PARENT, SIMON-NAPOLÉON, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 12 Sept. 1855 in Beauport, Lower Canada, son of Simon

. The persons case and the Dorion commission Soon after winning the right to vote in federal elections, women’s associations from all over Canada

Ireland in April 1852. His decision to make Canada his new home remains a mystery. He had not been actively recruited but his choice of missionary endeavour might have been influenced by Bishop

the United Church of Canada after the union of Methodists with Congregationalists and many Presbyterians in 1925. He fulfilled his duties as a student minister for the summer of 1934 but soon realized

. Following the capitulation of Montreal on 8 Sept. 1760, Canada was subjected to a military régime. The colony was divided into three independently administered districts – Quebec, Trois-Rivières

politician; b. 10 July 1829 at Varennes, Lower Canada, son of Ambroise Sénécal, a farmer and grain merchant, and Marie-Anne Brodeur; m. 15 Jan. 1850 at Verchères, Delphine, daughter of

took her to a vast country full of mountains, valleys, and heavy fogs. Later the Lord said to her explicitly: “It was Canada that I showed you; you must go there to build a house for Jesus and Mary.” The

 kcmg. In eastern Canada, the press suggested in 1907 that McBride might replace Robert Laird

Canada, son of James Eakins and Ann Cox; brother of William Thomas*; m. 5 June 1845 Mary Elizabeth Jane Somerset in Toronto, and

son who was the first d’Ailleboust to found a family in Canada. Catherine became a nun at the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Reims. In 1638 Louis

of the enclosures separately after reading references to them in the dispatches. The publication of the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament by the Province of Canada in 1857–58 drew Akins’s

. 1733 in England; d. 14 April 1805 in Cap-Santé, Lower Canada. George Allsopp served in the British Quartermaster General’s Department during

construction would provide jobs for the voters. Beaubien also sat on the boards of some other railway companies, most of them connected with Allan. They included the Canada Central Railway, the North Shore

Toronto weekly would carry puns, jokes, satire, and especially cartoons about virtually every topic of the day in late-19th-century Canada. The name Grip was borrowed from the raven who regularly

the son of an Irish Catholic immigrant who had established himself as a merchant in York (Toronto) in 1820. Darby attended Upper Canada College and, probably in 1844, entered McGill College in Montreal

offering schemes to his superiors, early in September 1757 he sent Lyttleton his thoughts on how Canada could be conquered. For complete victory in North America a three-pronged assault should be launched

Brodeur*, judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, acted as executors for Laurier in 1919 and, together with Senator Joseph-Marcellin

by the Halifax commercial élite and by supporters of the Church of England. Since the Colonial Office was already committed to substantial reform in the Canadas and New Brunswick, Campbell was aware

, vainly seeking permission to return to Canada to give support to his establishment, which is in the last stages of collapse.” In accordance with the

rely, and, obsessed by his own mortality, he was preparing to invest Chartier with the highest offices, to provide for all contingencies that might arise in the church in Canada after his death

Provence, Guyenne, and Dauphiné, director of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and future governor of New France. The Lotbinière family probably came to Canada with Lauson, who landed at Quebec on 13 Oct

CHÉNIER, JEAN-OLIVIER, physician and Patriote; b. 9 Dec. 1806, probably in Lachine, Lower Canada, or possibly in Montreal

captain at West Point, New York. When he returned to Lower Canada in 1807 he was accused of treason. Ignace-François Delezenne’s life changed after his

massive British invasion expected for 1709. It was on this occasion that he married Marie-Louise Chartier de Lotbinière. When it became apparent that Canada would enjoy a respite in 1709, La Ronde

. 7 Jan. 1811 at the Mohawk settlement on the Bay of Quinte, Upper Canada. As a young boy John Deserontyon accompanied Sir William

caisse populaire; b. 5 Nov. 1854 in Lévis, Lower Canada, son of François Roy, dit Desjardins, and Clarisse Miville, dit Deschênes; m. 2 Sept. 1879 Dorimène

, becoming the owner’s office assistant. That fall Tommy quit school to work at the factory full-time. His father came home after the armistice and decided that the family should return to Canada, where he

De Smet*]. The first Oblates had come in 1847 to assist the missionaries from Lower Canada, and in 1851 they set up the Oregon vicariate (which included the southern part of present-day

be wholly spent in other countries, cruelly hindering all material progress and improvement here.” No less caustic were his references to the moves towards confederation with the new dominion of Canada

year he was promoted colonel. In 1752 and 1753, his original assignment modified, he toured Canada in summer and winter, examining fortifications and buildings in Quebec, Trois-Rivières, Montreal, and

St Andrews, Stormont County, Canada West, 18 Aug. 1862. He was the eighth and youngest child of Simon Fraser, who was descended from the Frasers of Culbokie and Guisachan, a cadet branch of

probably b. on that day) in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Garneau, a physician, and Nathalie Rinfret, dit Malouin; m. first 24 Oct. 1870 Élodie

GAUTHIER, CHARLES HUGH, Roman Catholic priest, professor, and archbishop; b. 13 Nov. 1843 in Alexandria, Upper Canada, son

and on the purchase of six paintings by European artists from a large collection sent to Lower Canada in 1816–17 by Philippe-Jean-Louis

Papineau and had been one of the first to be arrested, on 17 Nov. 1837, with Dr Joseph-François Davignon. Some years later Desmaray had returned to Canada from the United States, and had

Saint-Zéphirin-de-Courval, Lower Canada, eldest son of Jules-Isaïe Benoît*, dit Livernois, a merchant, and Élise L’Herault, dit

Atlantic Canada. In the election of December 1921 Macdonald reclaimed his old constituency with the largest majority he ever received – over

was acquiring in running the affairs of the church of Canada. Even more than with his ecclesiastical administration, Maillard’s name is associated

to submit all her aspirations to the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit. Finally the priest allowed her to sail for Canada. It was agreed that she should leave for Paris on “the Wednesday after Whitsun

 Montferrand), belonged to the third generation of Montferrands in Canada. His grandfather, a soldier in the troops of the Chevalier de Lévis*, had

, Lower Canada, son of Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, a farmer, and Marie-Marguerite Champoux; d. 24 May 1901 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. Louis-Zéphirin

stronger on the ground but it suffered to a greater degree the consequences of external circumstances. The destruction of ils post at Sault Ste Marie, Upper Canada, by the Americans during the War of 1812

sheep on lands occupied by tenants. By 1802 he had decided to take a contingent of farmers to Lower Canada. On 3 July, with more than 400 of his people in three ships, he sailed from Fort

, military chaplain, Presbyterian minister, and author; b. 6 Nov. 1861 in Ramsay Township, Upper Canada, elder son of John Naismith, a cooper, and Margaret Young; m. first 20 June 1894

order, and author; b. 10 Aug. 1841 on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Upper Canada, grandson of George Martin*; m

Fallon to the see of London, McCarthy was frustrated in his hope of ensuring Irish hegemony in Atlantic Canada. By 1920 there would be Acadians in charge of the sees of Saint John

, and office holder; b. 25 Aug. 1850 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of Philippe-Napoléon Pacaud*, a notary, and

. 1804 in Saint-Grégoire (Bécancour), Lower Canada, son of Jean Prince, a farmer, and Rosalie Bourg; d. 5 May 1860 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

said country.” Tracy had a double mission: to drive the Dutch out of the West Indies, and in Canada to carry the war home to the Iroquois in order to

attention of Sir George Simpson when the HBC governor was looking for a man to lead an expedition to survey the part of the northern coastline of Canada not explored by Peter Warren