journalist. In 1871 he emigrated to Canada, and from 1872 to 1874 was the parliamentary reporter for the Toronto Globe. On 1 July 1874 he became editor of the Ottawa Times, where he

Manufacturing Company, Prudential Trust Company Limited, Dominion Trust Company, Mount Royal Spinning Company Limited, Central Canada Manufacturers Fire Insurance Company, and Noiseless Typewriter Company. Not

. Business and politics were often the foundation of lucrative careers in 19th-century Canada. In 1890, during a slump in the lumber industry, Burrows built a colonization road into the Dauphin area. He

Cabana; he signed H. C. Cabana), lawyer, journalist, politician, and office holder; b. 14 June 1838 in Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Lambert Charon (Charron

. Nothing in his early life suggested he would own one of the premier department stores in western Canada. Cairns and his wife went west in 1902, arriving

the coming war. Spurning overtures from Governor William Henry Harrison of Ohio, during the winter of 1812–13 he made his way back to Amherstburg, Upper Canada, and there he obtained a commission as

present war between them and the fœderal states, the mode of life and system of farming among the new settlers of both Canadas, New York, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; interspersed with

“Pioneers of Canada,” the first of which would have appeared in the New Era (Montreal) published by Thomas D’Arcy McGee*. Morgan also

Province of Canada on 26 November. The imperial government saw the advantages of uniting the highest executive powers, civil and military, in the same person at a time of crisis in Anglo-American

Canada’s first tradition in diplomacy was ended. He went to France, where he was made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis. Whether he ever returned to Canada is uncertain, although a letter written 9

. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 443–44. “Les congés de traite sous le regime français au Canada,” APQ Rapport, 1922–23, 222, 224. Massicotte, “Répertoire des

. The first house of assembly of Lower Canada, constituted in 1792, contained a great many owners of seigneuries, one of whom was Chartier de Lotbinière. He was elected, with his brother-in-law Pierre

uncertain; d. 11 Nov. 1825 in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Lower Canada. Martin Chenneque, who was almost certainly not the “fearless Spanish

promoted colonel. His battalion was stationed in the West Indies during most of the American revolution, but in the 1780s, when his active role in the army was over, he had settled upon Canada as his place

Quaker Hill, N.Y.; m. Isobel (Isabella) Ketchum of Long Island, N.Y., and they had five sons and one daughter; d. 17 Dec. 1823 in Ernestown Township, Upper Canada

situation in 1840 by Duncan Campbell Napier*, who as military secretary for Lower Canada was responsible for Indian affairs. He recommended a

, Catalogue of the National Map collection . . . (16v., Boston, Mass., 1976). Burt, Old prov. of Que. L. F. Gates, Land policies of Upper Canada (Toronto

relations with Alexandre Maury, the son of their former French procurator. Sister Saint-Augustin learned with satisfaction that the French government would deal justly with the religious communities in Canada

Canada. Charles Caleb Cotton’s father was a schoolmaster and his mother a daughter of a Swiss who taught French at Eton College. After attending Eton

. ...      Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 426–27. Le Jeune, Dictionnaire. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Les arpenteurs de Montréal sous le régime français,” BRH

securing the position of city surveyor for John George Howard in May 1843. Craig was, as well, an early member of the St Patrick’s Benevolent Society and of the Emigrant Society of Upper Canada

from Britain, Halifax, the United States, and Lower Canada. A branch house was established at Miramichi to engage in the important transatlantic trade in timber from that port and to supply the lumbermen

. By the late 1890s the job situation in Canada for OAC graduates had changed, as new positions were created. When Ontario’s superintendent of Farmers’ Institutes, Frederick W. Hodson, became

, which he entered on a royal scholarship, and from which he graduated in 1863 with honours in English and classics. The following year he came to Canada, where he substituted for one year as professor of

. Ramsay Crooks immigrated to the Canadas in 1803 with his widowed mother and some siblings; two of his brothers, including the eldest

they had one son and two daughters; d. 2 June 1928 in Calgary. Charles W. Cross was educated in Toronto at Upper Canada College

