Congress of Canada from 1922 to 1931 and he was called upon to represent it at the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain in 1921 and at the congress of the International Federation of Trade Unions in

returned to Canada with some of the survivors of the Astor enterprise in a party of Nor’Westers in 1814. But his work for the expedition was less significant than his valuable narrative of its progress, the

Ireland, son of John French and his wife Jane; hanged 23 Oct. 1828 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada. The son of a former corporal in an Irish

, filmed in Canada) on Acoma. Shot in 1928–29 in the southwestern United States and combining documentary footage of the natives with a dramatic plot, the film was never released because of

first decade of the 20th century. He was a partner in most of the Forget empire’s mega-projects: the Canada Cement Company, the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, the Dominion Textile Company, the

Methodist missions (3v., New York, 1949–59), 1. S. D. Clark, Church and sect in Canada (Toronto, 1948). G. [S.] French, Parsons & politics: the rôle of the Wesleyan Methodists

Canada, son of Robert Gaskin and Margaret Burton; m. first 14 April 1867 Mary McAlister (d. 1875), and they had two sons and two daughters; m. secondly 1890 Stella Macdonald, and they

the Salt Spring Island delegate to the Yale Convention, where De Cosmos and other members of the Confederation League presented their views on union with Canada

death, there were 180,000 volumes in what constituted Canada’s largest academic collection. Although finances were always a major concern and the university’s direct support was limited, Gould succeeded

GRAHAM, WILLIAM MORRIS, civil servant and office holder; b. 11 Jan. 1867 in the Ottawa valley, Upper Canada, son of James

 1755 he was ordained priest at Rouen, from which he was preparing to sail for Canada with Urbain Boiret*. They arrived at Quebec on 26 July

counterpart. All these activities prepared Green for a more high-profile position in the farmers’ movement of western Canada. In 1906 the Territorial Grain

Montreal, Lower Canada. John Gregory may have been connected in Britain with Mark and Thomas Gregory, a London firm that had entered the fur trade shortly

GRENIER, JACQUES, businessman and politician; b. 20 Jan. 1823 in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, son of

never completely abandoned, began to grow again. He participated, for instance, in the negotiations concerning the division of the assets of the province of Canada, which were still going on 30 years

three sons and five daughters; d. 20 Feb. 1836 at his residence in Hamilton, Upper Canada. George Hamilton received some schooling locally

fund, and was a delegate to the General Assembly in Canada and the Pan-Presbyterian councils in Edinburgh, London, and Glasgow. Hay’s political

, leaving a small inheritance to each of his five children. Nine years later, when soldiers were needed for Jeffery Amherst*’s campaign into Canada

opened a law office in partnership with Alexander Hutchison Lunn. In the autumn he was commissioned by the government of the Province of Canada to compile all the statutes in force from the conquest to

almost hear the crying of the mothers separated from their children, and I realize . . . the injustice and the awfulness of it all.” Canada, and

the Royal Society of Canada in 1911. When World War I broke out, Herdt went to France to take part in the war effort, but the French military

Archambeault*]. He soon left, however, to work as an apprentice to France’s famous prestidigitator Alexander Herrmann, known as Herrmann the Great. Homier toured Canada and the United States until his

HUDON, VICTOR, businessman; b. 31 Aug. 1812 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, son of Alexandre Hudon and

probably the “Mr Hunt” who provided sails for the naval sloop Wolfe, built at Kingston, Upper Canada, during the War of 1812. In 1815 he acquired a shop of his own at the

. Her father remarried twice and had a large family by his third wife. In the American War of Independence, Ingersoll fought on the rebel side, but in 1795 he immigrated to Upper Canada where he had

. According to American historian Jacob Rader Marcus, Samuel Jacobs was probably of Alsatian origin. He arrived in Canada with the British army during the Seven Years’ War and did business as a purveyor to the

loyalists. I. C. Greaves, The negro in Canada (Montreal, [1930]), 19. J. W. Lawrence, The judges of New Brunswick and their times, ed. A. A. Stockton [and

suspected of treason. As the district representative of the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada, Jones was able to help those left destitute by the war

was purely a preliminary reconnaissance, and surveyors, legislators, civil servants, and entrepreneurs in the colony appear to have found it of little value. Jukes’ principal legacy to Canada is a

