FULTON, JOHN, physician, educator, author, and editor; b. 13 Feb. 1837 near St Thomas, Upper Canada; m

GEORGEMÉ, SÉRAPHIN, priest, Recollet, missionary, provincial commissioner for Canada; b. c. 1659, d. 1705 in

. Of Polish ancestry, Hortense Globensky’s father was born in Berlin. He came to Canada in 1776 as a surgeon in the Brunswick-Hesse regiment. On 7 Jan. 1829, at Saint-Eustache, Hortense married

grant to François Lemaître. In the autumn of 1736 he again left Canada for a two-year stay in France. The seminary of Quebec had refused to pay him an

of the Law Society of Upper Canada from 1798 to 1801. It was usual in Upper Canada for both the solicitor and the attorney general to hold

Greenaway and Matilda Totten; d. 27 Sept. 1906 in Toronto. Minerva Margaret Greenaway was among Canada’s first generation of pioneering

teaching, licensing, and hospital attendance for Toronto and Upper Canada. He convened meetings and circulated petitions in this cause during the late 1830s; in October 1838 he took his place on the

, County Antrim (Northern Ireland); d. 22 March 1861 in London, Canada West. Robert William Harris was the son of a small farmer whose family

of Richard and Mary Hatt; m. December 1799 Mary Cooley in Ancaster, Upper Canada, and they had nine children; d. 26 Sept. 1819 in Dundas, Upper Canada

HAWLEY, WILLIAM FITZ, author and office holder; b. 1804, probably in La Prairie, Lower Canada; d. there January

. 1968) in Chicago, Ill., and they had a daughter; d. 6 May 1936 in Winnipeg. It is unclear whether Anna Humenilovych came to Canada alone or

HÉBERT, CHARLES-POLYCARPE, grocer and wholesaler; b. 20 April 1834 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada, son of

IRONSIDE, GEORGE, public servant; b. probably c. 1800 in the area of Amherstburg, Upper Canada

articles by Jacquies. When the Act of Union came into effect, the paper immediately denounced the anti-democratic character of this measure, which deprived the inhabitants of Lower Canada of fair

Pécaudy* de Contrecœur. When the regiment was recalled to France in 1667, the young soldier decided to make his home in Canada, in accordance with the wish of the king, Louis XIV, who

Jane Eleanor Dougall in Belleville, Upper Canada, and they had one daughter; d. there 10 Feb. 1896

Juchereau Duchesnay; d. 17 Feb. 1825 in Beauport, Lower Canada. Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay belonged to the sixth generation

facilities of the Intercolonial Railway and the introduction of a modern steamship service linking Nova Scotia to Europe. These measures, local businessmen thought, would establish Halifax as Canada’s leading

. 1862 at Montreal. Son of a celebrated Scottish banker and educated for the law, David Kinnear came to Lower Canada after a youthful involvement in the

Valentine Knightley Chetwode Labat (Labatt), whose Huguenot ancestors came from the Bordeaux region of France, and his wife Jane; d. 26 Oct. 1866 at London, Canada West

, N.Y. Marjory Laing emigrated with her family to the Canadas in 1843; by 1851 they had established themselves as “agriculturalist[s]” in Melbourne

(dept of Indre et Loire), France. Jean-Marie Landriève Des Bordes arrived in Canada towards the end of the 1730s. In May 1740 he was in Montreal

Armand), commissary of the Marine, special investigator in Canada, 1740–41; fl. 1720–58. Originally from Bayonne, France, Jean de Laporte de

Canada, during the 1840s he circulated the “Dundee Natural History Magazine,” a monthly manuscript periodical, to local naturalists and helped found the Dundee Naturalists’ Association

Pierre Leclère, dit Lafrenaye, a merchant, and Marie-Anne Bourg; d. 5 May 1866 at Montreal, Canada East. In 1813 Pierre-Édouard

resettlement there, but by New Year’s 1764 he was back in Canada exchanging greetings with Governor Murray of Quebec. One

