Canada, one of the three sons of James Playter and Agnes Widdifield; m. first 1860 Charlotte Arnold of Thornhill, Upper Canada (d. 1880); m. secondly 17 Oct. 1885 May Belle Frances

1815. By 1819 he saw no hope of resuming active service and emigrated to Cobourg, Upper Canada. In the spring of 1820 he took his wife and three small children to the bush to become one of the first

concentrated his energies on educating the young. In the spring of 1849 Rézé was made superior for the religious of Holy Cross in Lower Canada, who had come to Saint-Laurent on Montreal Island in 1847 at the

. John Sunday was a member of the Missisauga tribe, which was scattered throughout central Upper Canada and particularly in the vicinity of Rice Lake and the mouth of the Credit River. Possibly Sunday’s

. Within months of Catherine Seaton Skirving’s arrival in Upper Canada with her family in 1833, her father died following a brief illness. Left without means, his widow and her daughters moved several times

Institute (1879) and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston (1883), which emphasized engineering as well as military training. He initially worked in eastern Ontario as a survey engineer for the

. 30 March 1867 at Kamouraska, Canada East. Joseph-André Taschereau, a timid and withdrawn child of the celebrated seigneurial family, was

) in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, and they had children; m. secondly Eliza Montague (d. 1820); m. thirdly Betsy Smythe, and they had a son and two daughters; d. 26

Toronto Township, Upper Canada. William Thompson was the son of Cornelius Thompson, lieutenant and adjutant of the 2nd battalion of New Jersey Volunteers

Quebec and appointed him ecclesiastical commissary of the eastern district of Canada. When a Church of England bishop for Quebec was being proposed, Toosey went back to England in the spring of 1792 to

VanKOUGHNET (Vankoughnet), PHILIP MICHAEL MATTHEW SCOTT, politician and judge; b. 21 Jan. 1822 at Cornwall, Upper Canada

Canada; m. October 1836 Maria Smith (d. 1843), and they had three children, two of whom survived infancy; m. secondly 1845 Rebecca H. Sealey (d. 1894), and they had one son; d. 9

librarian of the Legislative Library of Ontario for nine years. He had at least one brother in Canada, referred to as “J. M.,” possibly the John M. Watson appointed assistant librarian after

Wenger; m. 24 Aug. 1777 Elizabeth Eschlemann, and they had 10 children; d. 1827 at Black Creek, Bertie Township, Upper Canada

Quebec Mercury in 1850 as political editor and law reporter. During the annexationist crisis, the Mercury, while not actively urging that Canada join the United States, did support the right

WILLISON, Sir JOHN STEPHEN, newspaperman, author, and businessman; b. 9 Nov. 1856 near Hills Green, Upper Canada, third

CARTIER, Sir GEORGE-ÉTIENNE, lawyer, politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada; b

(noviciate) at Issy-les-Moulineaux, dept of Hauts-de-Seine, France; two years later he was sent to Canada. “I scarcely knew in what part of the world the country in question was,” he later remarked. Ordained

eldest of their three sons and five daughters, attended Upper Canada College in 1842–45. In his mid twenties he began to study law: he was articled in Toronto to John Leys and attended lectures at Osgoode

Bell’s parents emigrated to New York when he was still young, and in 1832 the family settled on a farm near Kemptville in Upper Canada. He attended local schools and on 16 June 1843 qualified as

), Upper Canada, son of William Berczy* and Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand*; m. 21

Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, daughter of James Boulton and Margaret Neilina Fortye; m. 15 Nov. 1871 Samuel Nordheimer in Toronto, and they had eight daughters and three sons

in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on 31 Oct. 1750 and was ordained priest in 1754, probably on the eve of Trinity Sunday. At the request of his superior, Jean Couturier, he at once chose Canada as

Carroll*, Briggs experienced “an undeniable conversion” in boyhood, and he was soon preaching in and around Liverpool. He immigrated to the Canadas in his early twenties and was introduced into the

Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, son of John Burns and Deborah Huff; m. c. 1866 Eleanor Tyler in Erin, Upper Canada, and they had four children; d. 14 June 1904

