Johnson, the British superintendent of northern Indians. He was in Canada again the following year. In the summer of 1759, when many warriors

boundary controversy. In March 1837 he fell victim to a stroke, from which he failed to recover. A letter he wrote to his mother during his first winter in the Canadas shows almost a premonition of how his

, Upper Canada, sixth of the nine children of George Tillson* and Nancy Barker; m. 4 July 1850 in Tilsonburg (Tillsonburg), Upper Canada

. Margaret, David, their combined family, and an additional three children born to them set sail for Canada on 30 April 1882. The family’s first venture, farming on Salt Spring Island

(Brown), farmer and home-maker; b. 9 Feb. 1857 in Pilkington Township, Upper Canada, daughter of Charles Trask and Ann French; m. there 9

position he held for 12 years. He probably had substantial financial resources behind him when he decided to move to Canada, for he arrived in Calgary in August 1902 with his wife, two of their four

the autumn of 1744 she was authorized to return to Montreal. But she died at sea, opposite the Île d’Orléans, on 6 Oct. 1744, without having the consolation of setting foot again “in Canada” and of

to Canada, with Abbé François de Salignac* de La Mothe-Fénelon

, Somerset County, Pa, eldest son of David Michael Troyer and Magdalena Mast; m. Sophrona —; d. 28 Feb. 1842 near Port Rowan, Upper Canada

examinations in Latin and shared many of the opinions of his instructors, including his beliefs that “Canada is not ripe for independence” and war destroyed “the arts, the sciences, the civilization.” While at

candidates and issues in a Cumberland County election. His son, Charles*, was to become a leading Conservative in Nova Scotia and Canada

Canada (Irving), 100. Ouellet, “Inv. de la saberdache,” ANQ Rapport, 1955–57: 115, 120, 123–24, 126, 128

.” Vauquelin came to Canada in 1759 as commander of the frigate Atalante. Appointed a fire-ship captain for the campaign, he left Rochefort on 13 March, and on arrival in the colony he was ordered

Canada spans the golden years of the ranching frontier, the period of the great cattle companies [see Matthew Henry

Harris* and Peter Paterson*. In 1855 the society became the Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society, of which Whittemore was a founding

England. Three years later he was promoted major and sent out with the reinforcements under Burgoyne destined for Canada. Williams served throughout the campaigns of 1776 and 1777, holding de facto

working in 1884. Canada only needed more markets, he concluded, to absorb the outpouring of manufactured goods. The report was politically useful to the government and in 1886 Willis received an appointment

abreast of political developments in Lower Canada, where conflict was building to an explosion. “The French Habitans . . . ,” he wrote to Colonial Secretary Lord Glenelg in 1836, “were

lakes of the Canadas during the War of 1812. Already the veteran of several great naval engagements, he had served in the Decade (36 guns), Swiftsure (74 guns), Pylades

. With the advent of modernist verse in Canada, Yeoman’s work was forgotten. Now that a more sympathetic approach has been taken to the development of Canadian poetry in the period from 1890 to 1910, it is

Jewish Hist. Soc. of Western Canada Arch. (Winnipeg), Newspaper database. Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Biog. scrapbooks, B7: 219; B9: 187; M11: 255. Private arch., Henry Trachtenberg (Winnipeg

of the Carignan-Salières regiment, in Chambly*’s company, bound for Canada in 1665. At that time, Jean-Vincent was only thirteen

translated to the newly created Supreme Court of Canada in 1875, Allen, the senior as well as the most able puisne judge, was the automatic choice for the chief justiceship, though it can only have helped that

-Desmaures, Lower Canada, son of Dominique Amyot (Amyot, dit Larpinière), a farmer, and Louise Nolin; m. 14 Nov. 1881 Joséphine Tanguay in Quebec City, and they had six children, five of

Laurier’s party in protest against Canada’s participation in the South African War. Asselin contributed poetry and commented on the literary soirées held at the Château Ramezay. He also wrote about the attack

