. Pâquet), physician, politician, and professor; b. 29 Sept. 1830 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada, son of Timothée Pâquet and Françoise Robillard; m. 25 Sept. 1854

was looking for a teacher for the normal school that Lower Canada wanted to establish at Montreal. After an interview with the candidate, Holmes concluded that he possessed “merit, capability

. Richey served on several circuits in the Maritimes before being transferred in 1835 to Montreal in the Lower Canada District. In 1836 he was appointed the first principal of Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg

* de Saint-Réal. During the 1837–38 disturbances Judge Rolland played a somewhat special role in Lower Canada. Writs of habeas corpus served

the first independent French Protestant church in Canada. When the rebellion of 1837 broke out, the Patriotes identified the two missionaries with English Protestants and harassed them until

. Herman Levy immigrated to Hamilton from Prussia in 1857 and, with his brother Abraham, founded Levy Brothers, which would become known throughout Canada as a pioneer in the wholesaling, importing, and

Canada began in Red River in 1869, it found the settlement divided into three camps. Some favoured union with Canada, others would accept union if it came; some wished to negotiate terms with Canada; other

of 108 square miles on the Rivière Saint-François in Lower Canada. Through the influence of Smith, who was chairman of the colony’s land committee, the petition was recommended, but ultimately the

age of 27, he was elected by acclamation, for Rimouski, to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. A supporter of Louis-Hippolyte

had been the victims. He then undertook the preparation of his principal work, Le Canada sous l’ Union the first part of which was published in 1871 and the second in

1811, when the order came on 15 March 1813 to sail for the Canadas with his regiment. They were being sent as reinforcements for the small British garrison which had been resisting American attempts

good English and was known to English prisoners as “the Indian minister” and “Prince Waxaway.” In September 1698 and October 1701, he probably accompanied Bigot to Canada, visiting the Abenaki

class in St John’s in which one of his students was William Bennett Bond*, later primate of the Church of England in Canada. In 1832

, after months of negotiations, he accepted the post of commissioner of the dockyard at Kingston, Upper Canada, an appointment which made him senior naval officer in the Canadas. The command, which Barrie

, Upper Canada, son of Chauncey Beadle and Orinda Converse; m. 7 Oct. 1852 Harriet Converse Steele of Windsor, Vt, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 30 Aug. 1905 in

Allan Macdonell*] and later having joined the civil service of the Province of Canada. He attended the Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois

entitled “Michel Carabin” in Le Canada français/Le Franco-Canadien, a Saint-Jean weekly; its editor at the time was his friend Gabriel Marchand, the son of Félix-Gabriel

Township, Upper Canada, third son of Alexander Neil Bethune* and Jane Eliza Crooks; nephew of

two years later and became a minister at Burlington, Vt. Caughey made his first evangelistic trip to the Canadas in 1835, being involved in a three-month campaign in Montreal. In 1839, while trying

woollen manufacturer; in 1792 or 1793 he built one of the earliest steam-powered carding-, spinning-, and fulling-mills in the county. Family tradition states that he arrived in Upper Canada in 1803 after a

Canada, third son of John Craven Chadwick and Louisa Bell; m. first 28 June 1864 Ellen Byrne Beatty in Toronto; m. there secondly 20 Feb. 1868 Maria Martha Fisher, and they had five

William and Ann Coffin; d. 25 Sept. 1808 at Quebec, Lower Canada. At the outbreak of the American revolution John Coffin was established in

), Upper Canada, son of John Devine and Maria McDonnell; d. 5 Nov. 1927 in Toronto. After a public school education in Ottawa and

Benedict Power of Sorel, Lower Canada, and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 28 Sept. 1881 in Montreal, Que. James D. Duncan

Canada, considered launching an agricultural publication in Toronto. The appearance that year of the Canadian Farmer and Mechanic in Kingston, however

and Company, a wholesaling firm in Montreal which sold imported goods to merchants in Upper Canada and exported ashes, timber, and wheat. It became Maitland, Garden, and Auldjo after the departure for