Boucher* de Boucherville, a seigneur, at Boucherville, Lower Canada; d. there 28 Nov. 1832. Finding it

British periodicals about 1832. Clarke came to Canada in 1835. He may have settled at Elora, Upper Canada, as a farmer, but his first documented

led Colborne, commander-in-chief of the forces in the Canadas, to underestimate the danger of insurrection at that time. When the second uprising

. John Willoughby Crawford came to Canada with his parents in 1824. He was raised in Brockville, Upper Canada, where the family had settled and prospered, but was educated at York (Toronto). Called to the

judge; b. most probably in January 1799 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of François Dumoulin and Louise Cressé; m. there 2 May 1825 Hermine Rieutord, only daughter of

Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Olesków asked Genyk to take out the second contingent of settlers he had selected. On 22 June 1896 Genyk and his group

Doyle*], he embarked with his battalion for Canada. On returning to England in September 1864, Girdwood left the army in order to move back permanently to Montreal. He had been practising medicine for

Gowanlock and Elizabeth Kidd, farmers; m. 25 Aug. 1865 Edward Trout in Stratford, Upper Canada, and they had by adoption one son and one daughter; d. 10 Nov. 1921 in Hollywood (Los

Pierre Hubert and Marie-Josephte Chartier; d. 9 Nov. 1842 in Saint-Denis on the Richelieu, Lower Canada, and was buried in the crypt of the parish church

December 1846, on the recommendations of Silliman and of James Dwight Dana, Hunt was appointed chemist and mineralogist on the Geological Survey of Canada; he took office at the start of the following year

LABATT, JOHN, businessman; b. 11 Dec. 1838 in Westminster Township, Upper Canada, third son of John Kinder

experienced American cowboys guiding day-to-day work on the ranches which pioneered large-scale commercial operations in Canada. A master of the cowboy’s skills, he also showed unusual leadership abilities

WELLS, engineer, militia officer, mining magnate, civil servant, and philanthropist; b. 21 Feb. 1860 in Brantford, Upper Canada, son of Francis Henry Leonard, a businessman and

, Upper Canada. George Lyon was commissioned ensign in the 40th Foot on 4 Sept. 1806 and lieutenant two years later. In 1809 he transferred to

they had at least two sons and four daughters; m. again 20 Feb. 1856 Elizabeth Smith in Melbourne, Lower Canada, and they had no children; d. 26 Aug. 1874 in Trois-Rivières, Que., and

unit of the British army on permanent duty in the Canadas. During ten years in Kingston and Toronto, MacDougall was seized with the opportunities available in the North American colonies and in 1848 he

father, a judge in Upper Canada, could find him nothing in the Canadas. Grant moved to the United States and tried to establish himself in a number of places before settling into a medical practice in

Brothers of the Christian Schools, director and visitor of the district of Canada and the United States; b. 5 Feb. 1796 at Talmay (dept of Côte d’Or), France, son of Claude Roblot and Madeleine

, Scotland, son of the Reverend Thomas Scott; d. 29 July 1824 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada. Aspiring to a position in the British

Canada and an Anglican, but his career, like those of Robert Baldwin* and George Ridout

adulthood; d. 29 Aug. 1854 in Delaware Township, Upper Canada. The Tiffany family removed from Keene to Hanover, N.H., about 1782, and there young

in Smithtown, N.Y., eldest son of Thomas Tredwell and Ann Hazard; m. 1793 Margaret Platt, and they had two sons and four daughters; d. 22 Dec. 1855 in L’Orignal, Upper Canada

Barthe* of L’Aurore des Canadas. At the same time he communicated with the public through the newspapers, announcing his plan of exchange and urging the need to bring together people of

four sons and eight daughters; d. 16 July 1849 in Hamilton Township, Upper Canada. Robert Wade was born to a farming family involved in

, Que.; m. secondly 30 Oct. 1797 in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, Anna Louisa Vial de Sainbel, widow of Charles Vial de Sainbel, and they had at least one child, Louisa Nash; d