la poésie au Canada français,” Archives des lettres canadiennes (Montréal), IV (1969), 44–46.
LESSARD, ELIZABETH, convicted criminal; b. c. 1877 in Canada; d. 3 April 1911 in
, Dictionnaire généalogique des Letendre d’Amérique (Canada & États-Unis) (6v., Sherbrooke, Qué., 1981), 1: 15, 25. A.-G. Morice, Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des
, Coup d’œil sur les arts, 27–28, 35, 162. Jean Palardy, Les meubles anciens du Canada français (Paris, 1963). Marius Barbeau, “Les Le Vasseur, maîtres menuisiers et statuaires
, Dictionnaire. Tanguay, Dictionnaire. Frégault, Canada: the war of the conquest, 60–61. Stanley, New France, 110–11, 159. “La famille Jarret de Verchères
ranks who died at Beaumont-Hamel. In Newfoundland 1 July was celebrated as the national day of remembrance in 1917, and this celebration has continued, despite its coincidence with Canada’s national
(Thwaites), 71–72. “Liste des officiers de guerre qui servent en Canada (octobre 1722) dressée par le gouverneur de Vaudreuil,” BRH, XXXVI (1930), 209. PAC Report, 1899, supp., 143, 156
enterprise were outstanding.” In business circles Theodore P. Loblaw was remembered for the way he had transformed the grocery business in Canada and changed how customers shopped
Church (Fredericton), Reg. of baptisms, marriages, and burials, vol.2: 1837, no.26; 1840, no.192. Canada, Indian treaties and surrenders . . . [1680–1906] (3v., Ottawa, 1891–1912; repr
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Samuel Lount first came to Upper Canada when his father brought the family to Whitchurch Township in 1811, but he returned to Pennsylvania on business and spent the duration of the War of 1812 in the
development in eastern Canada, 1820–1914, ed. L. R. Fischer and E. W. Sager ([St John’s], 1979), 253–71. F. W. Wallace, Wooden ships and iron men
unhealthy recruits frequently sent to Canada only to be discharged. As a civilian, Lozeau lived on Quebec’s Rue de la Montagne among the town’s metalworkers
Catharine McFarlane; m. 12 Nov. 1856 Sarah Elizabeth Moore of Esquesing Township, Upper Canada, and they had seven children, five of whom survived infancy; d. 6 June 1901 in Montreal
Gazette, 18 Jan. 1787. F.-J. Audet et Édouard Fabre Surveyer, Les députés au premier parlement du Bas-Canada (1792–1796) . . . (Montréal, 1946), 258–59. Tanguay
fortress in 1745 and returned to France with the rest of the defeated garrison. Although he embarked with troops bound for Canada in the fleet commanded by La Jonquière
Dec. 1843; 30 Jan. 1844; 15 April 1845; 9 April 1846; 23 Jan. 1849. Canada’s smallest province: a history of P.E.I., ed. F. W. P
(Halifax), 7, 10 May 1884. Can., Royal commission on the relations of labour and capital in Canada, Report (5v. in 6, Ottawa, 1889), Evidence – Nova Scotia, 110–12
appointment was announced Magowan was in Quebec, Lower Canada, looking for employment, but his new position enabled him to remain on the Island in some security. After a decade of controversy, he now found a
, Séminaire, VI, 2, 40. Biggar, Early trading companies. Philéas Gagnon, “Noms propres au Canada-Français: transformations de noms propres, établies par les signatures autographes ou par les écrits de
parish of Notre-Dame in Alençon, diocese of Laix (France); interred 1 Nov. 1704 in Montreal.
It is not impossible that Mallet came to Canada at
, 111, 121, 163; VI, 119–25. Le Clercq, First establishment of the faith (Shea), I, 289. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), IV, 895–97, 904.
