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). BLHU, R. G. Dun & Co. credit ledger, Canada, 11: 239. Halifax County Court of Probate (Halifax), Estate papers, no.564 (mfm. at PANS). Halifax County Registry of Deeds (Halifax), Deeds, 58
, Shipbuilding in Bathurst (Fredericton, 1965), 3–7; Ships of Miramichi: a history of shipbuilding on the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada, 1773–1919 (Saint
. 1863 at côte Sainte-Catherine (Montreal), Canada East. Peter Warren Dease was named after Admiral Sir Peter
, dit Lapalme; d. 3 May 1831 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada, and was buried there three days later. Marie-Catherine
 
possess little precise information on Meneval’s past history before he came to Canada. Charlevoix* and several others after
River, despite its obstacles, the commercial and arterial highway of British Columbia. He hoped that the road could be extended to link British Columbia with Canada. “Who can foresee what the next ten
“Another C.P.R. wreck.” By 1911, however, Edwards had made a complete about-face and he became a supporter of Bennett, predicting that he might some day become prime minister of Canada. In the meantime, in
which he was president and principal guarantor. The situation came to a head in October 1916 when the Royal Bank of Canada issued a writ claiming $15,000 from Ellison to cover the company’s debts. The
fishing-supply company that did business up and down the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada. Doyle did the negotiations with individual canners, but the underwriting syndicate that was to provide
 
French attack on Albany Fort. He had knowledge of it because he had been in Canada when the French party had returned. The information given by this Mohawk chief, together with that contained in
 
Lower Canada, Gauvreau was in favour of founding a bank. But as a Quebec merchant he might have opposed setting up an establishment emanating from the Montreal business world. That he was not governed by
blacks (New York, 1976). R. W. Winks, The blacks in Canada: a history (Montreal, 1971). W. H. Brooks, “The evolution of the Negro Baptist Church” and “The priority of the
, 1910), 226–28. F. W. Vroom, King’s College: a chronicle, 1789–1939; collections and recollections (Halifax, 1941). R. W. Winks, The blacks in Canada: a history
 
British subject. Royal aid was sought in getting the irregularity brought to the notice of the French king so that instructions ordering release might be sent to the governor of Canada in 1688. Grimington
 
social reform, 1842–1861,” Canada’s smallest province (Bolger), 116–19; Report of the city of Charlottetown for the year ending 31st December, 1877
come to power, the minister of justice, Edward Blake*, appointed Henry one of the judges of the newly created Supreme Court of Canada. It was
his sons.” At one time he and seven of his sons were serving with the troops at the same time. After he retired, it was his pride to say that all his sons had borne arms in the defence of Canada
 
with the state of Canada “it is said great information was given to the whole House . . . .” In the course of the summer of 1776
 
merchant; b. 24 Jan. 1749 at Quebec, son of Claude Huguet, merchant, and Charlotte La Motte; d. 17 June 1817 in Montreal, Lower Canada
, Atlantic provinces, 231–34. Robertson, “Religion, politics, and education in P.E.I.,” 33–37. W. S. MacNutt, “Political advance and social reform, 1842–1861,” Canada’s smallest province
 
history of Canada. His “Discourses” and his “Vocabulary of English and Indian” set out the essential phrases for the conduct of trade with the Crees, and his descriptions of the fur posts are invaluable
 
. Jack, History of Saint Andrew’s Church, Saint John, N.B. (Saint John, 1913). I. A. Jack, History of St. Andrew’s Society of St. John, N.B., Canada, 1798 to 1903
autumn of 1854 (Boston, 1860). Cooke and Holland, Exploration of northern Canada. DAB. G. W. Corner, Doctor Kane of the Arctic seas (Philadelphia, 1972). William
union; agitation for the annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849–1893 ([Lexington, Ky.], 1960).
). R. W. Winks, The blacks in Canada: a history (Montreal, 1971). P. R. Blakeley, “Boston King: a negro loyalist who sought refuge in Nova Scotia,” Dalhousie Rev., 48 (1968–69
reached prospective customers by advertisements in the press and letters to particular categories of clients. He branded the company “Eastern Canada’s Supply House” and varied slogans to suit the item being
. Despite his ineffectiveness, La Rivière retained the Provencher seat until 1904. From 1905 to 1911 he worked in Montreal as Manitoba’s agent to recruit settlers from eastern Canada
 
