. the Governor General of Canada,” and that he was taking good care “not to let anyone know it.” This behaviour seems strange, for if the governor had been aware of the expedition’s failure early enough

nuns provided shelter to several invalid and aged persons. In 1818 the Legislative Council set up a special committee to investigate conditions in medical and welfare institutions in Lower Canada. The

Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Fredericton Arch., Richibucto Parish, N.B., reg. of baptisms, 1815–1955 (mfm. at PANB). Fort Beauséjour National Hist. Park (Au Lac, N.B.), Westmorland County, N.B., reg

, Lower Canada, son of Tiburce Charest, a doctor, and Rose (Rosalie) Paquet; m. 3 July 1876 Elmire Bazin at Quebec, and they had 16 children; d. there 6 April 1927

; Saint-Vincent-de-Paul; Sault-au-Récollet. Gérard Morisset, Coup d’œil sur les arts en Nouvelle-France (Québec, 1941). Émile Vaillancourt, Une maîtrise d’art en Canada (1800–1823

-Nicolas de Chassin de Thierry first came to Canada in 1717 as a cadet and returned to France the following year. In 1719 he was posted to Louisiana as a second lieutenant. Following a grave illness in 1725

. Trigger Champlain, Works (Biggar), passim. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross). Desrosiers, Iroquoisie, 96

about “marriages in Canada,” inspired by Lahontan [Lom d’Arce]; in addition he invented

), passim. Léon Pouliot, Le premier retraitant du Canada (Montréal, 1958). B. G. Trigger, “The destruction of Huronia: a study in economic and cultural change, 1609–1650,” Royal Can

the faith (Shea), I, 30–33, 132–33. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, 63–64, II, 284–85, 307, 498–517; IV, 884–85, 888, 892.

of Jean Claverie, a merchant trader, and Jeanne La Barthe; buried 21 Aug. 1756 at Montreal. Pierre Claverie arrived in Canada around

. The section relating most directly to Canada, which concerns the expedition’s stay at Nootka Sound from March to April 1778, is printed on pp.1323–33. A collection of Clerke’s letters to Sir Joseph

, 17 Nov. 1808; 13 March 1817. Desjardins, Guide parl. Officers of British forces in Canada (Irving), 143. F.-J. Audet, “Michel Clouet,” BRH, 36 (1930

. Canadian men and women of the time (Morgan; 1898). Gaston Carrière, Dictionnaire biographique des oblats de Marie-Immaculée au Canada (3v., Ottawa, 1976–79). Les Cloches de Saint-Boniface

 March 1877. Nova Scotia, House of Assembly, Debates and proceedings, 1868–71. George Mullane, Charitable Irish Society of Halifax, Canada, founded 1786; sketch of some

COCHRANE, EDWARD, farmer and politician; b. 1 Jan. 1834 in Cramahe Township, Upper Canada, son of James

Canada, second son of Robert Cochrane, a farmer, and Mary Ann Hunter; m. 16 Aug. 1882 Alice Lavinia Dunlop (Dunlap) in Pembroke Township, Ont., and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 22

 Charles Edward Codd, a Church of England minister: d. 9 Dec. 1896 in Winnipeg. Donald Codd’s parents immigrated to the Canadas before 1850

. D. W. Gullett, A history of dentistry in Canada (Toronto, 1971). E. O. Jameson, The Cogswells in America (Boston, 1884). “Legislation in Nova Scotia

 Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 372–73. A. Roy, Inv. greffes not., XIX, 336. P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, IV, 180, 183–84. Tanguay

 May 1912 in Long Beach, Calif. Charles Constantine emigrated to Lower Canada with his parents in the late 1840s and spent his formative years

. inédits Canada et Amérique, II (1889), III–26. Derniers fours de l’Acadie (Du Boscq de Beaumont), 72. N.S. Archives, I, 195, 671–74, 682–86, 694–98. PAC

-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada. Cormier was back in Memramcook in 1864, enrolled in the fifth form (Belles-Lettres) at the new College of St Joseph, which had been founded by Abbé Camille

, was brought up by his grandmother near Edinburgh, where he attended Loretto School. He arrived in Canada in 1857 and joined the Hudson’s Bay Company that fall as an apprentice clerk. Governor George

early life as reported by Witham Marshe, who met her at Lancaster in 1744, is a mixture of fact and fiction: he understood that her father was a governor of Canada