Austin’s father, having heard favourable reports of Upper Canada, decided to emigrate with his wife and five children. Reaching York (Toronto) in October 1829, they spent two months there while seeking a

BEAUDRY, JEAN-LOUIS, entrepreneur and politician; b. 27 March 1809 at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada

Beauharnois remained barely three winters in Canada, leaving the colony in the autumn of 1705; he had perhaps not had time to show his capabilities fully. Above all he appears a practical man, a man of action

Britain and Canada fight World War I, and to support the families of his ten children. Success in business, combined with the privileged social

Elizabeth Morrogh in Montreal, and they had a child, but both mother and child died shortly after the birth; m. secondly 26 Sept. 1866 Marie-Céleste-Esther Lussier in Varennes, Lower Canada, and

Canada, youngest child of François Bourassa, a farmer, and Geneviève Patenaude; m. 17 Sept. 1857 Azélie Papineau, daughter of Louis-Joseph

things which any reasonable intelligent man knows are so dishonest that they would stink in the nostrils of every man in Canada.” Now, when he had become

 Dec. 1850 in Saint-François parish (in Beauceville), Lower Canada, son of George William Chapman, a merchant, and Caroline Angers, sister of François-Réal

Province of Canada. To revive New Brunswick’s flagging economy through a series of large-scale public works, Colebrooke requested a loan from the British government, to be made conditional upon the

DAVIS, ROBERT ATKINSON, schoolteacher, businessman, and politician; b. 9 March 1841 in Dudswell, Lower Canada, son of Thomas

the militia, Frederick Charles Denison was privately educated until 1858, when he entered Upper Canada College. In 1864 he became a law student at Osgoode Hall. Called to the bar in 1870, he entered

1841 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, son of Édouard Desjardins, a bailiff, and Joséphine Panneton; m. first 19 May 1864, in Montreal, Justine-Virginie Paré (1839–79), daughter of merchant

children to Lower Canada; they arrived in Montreal in the summer of 1864. In February 1866 Drumm died and his family, left without even his small pension, faced financial hardship

 Gemerais, who descended from an old noble family in France, had come to Canada in 1687. Marguerite, the eldest child, had three brothers: Charles and Joseph, who became priests, and

 April 1843 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada. There are two versions of Louis Dulongpré’s arrival in North America. According to his obituary in

EMARD, JOSEPH-MÉDARD, Roman Catholic priest, professor, and archbishop; b. 31 March 1853 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada

apprenticed to his father. On 16 Jan. 1764, in Montreal, Foretier married Thérèse, daughter of the merchant Jean-Baptiste Legrand. Their five daughters were to marry men prominent in Lower Canada, among

GIRARD, MARC-AMABLE, notary, office holder, politician, and lawyer; b. 25 April 1822 in Varennes, Lower Canada, the fifth of

soldier and set his sights on the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada in Kingston, Ont., despite the fact that only three French Canadians had been accepted there since the college’s opening in 1876

discussed the reorganization of ecclesiastical boundaries in Canada. It recommended that Rome elevate St Boniface to a metropolitan see and create St Albert as a suffragan diocese. On 22 Sept

. 1814 as one of Cameron’s uniformed officers and was active in persuading many of the Selkirk settlers to accept the NWC’s offer of transportation out of the colony to the Canadas. In March 1815, after

, England, son of William Macaulay Herchmer and Frances Turner; m. first 8 Nov. 1866 Mary Helen Sherwood (d. 1899) in Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had at least three sons and one daughter

Huet de La Valinière and Olive Arnaud; d. 29 June 1806 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada. Pierre Huet de La Valinière entered the

was accepted into the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston with the highest entrance mark. His father, who had been promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 45th Battalion the year before

Canada, son of John Hughes and Caroline Laughlin; m. first 1870 Annie Agnes Sutherland (1850–84), and they had two sons and two daughters, of whom a son and a daughter predeceased him; m