Montreal and Bell Telephone Company of Canada, grew to be among the largest in the country. Ross’s firm expanded with them, until it became one of Canada’s pre-eminent practices. In the early years he was

commissariat service in August 1826, Routh was sent to the Canadas where he remained for the next 17 years. When Routh arrived at Quebec in 1826, he

. William Ryerson’s formal education was confined to the log schoolhouse near the family farm in Norfolk County, Upper Canada. He served as a volunteer on special service with his father during the War of

was promised the lieutenant governorship of what was to be the new loyalist province of Upper Canada. His hopes that he would not be subordinate to Lord Dorchester [Guy

mostly of traders, builders, and physicians; James Simpson, the celebrated surgeon, was his second cousin. In 1815 John and his parents immigrated to Upper Canada, settling first on the Scotch Line, near

Thomas Sproule and Marianne Ardesoif; m. 8 Oct. 1831 Jane Hopper in Montreal, and they had two sons and four daughters; d. 1845 in March Township, Upper Canada

. In 1851 the Stewart family moved from New York to London, Upper Canada, where George Stewart Sr managed a fur and leather business for his father-in-law, Pascal Dubuc. Then in 1859 the family

TURNBULL, AGNES MARIA, teacher and medical missionary; b. 29 Aug. 1866 in Melrose, Upper Canada, eldest daughter of Agnes

WALLBRIDGE, LEWIS, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 27 Nov. 1816 at Belleville, Upper Canada, son of

Society of Canada and was appointed to the executive committee late in 1851. The following year, acting upon the suggestion of American abolitionist Samuel J. May Jr, the president of the society

, making it one of the first industries in Montreal to use the hydraulic power available from the Lachine rapids. The Canada Corn Act of 1843 admitted

immigrating to Canada in 1873. On 19 July of that year he illustrated a post office designed by architect Walter Chesterton for the Canadian Illustrated News (Montreal). Soon afterwards, he was

, though a small community, seemed best located to capture the trade of Upper Canada’s rapidly developing west. To run the new store, he chose John Young, whose ambition, ability, and, perhaps, modest

overture as an opportunity to expand and exploit Canada’s access to imperial markets. He had already tested the waters. In 1903 Canada Cycle and Motor in Toronto began selling his first model and in the

. Before coming to Canada, Auguste Achintre led an eventful life. After his father’s death, he was brought up at Aix-en-Provence by his uncle Joseph Achintre, a professor of humanities at the university, who

Penetanguishene, Upper Canada. In a treaty of 1798 by which Ojibwas ceded the territory around Penetanguishene (Penetang) Harbour to the crown, the name “Aasance

Maritimes and the medical profession and operated a sawmill in Borelia, Upper Canada. In the 1850s he moved on to Toronto. After a brief return to mining

Fauteux* established in 1940 that the author of the “Mémoires du S . . . de C . . . contenant l’histoire du Canada durant la guerre, et sous le gouvernement anglais” was Louis

in Canada since 1647. In that year Jacques Badeaux and his wife, Jeanne Ardouin, both natives of La Rochelle, arrived in Canada with their three children and settled at Beauport. When he was 13

, Republic of Ireland), sixth of the 16 children of Robert Baldwin Sr and Barbara Spread; d. 5 Jan. 1866 at Russell Hill, his estate near Toronto, Canada West

, and landowner; b. 11 March 1792 in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, son of Raphaël Barbier, a farmer, and Josephte Tellier; m. first 21 Jan. 1815 Elizabeth Walker at

Hopkins’s house at Lachine, Lower Canada, adjacent to the HBC warehouse and the headquarters of the company’s operations. Frances Anne raised her three stepchildren and would have five children of her own

, second child of William Bell* and Mary Black; m. 6 Oct. 1831 Maria Miller in Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had two sons and

at Bourges, France. Antoine-Gabriel-François Benoist entered the army as a cadet in 1734 and left France the following year to serve in Canada. In

brothers with the social and political élite of Upper Canada. In 1840 he brought his family to Toronto and enrolled Norman in Upper Canada College. From 1842 to 1845 Bethune studied for an arts degree at

