FRANCIS, teacher, principal, school inspector, and author; b. 18 Nov. 1857 in Trenton, Upper Canada, son of James White, a shoemaker, and Ellen Maloney; m. 1918 Helen Gertrude

. With the formation of the federal government Wilmot was appointed on 23 Oct. 1867 to Canada’s first Senate. In 1878 he became a minister without portfolio in Sir John A

Nelly, Wood was celebrated in an article in the Canadian Magazine (Toronto) four years later as one of Canada’s “three leading novelists,” though “the least familiar.” Meteor-like, her career

 1842; 7 Feb. 1843; 30 June 1846. Weekly Recorder of Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown), 31 Aug. 1811; 4 May 1812. Canada’s smallest prov

reporting on preparations for the coming campaign against Canada. Abercrombie was exasperated by the lack of aggressiveness of Amherst and Brigadier-General Thomas

/a/157: f.50; 163: f.4; D.5/9: ff.308–9. SOAS, Methodist Missionary Soc. Arch., Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Soc., corr., Canada, William Mason, “Extracts from my journal,” 1847–48 (mfm. at UCC-C

George Anson and Admiral Warren; d’Ailleboust was taken to England as a prisoner, but he returned to France that same year. His stay there, however, was brief; he sailed for Canada the following year

Louisbourg, 145. R. J. Morgan and T. D. MacLean, “Social structure and life in Louisbourg,” Canada, an Hist. Magazine (Toronto), 1 (June 1974), 67–69.

of the Stanstead Seminary in Lower Canada during 1859–60. When Mount Allison Wesleyan College was established in Sackville in 1862, Allison

probationary year at Rodez (1655–56); finally he was a preacher at Rodez until his departure for Canada. The Journal des Jésuites notes his arrival

Canada. Anglin’s introduction to public life in Saint John came shortly after his arrival. In response to a violent 12th of July riot he wrote a lengthy

and Deutsch-Amerikanische Bäcker-Zeitung, 14 Oct. 1896. Can., Royal commission on the relations of labour and capital in Canada, Report (5v. in 6, Ottawa, 1889

), Lower Canada, son of John Armstrong, a Methodist minister, and Harriet Melissa Ives; m. first 25 June 1878 Mary Hadley (d. 23 June 1909) in Montreal, and they had one son and four

Banks the following year, and even at attacking Canada in 1763. Ternay was chosen to head the initial expedition, whose immediate objectives were to seize St John’s, Newfoundland, “to cause as much

opponents of confederation, he saw the union of the Island with Canada as “an alliance with a people like ourselves, and not with a foreign country or despotic government

adopt the name Gaspé, in 1709. By his ancestors on both his mother’s and his father’s side, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé belonged to the most illustrious families in Canada bearing names such as Coulon de

-term reclamation of the Fraser River sockeye, which had been devastated by a landslide at Hells Gate in 1913 and decades of heavy fishing. The adoption in 1923 by Canada and the United States of a

grandson, inherited a substantial number of the properties he owned in Montreal. His father worked in business and took part in the political life of Lower Canada; he was one of the principal figures in the

. Hist. Soc., Coll. (Boston), 1st ser., 4 (1795): 100–5. Three of Bailey’s poems are printed and discussed in Narrative verse satire in Maritime Canada, 1779–1814, ed. T. B

.] ANQ-M, CE1-10, 7 avril 1774. Chicago Hist. Soc., L. P. Brock, “Joseph Bailly de Messein, born – Quebec, Canada – 1774; died – Bailly Homestead, Indiana – 1835

men who sailed them (Boston, 1937; repr. Belleville, 1973). R. B. Blauveldt, “Profiles from our past,” Light Herald (Yarmouth), 27 Aug. 1970. Busy East of Canada

 avril 1831; CN1-116, 7 déc. 1841, 4 nov. 1845; CN1-117, 31 déc. 1852; CN1-196, 30 avril 1858; ZQ6–120, 4 févr. 1864. Ports Canada Arch. (Quebec), Reg. of shipping

last winter at York he experienced “indifferent health, his constitution not suiting this inhospitable climate,” and he was therefore assigned to Lachine, Lower Canada. Ballantyne was disappointed to

in 1858 during the Fraser River gold-rush. A Free Miner’s Certificate was issued to him there in September 1859, and in partnership with several other Englishmen he first worked a claim at Canada Bar

the BCPA, and John Pease Babcock*, the provincial assistant commissioner of fisheries, he had come to an important position in Canada in

hospital committee of the Halifax Local Council of Women, and in the 1920s she would occasionally be a delegate to meetings of the National Council of Women of Canada, where she was a member of the public

