North America. In all likelihood he was looking for opportunities in railway construction and, although he travelled first to New York, he soon concluded that there was greater promise in Canada, perhaps

because of injuries he had incurred. In September, a few days before his marriage to Lucille Norchet, he signed his first professional contract with the Montreal Canadiens (known in English Canada as the

completed the examination set by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada. Returning to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, the parish in which he had grown up and one without a resident physician, Ross

in Canada, taking the name of Jean Laterrière on his arrival, Jean-Baptiste in the early 1770s, Jean-Pierre most frequently between 1778 and 1788, and

peace. Signay’s customary prudence was intensified in the late 1830s by the climate of insecurity and depression in Lower Canada. He was in favour of

. In 1891 he and his wife, Mary Ellen, emigrated to Canada and the following year they settled in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Smith worked there as a coalminer, but left the pits within the year

emigrated to Canada in 1870; he found work in Dundas first in the Gartshore foundry and then in the Young last factory. In 1872 he attended the huge labour demonstration in nearby Hamilton in favour of a nine

management. Thomson had been a director of the Union Bank of Lower Canada since 1874, and in 1877 he became its president. He assumed this office at a

In addition to having a busy personal and professional life, Tolmie was drawn to public service. In 1900 he was appointed inspector of animals by the government of Canada, and the following year he was

Merenti de Patria medal in 1991; the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada declared her a national historic person in 1992; the Canada Post Corporation issued a stamp to commemorate the centenary of

, Ireland, Father Bourassa lent his support to the initiative, the only one of its kind in Canada. Paul Bruchési*, archbishop of Montreal, was rather

), photographer and painter; b. 12 May 1858 at Listowel, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Walker and Jeanne (Jane) Maurrice; m. 6 Oct. 1877 Jeannette Pretty (d. 15 Dec. 1938) in Toronto

“recommended by competent judges as most suitable to be at the head of the Law Faculty.” Weldon accepted the board’s offer, becoming the first full-time professor of law in post-confederation Canada. It may be

. Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial’s father, scion of a feudal Languedoc noble family, served with the Mousquetaires before accepting the appointment of commander of the colonial regulars in Canada

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1931), a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, England (1935), and an honorary member of the New York Academy of Medicine (1936

enabled Amiot to create some remarkable items, such as the reliquary at Charlesbourg done in 1823. Under his impetus church silver in Lower Canada was revitalized through the introduction of an aesthetic

and Marie de Beaujeu, and sent them to Europe for training in order to broaden their knowledge in this field. Marie de Beaujeu would come back to Canada in April 1905 after studying for five months. On

to the bar of Lower Canada on 2 July 1860, Angers joined Louis-Napoléon Casault and Jean Langlois in one of the most prosperous law firms in Quebec City. Soon he had acquired all the prerequisites

become masters of Canada.” “To be beyond dispute,” he added, “these boundaries could only be the high grounds; but to set them there means giving away a great part of New France, since these high grounds

 May 1875 at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Nothing specific is known about George Baptist’s childhood and adolescence. In 1832 he emigrated to Canada

. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Laslo Szabo coll., “Malecite stories,” 5: 458–60 (“Grave Island,” account by Lilly Gabriel) (typescript, 1975). Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Ottawa), Protected Bands

  ADAM, manufacturer, horseman, politician, office holder, and philanthropist; b. 20 June 1857 in Baden, Upper Canada, son of Jacob Friedrich Beck and Charlotte Josephine

1870s Beemer came to Canada as a foreman for Smith and Ripley of New York and worked on the Welland Canal. During the years that followed, he obtained a few contracts himself, including one for part of a

Beaumont, 1692–1974, Rosaire Saint-Pierre, compil. (Québec, 1975), 17. “Papiers d’État – Bas-Canada,” PAC Rapport, 1896: 70. P.-G. Roy, Fils de Québec

made a member of Blair’s Executive Council. Joseph Edmund Collins*, writing in 1884 in Canada under . . . Lord

small degree to the many writers among his clients. Frank H. Risteen of Fredericton, a frequent hunting guest, mythologized him in the popular press of Canada and the United States. American