Després, Histoire des seigneurs de la Rivière-du-Sud et leurs alliés canadiens et acadiens (Saint-Hyacinthe, Qué., 1912); La première famille française au Canada, ses alliés et

), Lower Canada, son of Ignace Couture, a carpenter, and Anastasie Lefebvre, dit Boulanger; d. 4 Nov. 1887 at Lévis. George Couture

settlement of western Canada,” HSSM Papers, 3rd ser., no.9 (1954): 16–32. W. L. Morton, “Agriculture in the Red River colony,” CHR, 30 (1949): 305–21.

missionary, Father Jacques Robaud, for the missions in Canada. The crossing of the Atlantic was a long and arduous one. A contagious disease broke out among the soldiers and claimed several victims, among them

Canada in the face of events. In recalling the attack on the city of Quebec by Sir William

). Recensements du Canada, 1667, 1681 (Sulte). Camille Bertrand, Monsieur de La Dauversière, fondateur de Montréal et des Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph 1597–1659 (Montréal, 1947), 230

McVicar in 1830. In 1832 he went on leave to Britain, and received a hoped-for western appointment on his return. But a last-minute change of plan sent him in 1833 to Mingan, Lower Canada, on the

were to have three daughters and one son. Six years after his marriage Cunningham decided to emigrate to Canada; he settled first in Toronto where he found employment as a journalist. In the winter of

Campbell*, later chief justice of Upper Canada. Cutler is chiefly remembered, however, for his commercial activities. As early as 1792 he was listed as a merchant in the district assessment rolls, and in

et histoire de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Villemarie dans l’île de Montréal, en Canada (2v., Villemarie [Montréal], 1854), 2: 285–308. L’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (1642–1973

merited the fine reputation he had acquired in statuary by about 1880. Today he is regarded not only as one of Canada’s first caricaturists and engravers, but also as one of the most original wood-carvers

languages, especially those of the Iroquois and Miamis. In 1763 Dagneau was one of the 55 accused of misconduct in connection with the affaire du Canada

AJQ, Greffe de Rolland Godet, 16 mars 1652. Jug. et délib., I, II, III. Lettres de noblesse (P.-G. Roy), II, 3–14. Claude de Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire

(XXXIV, 86–96) et passim. Positio causae. Campbell, Pioneer priests, II, 197–244. Lucien Campeau, in Lettres du Bas-Canada, II (1948), gives a critical

and Mary Street; m. early in the 1790s Elizabeth Canby, widow of Samuel Birdsall, and they had six children; d. 23 Feb. 1825 in St Johns (St Johns West), Upper Canada

national level, Darveau considered the independence of the United Canadas as “the supreme end towards which the destiny of the country is bent.” As a French Canadian nationalist, he propagated a veritable

and superior; b. 3 Oct. 1719 in Paris, France, daughter of Louis Davanne, a merchant, and Marguerite Germain; d. 23 March 1802 at Quebec, Lower Canada

the order of Saint-Louis in 1752 as a reward for long and faithful service. Severe illness apparently prevented his departure for France with the troops in 1760. He convalesced in Canada until 1764 and

; Sessional papers, 1878, 210. Canada, Senate, Debates, 1878, 287–92; Sessional papers, X (1877), pt

Trois-Rivières, 1765,” 104; “Recensement du gouvernement de Trois-Rivières, 1760,” 47–50, 52–53. Claude de Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire: état provisoire des officiers de milice de 1641 à 1760,” ANQ

. Nicolas returned to Acadia but Simon remained in Canada. In August 1652 the Jesuits, seigneurs of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, granted him a concession, called the “ferme de la Trinité.” He subsequently

–83. Frank MacKinnon, The government of Prince Edward Island (Toronto, 1951). T. R. Millman and A. R. Kelley, Atlantic Canada to 1900; a history of the Anglican Church

Geneviève Dumon, who died two years later; m. secondly 11 April 1787 Marie-Joseph Perrault; d. 31 Dec. 1802 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

Canada, New York, Boston, Montréal, Québec, Louisbourg (1651–1731), éd. A. L. Pinart (Paris, 1893). Catalogue général des livres împrimés de la bibliothèque nationale (197v., Paris

was in this capacity that he came to Lower Canada. He is believed to have been engaged in teaching at Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville) early in 1810. On 7 Oct. 1816 he married Nathalie Marcotte