Beauce, Lower Canada, son of William Pozer and Ann Milbourne; d. unmarried on 18 July 1884 at Saint-Georges, Que. At the time of Christian

himself in opera. After what appears to have been a financial setback, Puyjalon decided to move to Canada. He came to Montreal and after a short

the present Alaska–Canada border on 15 July. The next day, offshore of the northernmost of what are now called the Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), the expedition encountered the Haidas and

. Hamilton, Dictionary of Miramichi biography; biographical sketches of men and women born before 1900 who played a part in public life on the Miramichi: Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada

-Marie, origine, utilité et progrès des institutions catholiques de Montréal . . . (2v., Montréal, 1863–82). Émile Vaillancourt, Une maîtrise d’art en Canada (1800–1823

, Armorial des évêques du Canada . . . (Montréal, 1940). “Courtes biographies des évêques coadjuteurs ou auxiliaires, des vicaires généraux actuels,” in L’Église de Montréal: aperçus d’hier

, probably in Upper Canada. David Ramsay enlisted as a ship’s boy in the Royal Navy and served in the sieges of Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island

. et délib., 1717–1760. J.-N. Fauteux, Essai sur l’industrie, I, 160–69. Nish, Les bourgeois-gentilshommes. P.-É. Renaud, Les origines économiques du Canada; l’œuvre

nautical surveying in Canada (Toronto, 1983). J. O. McCabe, The San Juan water boundary question (Toronto, 1964). Alec McEwen, “A guardian of the boundary,” British Columbia Hist

-Alberta Institute (Calgary). Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Moosonee Arch. (Schumacher, Ont.), Diocese of Moosonee papers

 7 in Stratford, with Richardson accounting for 7 goals. He was added to the Queen’s College team which won the Allan Cup, for amateur senior competition in Canada, in 1909. In 1911–12 he played

superior in talent to his brother, Sir William Johnston Ritchie*, chief justice of Canada from 1879 to 1892. In July 1882 John

, and diplomatic life of Nova Scotia and Canada. Allan C. Dunlop

. Canada’s smallest prov. (Bolger). J. W. Cell, British colonial administration in the mid-nineteenth century: the policy-making process (New Haven, Conn., and

. H. E. Secretan, Canada’s great highway: from the first stake to the last spike (London and Ottawa, 1924). J. F. Stevens, An engineer’s recollections (New York, 1936

 March 1864 a bill which would have killed Dalhousie. In April Ross received an honorary degree from Queen’s, the Presbyterian college in Kingston, Canada West

. Montreal directory, 1819, 1842–45, 1848–50, 1852–55. T.-P. Bédard, Histoire de cinquante ans (1791–1841), annales parlementaires et politiques du Bas-Canada, depuis la Constitution jusqu’à

, Regional Coll., James Evans papers. Paul Kane, Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and

(Malecite)” on 16 May 1821 appears in the registers of the church at L’Isle-Verte, Lower Canada, in an entry of 16 June. His wife must have predeceased him since none is listed; nor are any children

those who had fought in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. In Halifax, the only major British military garrison still maintained in Canada, veterans from the ranks such as Sallis found a prestigious

citizenship, he could not run for political office in Canada. Though he had few institutional affiliations outside business, he was the founding president of the British Columbia Pioneer Society in 1871 and a

, but not 1910. In Canada, Schaack worked as a farmhand and then as a tractor operator. By the time of the Great Depression of the 1930s, he was

government. Although an avowed anti-confederate, in 1888 Scott accepted Thorburn’s invitation to be one of several delegates he proposed sending to Ottawa to see what terms of union Canada might be willing to

. at PANS). United Church of Canada, Maritime Conference Archives, Pine Hill Divinity Hall (Halifax), McGregor papers A, Seccombe-Comingoe letters. “Congregational churches in Nova Scotia,” Mass. Hist

Selby, médecin de l’Hôtel-Dieu de 1807 à 1829, et sa famille,” L’Union médicale du Canada (Montréal), 100 (1971): 1592–94.

