both the National Hockey Association of Canada (1911–17) and the National Hockey League (1918–25). The Canadiens, who were known as the Club

Charbonnel, who was touring Europe to secure recruits for the Canadian missions. Wagner agreed to be adopted by the diocese of Sandwich (Windsor) in Upper Canada. He was sent to the Sulpician

, II, 808–9. Wallace, Macmillan dictionary. Burt, Old prov. of Que. Nearby, Quebec. G. F. G. Stanley, Canada invaded, 1775–1776 (Toronto

–1880: toward an understanding of family participation in maritime enterprise,” The enterprising Canadians: entrepreneurs and economic development in eastern Canada, 1820–1914, ed. L. R

he was at times a dashing and successful tactician. His conduct of the naval war, while not marked with spectacular successes, nevertheless helped to relieve the pressure on the Canadas and meshed well

Torrens system of land registration, introduced throughout western Canada in the 1880s [see Louis William Coutlée*]. In 1907 he

Canada. His undertaking had potential for peril beyond the usual economic considerations in that the British crown held a monopoly on the printing of this translation. However, there is no evidence that

refashioned itself along the lines of the Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada, established in 1917. The GWVA in both countries was an assertive organization whose brief was written in blood. Whitty’s work

next year, when the premier argued that only changes to the Canada Temperance Act would permit the temperance question to be dealt with effectively, Wilcox wanted the province to enact “legislation up to

Upper Canada is the best-known radical of this era, but Nova Scotia had a parallel to Gourlay in the person of William Wilkie. Little is known about

Quebec and was buried on 12 May at Château-Richer, Lower Canada. Shortly after the conquest of New France, the elder John William Woolsey and his

. 1827. Royal Gazette (Charlottetown), 15 March 1842. Duncan Campbell, History of Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown, 1875; repr. Belleville, Ont., 1972), 77. Canada’s

 Tour, who was returning to Acadia after seeking help for the French against the British, a prisoner to England, and applied to the king for a grant of the monopoly of trade in Canada, under the Crown of

have been ennobled in the 16th century, and the first of the family to leave France and settle in Canada was Nicolas, son of Michel and Anne Marsain, who came as an ensign in the colonial regular troops

Canada. Early in January 1870 Bannatyne agreed to become postmaster in Riel’s provisional government on the condition that union with Canada would be

Port-Royal were forced to return to France. They took with them a cargo of cod and samples of wheat, corn, minerals, and Canada geese to prove the value of the settlement

. Confederation did not bring an end to Chandler’s public career, despite his advanced age. He was offered a seat in the Senate of Canada, but throughout the confederation debate he had maintained that he was not

1819. Although he had expressed a wish to work in the Canadas, that year he went to Bermuda to become head of a college; it proved unsuccessful and he stayed on as rector of a parish. In 1822 he became a

cherished Canada, Crémazie lived all the more wretchedly when he saw himself stranded there as an exile and separated completely from his own country. He entered France with his health already impaired by the

North became strained and military preparations were stepped up. Britain dispatched troops to reinforce her garrisons in central Canada, but winter had closed the St Lawrence and it became necessary

. Construction began at Esquimalt on 26 Feb. 1884 and proceeded on schedule. Sir John A. Macdonald*, prime minister of Canada

Eda’nsa in 1885, potlatching had been outlawed in Canada and much of the social and ceremonial role that had accompanied his title had been suppressed by missionaries and government agents. Edenshaw was

orders and direction. Thus in May 1763, when the Board of Trade sent him a series of questions about Canada, he told Amherst that since “I know of no general Governor thereof (but yourself as

. 1812 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Pierre Guy, who lost his father when he was nine, was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, and at La

Canada, son of Russell Hardy and Juletta Sturgis; m. 19 Jan. 1870 Mary Morrison, daughter of Joseph Curran Morrison*, and they

-right for a mess of pottage.” On the question of free trade with Canada, an issue in the house during 1862, Haviland spoke at length against any such scheme. Fiscal responsibility, if nothing else

Upper Canada to join its freight department. He accepted and emigrated. First Hendrie worked at the Great Western’s Niagara Falls office, but later in

Montcalm* that August and was destroyed. Fort William Henry (also known as Fort George, now Lake George) surrendered in August 1757, and German Flats (near the mouth of West Canada Creek) was attacked in

, it seems, he was the first in Lower Canada to call for a salary scale for teachers. In 1867 Langevin reluctantly left the École Normale Laval upon

 March 1767 in Paris, France. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne belonged to a family many of whose members left their mark on the history of Canada and

MARTIN, JOSEPH, teacher, lawyer, politician, and businessman; b. 24 Sept. 1852 in Milton, Upper Canada, son of Edward Martin

England for an expedition against Canada. The British contribution to this force, along with Samuel Vetch* and Francis

missionary in Canada after Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin* gave a talk at his school. The prospect of heroic deeds, though certainly an attraction

. 1807 most likely in Chicoutimi, Lower Canada, eldest son of Peter McLeod and a Montagnais woman; m. according to the custom of the country first Josephte

Amboy, N.J., and then at the Williams Harvey Corporation in Brooklyn (New York). After being on the move for 13 years, working for 10 different employers in Canada and the

change brought about by the demise of the buffalo, the incorporation of the plains region into Canada, and the arrival of increasing numbers of newcomers. Like many people indigenous to the Canadian west

examined to help the Colonial Office judge whether or not the western plains were accessible from Canada by a route entirely within British territory. Little dependable information was available about the

1801 the number of ships engaged in the timber trade from Lower Canada had climbed from 80 to 800. The principal exports at the time were pine and oak square timber, pine and spruce deals (planks 12 feet

rights of architects throughout Canada, he began promoting the idea of a nationwide association in 1896. His efforts, along with those of many colleagues in other provinces, led to the creation of the

PRÉFONTAINE, RAYMOND, lawyer and politician; b. 16 Sept. 1850 in Longueuil, Lower Canada, son of Toussaint Fournier

played a major role in Canada at a decisive moment in her history. Saunders spent only a single summer in Canada, besides the one in Newfoundland, but it was the high point of his career

Canada. He worked to bring the northwestern territories of British North America into the American union and stated in 1865 that if the Canadas and Britain were not prepared to develop the area they should

politician; b. 30 Sept. 1819 and baptized the same day in Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville), Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Chrisologue Thibaudeau and Émilie Delisle; m. 4 Sept. 1849 Laure Drolet

discontinue the operations of the company there in 1826. Journeying inland from Albany, N.Y., he observed the missionary efforts in Upper Canada of the Methodists and the Society for the Propagation of the

visit to the Province of Canada and New Brunswick as well as an examination of the statistical information convinced him of its feasibility, and apparently he became the first prominent British North

Quebec in October. He may have been influenced by a belief that it was the only way to obtain a rail link with the Canadas, but of greater weight, perhaps, was a certain weariness with provincial politics

and expansion of an out-of-print work published in 1689 by the Jesuit Jean Crasset. Ten years after his return from Canada, Charlevoix was again

Thomas Greenway and Elizabeth Heard; m. first 25 Jan. 1860 Annie Hicks of Devon (Centralia), Upper Canada, and they had seven children; m. secondly 4 Jan. 1877 Emma Essery, and they had

profoundly affected by an austere and inflexible religious climate. On his return to Canada in 1850 he articled for a time and in 1855 he was called to the Lower Canadian bar. With his prestigious name, his

 Canada (Montréal) on 24 December, that Nelligan “showed that he was still constantly haunted by literature.” To him it was clear that Nelligan’s state of mind resulted from overly intense literary