Catholic priest, educator, church and school administrator, and bishop; b. 23 May 1859 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Louis

; E, 9 (dossier Arnoux) (copies at PAC). ANQ, “Inventaire analytique des Archives de la guerre concernant le Canada (1755–1760),” compilé par J.-É. Labignette et Louise Dechêne. Journal du

. Attempts by British officials in the Canadas to break Atiatoharongwen’s allegiance to the Americans with the enticement of a pension were unavailing, but few at St Regis shared his attachment, his

BECK, NICHOLAS DU BOIS DOMINIC, lawyer and judge; b. 4 May 1857 in Cobourg, Upper Canada, son of John Walton Romeyn Beck and

BELL, GORDON, physician, professor, bacteriologist, and sportsman; b. 22 May 1863 in Pembroke, Upper Canada, son of John

at Quebec, Lower Canada. John Bentley, a young English harpsichordist, was living in Philadelphia, Pa, at the end of the American revolution. In 1783

Little Franciscans of Mary; b. 9 Oct. 1865 in Sorel, Lower Canada, daughter of Pierre Bibeault, a farmer, and Catherine Latraverse; d. 30 April 1924 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Que

the first four Brothers of the Christian Schools to come to Canada [see Louis Roblot

1843 in Bradford, Upper Canada, eldest child of Joseph Bingham, a tanner and bootmaker, and Clarissa Vanderburgh, of New York loyalist descent; m. 25 Dec. 1867 Egerton Ryerson

were caught up in the first phase of the dispute between the British conference and the Methodist Episcopal Church over control of the Methodist missions in Upper and Lower Canada. They attended the

. Despite a plethora of unsubstantiated claims about his achievements, Joseph Boyle is one of Canada’s genuine but little known heroes. Of Irish and Scottish parentage, he moved with his family to Woodstock

, Lower Canada, son of Charles Bresse and Marie Rocheleau; d. unmarried 30 Jan. 1892 in New York City, of yellow fever contracted while travelling, and was buried on 8 February in Quebec City

was Denonville the first to see clearly the magnitude of the danger to Canada’s security. His instructions had been explicit on the need to remove the Iroquois threat, preferably without resort to war

, teacher, and a founder and superior of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; b. 4 Sept. 1837 on the outskirts of Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, fourth of the ten children of

, lieutenants-gouverneurs et administrateurs du Canada et de ses provinces, 1604-1921 (2v., s.l., s.d.). D. R. Babcock, Alexander Cameron Rutherford: a gentleman of Strathcona (Calgary, 1989

and finally obtained from Scotland a long-term resident pastor. Later, it reverted to its Congregational identity until it entered the United Church of Canada in 1925

experience in Maritime Canada, ed. B. M. Moody (Hantsport, N.S., 1980). R. W. Winks, The blacks in Canada: a history (London and New Haven, Conn., 1971). R. M

*, who was then co-premier of the Province of Canada with Francis Hincks*. Lawrence John did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Québec

Immaculate, travelled in central and eastern Canada, with Casey’s eager approval, to obtain funds for the financially strapped archdiocese. Hoping to raise thousands of dollars, Welch returned to British

McPharlane, who had left County Cavan, Ireland, to emigrate to Canada; d. 14 June 1873 at Montreal, Que. A Celt to his finger-tips, young

himself as the one French Canadian mp who was basically imperialist. He took a stand in favour of Canada’s full participation in the South African War, since England was clamouring for it. After the general

Chauvreulx arrived in Canada in 1728 as a simple subdeacon, after six years of study at the Sulpician seminary in Paris. The bishop of Quebec

. 1844 in Saint-Pie, Lower Canada, son of Jérôme Chicoine, a farmer and blacksmith, and Dorothée Deslandes, dit Champigny; m. 7 Jan. 1868 Marie-Rose-Caroline Perrault in Saint

chief, that the Sarcee, Blackfoot, and Blood share a common one near Blackfoot Crossing. However, when confinement to a reserve became a reality in 1879 with the destruction of the buffalo herds in Canada