. The negotiations among New Brunswick, Canada, and the imperial government over the Intercolonial Railway in 1862 and 1863 alarmed Cudlip. He wanted the railway to follow a more westerly route to aid

. 1862. He left for Canada in March, arrived at Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg), where he was to make his headquarters, in May, and presided over his first council at Norway House in June. Later in the year

1708. The next record of de Muy’s career is in 1724, when at the unusually advanced age of 29 he was made a second ensign in the colonial regulars stationed in Canada

he came to know the interior of Canada between Hudson Bay and Alaska better than any other white, and he developed an extraordinary reputation for travelling alone in all seasons, living off the land

, d.d., first bishop of Fredericton and metropolitan of Canada (Saint John, 1893). M. Lilly, Story of St. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1964). T

held at the National Gallery of Canada. On 15 June 1812 Desrochers contracted to decorate the base of the altar and the cornice, pilasters, stalls, and candelabra of the church of Saint-Grégoire

, 1760–1765 (Windsor, Ont., 1965; repr. with supp., Belleville, Ont., 1983). Judith Fingard, Jack in port: sailortowns of eastern Canada (Toronto

and Barry Cahill of the PANS in the preparation of this biography is gratefully acknowledged. Photographs of George Dixon appear in Canada

year he returned to Canada and was retained there to work with mentally ill veterans at Newmarket Military Hospital in Ontario. Treatment for these “shell-shocked” victims of trench warfare was curtailed

-established provisions trade between Vermont and Lower Canada, fully restored now that the war was over. He made several trips to Montreal taking pork, cheese, and butter and, on at least one occasion; arranged

at Toulouse, was ordained priest in 1641 or 1642, and sailed to Canada on 15 Aug. 1643, immediately after completing his training as a Jesuit. This missionary, whose name survives especially

chrétiennes au Canada (Montreal, 1937). Nive Voisine, Les Frères des écoles chrétiennes au Canada (1v. paru, Québec, 1987–  ).

was a time when the Napoleonic legend, long repressed, was finding its way into French Canada. Nine years later he built two barks christened Papineau and Jean-Baptiste; patriotic

, but difficulties arose when the minister of Marine, Maurepas, pursuing French trade policies, stipulated that cattle were to be imported from Canada rather than from British Nova Scotia. Moreover, in

served on its council until 1893. In 1908 the Architectural Institute of Canada was officially created to promote the profession of architect throughout the country. Dunlop became its first president and

 April 1758 at Quebec, son of Pierre Duval and Élisabeth Panneton; d. 6 Feb. 1845 in the parish of Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie at Repentigny, Lower Canada

emigrated with her family, first to Hudson, N.Y., where they lived briefly, and then to Montreal, where they settled in 1872 or 1873. Edith was then seven or eight. By the time of their arrival in Canada the

goods available. Educated at the Toronto Model School and Upper Canada College, he joined the Eaton workforce at the age of 16 and fulfilled his apprenticeship by serving in numerous capacities. By 1896

EBY, SOLOMON, farmer and Mennonite elder; b. 15 May 1834 in Woolwich Township, Upper Canada, eldest of the 14 children of Martin Eby

Gladman* in Port Hope, Canada West. He visited London and Denmark in 1853–54, and apparently in 1855 stayed for a while with John McLean, who was then agent for the Bank of

, Upper Canada, eldest of the seven sons of Dominick Fallon and Bridget Egan; d. 22 Feb. 1931 in London, Ont., and was buried there in the chapel of St Peter’s Seminary

Society in 1840, he served as president of both organizations for many years. In 1831 Ferguson was one of the commissioners charged with laying out the first highway between New Brunswick and Lower Canada

came to Canada in 1722. In 1723 he was housed in the intendant’s palace where he was employed as Michel

, A compendious history of the northern part of the province of New Brunswick and of the district of Gaspé, in Lower Canada (Halifax, 1832; repub. Chatham, N.B., 1896). Winslow papers