accidental. Without campaigning on his part, he was named in December 1868 to represent Kootenay in the colony’s Legislative Council. During the council debate on union with Canada in the spring of 1870

he was penniless, and his sister appealed to the governor general of Canada, Lord Dufferin [Blackwood*], a family friend, to

lumber trade between Canada and the United States . . . (Toronto and New Haven, Conn., 1938; repr. New York, 1968). T. W. Poole, A sketch of the early settlement and subsequent

increasingly influenced by the Baptists and were soon immersed – Daniel in 1763, Shubael by 1771. The Dimocks are thus one of the earliest continuing Baptist families in Canada. Joseph received his

Great Awakening in Nova Scotia, 1776–1809 (Hartford, Conn., 1948). I. E. Bill, Fifty years with the Baptist ministers and churches of the Maritime provinces of Canada

., II, 342. Jug. et délib., V, 571; VI, 260, 917. “Procès-verbaux du procureur général Collet” (Caron), APQ Rapport, 1921–22, 279. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport

remained in Canada during the campaigning season of 1776, and by clever improvisations involving difficult transport from the St Lawrence as well as innovations in methods of naval construction he and

DRYDEN, JOHN, farmer and politician; b. 5 June 1840 in Whitby Township, Upper Canada, son of James Dryden and Elizabeth

captain the third of four companies of reinforcements sent to Canada under the command of François-Gabriel d’Angeac

. 1786 in Lachine, Que., son of Dominique Ducharme, a militia captain, and Marguerite Charlebois; d. 25 March 1853 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada

young, single Scots and Irish-Scots to Canada. He may well have been lured by the revival of professional distance running in North America that followed the dramatic 1908 Olympic marathon in London

, but the opposition of Joseph-Vincent Quiblier*, the superior of Saint-Sulpice in Canada, thwarted the plan

. Nationales du Québec, Centre d’arch. de Montréal, CE601-S51, 21 févr., 1675. Les officiers des troupes de la marine au Canada, 1683–1760, sous la dir. de Marcel Fournier (Québec, 2017

in Nègrepelisse, France, son of Jean Dumas and Marie Favar; d. 11 July 1802 at Quebec, Lower Canada. By means of mercantile

Athletic Union of Canada. On joining the board of the AAAN, Dumouchel had been given a mandate to revive Le National baseball club. This move came at

’ church in tribute to the services rendered the church in Canada by the priests of the society was abolished. During this quarrel, which went on for eight months between the canons [see

. . . (2v., Ottawa, 1897), I, 187–89. Anastase Forget, Histoire du collège de L’Assomption (Montréal, [1933]), 95–98, 151–56, 251–52. J.-B. Meilleur, Mémorial de l’éducation du Bas-Canada

Canada,” N.S. Hist. Soc., Coll., 10 (1899): 105–11.

Murray* of Pictou County, who stubbornly opposed Nova Scotia’s “coercion” into confederation. According to DesBrisay, “Canada had no more right to tax Nova Scotia without her people’s consent than

himself as “the biggest exporter of oysters in all of Canada,” and by 1884 Pascal Poirier* was calling him “the Oyster King.” In the 1890s Des

 Lawrence River should hostilities with the United States break out again. DuVernet was sent to the Canadas with two companies of the Royal Staff Corps to take over the project. He arrived at Quebec on 29

bill to incorporate the Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railway Company. It was in this period that he served as a director of the Central Canada Railway. By the beginning of the 1880s, Eddy was well and

EDWARDS, CLARENCE BARTLETT, teacher and office holder; b. 26 Jan. 1862 in Burgessville, Upper Canada, son of James Edwards

Simcoe* of Upper Canada referred to him as “that Great Chief and firm Friend of the British.” Egushwa recovered from a serious wound in the head

the United States. This 24-day, 350-mile trek must have proved a strenuous task for the 50-year-old Emerson. For the remainder of the conflict the regiment was stationed in Upper Canada, where it saw

(Schuylerville, N.Y.). Following his release he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 24th Foot on 20 Feb. 1783. The 24th was sent to Canada in 1789