Canada. Some time before October 1781 John Gray followed his elder brother Edward

imperialist whose lifelong quest was to establish British musical excellence in Canada and in other parts of the empire. His persuasive personality, enthusiasm, organizational abilities, and varied musical

Montreal (Que.), son of Pierre-Paul Margane de Lavaltrie and Louise-Charlotte d’Ailleboust d’Argenteuil; d. 10 Sept. 1810 in Lavaltrie, Lower Canada

. In Hilary term 1891 Martin petitioned the Law Society of Upper Canada to admit her as its first female student-at-law. A committee chaired by Samuel Hume

Songs of old Canada (Montreal, 1886), a collection of 14 French Canadian folk-songs with his English translations on facing pages. Its preface reveals his concern that unless they were published

-Louise Cornud, and they had nine children, including Denis-Emery; d. 20 Jan. 1854 in Sainte-Angélique (Papineauville), Lower Canada. Denis

Waterville, Lower Canada, and was buried at East Hatley (Hatley). Jesse Pennoyer received a good education. In the American revolution he and his family

 1820 in Islington (now part of London), England, son of John Penny and Emmiley May; m. 13 Oct. 1857 at Montreal, Canada East, Eleanor Elizabeth Finley, née Smith, and they had one son

Ridout* had been surveyor general of Upper Canada from 1810 to 1829, and her father was the first cashier (manager) of the Bank of Upper Canada from 1822 until his retirement in 1861. Little is known

RIDOUT, THOMAS GIBBS, banker; b. 10 Oct. 1792 near Sorel, Lower Canada, third son of Surveyor General Thomas

Jarvis*, provincial secretary of Upper Canada. They had no children. In 1833 they moved to Holland Landing, taking over the house that Peter had built there. It became the usual stopover for travellers

Toronto, Ont. John Ross was brought to Canada as an infant and was educated in Johnstown District (Leeds and Grenville counties) and Brockville. At

 April 1840 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, fourth child of Hugh Vallance, a customs officer, and Ann Little; m. there 20 Oct. 1864 Thomas Wardlaw

Quebec City in 1876, L’instruction publique au Canada: précis historique et statistique, and an important book released in Montreal in 1853, Charles Guérin .... His

. Robert Harvey Warden was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, Scotland, and after moving to Upper Canada as a young man began the study of law in Toronto. In 1863 he abandoned this project to enter

(Thames) River in Upper Canada. Although the story is confusing, it appears that Anthony brought his family to Upper Canada at the close of the war and settled, not on his lands along the La Tranche

he received a licence to practise from the Medical Board of Upper Canada. In February 1863, during the American Civil War, he applied for a

and present salvation.” He then served on several circuits in the Maritime provinces and Lower Canada before returning to England in 1827. Alder was resident in London as one of the secretaries of the

-Félix-de-Valois), Lower Canada, son of Étienne-Daniel Amaron and Annette Cruchet; m. first 19 Oct. 1881 Agnes McDougall; m. secondly 26 Nov. 1895 Margaret (Maggie) Lorne Lynch in

Aouenano, a sachem from their tribe, had set out for Canada to negotiate with the French. The Senecas stressed that this journey had been under-taken without tribal authorization. Since the

permission, Archibald resigned his position (and likely gave up his commission) to assume a permanent appointment on 1 May 1905 as Canada’s first dominion parole officer, in the penitentiary branch of the

ARMSTRONG, JAMES SHERRARD, lawyer and judge; b. 27 April 1821 at Sorel, Lower Canada, son of Captain Charles Logie Armstrong

Williamstown, Upper Canada, son of John Bethune* and Véronique Waddens; m. 4 Feb. 1830 Martha Covert, and they had a daughter who died

, and they immigrated to Canada in 1832. Before leaving, John Birks had signed a contract to work for a firm in Montreal, where he soon opened a pharmacy