articulate representative for his constituency, the District of Quebec, and Lower Canada. Elizabeth Nish

later, at the time of his coming to Canada, he was still a deacon. Bishop Saint-Vallier

to an artillery command in the abortive expedition against Canada. C. P. Stacey

and Iron opened a modest-sized steel plant in 1900. During the first decade of its existence the company was the smallest of the four leading steel manufacturers in Canada, the others being Henry

British consulate on 6 September and a religious ceremony two days later at the American Church in Paris, the couple returned to Canada. After a brief sojourn in Sault Ste Marie, Ont., in 1901

lots in the village of Ontario (later named Winona). In 1847 he was secretary of the Upper Canada Mining Company. His attention also turned to journalism. He was always keenly interested in topical

), Upper Canada, son of John Young and Janet Bell; m. 11 Feb. 1858 Margaret McNaught in Brantford, Upper Canada; they had no children; d. 29 Jan. 1913 in Galt

Ainslie*, Quebec’s receiver of customs, proved an excellent business woman. Young received most of his schooling in Lower Canada, continuing his studies in London from 1814 to 1817

Presbyterian Church in Canada. He was its moderator in 1916 when it voted in favour of church union, of which he was a staunch supporter. BAIRD

in Carleton, Lower Canada, eldest son of Joseph Barthe and Marie-Louise-Esther Tapin, and brother of

BICKERDIKE, ROBERT, businessman, politician, and social reformer; b. 17 Aug. 1843 in Kingston, Upper Canada, son of

between 1819 and 1835 he was stationed on several circuits in southern England. In 1836 he was appointed president of the Canadian conference, an office he held until 1838, and chairman of the Lower Canada

In 1880 the composer Calixa Lavallée (1842–91) wrote the music for O Canada to lyrics by Adolphe-Basile Routhier. A

month. The next winter he worked as a draftsman to make several copies of a map of Upper Canada. A severe reduction in the Provincial Marine in 1796 obliged him to leave that service and he then bought a

boy), and her two daughters moved to Scotland to live with relatives. They all returned in 1859 because, as Catherine explained, “Canada is decidedly my home and make no mistake

. Mountain quickly appointed Stewart to the seigneury of Saint-Armand, Lower Canada, and even suggested that he succeed as bishop should Mountain obtain a much desired translation. Mountain failed to secure a

of England vindicated . . . (New York and London), and the ready reception of this work, at least by British emigrants in the United States and in neighbouring English Canada, stirred

Bermuda and then in 1806 of Upper Canada. He went to that province directly from Bermuda and was sworn in at York (Toronto) on 25 August. He would hold his new office for 11 years. Allowed leave to go

Detroit, son of John Askin Jr; m. 17 Oct. 1814 Elisa Van Allen of Haldimand County, Upper Canada, and they had eight children; d. 14 Nov. 1869 at London, Ont

law with Louis Moquin, a Quebec lawyer. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada in December 1827, and rapidly acquired a reputation as an excellent criminal jurist. The young lawyer entered the rough

the greater part of his early education at Caen, France. In 1833 his father, an English barrister, determined to emigrate and took the family to Upper Canada. Michael lived for a time at Penetanguishene

Bayne, minister of the Gaelic Chapel, Greenock, and Margaret Hay; d. unmarried 3 Nov. 1859 in Galt (Cambridge), Upper Canada. After attending

. Sydney Robert Bellingham was born into a family of the Protestant Ascendancy but of modest means. His father being unable to support him, at age 15 he immigrated alone to Lower Canada in the spring of

Drapeau; b. sometime between 1643 and 1645 in France; buried 28 Oct. 1708 at Champlain. François Bigot arrived in Canada with

capital of the Province of Canada. There Robert-Errol attended kindergarten, where he learned English and met Léon

Notre-Dame cathedral. Brauneis enjoyed some success teaching piano in the city but he had to give it up, probably in the summer of 1814 when the 70th departed for Cornwall, Upper Canada. By September

