. 1752; d. 3 Aug. 1818 at Quebec, Lower Canada. John Jones arrived at Quebec in 1777. By February 1780 he was announcing imported

, Catherine* (1664–1744), was one of the earliest herbalists in Canada. She treated her children and neighbours with medicinal herbs, and she is even supposed to have sent botanical specimens to France. In

), Lower Canada, son of Robert Kemp and Sarah Ann Bush, widow of John Derick; m. first 21 Aug. 1879 Celia Amanda Wilson in Montreal, and they had three daughters; m. secondly 3 March 1925

to the new dominion, were profound. By February 1873 Laird and Haythorne were on their way to Ottawa to solicit “better terms” for a union with Canada. They succeeded, and returned to the Island to

fourth marriages; d. 12 May 1915 in Toronto. Educated in Kilmarnock, Scotland, John Langmuir immigrated to Upper Canada in 1849 and

, Martin, Limitée (the name the company had assumed in 1913) was considered one of the four largest wholesale grocery firms in Canada. Laporte’s

of the husband, the case made its way to the provincial Court of Appeal, which, in splitting evenly, upheld his decision in November 1910. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, then Canada’s

WILLIAM RALPH, lawyer, politician, judge, and educator; b. 31 March 1840 in Westminster Township, Upper Canada, son of John Walsingham Cooke

-devant le Canada, which the first Continental Congress had him print, Mesplet received almost no orders. But he did meet Charles Berger, a compatriot in better circumstances, who was to become his

direction, the first two in a whole series of Catholic youths were dispatched to Lower Canada in the fall of 1812 to study for the priesthood at the seminaries there. For the short term, Plessis assigned Jean

college, St Andrew’s, established in 1831. After MacEachern’s death in 1835, McIntyre entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Lower Canada. From there he proceeded to the Collège de Chambly and in

Vetch, whose scheme for Canada’s conquest by an inter-colonial land and sea invasion was ordered into effect by the Whig ministry on 1 March. Following their joint appearance in Manhattan

 – , and they had four children; d. 14 March 1815 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Jacob Overholser led a life that in most respects was singularly

speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. In November 1787, probably as a result of a rumour that the Jesuit estates were to be transferred to

in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada, but also in Europe and the United States. In 1950 the winds of change were blowing at the Met when Rudolf Bing

signed Pinsoneault), Roman Catholic priest, Sulpician, and bishop; b. 23 Nov. 1815 at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Lower Canada, son of Paul-Théophile Pinsoneault and Clotilde Raymond; d. 30

Lower Canada [see David McLane*] made even French emigré priests suspect to the British. In 1798–99 Plessis had to lobby for

most imperturbable politician that ever came out of New Brunswick, or any other Province of Canada.” To his friends and followers he was Sweet William; to his opponents he was Slippery Bill, a masterful

-Nicolas, Lower Canada, ninth of the fourteen children of Étienne Pâquet, a farmer, and Ursine Lambert; d. 25 Feb. 1900 at Quebec. Descended

advancing the status of women in her community. Believing that the Maritimes should be to Canada what she considered New England was to the United States

. There is no definite information about when Robertson came to the Canadas, but he entered the service of the North West Company as an apprentice clerk before the end of 1803. Two years later an HBC trader

-EUGÈNE, professor, Roman Catholic priest, and archbishop; b. 8 Nov. 1859 in Berthier-en-Bas (Berthier-sur-Mer), Lower Canada, son of Benjamin Roy, a farmer, and Desanges Gosselin

became the key figure in energizing the McGill Physical Society and was elected in 1900 to section III of the Royal Society of Canada; he would serve as section vice-president in 1905 and president in

coast of Scotland. Some sources claim that he went to university, and others suggest that he studied engineering before immigrating to Canada in 1882

. William George Storm immigrated to Upper Canada with his parents, who settled in York (Toronto) about 1830. They were devout Methodists and for a brief period they sent him to be educated at Upper Canada

