New York, and wholesale buyers from other parts of Canada came to Woodstock to buy direct. The American trade was, however, hit by the McKinley tariff of 1890

information about the northern coast. On the North American station he handled the operations of his squadron competently and withdrew quietly when replaced by Howe. Although the defence of Canada was

Baker Library, R. G. Dun & Co. credit ledger, Canada, 11: 245; 12: 648, 796 (mfm. at NA). Halifax County Court of Probate (Halifax), Estate papers, nos.1066, 1743, 5728. Acadian Recorder

Simpson; d. 21 March 1853 in Lachine, Lower Canada. Frances Ramsay Simpson, the daughter of a successful London merchant, was brought

SINCLAIR, DAVID VOLUME, merchant, politician, and temperance advocate; b. 10 June 1864 in Madoc, Upper Canada, eldest son of

. Industries of Canada: historical and commercial sketches: London, Woodstock, Ingersoll, Guelph, Berlin, Waterloo, St. Thomas, Windsor, and environs . . . (Toronto, 1887). W. R

they had two daughters and three sons; d. there 24 Dec. 1921. George Washington Smith immigrated to Canada in 1864 at age 18 or

town lawyer, was the movement for the political union of British North America. The scheme of union introduced by the Province of Canada in September 1864 to a Charlottetown conference called to

Wright; d. 29 March 1863 at Sherbrooke, Canada East. “Born of the old pioneer stock” from the northern frontier of New England, Hollis

, condemning the direction of the Seven Years’ War. In this polemic he took his first look at his future home: “Canada must be demolished – Delenda est Carthago – or we are undone.” By now a compulsive

first Jewish minister in Canada,” ed. B. G. Sack, American Jewish Hist. Soc., Pubs., XXXI (1928), 181–86. “Items relating to the Solomons family, New York,” [comp. J. J. Lyons

–25; Morris, Treaties of Canada with the Indians, 245–75, 368–75; “Rapport de Constantin Scollen à Mgr Vital Grandin, 15 Sept. 1874,” Missions des O.M.I., XIV, 35; this

. in the spring of 1838 probably in Essex County, Upper Canada. Sou-neh-hoo-way’s boyhood or common name was To-oo-troon-too-ra which, translated as

. This royal notary’s son probably came to Canada as a ship’s surgeon. The witnesses to his marriage at Quebec on 26 Aug. 1700, acting in lieu of family, were all crew members of the Bien

St Catharines, Upper Canada, son of George Sparrow, a businessman, and Catharine Edwards; m. 6 Aug. 1877 in Montreal Elizabeth Cater, the under-age daughter of James Cater, a hotel

 Feb. 1868 at Toronto, Ont. Robert Spence immigrated to Upper Canada in 1836 and taught school at Dundas, where public education began with his

in St John’s, Nfld.). Times (London), 27 Feb. 1872. Pascoe, Two hundred years of the S.P.G. O. R. Rowley, The Anglican episcopate of Canada and

one of the most interesting collections of 19th- and 20th-century architectural designs in Canada. Luc Noppen

revenues to finance the province’s investment in much-needed road construction under the provisions of the Canada Highways Act of 1919 [see Archibald William

. After returning to Canada that year, Stewart became dean of Dalhousie’s faculty of medicine; he continued in that capacity until 1932, when increasing deafness obliged him to retire. He served as

*, bore eloquent testimony to the stature he had attained. Stewart had helped to make life in frontier Canada more liveable, and he had been able to move with the times and lay the foundations for future

Story travelled widely through central and eastern Canada to raise money for the rebuilding of the college ($8,000 was collected). By the time the new

Assurance Company, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and the Bank of Upper Canada. He invested in stock, owning shares in a number of financial and transportation companies

Sisters of St Anne; b. 18 April 1809 at Terrebonne, Lower Canada, third child of Jean-Baptiste Sureau, dit Blondin, a farmer, and Marie-Rose Limoges; d. 2 Jan. 1890 at

reflecting a broad contemporary trend among Catholics in Canada and elsewhere. The Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, the Young Men’s Society of St Joseph, the Father Mathew Association, St

greatest mining disaster in Canada, with a brief description and historical sketch of the Springhill collieries (Springhill, 1891). R. A. H. Morrow, Story of the Springhill

