel Street Church in Montreal, the mother church of Scottish Presbyterianism in Canada. The ten years he spent in Montreal were probably the most

WHITE, JAMES, geographer and civil servant; b. 3 Feb. 1863 in Ingersoll, Upper Canada, eldest son of David White, a merchant

Castor and South Nation rivers in eastern Upper Canada. The firm had its headquarters at Morrisburg, but by the 1870s it had expanded to include operations in pine forests centring on Belleville, Toronto

, Ont. He and his wife Eliza had two sons and three daughters. Anthony Bewden Hawke came to Upper Canada after the War of 1812 and settled near Bath

leadership, one of the largest Presbyterian churches in Canada. An outstanding Presbyterian leader in Canada, Topp held many high offices in the church. He was elected moderator of the Canada Presbyterian

his way to Upper Canada. He arrived there in the summer of 1833 and settled in Ancaster where he began to practise as a surgeon on 13 August. He also bought and sold small amounts of land in Brooke

. Clara Rowsell by whom he had several children; d. London, Eng., 27/28 Oct. 1873. William Dixon was brought to Canada in 1830, and in 1835

eldest of four children; m. Barbara McConnachay of Lachine, Lower Canada, and they had a son and a daughter; d. 18 Nov. 1883 at Matane, Que

YOUNG, Sir JOHN, Baron LISGAR, second governor general of Canada; b. 31 Aug. 1807 in Bombay, India

, having come to the attention of M. Olier, at that time his parish priest, entered the Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice. While still a deacon, he came to Canada in 1657, as secretary of Abbé Queylus. If, as

; originally from the city of Rouen; d. 1645 at Gisors. He probably arrived in Canada in 1619 and he had been devoting himself to teaching the Indians in

de Thavenet and her sister, Marie-Françoise, probably came to Canada in one of the contingents of young “noble girls” who were sent by Louis XIV and Colbert and intended for Canadian noblemen

. Emigration to North and South America was thought to be a solution to the problem. Although some Ukrainians may have come to Canada at an earlier date, the first recorded immigrants, Ivan Pillipiw and Wasyl

STRICKLAND, SAMUEL, landowner, Canada Company official, and author; b. 6 Nov. 1804 at Stow House, Bungay

Brunswick and future governor general of Canada. In 1856 Pennefather became his civil secretary and the superintendent-general of Indian affairs for the Province of Canada. In this capacity he chaired a

JONES, THOMAS MERCER, Canada Company official and banker; b. in England in 1795; d. 2 Oct. 1868 in Toronto, Ont

 Sept. 1862 at Waterdown, Canada West. Adam Fergusson, a lawyer by training and country gentleman by inclination, was a wealthy magistrate and deputy

. 30 Jan. 1914 in Vancouver. Harnam Kaur was one of four or five women among several thousand Sikh pioneers in Canada. Her immigration

Alexander and Margaret Smart; m. first, Phylina Foote, 7 Nov. 1816, by whom he had a son, William (judge of Hastings County, Canada West, from 1850 to 1865), and secondly, Sarah Mallory, in 1862; d

, Lower Canada, son of William Walker, a merchant; d. 8 April 1844 in Montreal. William Walker began legal studies in 1812, articling first

captain in the late spring of 1844, he left Woolwich on 17 July for a posting in the Canadas. He was stationed at Montreal from 4 Sept. 1844 to 15 July 1845 and from 19 Dec. 1845 to 1

Peninsula in 1809 and 1810. On 27 June 1811 he arrived in Canada as a captain in the Canadian Fencibles and in September of that year was promoted major. During the War of 1812 Cockburn displayed

Preachers’ Training School in Canton. In 1895 he met the Reverend Alexander Brown Winchester, a Presbyterian minister from Canada who was in China to learn the language. That same year, on Winchester’s strong

Scottish Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Michael Willis (1798–1879) came to Canada in 1845 as a representative of the Free

parentage, Castell Hopkins moved as a child with his family to Bowmanville, Ont., where he completed his education. Between 1883 and about 1891 he worked as a clerk with the Imperial Bank of Canada, first in

. After a rudimentary education William Lawson entered his father’s trade, but suffered financial losses and in 1829 emigrated to Canada with his family. He opened a shop in York (Toronto) as a tailor

 1848 Mary Elizabeth Miles, a Quaker from Boston; d. 1 Aug. 1854 in Windsor, Upper Canada. Henry Walton Bibb, born into slavery, worked for at

, née Merritt; d. 4 Aug. 1865 in Grimsby Township (West Lincoln Township), Canada West. Daniel Ward Eastman had a profound religious

watering-places in England. Punshon came to Canada in 1868 at a time when the British conference exerted considerable legal authority over the colonial

, Upper Canada. Andrew Bell led a peripatetic childhood. His early years were spent in London, and in 1810 his family moved to Scotland, living first in

of statistical works about the Canadas and their municipalities which constitute an invaluable source of information for their history. Unlike the personal narratives of travellers to the Canadas, such

Royal Navy, 1803–8, and then in the British army, fighting as a sergeant in the Peninsular campaign, then in Canada in the War of 1812–14 at Queenston Heights, Crysler’s Farm, and Lundy’s Lane, and again

. He spent almost the whole of his active career in Canada, stationed in either Montreal or Quebec City where he was attached to the office of the governor general’s military secretary. Although his

married, but the name of his wife is not known; a daughter married John Macaulay*, legislative councillor for Upper Canada and the Province of

captain of the 61st Regiment, and his wife Elizabeth; d. 3 Nov. 1863 at Toronto, Canada West. The Eccles family immigrated to Canada in 1835 and

to their marriage on 3 Dec. 1726, and during Antoine’s childhood his father was the principal Bordeaux agent for their La Rochelle cousins’ extensive trade with Canada. When the father

missionary to Canada in 1623, he travelled to the Huron (Wendat) country, where he spent two years. While canoeing downriver towards Quebec with some Huron companions, he drowned in mysterious circumstances at

. 1840–42. To slaves in the ante-bellum United States, the Canadas were virtually synonymous with freedom and heaven. Though slavery was

One of the hundreds of Black people who were enslaved in Upper Canada, Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793) came to public

with Father Huet to plead the cause of the missions before the Compagnie des Marchands. He returned to Canada the

A window into the life of Henry Lewis (fl. 1790s), a Black man enslaved by Upper Canada politician William Jarvis, is provided by

. After making his profession with the Recollets of the province of Paris on 2 June 1625, he was sent to Canada the following year to replace Brother

WELLS, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, lawyer, journalist, politician, author, and judge; b. 3 Oct. 1809 in Augusta Township, Upper Canada

BURNS, ROBERT EASTON, lawyer and judge; b. 26 Dec. 1805 in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, eldest of the five

. An escaped slave, James Davis came to Upper Canada via the Underground Railroad in 1850; later, with his wife and children, he took up a farm in the black settlement of New Canaan in northern

 John Colborne*, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, decided to establish a school in York (Toronto) to be known as Upper Canada College

(Republic of Ireland), son of the Reverend Frederick Mack and Frances Lendrum; m. 10 July 1845 Catherine Jane Adams, daughter of Elias Smith Adams, the first mayor of St Catharines, Canada West