BOSTON, JOHN, lawyer, businessman, and sheriff; b. 1786 in Scotland; d. 6 March 1862 in Montreal, Canada East

years later obtained command of a company of the colonial regular troops serving in Canada. In 1690 he was commandant at Fort Lachine, where during the

 1842 Boulanger was appointed provincial of the Jesuits in France. He superintended the reconstitution of the Jesuits in Canada that year. The last Canadian Jesuit, Father Jean-Joseph

-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie), Lower Canada, eldest son of François Bourassa, its first mayor, and Geneviève Patenaude; brother of Napoléon

stories between 1869 and 1877. A decade after the appearance of “Marguerite,” Bourinot commented about Canada that “though there have been many

; b. 17 June 1782 in Montreal, son of Pierre Bouthillier and Angélique Lemaire Saint-Germain; d. 12 Nov. 1835 in Beauport, Lower Canada

, where he spent a year convalescing. It is said that his hearing was permanently impaired thereafter. In 1847 he was sent to Upper Canada, largely because it was thought the climate would be advantageous

Saint-Michel-d’Yamaska in Yamaska, Que.; he and his wife Anne had 11 children (one drowned in 1847); d. 9 July 1855 in Chatham, Upper Canada

 Oct. 1855 in Alderville, Upper Canada. William Case was the eldest son of George Case, a farmer of English descent, whose family had immigrated

the spring of 1834 he came to Lower Canada as assistant engineer for the building of the Chambly Canal. The Company of Proprietors of the Champlain

 Dec. 1753 and arrived in Canada in 1757 as a lay brother. He became cook at the Jesuit college in Quebec. He experienced the war of the conquest, the rationing, the capture of Quebec by the British, the

, Lancashire, England, son of the Reverend Eli Chadwick and Margaret Weal; m. 7 Sept. 1843 Jane McCartney in Ingersoll, Upper Canada, and they had nine children; d. there

York” in 1796 and enjoyed a long career as surveyor and office holder, as did his son James Grant. After entering Upper Canada College in 1837, William Cameron attended King’s College (later the

CHURCH, LEVI RUGGLES, physician, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 1836, probably 26 May, in Aylmer, Lower Canada, son of Peter

unsuccessful Toronto and Georgian Bay Canal Company, chairing, in September 1855, a Toronto meeting of delegates from both Canada and such American centres as Chicago, Milwaukee, and Oswego. In 1856 he

), Upper Canada, he was associated for several decades with the Children of Peace, a religious group led by David Willson

, Scotland, son of Robert Connon and Ann Findlay; m. 4 Nov. 1854 Jean Keith in Elora, Upper Canada, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. there 10 Jan. 1899

COX, GEORGE ALBERTUS, capitalist; b. 7 May 1840 in Colborne, Upper Canada, son of Edward William Cox and Jane Tanner; m

 July 1870 at Brockville, Ont. George Crawford, who received little education, became a cloth merchant. He immigrated to Upper Canada with some capital

Saint-Nicolas (Quebec), son of Louis Demers and Thérèse Gagnon; d. 2 Sept. 1813 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Jean Demers, who took the name

 June 1826 near Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, and was buried at Danville, Lower Canada. Avery Denison’s ancestors, who were probably Scandinavian

DEWAR, EDWARD HENRY, Church of England clergyman, theologian, and author; b. 31 Aug. 1812 at Amherstburg, Upper Canada, only

admitted to the bar of Lower Canada on 28 April 1827 and practised at Quebec. There on 27 July 1830 he married Marguerite Quirouet. The couple apparently had no children, but Charles had previously

he married Sarah Sykes. Three sons and one daughter were born to them in England, and three daughters in Upper Canada. Leaving his family in England

daughters; d. 7 May 1843 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Colley Lyons Lucas Foster was commissioned in the English militia in 1798, and then entered