LEMIEUX, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, lawyer and politician; b. 9 Feb. 1811 at Lévis, Lower Canada, son of Gabriel Lemieux and Judith

Canada at the time of the War of 1812. He left the army on half pay after the war, and on 3 Oct. 1815, at Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, he married Julie, daughter of Pierre-Guillaume Guérout, a

protonotary, and Charlotte-Mélanie Panet; d. 3 Nov. 1859 in Sainte-Mélanie, Lower Canada. Charles-François Lévesque, a grandson of judge Pierre

MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER, militia and army officer; b. 31 Oct. 1845 in Cornwall, Upper Canada, son of Alexander

Gazette. In 1839 Macgeorge was ordained deacon in the Scottish episcopal church and was priested the following year. He served briefly in Glasgow before immigrating to Canada West in September

to return to Upper Canada about three years later. Resuming his life as a farmer and miller (he constructed the first sawmill in Scotland in 1848), Malcolm still found time for local politics. In the

in Canada; named ensign in 1685 or 1687; lieutenant, 1691 (1693); midshipman, 1694; commanded at Fort Lachine in 1690, 1701; b. 1657 in Poitou, son of Isaac Maleray de La Périne and Marie Tessier

his first public appearance in Ottawa in 1910, as a member of the cast of the play Fleur d’ajonc by Théodore Botrel, who was a popular entertainer in French Canada at that time. Next he used

a more prominent role in the church in Canada. On 9 September of that year, Étienne Montgolfier

; in 1838 Massue held 40,000 acres, which made him the sixth largest owner of non-seigneurial land in Lower Canada. He also bought more than 3,600 acres in 1842 and 1843. Among these lands were

sent to Lower Canada in command of the 6th company of the 5th battalion of the Royal Artillery at Quebec; he arrived in Canada on board the William Harris on 7 July 1823. During this

Revolutionary War, and in about 1798 settled at York (Toronto); Upper Canada. John served in the War of 1812 as a York volunteer on the Niagara frontier, and was present at the battle at Queenston

degree, but this is improbable; certainly he never practised medicine in civilian life. After a brief stint in the navy Mulvany immigrated to Canada

KNOX, schoolteacher and missionary; b. 9 Jan. 1861 in Peterborough, Upper Canada, daughter of George Munro, a miller, and Jessie Shearer; d. unmarried 23 March 1923 in

still employed in this way when news reached Canada of the disaster at Castelfidardo on 18 Sept. 1860: the little papal army, commanded by Christophe-Louis-Léon Juchault de Lamoricière, had been

period of ill health, he obtained a six-month leave of absence to visit his family in Canada. There, a friend of his father’s family, the Reform mla Malcolm

, probably in Arran Township, Upper Canada, daughter of Alexander McNeil and Mary —; m. sometime after 1908 D. E. Fulkerson, possibly in Buffalo, N.Y.; fl. 1861–1908

McARTHUR, ALEXANDER, lumberman; b. 11 April 1839 in Williamstown, Upper Canada, son of John McArthur and Margaret McMartin

, HUGH, teacher, farmer, civil servant, and publisher; b. 11 Dec. 1849 in East Zorra Township, Upper Canada, son of John McKellar and Agnes ———; m. 19 June 1894 Cassie

(Grimsby), Upper Canada, third son of Robert Nelles* and Elizabeth Moore; m. first 3 May 1831 Hannah Macklem (d. 6 July 1863) of

Edward George* in Upper Canada and settled at York (Toronto). He was licensed to practise in September. In 1833 he moved to Thornhill where he “soon had a large, if not very remunerative practice

Quebec, son of Jean-Antoine Panet* and Louise-Philippe Badelard; m. 14 July 1819 Luce Casgrain in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, and

PARKE, EPHRAIM JONES, lawyer, businessman, office holder, and judge; b. 1 Nov. 1823 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, eldest

, who came to Canada prior to World War I as agricultural settlers and industrial labourers. He became one of the 5,954 immigrants from Austria-Hungary confined in Canadian receiving stations