. We know almost nothing of his origins. The year of his arrival in Canada was long the subject of conjecture because Champlain identifies Étienne Brûlé clearly only in 1618. At that date Champlain

. In 1850 Christopher William Bunting, his sister, and their widowed mother immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. Young Bunting had received schooling in Ireland, and in Toronto he attended St

BÉLANGER, JEAN-BAPTISTE, ship’s captain and office holder; b. 1 Jan. 1852 in the parish of Cap-Saint-Ignace, Lower Canada

tariff on coal that the Conservatives had proposed in order to help market Nova Scotian coal in central Canada. Carmichael argued that it was impossible to organize trade between Ontario and Nova Scotia

political target was the premier of the province of Quebec, Sir Lomer Gouin*. Nor did he spare the prime minister of Canada, Sir Wilfrid

family. He certainly received a good education; in the light of the affection that the missionaries in Canada had for him, it was perhaps from the Jesuits. On occasion they wrote to him quite

DAVIS, ELIHU JAMES, tanner, manufacturer, and politician; b. 2 Dec. 1851 in York Township, Upper Canada, eldest of the four

. Denault would mount this crusade through various periodicals. In 1893 he founded La Croix de Montréal, which became La Croix du Canada the following year and ceased publication

* of Toronto, a Mohawk chief and founder of the League of Indians of Canada, the country’s first pan-Indian political organization, also had doubts about Deskaheh’s confrontational approach. In a letter

Pictorial was a glossy magazine celebrating Canada’s landscape and prominent people, published by the family business between 1906 and 1916. It boasted of containing “between one and two thousand square

, Que., and they had six daughters; d. 3 Nov. 1810 at Quebec, Lower Canada. Although he was not destitute, Joseph Drapeau probably

annual meeting of the National Council of Women of Canada was convened in Halifax, where the presence of Lady Aberdeen and American suffragist May Eliza Sewall highlighted the sub-theme of votes for women

Jones* was removed from the top overseas post in the CAMC. Although Jones was soon reinstated, the scandal and the subsequent reorganization of the medical corps forced his return to Canada early in

starch maker, and Marie-Anne Péguy; d. 26 May 1839 in Baie-du-Febvre (Baieville), Lower Canada. Charles-Vincent Fournier obtained his

. With the establishment of the National Policy of tariff protection one year later, Fraser recognized the latent demand for primary steel to feed the railways and emerging industries of central Canada and

 Montalembert, Frédéric Ozanam, and Albert de Mun ranked high among them, along with those of Louis Veuillot and Joseph de Maistre. In Canada Gauthier was considered a clergyman of exceptional authority

Buade* de Frontenac, who apparently was protecting him, appointed him “process-server and royal serjeant-at-law serving the whole of Canada.” A year later, on 5 Nov. 1674, Genaple appeared before

. H. Brigstocke, History of Trinity Church, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1791–1891 (Saint John, N.B., 1892). Philip Carrington, The Anglican Church in Canada

technical training. He was a machinist by 1880 but would leave that job in 1885 to become an insurance agent with the Citizens’ Insurance Company of Canada

William* McGillivray cultivated leading judicial and political leaders in England and the Canadas, and they succeeded in bringing these officials more or less to their point of view. This favourable

and in Upper and Lower Canada. A series of lengthy articles about the journey entitled “Notes of a flying visit among our neighbours” appeared in the Acadian Recorder between July and October

Hamilton, Upper Canada, son of William Hendrie* and Margaret Walker; m. 2 April 1885 Lena Maude Henderson (d. 18 July

late father’s farm near Quebec, and in April 1835 he and the other heirs sold 29 200-acre lots in Kingsey Township in Lower Canada. Holland’s eldest son, Samuel John, who had been wounded in 1813 at the

a general election. A confused affair, the election was fought on a number of issues, including education and confederation with the new dominion of Canada. Howlan simply called on the colony’s