TAFFANEL DE LA JONQUIÈRE, JACQUES-PIERRE DE, Marquis de LA JONQUIÈRE, naval officer, governor general of Canada; b. 18 April

nationalism. In 1921 he would take part in the forum on industrial issues in French Canada. In a wider context the ACJC was one of the movements that in the 1910s gave rise to the Ligue des Droits du Français

. George Anthony Walkem was one of ten children born into a family whose roots were in southwest England. They emigrated to Canada in 1847, where the senior Walkem gained employment with the Royal Engineers

(Riverfield), Lower Canada, son of Alexander Young, a Presbyterian minister, and Ellen McBain; m. first 2 Oct. 1890 Kate Linda Isaacs in London, England, and they had one son; m. secondly 15 March

Young’s immigration to North America are not known, but by 1834 he had settled in Toronto, establishing himself as an art teacher and artist. From 1834 to 1839 he was a drawing master at Upper Canada

latter’s departure for Canada in 1653, met a sad end a short time afterwards. She died in 1655, assassinated by a sworn enemy of the family. Four years earlier her husband had suffered the same fate, by the

emigrated with his family from Scotland to Elgin County, Upper Canada, in 1843 as a lad of nine. By 1900 he was among the most prosperous farmers in the area, working more than 600 acres while holding

. Macdonald]. Canada had been given rights in the American shore fisheries, Americans were given access to the Canadian, and the patent difference in value in favour of the Americans was to be the

Canada, son of Pierre Bourget, a farmer, and Thérèse Paradis; d. 8 June 1885 at Sault-au-Récollet (Montréal-Nord), Que. Ignace Bourget’s

. Paul Bruchési was of Italian descent on his father’s side. His grandfather was born in Malta and his grandmother in Naples; they immigrated to Canada around 1810. Paul was the eldest of six children. He

Canada. Briand had to defend himself against Roubaud’s allegations. Cramahé endeavoured to intervene with Roubaud, but to no avail. In February 1766 Cramahé simply recommended “all possible discretion and

mention of his movements outside Italy. After 1870, simply on the basis of a notice published in Le Courrier du Canada (Quebec) the day after his death, all his biographers speak of his stay

-la-Pérade (La Pérade), Lower Canada, son of Louis-Modeste Richer-Laflèche, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Joubin-Boisvert; d. 14 July 1898 in Trois-Rivières

LAMPMAN, ARCHIBALD, poet and postal clerk; b. 17 Nov. 1861 in Morpeth, Upper Canada, first child and only son of

Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy and the English colonies. Champigny created Bureaux des Pauvres, one of the first examples of social assistance in Canada. In 1689 he addressed the colony’s labour

MERCIER, HONORÉ, journalist, lawyer, and politician; b. 15 Oct. 1840 in Saint-Athanase (lberville), Lower Canada, son of

, journalist, and playwright; b. 9 Jan. 1845 in La Malbaie, Lower Canada, daughter of Élie Angers, a blacksmith, and Marie Perron; d. unmarried 6 June 1924 at Quebec

living at Saint-Cyr and that he reached Canada at a youthful age, perhaps in 1641, having lived at some earlier time in the home of “one of our mothers of Tours,” according to Marie de l’Incarnation

published the last version in 1835 with numerous additions, and this in fact constituted the first philosophy textbook produced in French Canada. In the prospectus Demers justified its printing on the grounds

industrial disputes known in Victorian Canada. However moderate and soothing its documents, the union had a more radical side: the PWA’s local records

. The Jessop family immigrated to Upper Canada in 1846. After a perilous voyage they landed at New York and from there made their way to Toronto. They settled on a farm near Port Perry in Reach Township

frequently Lahontan; the name also appears as Lahontang, La Hontan and La Hontaa), seigneur of Esleix, in Canada from 1683 (?) to 1693, officer in

home on Peel Street, and, ultimately, financed by him. Its declared purpose was “to express an educated opinion upon questions immediately concerning Canada; and to treat freely in a literary way all

OSLER, Sir WILLIAM, physician, educator, medical philosopher, and historian; b. 12 July 1849 in Bond Head, Upper Canada

to survey part of the Canadas, which yielded much new information, and then the African coast. He and his officers were appalled by the slave trade, and the expedition suffered huge losses, but his