., Montréal, 1971), I, 136–37, 144–50. Amédée Gosselin, L’instruction au Canada. Yves Poutet, “L’auteur de L’Escole Paroissiale et quelques usages de son temps (1654

], Histoire des grandes familles françaises du Canada, ou aperçu sur le chevalier Benoist, et quelques familles contemporaines (Montréal, 1867). P.-G. Roy, La famille Tarieu de Lanaudière

Fredericton photographer,” Daily Gleaner (Fredericton), 14 Nov. 1961. J. R. Harper, Early painters and engravers in Canada (Toronto, 1970). PANB, George Thomas Taylor, 1838–1913

Cemetery, Victoria, B.C., Canada (Victoria, 1983). Kerr, Biog. dict. of British Columbians. J. I. Manore, “The navy and Victoria

the pages of history in the dispatches of the governors of Canada, and in the Albany records of negotiations with the Five Nations Confederacy. Cadwallader Colden, the first part of whose book, The

Canada to induce them to acquiesce in this. However, the Senecas, on whose land the post was built, refused to demolish it. In 1728 the same Tekarihoken

Champlain, Works (Biggar), passim. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, 60. Desrosiers, Iroquoisie, 54. Hunt, Wars of the Iroquois, 43–45.

found it difficult to take second place. Instead of returning to England, however, he travelled to Lower Canada by the Ottawa River with members of his family, including his daughter Charlotte and her

Chatham, New Brunswick ([Chatham], 1975); Gretna Green: a history of Douglastown, New Brunswick, Canada, 1783–1900 ([Chatham], 1969). W. B. Stewart, Medicine in New Brunswick

:Parks Canada, “L’Anse aux Meadows national historic site”: www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows (consulted 14

, 331–32 et passim. Lanctot, Histoire du Canada, II, 152–54.

. Casket (Antigonish), 22 Jan. 1857. Colonial Patriot (Pictou), 18 Feb. 1832. Morgan, Bibliotheca Canadensis. Lit. hist. of Canada

holder; b. 10 Feb. 1761 in Montreal (Que.), son of Eustache Trottier Desrivières Beaubien, a merchant, and Marguerite Malhiot; d. 3 Oct. 1816 in Varennes, Lower Canada

spent in Canada the Chevalier de Troyes had been in command of one important expedition and had taken part in a second. He had acquired the confidence of the governor, who had entrusted to him the defence

, politician, businessman, and philanthropist; b. 18 Dec. 1863 in Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont (Beaumont), Lower Canada, son of Damase Turgeon, a sailor, and Christine Turgeon; m. 19 July 1887

both occasions and deriving no enjoyment from his adventures. He was the only Moravian in Labrador ever to accompany the Inuit on a hunt, and possibly the first white man to do so in Canada. His journals

Providence (Sister of Providence); b. 3 Dec. 1824 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, daughter of Jean-François Têtu and Cécile Chabot; d. 22 Nov. 1891 in Longue-Pointe (Montreal

. In 1731 he went to France to learn processes for producing tar, pitch, resin, and turpentine. He returned to Canada in 1732 and before the next summer season distributed copies of his reports to

officials and the English merchants, who were using their influence in various councils of Lower Canada to exercise more control over the management of public funds and to organize political patronage on a

administrator; b. 13 April 1830 in Vaudreuil (Vaudreuil-Dorion), Lower Canada, daughter of Joseph-Eustache Valois and Angélique Lefaivre; d. 12 Nov. 1906 in Victoria

. In Europe, as in Lower Canada, the training of ordinands was undertaken within a framework according prime importance to their spiritual and moral life. Viau was mindful of this emphasis when Bishop

VILLENEUVE, FERDINAND, architect, woodcarver, cabinet-maker, and contractor; b. 7 Dec. 1831 in Charlesbourg, Lower Canada

vehicle for the distribution of public funds and hence gave control of patronage. By supporting union with Canada, the pro-confederation Conservatives were defeated in the general election of 1869 by an

commanding an attack on Louisbourg. Warren had told the admiralty in 1743 that the capture “of Canada and Cape Bretoon, wou’d be of greater consequence to Great Britain than any other conquest that we may hope