College, Carlow, and around 1817 immigrated to Lower Canada with a large family group. By October of that year he had begun teaching English at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, where he also studied for the

McRAE, JOHN WILLIAM, businessman and politician; b. 31 Jan. 1848 in Horton Township, Upper Canada, son of John McRae and

Montreal Harbour Commission. He would serve as harbour-master from 1900 to 1912. With the improvements made during the previous decade, Montreal was now the number-one port in Canada. Under McShane’s

McGillivray* in London to make preparations for an expedition to the northwest coast. It may have been at this time that he was enrolled as an original member of the Canada Club, founded in 1810 to lobby

Nova Scotia SPC became the pioneer in anti-cruelty work in Canada: the first in the field, the most comprehensive in scope, and the promoter of the earliest child-protection legislation (1880 and 1882

supplies in Lower Canada and who also held the office of king’s printer. He had been elected member of the House of Assembly for Quebec in 1818, and there was some concern that difficulties, if not a

Nelson* and Jane Dies; d. 13 July 1859 in Sorel, Lower Canada. George Nelson’s boyhood was spent initially in Montreal and then in

(Dayodekane), farmer, Iroquoian traditionalist, and Onondaga chief; b. 27 Jan. 1842 on the Six Nations Reserve, Upper Canada, son of Nicholas

Hertel* de Rouville in a raid against Deerfield. This all-expenses-paid honeymoon was an event Noyon would have gladly missed. He returned to Canada

. 1759 on the Mohawk River (N.Y.); d. 23 or 24 Nov. 1837 near Brantford, Upper Canada. Catharine was the daughter of a Mohawk woman of noble

–1895” (ba thesis, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, 1977). Harvey Sawler, Last Canadian beer: the Moosehead story (Halifax, 2008). A. W. Sneath, Brewed in Canada

 Grande Gueule, appears in the “Relation of the events of the war, and state of affairs in Canada,” dated Quebec, 30 Oct. 1688

O’REILLY, CHARLES, physician, office holder, hospital administrator, and educator; b. 19 June 1846 in Hamilton, Upper Canada

Canada, son of Joseph Paquet, a farmer, and Elisabeth Picher; m. 1 Aug. 1843 Marie-Louise Hamel at Quebec, and they had nine children; d. there 26 Feb. 1905

, Fort Daer, and Grand Forks were also included. In exchange, each tribe was to receive annual payments of 100 lbs of tobacco. This land treaty was the first to be signed in western Canada

incarceration he had suffered in 1837–38 at the hands of the government. When the Bar of Lower Canada was incorporated in 1849 Peltier had the honour of being chosen unanimously by his colleagues as the

to marry, Delezenne, “who has often been a companion of Picard in [the four years] he has been in Canada,” asserted that they were the closest of friends. Delezenne was present when the marriage

interval during which he was not heard from and was said to have “wandered” about western Canada, Pienovi died in Montreal in 1845, at the recorded age of 72

observations sur mon voyage au Canada,” 1931–32: 3–46; and “Les ‘papiers’ La Pause,” 1933–34: 65–231. Arch. municipales, Pézenas, France, État civil, Pézenas, 14 août 1721. AD, Hérault (Montpellier

. The Atlantic Canada newspaper survey database (available to subscribers on the Canadian Heritage Information Network web site, administered through Communications Canada, Ottawa) contains numerous

BLHU, R. G. Dun & Co. credit ledger, Canada, 11: 240; 12: 745. Halifax County Court of Probate (Halifax), Estate papers, no.867; Wills, 4: f.315; 6: f.420; P92 (William Pryor) (mfm. at

adjutant-general of the militia of Lower Canada and politician, and they had six children; d. there 16 Sept. 1895. The son of a well-to-do

difficulties and misfortunes associated with recruiting in Canada during World War I. Readman enlisted at the age of 17 in the non-permanent active militia: on 10 Nov. 1894 he joined the 81st