Syrie, . . . du Canada, de la Louisiane . . . , éd. Jacques Terrien (2 pts., Paris, 1892), I, 727–28. Rochemonteix, Les Jésuites et la Nouvelle-France au
 
formally released them of their promise to stay in Canada and so brought the colonizing project to an end. Leigh now began a long and arduous campaign to
 
what it was that Providence intended for his life. Rejected in France, Leroy turned his attention to Canada, which he had heard about during the 1867 universal exposition at Paris, in the hope that his
could be reunited with his wife in the Indianapolis graveyard. There were eulogies from professors, students, and university and college presidents across Canada. The student paper, the Dalhousie
 
Washington, D.C., with orders to help prepare the company’s memorial to the joint commission. From Washington, Mactavish went to Canada and in May 1865 he made his last trip to the northwest coast
Charlevoix, Histoire. JR (Thwaites), LIX. Narratives of the Northwest (Kellogg) in Original narratives (Jameson). Mission du Canada: Relations inédites de la Nouvelle
Province, 22 Feb., 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March, 5, 12, 19, 26 April, 3, 10, 17 May 1931; and a four-part article, “Allison Pass memoirs,” Canada West Magazine (Summerland, B.C
 
. Journal de l’expédition de d’Iberville en Acadie et à Terre-Neuve, par l’abbé Beaudoin; lettres de d’Iberville, Auguste Gosselin, édit. (Les Normands au Canada, Évreux, France, 1900). N.S
. Monckton’s introduction to Canada was as commander of Fort Lawrence (near Amherst, N.S.), which faced the French Fort Beauséjour across the Missaguash River near Chignecto Bay. This military frontier was calm
MacGregor* in physics and Jacob Gould Schurman in philosophy. The endowment of the chair in law resulted in the founding of the Dalhousie law school, the first academic institution in Canada whose
.” Buoyed by the active little theatre movement in Canada in the 1920s, Mackay wrote a number of plays. Her skill at “snappy dialogue” contributed to her success as a playwright, as well as a novelist, and
 
, Catholic post-secondary education in English-speaking Canada: a history (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1971), 39–42. M. O. McKenna, “The history of higher education in the province of Prince Edward
Evening Journal, 11 July 1922. Patriot (Charlottetown), 27 June 1885. Sarah Carter, Capturing women: the manipulation of cultural imagery in Canada’s prairie west (Montreal
first English-speaking Roman Catholic bishop in what is now Canada. Immediately afterwards O’Donel left for Ireland, and did not return to Newfoundland until the following year
 
Society of St. John, N.B., Canada, 1798 to 1903 (Saint John, 1903). J. S. Macdonald, Annals, North British Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, with portraits
its absence he was instrumental in obtaining grants through an act of 1829 to build schools and support various colleges, academies, and convents in Lower Canada. In 1829 he also completed his
containing a business and residence, Peachy drew the plans for the Banque Nationale (1862), the Union Bank of Canada (1866), and the Caisse d’Économie of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Québec (1874). Because of
, including Phips’s own, are in W. K. Watkins, Soldiers in the expedition to Canada in 1690 . . . (Boston, 1898). Many important documents relating to Phips are abstracted in PRO
. Thomas Pichon is one of the most intriguing figures in the early history of Canada. For much of his life there is autobiographical material, though what is said about his early career is often
 
Charlottetown. Joseph was thereafter seldom far from financial administration. After the union with Canada in July 1873, his position at the bank fell under dominion jurisdiction and he was made auditor and
Hilton were sent to Norridgewock to seize Father Rale and sack the village. Father Rale escaped them, but they burned his church. He later returned to Canada to found at Bécancour a mission for
 
examples in the colony in the mid 18th century. With the conquest and the establishment of the southern border of Canada, Louise de Ramezay lost her
 
Prince Edward Island. In February 1813, when all but the Charlottetown and Sydney, N.S., companies of the 104th Foot had departed for Lower Canada, another fencible corps was authorized for New Brunswick
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