-Ours, Lower Canada, son of Alfred Coderre and Emma Fontaine; m. 9 July 1895 Marie-Anne Sainte-Marie in Saint-Henri (Montreal), and they had two daughters and two sons; d. 29 Jan

, Upper Canada, son of Matthew Conmee and Rosanna O’Shaughnessy; m. 12 Oct. 1874 Emily Florence Cox in St Vincent Township, Ont., and they had seven daughters and one son; d. 23

that he “leaves the district in a much more flourishing condition than he found it.” Connolly returned to Lower Canada on furlough that year, taking

Saint John what would become the first indigenous English-speaking women’s religious congregation in Canada. Four novices volunteered, including Honoria Conway

opening of a road between the Red River settlement and Lake of the Woods to secure direct communication with Upper Canada [see Simon James

Poulin* de Courval Cressé and Charlotte-Louise Lambert Dumont; m. 2 Jan. 1792 Marie-Victoire Fafard Laframboise in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, under a contract providing for husband and

communications between Canada and Louisiana, but to the entire French position in the west. The French decided, therefore, to send an expedition through the Ohio valley to assert their claims to the region, to map

Bishop Laval*. Indeed on the 12 May M. Dudouyt wrote from Paris: “Saint-Lusson is making ready to go back to Canada without knowing

removed from Lower Canada. It seems likely that his early government appointments were secured through the influence of his brother William McDonell Dawson, superintendent of the woods and forests branch of

. 1854 in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval, Lower Canada, son of Charles De Lamarre, a sailor and then a farmer, and Luce Laroche; d. 21 April 1925 in Chicoutimi, Que

Sorel (Sorel-Tracy), Lower Canada, daughter of Joseph Roy, dit Desjardins, a seaman, and Rosalie Malhiot; m. there 2 Sept. 1879 Alphonse

. The case was conducted in a period of considerable agitation over the possible union of Lower and Upper Canada, a plan opposed by both the Canadian party and Plessis, but strongly supported by the

an official dispatch of July 1812, was described as “closely connected with the most respectable families” in Upper Canada. His brother

Bunning*], and Mother Delphine [Marie-Antoinette Fontbonne*], the first superior of the community in Canada. Having travelled

Canada. The account, which was well received at the time, formed the subject of a long bibliographical study in the Journal des Scavans in 1708

Englishman, Saint Dunstan, had been opened, although it was far from completed. In the next few years gifts of altar furniture arrived from Lower Canada and Ireland, until Dollard and his new charge had one of

Sulpician seminary in Paris have unfortunately been destroyed and no trace can be found of his stay there. The reconstruction of his activities in Canada is just as difficult because of the enormous gaps in

and 1939 he commentated on religious affairs for the weekly radio program L’Heure dominicale, broadcast by Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In

John under the title Dual language in Canada: its advantages and disadvantages. . . . With his friend and colleague Abbé Marcel-François Richard, he also waged a campaign for the

beautiful avi-fauna of eastern Canada which had passed through our naturalist’s skilful hands.” In 1867 Downs was recommended for the superintendency of

studied theology at La Flèche from 1731 to 1734. Following his ordination he sailed for Canada in 1734, and the next year he accompanied Jean-Baptiste de

. When military operations had ended, he decided to stay in Canada. On 22 Oct. 1668, at Quebec, he married one of Louis Hébert*’s

States, Englehart supported Canada’s defensive tariff. When it became clear that the federal government of Wilfrid Laurier* elected in 1896

. 5 Dec. 1846 in London Township, Upper Canada, son of Thomas English and Mary Ann McStay; m. Annie Bolton, and they had three daughters and two sons; d. 15 Dec. 1916 in Vancouver

representative in the federal cabinet since Laurier’s election in 1896. In 1901 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. The plan of the Island’s Liberals was for Farquharson to resign and contest Davies’s

his services, and at the end of August he left Canada for good. In France he continued to practise in the region of Blois until his death ten years later