Reid, a tailor; m. 19 Oct. 1865 Richard Henry Riches in Port Hope, Upper Canada, and they had two sons; d. 24 Feb. 1915 in Toronto

habitants, were often opposed to the re-siting of bad roads. In December 1793 he pointed out to the chairman of the Assembly committee studying the highways that roads in Canada could be compared to

in Gentilly (Bécancour), Lower Canada, son of Alexis Raux and Marie des Anges Girouard; m. first 6 Feb. 1865 Philomène Boisvert in Bécancour, and they had ten children, two of whom died in

firm allowed Rhodes, Curry to undertake the construction of complete railway cars, and the company became one of the leading manufacturers of secondary iron products in Canada

of Dr Jeremiah Riordon and Amelia Ames; d. 21 Sept. 1884 at St Leonards (East Sussex), England. John Riordon came to Canada

ROBB, JAMES ALEXANDER, businessman and politician; b. 10 Aug. 1859 in Huntingdon, Lower Canada, son of Alexander Robb, a

ROCHON, ALFRED, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 1 Feb. 1847 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada

Orleans in 1894. A few years later, however, he became a fierce opponent and proposed that the order’s assemblies be barred from the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada on the grounds that they “represent

: sailortowns of eastern Canada (Toronto, 1982). E. W. Sager, Seafaring labour: the merchant marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914 (Kingston, Ont., 1989). Christina Simmons

insane in the United States and Canada, ed. H. M. Hurd (4v., Baltimore, Md., 1916–17; repr. New York, 1973), 4: 9–10. Sylvia Van Kirk, “Many tender ties”: women in fur-trade society in

ANQ-M, CE1-51, 8 mars 1833, 24 nov. 1852. National Bank of Canada Arch. (Montreal), Banque d’Hochelaga, reg. des procès-verbaux, 1874–1910. Gazette (Montreal), 7 March 1879

, but like many of the nobility in Canada was not prosperous. In the status oriented society of Canada, solvency was not as important as the maintaining of appearances, and in this respect, as in others

regiment on 7 Feb. 1665 and embarked for Canada at the end of May, arriving at Quebec with his company on 12 September. Intendant Talon

; 7: 2711–17, 2735–52 (transcripts). Edinburgh Rev. (Edinburgh and London), 11 (1807–8): 88–100; 15 (1809–10): 384–96. Report of trials in the courts of Canada, relative to the destruction

to Upper Canada in the spring of 1832. He purchased land first in Woolwich Township, near Guelph, and then in 1834 at DeCew Falls, near St Catharines. Tom worked for wages on neighbouring farms

marriages for the city and county of Saint John, book I (1875–80): 254 (mfm. at PANB); Women’s Enfranchisement Assoc. of Canada, Saint John branch, minute-books, 1894–1919. PANB, RS9/1904/22–22.1; RS113/3/20

, Que. George Robert Smith took commercial courses in Newark and moved to Canada at the age of 16. Soon after his arrival he became interested in the

’ Mission Board in 1890-92, a board member of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, and honorary treasurer of the medical department of the Church Missionary Society. More significantly, he was a charter

and Western, which became the Canada Eastern Railway Company, with Gibson as president. In 1893 Snowball replaced Gibson and shortly thereafter the two men quarrelled over who was really in control

Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Fredericton Arch., Christ Church (Fredericton), minutes, 1793–1818 (mfm. at PANB). Old Burying Ground (Fredericton), George and Alicia Sproule, tombstone. PANB, RG 2

World War I erupted in August 1914, Stanfield, who belonged to the active militia, had quickly returned to Canada and offered his services to the Department of Militia and Defence. In January

*, and they had a child who died shortly after birth; d. 13 Aug. 1930 in Hamilton, Ont. The Starkman family arrived in Canada sometime

Bertha Earle; they had no children; d. 19 Feb. 1924 in Montreal and was buried there. Hay Stead came to Canada with his parents as a boy

). Wendy Mitchinson, “The WCTU: ‘For God, home and native land’; a study in nineteenth-century feminism,” in A not unreasonable claim: women and reform in Canada, 1880s–1920s, ed. Linda Kealey

blacksmith. Anti-British sentiment after the War of 1812 caused the family to decide to join a group of Irish immigrants, similarly disenchanted with the republic, in moving to Upper Canada. On 21 April

, Upper Canada. Through his mother, Henry belonged to the family in which the title Tekarihogen was hereditary, and the name was bestowed on him as a

. 10 Jan. 1863 at Saint-Jérôme, Canada East. Casimir-Amable Testard de Montigny spent his youth in Montreal and completed his studies under