(Thwaites), IX, 32. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), passim. Desrosiers, Iroquoisie, 111. P.-G. Roy, La ville de Québec, I, 65–66.

request for extradition by the government of Lower Canada. Soon after his release he disappeared without a trace. The murder of Taché caused a great stir

by an embargo against the offending tribe. Yet Eyre’s real contribution was as a part of that military professionalism which triumphed in both contending armies, and then in the contest for Canada

 June 1850 at Saint-Cuthbert, Canada East, son of Dr Charles Fafard and Tersile (Alexine) Olivier; d. 2 April 1885 at Frog Lake (Alta

been from the Missouri country but believed by her descendants to have been a Cree. As a child Pierre was taken to Lower Canada and baptized at L’Acadie (Saint-Jean County) on 18 June 1798. He

Percé, Lower Canada, son of John Fauvel and Henriette-Marie Le Boutillier; m. 11 April 1881 Emma Du Heaume; d. 8 Feb. 1897 in Paspébiac, Que

the settlement in autumn 1812. The following spring he began surveying property lots along the river using the river-lot system of Lower Canada. By June 1815, after the resignation of the colony’s

, Lower Canada. In June 1775 Finlay Fisher and his brother Alexander emigrated from Scotland to the colony of New York, where Finlay began farming in

 September to Lord Burghley. Only a month later, on 9 October, Edward Palmer wrote to Lord Burghley from Saint-Jean-de-Luz that a Basque ship from Canada, carrying fine furs and oil, had been

province in Canada to enfranchise women. Winona was one of eight women to be invited to occupy seats on the floor of the Legislative Assembly, rather than in the public galleries, for the third reading of

. 12 Nov. 1847 in Marieville, Lower Canada, son of Jacques-Jérémie Forget and Marie-Flavie Guenette; m. 17 Oct. 1876 Henriette A. Drolet in Montreal; they had no children; d. 8

. In April 1701 Antoine Forget was ready to leave for Canada; François Lechassier, superior of the seminary in Paris, then informed François

MacLean*]. People moved from Vancouver Island to the mainland in search of jobs, and a number of blacks came as well from eastern Canada, Alberta, the Pacific northwest, the West Indies, and even

of Silver at the National Gallery of Canada. ANQ-Q, CE1-1, 25 nov. 1754, 13 févr. 1817; CN1-26, 27 sept. 1804; 23

. Globe, 23 Feb. 1917. Yiddisher Zhurnal/Daily Hebrew Journal (Toronto), 21 Feb. 1917. The Jew in Canada: a complete record of Canadian Jewry from the days of the French

-Foy [see Lévis]. Fraser remained in Canada after his regiment was disbanded and in August 1763 he

had four sons and six daughters; d. 15 Feb. 1854 in Hamilton, Upper Canada. Although there is some controversy surrounding the identity of

. Cheadle, Cheadle’s journal of trip across Canada, 1862–1863, ed. A. G. Doughty and Gustave Lanctot (Ottawa, 1931; repr. Edmonton, 1971). Daily British Colonist and Victoria

d’Honon de Galiffet, the former governor of Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola). Galiffet returned to Canada in 1709 and was appointed governor of Trois-Rivières

distinguish between this Garakontié and his brother, who resuscitated the latter’s memory and who is sometimes designated as Garakontié II. Lanctot, Histoire du Canada, I, 312, 313, 320; II, 27

of Canada, Bishop Laval*, Governor Saffray de Mézy, the commissioner

, 9 juill. 1908, 31 juill. 1909. Gaston Carrière, Dictionnaire biographigue des oblats de Marie-Immaculée au Canada (4v., Ottawa, 1976–89), 2: 64–65. Fêtes jubilaires des R

exercises so well described in her journal. From 1871 to 1877 Sister Gaudry received orders on a number of occasions to move to other points in Canada and

 Anne, teacher, superior, and author; b. 9 Feb. 1828 in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada, daughter of Louis-Pascal Gauthier and Marie-Charles Chôlet; d. 25 May 1898 in Duncan, B.C