(Saskatoon), 24 Sept. 1981: A29. The path of the pioneers, 1889–1989, Belmont and district (Belmont, Man., 1989). Sask., Statutes, 1925/26, c.76. Who’s who in western Canada
historians claim, that he was in Canada before 1629 and that he went to seek refuge among the Algonkins during the Kirkes
[La Croix]. After being held captive in England for more than a year, he got back to France, where he stayed for some months before returning to Canada in 1705, holding the rank of
force which landed in Upper Canada at Dover (Port Dover) on 14 May 1814 and burned every building between the village and Turkey Point, including Robert Nichol’s mills. Commissioned major on 19
him the post of financial secretary in the Johnston administration from 1857 to 1860.
Marshall’s opposition to union with Canada brought him under
Atlantic Canada,” Nova Scotia Hist. Rev. (Halifax), 6 (1986), no.2: 45–48.
(Shortt), I, 117–21. G.B., Privy Council, Judicial Committee, In the matter of the boundary between the Dominion of Canada and the colony of Newfoundland in the Labrador peninsula
of Eustache Boullé, was the first child born in Canada. Marguerite, born 4 Jan. 1624 and married 22
Boston. Over the summer the possibility of a larger venture against the whole of Canada arose. Viscount Shannon began preparations in England, but by the end of August these were abandoned, forcing a
, sled and snowshoe; pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the sixties (Toronto, 1896), 197. John Maclean, Vanguards of Canada (Toronto, 1918). E. R. Young, The apostle of
on 23 May 1739. He left for Canada on the Rubis on 10 June 1740, accompanied by two other Sulpicians, Antoine Faucon and Jacques-Joseph Masson de Montbrac. The new bishop of Quebec
leases/180; 380: M leases/261. There is information on the Matthews–Ruttan connection in “Ruttan of Canada: research outline for five generations,” comp. J. R. Meachem (mimeograph, West Palm
Maunsell was educated in Ireland and came to Canada in 1874, where he immediately joined the North-West Mounted Police. Assigned to D Division, he took part in the Long March from Dufferin, Man., to the
in the history of French Canada. Eventually, however, he came round to Maurault’s view, and entrusted to him the new parish, which was named Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville. Thanks to the initiative of the
, Edward and William Sutherland, would both become architects. When Edward embarked on his career in the 1880s, there were no formal programs of study in Canada and only a handful of professional schools in
Methodist Church of Canada and in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Having successfully reshaped her own life in widowhood, she had then endeavoured – within the constraints imposed by social class
surprising that Mercier sometimes felt discouraged. “I must admit to you,” he wrote to his superiors in 1732, “that I have been on the point of giving them up and returning to Canada with our two gentlemen
Scotia, more than 3,300 acres in Northumberland and Norfolk counties, Upper Canada, three New York City houses, and farms at Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Pembroke, Maine. His will provided a life interest in
relatifs à l’histoire du Canada, [Société hist. de Montréal, Mémoires], III (1860), 142. P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, II, 117f. Tanguay, Dictionnaire, I
M. Souart, superior of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice; she had come to Canada with the contingent that arrived in 1659. In May 1664 she had been granted an arriere fief, later
County, Upper Canada, son of Samuel Miller and Melita Hayes; m. 2 Aug. 1859 Adelaide Augusta Chamberlain, and they had at least one child, John Bellamy; d. 2 April 1884 at Colton, Calif
MILLIER, HILAIRE, Roman Catholic priest; b. 26 Feb. 1823 at Contrecœur, Lower Canada, son
. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), II, 443, 515; III, 813–22, 855–56. Desrosiers, Iroquoisie, 76, 95–96, 98.
: a history of the lumber trade between Canada and the United States (The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of economics and history, Toronto, New Haven, Conn., London, 1938). J
de Montréal (SHM Mémoires, XI, Montréal, 1917), 86, 97, 227, 238. P.-É. Renaud, Les origines économiques du Canada; l’œuvre de la France (Mamers, France, 1928), 390–91. É.-Z
advertisements to get a general idea of the merchandise that had arrived on the latest ship. Another bold initiative was taken around 1874, when Henry Morgan and Company was made Canada’s first retail department
parts of Canada and the United States to receive medical advice from Morriscy. Numerous others, including doctors, wrote for his opinion on medical problems
sold timber cut at his own three mills, foodstuffs brought from Halifax, from Canada, and from the United States, and sugar and molasses imported from the West Indies