.), no.7 (mars 1965): 21–25. “Notes from tradition and memory of the Acadian removal,” Collection de documents inédits sur le Canada et l’Amérique, [H.-R. Casgrain, édit.] (3v

Murray*, president of the University of Saskatchewan, to take command of the Saskatchewan Company of the 196th (Western Universities) Infantry Battalion, spent the summer and fall of 1916 in Canada

. 21 March 1758 in Leith (Edinburgh), son of John Beatson, ship’s captain, and Elizabeth Bruce; d. unmarried on 4 Dec. 1800 at Quebec, Lower Canada

father was a non-commissioned officer in the 16th Foot, Samuel Lawrence Bedson came to Lower Canada as a private with the same regiment in 1861. He stayed behind when the regiment returned to England in

Implement Limited, Canada West Electric Limited, the Ronald-Smith Cultivator Company, and the Agricultural Insurance Company, as well as a director of other enterprises in Regina. Early in his career he

BELL, JOHN WILLIAM, teacher, farmer, and politician; b. 18 March 1838 at Desmond, Lennox and Addington County, Upper Canada

. 1922 in St John’s. Philip Bennett’s life traced several important patterns. He was one of many young Newfoundlanders compelled to emigrate to Canada in

Châteauguay, Lower Canada, son of François Benoit, a farmer, and Julienne Sainte-Marie; m. 4 Nov. 1871 Rose de Lima (Délima) Dussault in the parish of Notre Dame in Montreal, and they had three sons and three

James Jardine of Pembroke, Upper Canada, for example, he committed advances of £1,200 at six per cent interest for the delivery of 50,000 cubic feet of red pine and an equal quantity of white. He reserved

de Saint-Hyacinthe; b. 25 May 1851 in Saint-Hyacinthe (La Présentation), Lower Canada, daughter of Théophile Bergeron, a farmer, and Basiliste Petit; d. 29 April 1936 in Saint

author; b. 15 Aug. 1844 in Henryville, Lower Canada, son of Thomas Bernier, a carpenter, and Julie Létourneau; m. there 15 Aug. 1871 Marie-Julie-Malvina Demers, and they had ten

; Paroisses diverses; Polygraphie; Séminaire; passim. Auguste Gosselin, Henri de Bernières, premier curé de Québec (Les Normands au Canada, Québec, 1902); Vie de Mgr de Laval.

and his family (in Canada and in the United States),” RSC Trans., 3rd ser., 37 (1943), sect.ii: 57–76. P.-A. Linteau et J.-C

Affairs.” Livius was reinstated but never returned to Canada. As for Carignant, his combined assets could in no way cover his debts at the time of his bankruptcy; his creditors allowed him to remain in

women in Canada began to push for greater educational opportunities in the 1880s and 1890s and translated these opportunities into national and international travel, mobility in their careers, and

Paspébiac in Lower Canada, was the largest exporter of fish in the Baie des Chaleurs area. It had set up a system of barter, advancing fishermen the products they needed in exchange for their catch. Blanchard

he had planned to return to Lower Canada after his initial contract, he remained in the west to perform a key role as a guide and brigade leader with the HBC for at least half a century. In 1826, at

Scotia; in 1839 he was a delegate to Quebec to determine the boundary between Lower Canada and New Brunswick, and in the same year he was a commissioner to Washington to discuss a border difficulty. One of

the Duffys claimed that the mineral was true coal and that, because of certain provincial regulations, it belonged to them. Gesner, supported by several scientists from Canada and the United States

.], and New Bedford Whaling Museum, [New Bedford, Mass.], [1969?]). J. R. Harper, Painting in Canada, a history ([Toronto], 1966).

. The Bradshaw family is thought to have immigrated to Canada in 1880. John E. Bradshaw worked in his father’s general store in Toronto and as a clerk for commission merchants there; later he moved

returned to Italy and devoted himself to preaching and to his apostolate. During his eight years of evangelizing in Canada, Father Bressani had acquired

), 41. Knox, Historical journal (Doughty), I, app., 3–4. Mémoires sur le Canada, depuis 1749 jusqu’à 1760. Northcliffe coll. N.S. Archives, III. “Les papiers Amherst,” La

Canada, daughter of David Brown and Margaret Armstrong; d. unmarried 11 Jan. 1936 in Whitby, Ont. Caroline Sophia Brown’s parents, who were