university in Canada by a woman. There were terms: the residence was to be called Shirreff Hall, it would be non-denominational (Jennie herself was Presbyterian), and she wanted to approve the architect’s

Boulton of Upper Canada was appointed. It is not surprising, therefore, that he and Boulton often clashed over legislation in the Council. Simms particularly objected to Boulton’s advocacy of the

apprentice clerk in the company’s office at Lachine, Lower Canada, where in 1830 he was put in charge of accounting. George Simpson was pleased with his performance, finding him in 1832 “Well Educated

, going on in 1858 to command the key Norway House District. He went on retirement furlough in 1862. In 1854 he had “lands and a house in Red River,” but in 1863 he settled near Brockville, Canada West

the slow social progress in French Canada, especially with regard to the education of girls. Marie

shuttle: a history of the Halifax-Dartmouth ferries (Halifax, 1979). T. M. Punch, Some sons of Erin in Nova Scotia (Halifax, 1980); “A note on John Skerry, a Kilkenny emigrant to Canada

western Canada (Langley, B.C., 1977). J. P. Reid, “Principles of vengeance: fur trappers, Indians, and retaliation for homicide in the transboundary North American west,” Western Hist

, when he was still a child, to Leeds County, Upper Canada. Stevenson received a brief formal education at Brockville and taught school there for one year. In 1831 he became a clerk in the general store of

, animals, and other matters worthy of notice, made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada; to which is annex’d a curious account of the

Desjardins, had left Lower Canada in 1802. For more than 30 years this priest’s correspondence strengthened the bonds between the nuns and their relatives in France. The pious Desjardins got in

.” Melvin Baker AASJ, Edward Morris diary (mfm. copy at MHGA). BLHU, R. G. Dun & Co. credit ledger, Canada, 10: 27

. J. B. Brebner, New England’s outpost: Acadia before the conquest of Canada (New York, 1927), 32–36. DNB. Ganong, “Historic sites in New Brunswick,” 274–75. Thomas Hutchinson

Canada, son of Charles Theaker, a farmer, and Mary Ann Mills; m. 20 May 1891 Mary Elizabeth Evans in Hamilton, Ont.; they had no children; d. there 3 Nov. 1915

-Anne Blanchard; d. 24 Oct. 1819 in Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu, Lower Canada. The Thibodeaus, like many Acadian families, were

Victoria. Sent in 1890 to Upper Canada College in Toronto to complete his education, he returned to Victoria four years later to enter the family business, J. H. Todd and Sons, by then an important

New Brunswick and Canada Railroad Company; he also held the presidency of Fundy Fisheries, and was a director of Ganong Brothers [see Gilbert White

he moved to Rue Saint-Jean. From 1862 to 1883 he served as an agent for various insurance companies, including the Provincial Insurance Company of Canada, Aetna Fire Insurance of Dublin, and the

declined a seat on the Supreme Court of Canada from unwillingness to leave Saint John, he became the province’s first non-Anglican chief justice. He resigned in 1908, after first taunting Sir Wilfrid

Rupert Turnbull*, pioneered aeronautical research in Canada in his laboratory

TWEED, THOMAS ANDREW, businessman and politician; b. 14 April 1853 in Kingston, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Tweed, a sawyer

BL, Add. mss 21674; 21814: ff.2–475. J. M. Hadden, Hadden’s journal and orderly books: a journal kept in Canada and upon Burgoyne’s campaign in 1776 and

not being treated as well as their counterparts in Upper and Lower Canada. Specifically, he asked the British government to put the salaries of the Supreme Court judges on a par with those of the other

–53. Les arts au Canada français ([Vancouver], 1959), 73. Derome, Les orfèvres de N.-F. Tanguay, Dictionnaire. J. Trudel, L’orfèvrerie en N

Hospitaller of St Joseph, pharmacist, and founder and director general of the Hôtel-Dieu of Tracadie, N.B.; b. 27 July 1845 in Boucherville, Lower Canada, daughter of Bonaventure

side of this man, favouring instead the image of one who used his strength to protect his fellow citizens during the troubled period of the early 19th century in the Canadas that saw the introduction of