largest rope factory in Canada, and in 1890 it was the country’s largest manufacturer of binder twine. William Stairs, Son and Morrow was among the original shareholders in the Nova Scotia Steel Company of

lifetime stories: a collection of black memories (2v., Dartmouth, N.S., 1987–90). The Baptist year book of the Maritime provinces of Canada . . . (Halifax, etc.), 1898

of [the] ministry [of the Assumptionists] in the United States and Canada” since the publication in 1914 of a circular from Father Emmanuel-Joseph Bailly. The cardinal accepted these groups on 2

critique de législation et de jurisprudence du Canada. Towards the end of his life he gave financial support to David Russell Jack* in

SUTHERLAND, ROBERT FRANKLIN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 5 April 1859 in Newmarket, Upper Canada, son of Donald

St Peter’s School and went to work on the docks while still a youth. In 1899 Ned was employed as a brakeman on the Intercolonial Railway; he also had jobs on several lines in western Canada and

. Returning to Rupert’s Land by way of New York and Canada early in 1835, the Tods apparently spent the 1835–36 season in the Red River District awaiting a posting. They then moved to Island Lake where Tod took

 Malbaie, Lower Canada, and they had 11 children; m. there secondly 7 Sept. 1842 Olive Gagné, widow of Louis Desgagnés; d. there 26 Jan. 1859

as the best in Canada, was destroyed in the fire of 1877. Among Troop’s other interests over the years were four insurance companies, two dry dock companies, the Saint John Gymnasium Company, the

with Canada’s signing the Treaty of Versailles separate from Britain, and he believed the implications of it dangerous. By 1920 his 40-year friendship with Borden was over

BANQ-CAM, CE601-S28, 29 sept. 1881. FD, Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur, cathédrale [Saint Jacques] (Montréal), 31 oct. 1910. Le Canada (Montréal), 25 août 1938. La Presse

, probably in Terrebonne county, Lower Canada, son of Octave Villeneuve, a farmer, and Anathalie (Nathalie) Truchon, dit Léveillé; m. 7 Feb. 1861 Susan Annie Walker in Sorel, Lower

the Sioux had to maintain contact with them. With the fall of Canada in 1760 came the need for a new alliance. In 1763 James Gorrell*, the

also acted as a director of the Patriot Publishing Company (which issued the leading Liberal newspaper on the Island) and of the Eastern Assurance Company of Canada. He was a governor of King’s College

Commerce in 1904 and made two unsuccessful runs for state office in the next few years, promoting tariff reform and reciprocal trade relations between Canada and the United States

, Montreal, 1876–1934. Encyclopedia of music in Canada (Kallmann et al.). “50th mile post of Willis and Co., Limited fittingly celebrated in Montreal,” Canadian Music Trades Journal

WOOD, EDMUND MARTER, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 20 April 1858 in Brantford, Upper Canada, son of Edmund

. 7 April 1840 in Crosby Township, Upper Canada, son of the Reverend William Young and Amanda Waldron; m. 25 Dec. 1867, in Toronto, Elizabeth

since 1718, he was the first naval officer to hold the position. His experience was not ill suited to the military situation of New France. In Canada, as at sea, French strategy was essentially defensive

figures in the history of Canada, chiefly noted as the architect of French expansion in North America and defender of New France against attacks by the Iroquois confederacy and the English colonies; b

high status because her ancestors had long been settled in Canada, they had connections to the old country, and they had financial security and political influence. Her mother died of tuberculosis when

. 17 Feb. 1820 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada, son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau* and

Abercromby to invade Canada by way of Lake George (Lac Saint-Sacrement) and Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga, N.Y.). This operation gave Abercromby an

, Histoire du Canada, 30. Godbout, “Nos ancêtres,” APQ Rapport, 1951–53, 471f. Eccles, Frontenac, 224f., 252–54. Ægidius Fauteux, La famille d’Ailleboust (Montréal

state for the Southern Department, on the general situation in Canada. While in Britain Ainslie returned to Jedburgh where he married the daughter of James Potts, later a judge in the Court of Admiralty