 April 1858 in Dundas, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Kennedy, a boiler-maker, and Jane Allan; m. 19 Sept. 1883 Alice Maude Allen in Cornwall, Ont., and they had a son and a daughter; d. 8

Sandwich (Windsor, Ont.), son of John Kerby and Alison Donaldson; m. 1811 Jane Lambert, and they had three children; d. 20 June 1854 at Fort Erie, Upper Canada

David Sawyer), Ojibwa chief, member of the Eagle totem, Methodist lay preacher, teacher, and farmer; b. probably in 1812 at the head of Lake Ontario in Upper Canada, eldest son of Chief Joseph

the Interior, Annual reports of the Indian Branch, 1874–79); 1880–87 (Annual reports of the Dept. of Indian Affairs, 1880–86). R. B. Deane, Mounted Police life in Canada: a record of thirty-one

. Dressler is commemorated in Canada by Cobourg’s Marie Dressler House, where she was born and where the Canadian Women in Film Museum has an exhibit devoted to her. Outside, an Ontario Heritage Foundation

; b. 27 Oct. 1846 in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir (Marieville), Lower Canada, son of Albert Larocque, a farmer, and Geneviève Dagneau; d. 15 Aug. 1926 in Sherbrooke, Que

; b. 18 Aug. 1821 at Montreal, Lower Canada, son of Alexis Laframboise, a merchant, and Lucie-Angélique, daughter of Gabriel Cotté*; d

Société l’Assomption [see Rémi Benoît*], almost from its beginning, in 1904 Landry had founded the first branch in Canada of this mutual

Anna Maria Philipps, and they had eight children; d. 23 Sept. 1840 in Saint-Édouard, near Napierville, Lower Canada. As a child François

. Joining the Royal Air Force Larichelière left Canada for England in August 1939 to study aeronautics at the University of Cambridge. He had less than a

. Brebner, New England’s outpost: Acadia before the conquest of Canada (New York, 1927), 30–36. Couillard Després, Saint-Étienne de La Tour, chaps. XXIV–XXVI passim. Candide de

Victor Le Sueur and Anne Honneur; d. 17 July 1704 at Havana, Cuba. While still a youth, Le Sueur came to Canada under the

Association of Canada, and in 1921, after his herd had to be destroyed because of an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, he supported the campaign to make the province disease-free, an accomplishment of the

on Sundays and holidays. Furthermore, the men could refuse to work more than a normal shift without jeopardizing their chances of being rehired. The wage rate at Quebec was also the highest in Canada

), teacher, lawyer, politician, and lieutenant governor; b. 10 Aug. 1853 in Saint-Martin (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Leblanc, a blacksmith, and Adèle Bélanger; m. 12 Jan. 1886

already had been recognized as the largest wallpaper retailer in eastern Canada, is an indication of the Leonard family’s entrepreneurial spirit. According to the 1891 census, there were only three “stained

nations who fought in 1759, one for the conquest, and the other for the defence of Canada. All [the details] of this work are exquisitely finished and the artist’s skill is manifest in every part of this

. UNBL, MG H2. Canada’s first city: Saint John; the charter of 1785 and Common Council proceedings under Mayor G. G. Ludlow, 1785–1795 (Saint John, N.B., 1962

family at Fort Colvile (near Colville, Wash.). In 1844 he was sent to Lower Canada to be educated. His parents retired to Montreal in 1845, but they eventually settled near St Andrews on a farm which

. After teaching briefly, Alexander Mackay worked as a telegrapher in Halifax, Hamilton, Upper Canada, and New York. He went to Newfoundland in January 1857 as local superintendent of the New York

. 25 Feb. 1829 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Donald Macpherson’s parentage and early life are surrounded by a haze of uncertainty, but the details