, depuis son établissement jusqu’à la reprise de cette isle par les Anglois en 1758 (La Haye, Pays-Bas, 1760; réimpr. [East Ardsley, Eng.], 1966). Groulx, Hist. du Canada

both physical and mental qualities that place him high in the ranks of explorers of Canada. He was a man of great stamina, even into his 70s, and he had an unswerving resolution, a quality which

temporary ones in New England and Lower Canada. Indeed Robin was able to maintain his exports at pre-war levels, seldom sending less than 13,000 quintals a year

Newfoundland; he felt that the island, geographically at the same latitude as Canada and France, could and should become self-sufficient in food production and hence he pressed for local agricultural societies

Drummond*’s Canada Sugar Refinery. While there he heard much about Vancouver, the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway on the west coast. Rogers saw in the city, and in the Canadian west, an

River Society, also known as the Canada Company, which included such influential figures as Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts and Colonel Frederick

become a department store employing 125 workers. Buyers visited eastern Canada every two months, New York four times a year, and London and Paris twice a year. The success of the store was attributed to

. of Nfld. H. M. Hurd et al., The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada, ed. H. M. Hurd (4v., Baltimore, Md., 1916–17; repr. New York, 1973

literary culture of Maritime Canada. In the end, the election was won overwhelmingly by the “governor’s friends.” Street and most of the “ opposition” members lost their seats

. W. Gordon Handcock Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Nfld. Arch. (St John’s), St Paul’s Church (Trinity

). Concise histories of the Crees and the Chipewyans are most easily available in Jenness, The Indians of Canada.

a member of the United Church of Canada, he died in 1928. In addition to her role as a homemaker and mother

élite unit to which he belonged. In Canada, Verville’s reputation has suffered because of the difficulties which ensued from building an elaborate

observations in two detailed reports which furnished the material for mapping the region accurately. Bourgmond came to Canada in 1695, and everything leads us

studied farming with a land agent and emigrated to Upper Canada in 1865 after hearing about the country from Bishop Benjamin Cronyn* of Huron and

marched around the British and withdrew towards Montreal leaving Quebec to surrender on 18 September. The final conquest of Canada required another year’s campaign. Wolfe’s body was taken to England

Lower Canada embodied the utopian concept of architecture as an instrument of social change. Baillairgé was also in demand for building projects which

Pius XI and proclaimed by Pius XII on 16 Oct. 1940 patron saint of Canada along with his seven martyred companions. Among Jean de

the summer of 1873, while Carter was away in Canada, a so-called new party emerged to contest the election called for that fall. Eventually a rapprochement was effected between Carter, his

was amply rewarded. In 1830 he was presented to the king of England and in 1833, as in 1825, he received exorbitant fees for serving as an arbitrator in the negotiations between the two Canadas over the

, Upper Canada, son of John S. Fraser and Sarah M. Burke; m. 10 Jan. 1866 Mary Ann Lafayette, and they had a son and a daughter; d. 24 Aug. 1894 in Toronto and was buried in

College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1790–1890 (New York, 1890). C. H. Mockridge, The bishops of the Church of England in Canada and Newfoundland . . . (Toronto, 1896). H. A

chose to go to Canada for consultation with the authorities. He arrived at Quebec on 14 September, accompanied by five Micmacs, and left seven days later with specific instructions which in fact made

apostle of Pictou” and the first Gaelic bard in Canada. Synod and academy As MacGregor

. After the conquest Pond “thought thane was no bisnes left for me” in Canada. In 1761 he therefore turned his attention to seafaring, with the intention of making it a profession. He sailed to the West

confederation, expressing the belief that union with Canada was not a foreseeable possibility. Shortly after his return, William resigned as executive councillor and colonial secretary, in protest against this

modern ships’ signalling facility – and, incidentally, eclipsing the modest brass tablet to Cabot placed at Halifax by the Royal Society of Canada. In 1901, to boost his modest pension, Prowse was

Prevost*, the commander-in-chief in British North America, ordered the 104th Foot, the only significant body of regular soldiers in the province, to march to Upper Canada to reinforce the army there

, informal talks about a sale to Canada had taken place during Squires’s first administration. In 1931 serious negotiations were held between a Newfoundland delegation and the government of Prime Minister

the Canadas that year. Moreover, Mortimer and Robie sought an American dd for McCulloch in recognition of his theological accomplishments and his articulate defence of

, probated in November 1939, valued his estate at $178,359.25. The first assessment included about $81,180 in cash on deposit at a Halifax branch of the Royal Bank of Canada and over

. In Canada, the idealization of Franklin as a national hero began in the early 20th century, just at the time when the first active assertions of Canadian sovereignty in the far north were being

. During his voyage Jolliet had become convinced that in Hudson Bay the English were doing “the finest trade in Canada.” They “gathered in” beavers, “as many as they wanted,” and even hoped to “make this

 1803 when he was granted a licence to practise in Lower Canada. But on 26 April of that year he had signed an agreement with McTavish, Frobisher and Company [see Simon

from it, on the other side of the river, in a community of 800 to 1,000 inhabitants. The governors of Canada and the commandants of Fort Pontchartrain and Fort Michilimackinac without exception

the British provinces: a brief account of the several conferences held in the Maritime provinces and in Canada, in September and October, 1864, on the proposed

deprecated the rebellion in Lower Canada and expressed a determination to look after the families of the soldiers who had left to put down the insurrection. He continued to preside over the assembly’s sessions

still used to illustrate books on northern exploration, but many other fine drawings, watercolours, and sketch-books from Back’s three land expeditions, still preserved in the Public Archives of Canada

(1931), sect.ii, 37–44. W. S. MacNutt, “Political advance and social reform, 1842–1861,” Canada’s smallest province (Bolger), 124–27. E. C. Moulton

demonstrated that James Bay could be reached overland from Canada and had laid claim to the territory in the French king’s name. By the summer of 1674 Bayly felt the effects on his business of the French traders

been credited with having precipitated the calling of the first elected house of assembly within Canada by rendering the judgement that the governor and Council did not possess the necessary authority

unit, the 72nd Regiment (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), to keep the peace during the Vancouver Island coalminers’ strike of 1912–14 [see Joseph

Canada (Halifax, 1938), 100, 106–9. Murdoch, History of N.S., II, 356, 537–38, 571, 577, 585, 645; III, 4, 94, 97, 99, 152. A. S. Barnstead, “Development of the office of

Estates Division of the Supreme Court of P.E.I. (Charlottetown), liber 2: f.198. Secondary sources which proved useful include: Canada

uncle in the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and a brother who was a Sulpician at Montreal; he had, in addition, grown up in a city oriented towards Canada and situated in an archdiocese to which the Church

churches, schools, and civil government. Those mixed-bloods whose antecedents linked them to Lower Canada, the Métis, settled as buffalo hunters to the south and west of the junction of the Red and

. 1805 at a salary of £500 per annum, to succeed fellow Irishman Robert Thorpe* who became a judge of the Court of King’s Bench in Upper Canada. A

the American Civil War, he visited Canada for a short time charged with examining defence establishments along the frontier from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Superior. Later, he edited an account of Sir

. Bolger, “The demise of quit rents and escheats,” Canada’s smallest province (Bolger), 99–114. Clark, Three centuries and the Island. MacKinnon, Government of P.E.I., 105

decade Cormack resided principally in that town where in 1825, in partnership with John Thompson, a merchant from Greenock, Scotland, he engaged in the provisions and lumber trade with Canada. His leisure