Corps. Soon after, he came to Canada and found a job in Winnipeg with the Auto Tire and Vulcanizing Company, which in 1914 sent him to help establish a branch in Calgary. At the outbreak of war in August

. He appears to have enjoyed living in Ireland, but because of failing health he had to return to Canada. His superiors sent him at once to St Paul, Minn., and there on 24 May 1901, six days

Carman* that once again intellectual perception and emotional sensitivity were to be found in so subtle a balance in the poetry of Maritime Canada

ALLARD, OVID, HBC clerk; b. 11 July 1817 in Montreal, Lower Canada, of French extraction; d. 2

(Richaudeau), II, 442. Le Clercq, First establishment of the faith (Shea), I, 12–13; II, 18, 68, 70–71, 99. Sixte Le Tac, Histoire chronologique de la Nouvelle-France, ou Canada depuis sa

historical works. On more than one occasion he petitioned the federal government to restore the historic forts of Canada and to establish a national archives

.” A month after British Columbia had officially become a province of Canada, Alston left Victoria to take up his appointment as queen’s advocate in Sierra Leone where his career was cut short by African

plantation in India; he returned to England in 1817 and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1831. Relatives of the family included General Sir James Outram, who won renown in India, and Lieutenant-Colonel

Toronto, 1936). C. C. Tansill, The Canadian reciprocity treaty of 1854 (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Hist. and Pol. Sci., XL, Baltimore, 1922). R. W. Winks, Canada and the

Appleby immigrated to Canada in 1896, according to census records. After living for a time in British Columbia’s lower mainland, he moved to Salt Spring Island, near the southern tip of Vancouver Island and

, Cape Breton ships and men (Aylesbury, Eng., 1967). C. W. Vernon, Cape Breton, Canada, at the beginning of the twentieth century: a treatise of natural resources and development

mandate, the board hired public health nurses, the first in Canada. Speaking to the board’s report during the session of 1918, Armstrong was able to point to favourable results after only one full year of

both the English government and the superior general of Saint-Sulpice to take him to Canada with three other French Sulpicians. A recruiting of this importance had not been seen for more than 30 years

Department of Education officials. He none the less left the field of education in 1903 for a more remunerative position as manager for Prince Edward Island of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. He

. Wendy K. Teece Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of British Columbia Arch. (Victoria), Christ Church Cathedral (Victoria

), labourer and legendary figure; b. 17 April 1845 in Saint-Stanislas-de-la-Rivière-des-Envies (Saint-Stanislas), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Ayotte (Ayotte, dit Simon), a farmer, and

-Xavier Babineau, son of one of the village’s most prosperous farmers, entered in 1844 the college of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Canada East, for his classical education. In 1849 he went to the Grand

). Morning Leader (Regina), 1910–18. Can., Dept. of Labour, Economics and research branch, Annual report on labour organization in Canada (Ottawa), 1916–19. Labour Gazette (Ottawa), 10

pioneering, but his influence on both contemporary and later missionaries working among the Indians in Canada is the most significant aspect of his career. Before coming to North America he had published

, author, and lecturer; b. 30 Sept. 1835 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, the son of Edward Barnard and Mathilde Blondin; d. 19 Aug. 1898 in L’Ange-Gardien, Que

, Under the red jack: privateers of the Maritime provinces of Canada in the War of 1812 (Toronto, [1927?]), 17–52. T. H. Raddall, “Joseph Barss, Jr. – a famous privateer captain

father had come to Canada before World War I; after failing as a farmer in the Kindersley district of Saskatchewan, he took up the butcher’s trade in the small village of Glidden in 1921. His mother

. In the matter of the boundary between the Dominion of Canada and the colony of Newfoundland in the Labrador peninsula (12v., London, 1926–27), III. Neatby, Quebec. G. O

 Jan. 1797 in Nicolet, Lower Canada, daughter of Alexis Beaubien, a farmer, and Marguerite Durocher; d. 11 Aug. 1848 in Montreal

of Canada in 1793, ed. Walter Sheppe (Montreal, 1962). Morice, Dict. hist. Can. et Métis. Joseph Tassé, Les Canadiens de l’Ouest (2e éd., 2v