, the St. George, and the Canada, were also built for the Torrances under Brush’s watchful eye. In 1834 he was hired by the Ottawa and Rideau Forwarding Company, of which

. Charles G. Roland Among G. W. Campbell’s publications was an “Introductory lecture,” Canada Medical Journal and

chapter held in Paris on 5 June 1701, for on 1 Oct. 1702 he was in office. Indeed he took part in a meeting of the council of the Franciscan mission in Canada, presided over by Father

Clindinning, tailor, and Mary Clark, both of County Monaghan; d. 31 Aug. 1898 in Toronto. Robert Wilson Clindinning immigrated to Upper Canada

City, Lower Canada, son of Olivier Côté, a blacksmith, and Louise-Charlotte Sasseville; m. 12 Nov. 1851 at Montreal Marie-Julie-Léocadie Leprohon (d. 1900), and they had four sons and two

residence at Hingham in Massachusetts, not far from Boston. His descendants emigrated to Canada when the government of Lower Canada opened the Eastern Townships to settlement. In the autumn of 1798 Elmer and

document confirming his presence in Canada is his marriage certificate, dated 1718, in which he is said to be 23 years old. How he acquired his training as a silversmith cannot be ascertained; perhaps he did

ever gained in Canada – which he proclaimed on 29 July in the chapel at Quebec “to the great satisfaction and solace of every one.” On 3 June 1620 he blessed the corner-stone of the

, established the Canada Iron Furnace Company with a view to buying the Radnor ironworks [see Auguste Larue*], which was owned by the estate of

), Lower Canada, and they had one son; d. 2 Sept. 1910 in Paris. Hector Fabre was the nephew of two Patriote leaders

Pope. Subsequently she returned to Canada, and in October 1899 was employed in private nursing when she and Pope volunteered for service with the first Canadian contingent being raised for the South

AJQ, Greffe de Rolland Godet, 1652–53. APQ, Coll. de pièces jud. et not., 2160. “Les notaires au Canada,” APQ Rapport, 1921–22, 16, J.-E. Roy, Histoire du notariat, I, 45f.

1781 in Hamwood (Republic of Ireland), third son of Charles Hamilton, businessman, and Elizabeth Chetwood; d. 7 Jan. 1839 at Hawkesbury, Upper Canada, and was buried near St Andrews (Saint

made in northern Canada, where he described and mapped little-known sections of the Keewatin district of the North-West Territories. In 1899, with two companions and an Inuit guide, Milook, Hanbury

arrived in Canada in 1853 to represent the firm of Peto, Brassey, and Betts, which had just signed a contract with the Grand Trunk Railway Company. Until 1860 he directed the gigantic task of building a

-Denis, was chosen in 1615 to superintend the establishment of the church in Canada. He sailed from Honfleur on 24 April 1615 with three other Recollets, Fathers Joseph

Émery de Caën, founder of the post at Miscou; known in Canada between 1621 and 1632. The de Caën family held the monopoly of the fur trade

LA ROCQUE DE ROBERVAL, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE, lieutenant-general in Canada; b. c. 1500

Angélique Guyon Després, who took holy orders – obtained a commission as ensign in the colonial regular troops maintained by the French king in Canada. Following savage attacks made by the English

MORIN, LOUIS-SIMÉON, lawyer and politician; b. 20 Jan. 1831 at Lavaltrie, Lower Canada, of the marriage of

scattered the mob guarding it. In 1836 Alex purchased farmland a few miles north of Woodstock, Upper Canada, where a number of retired British army

disbanded in 1783. The next year he joined his relatives in what was to become Upper Canada, taking up a 500-acre grant in Township No.1 (Charlottenburg). In 1788 he was appointed a deputy land surveyor

emigrated to Upper Canada at about 30 years of age. Soon a leader in the local community, he was engaged to supervise a proposed community for Black settlers and took up a militia command after the 1837

age of 20 and was sent to Canada with his regiment in 1866. On 9 June 1866, during the Fenian uprisings, O’Hea and three other men were guarding a munitions shipment attached to a passenger