commanded by the Comte Dubois de La Motte [Cahideuc], which took help to Canada and Louisbourg, Île

, Une maîtrise d’art en Canada (1800–1823)(Montréal, 1920). Marius Barbeau, “Louis Quévillon; des Écorres,” Académie canadienne-française, Cahiers (Montréal), 9: 142–58

. . . can only permit relief for the preservation of life.” Through the later 1860s the question of confederation with Canada came to dominate Newfoundland

,” Canada West Magazine (Langley, B.C.), 7 (1977), no.1: 37.

-Hugues, Lower Canada, son of Gédéon Berthiaume, a joiner, and Éléonore Normandin; m. 21 Aug. 1871 Elmina Gadbois in Montreal, and they had five daughters and three sons; d. 2 Jan. 1915

. 9 Aug. 1845 in the parish of Saint-Grégoire (Mont-Saint-Grégoire), Lower Canada, son of Isaac Bessette and Clothilde Foisy; d. 6 Jan. 1937 in Notre-Dame-de-l’Espérance hospital in

. April 1711 at Quebec. Jacques Bigot entered the Jesuit noviciate in Paris on 9 Sept. 1667. When he arrived in Canada in 1679 he was assigned to

at McGill (Montreal, 1981). C. Johansson, “Manual training in Canada,” Educational Record of the Prov. of Quebec, 23 (1903): 1–9. McGill Univ., Annual calendar

” should be presented to the government of Canada. In the convention that met from 25 Jan. to 11 Feb. 1870, Dr Bird was selected to serve on a committee of six to draft such a list

in 1694. He had returned to Canada and had apparently decided to make his career in the west. In 1694 and 1695 he sold the properties that he owned in the colony, consisting of half the seigneury of

. Subsequently, Bizard obtained a commission as ensign with the Swiss mercenary troops serving with the French army but resigned his commission to accompany Frontenac to Canada in 1672 as a lieutenant in the

of St. Andrew’s Society of St. John, N.B., Canada, 1798 to 1903 (Saint John, N.B., 1903); MacNutt, New Brunswick; and D

. Blake’s position on the terms of confederation with Canada, the issue that dominated provincial politics for the entire period he was an elected member, was never ambiguous. Opposed to union, he strongly

[For Blake’s years in Canada newspapers are virtually the only reliable sources. His early role is lightly covered in the 1817–19 issues of the following Halifax newspapers: Acadian Recorder

4 July 1867 in succession to Tupper after Nova Scotia became part of Canada. In the provincial election of September 1867, the question of Nova Scotia’s entry into confederation was the dominant

 June 1829 at Saint-Pierre-Montmagny, Lower Canada, son of Louis Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Marguerite Fontaine; m. 28 Aug. 1850 Émilie Balzaretti at Quebec City, and they had six children; d

Canada.” Boardman moved to Calais from Newburyport in 1828 with his parents. His formal education consisted of attendance at local schools in both

, and proceeded to vaccinate an infant child against smallpox. This treatment is reputed to be the first use of cowpox vaccine in Canada, but it is difficult to corroborate the claim. There is

Canada where he was held until he was sent to France in 1691. This transfer was no doubt made because of the war which had broken out in 1689, and with the object of depriving the Company of the services

Borneuf, a merchant, and Marie-Madeleine Degrès; d. 15 Nov. 1819 at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, Lower Canada. After

(1946): 259–65. Hare, “L’Assemblée législative du Bas-Canada,” RHAF, 27: 377. P.-G. Roy, “Charles-Baptiste Bouc,” BRH, 7 (1901): 53–55.

since 1719, returned to France in 1726 and came back to Canada in 1728. It is quite possible that Gilbert, about 19 years old in the latter year, accompanied his brother to America, but nowhere does

a pension and received the cross of the order of Saint-Louis in recognition of his services. He remained in Canada after the conquest; a note in his military record dated 25 Sept. 1766 mentions

Mississippi rivers entered Lake Pepin on 17 Sept. 1727. Within four days La Perrière had built a small fort, named Beauharnois in honour of the new governor of Canada, Charles de

Découvertes et établissements des Français (Margry), VI, 552. PAC Report, 1899, supp., 132. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 289–90. Godbout, “Nos ancêtres

Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of Joseph-Michel Boucher de Niverville, a seigneur, and Josephte Laviolette; m. in 1852 Éliza Lafond., daughter of Antoine Lafond, a farmer of Nicolet; the couple had no

mémoires de F.-M.-F. Ruette d’Auteuil,” 5f., 23. Recensement du Canada, 1681 (Sulte). P.-G. Roy, Inv. Ins. Cons. souv., 67f. Gareau, “La prévôté de Québec,” 104f. Godbout, “Nos

Commerce in 1858, ended with a favourite theme: “St. John may yet become the Winterport of that country [Canada].” Boyd fought for

Bigot*, and Madeleine Vallée; d. 9 July 1832 in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Lower Canada. Charles-Joseph Brassard Deschenaux entered the Petit

parliament in the special election of 1873, following the union of the Island with Canada. He appears subsequently to have turned down a Senate appointment. In 1878 he was finally elected to the House of

Edward Brabazon Brenton is the anonymous author of Some account of the public life of the late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, bart., particularly of his services in the Canadas

Acadie. Henri Gauthier, La Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice au Canada (Montréal, 1912); Sulpitiana (Montréal, 1926). Harvey, French régime in P.E.I. J

ultimate sport, and Brophy decided to become a military aviator. Canada did not have its own air force. The British government began to recruit potential

known in Canada for his prize essay entitled British Columbia, published by the newly established press of the Royal Engineers at New Westminster in 1863. Designed to encourage immigration, it is

 août 1893. Canadian Architect and Builder (Toronto), 6 (1893): 87; 22 (1908): 23. Illustrated Montreal, the metropolis of Canada: its romantic history, its

Shelburne’s population dwindled rapidly as most of the settlers either returned to the United States or dispersed to Halifax, England, and Upper Canada. Bruff, however, remained in Shelburne despite the waning

.D., D.C.L., archbishop of Rupert’s Land, primate of all Canada . . . (London, 1909). [J. A.] Mackay, “Henry Budd,” Leaders of

, dossier III, no.12. ASSM, 24, dossiers 2–3; 27; 49, dossier 25. Allaire, Dictionnaire, 1: 36. [F.-M.] Bibaud, Dictionnaire historique des hommes illustres du Canada et de l

BÉLANGER, ALEXIS, priest and missionary; b. 18 Jan. 1808 at Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada, son of

 Sept. 1846 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Bélanger, a farmer, and Marie-Théodora (Eléonore) Bernier; m. 29 Sept. 1874 Marie-Louise Catellier

. 11 June 1836 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, son of Édouard Bélanger and Marie-Sophie Casgrain; m. 27 Aug. 1861 Rosalie Marion in St Boniface (Man.), and they had 11

(Institute of the Sisters of Mercy); b. 27 Jan. 1794 at Lavaltrie, Lower Canada, daughter of Antoine Cadron, dit Saint-Pierre, farmer, and of Rosalie Roy, dit Desjardins; d. 5

1755 he received command of the Entreprenant and a squadron of 15 ships of the line and four frigates, with which he was instructed to take help to Canada. He sailed from Brest on 3 May and

. Dempsey (Calgary, 1977). Trudy Nicks, “The Iroquois and the fur trade in western Canada,” Old trails and new directions: papers of the third North American Fur Trade Conference, ed. C. M

Military College of Canada in Kingston, is a light-hearted piece about love and war, faintly reminiscent of Gilbert and Sullivan and the contemporary Savoy operas. It was performed in 1889 in Kingston and

educator; b. 17 Nov. 1840 in Thorah Township, Upper Canada, daughter of Kenneth Campbell, a farmer, and Ann McEwen; d. 3 Jan. 1929 in London, Ont

(Halifax), 27 Aug. 1886. Canadian biog. dict., II: 540. McAlpine’s Halifax city directory . . . (Halifax), 1869–70, 1886–87. Literary history of Canada: Canadian

, laziness, and “‘king dirt.’” In 1916, exhausted and in poor health, Campbell spent her only holiday in four years acquiring first-hand knowledge of the tuberculosis work being conducted in Canada and the

Register, 27 Jan. 1829. G.B., WO, Army list, 1809–17. Duncan Campbell, History of Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown, 1875; repr. Belleville, Ont., 1972), 66. Canada’s

, Dictionnaire, I, 100. Jouve, Les franciscains et le Canada: aux Trois-Rivières, 180–81, 236, 243–44. Archange Godbout, “Les aumôniers de la vallée du Richelieu,” SCHÉC Rapport, 12