England and the public lives of women in Canada would combine to allow her to embark upon a course of social activism in British Columbia. At home, her brother William Willcox Perrin, the well-known

. 1804, probably in Danby, Vt, son of Benjamin Randal and Roxana Case; m. 1828 Lamira Juliana Munson in Saint-Armand, Lower Canada, and they had at least two daughters; d. 27

RATTIER, JEAN, fourth official executioner in Canada; b. c. 1650 in France; d. 21 May 1703 at the Hôtel-Dieu

daughters; d. 8 Feb. 1829 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada. In 1774 Thomas Ridout emigrated to Maryland where an elder brother, already

Dick* in 1862, after which Riley established the nearby hotel Revere House. It would become a gathering place for promoters of the Canada First movement. He also co-owned Riley and May, which

with Simcoe, who was appointed lieutenant governor of Upper Canada in 1791. Simcoe took care to find employment for disbanded officers of the Queen’s Rangers, and in 1792, shortly after his arrival in

need for a journal to promote the work of his denomination, Robinson founded the Evangelical Witness in 1854 in London, Upper Canada, his principal residence from 1856. Robinson served as editor

wrote, remarkably healthy and provided him with a robust constitution. During the War of 1812 Ruttan joined the militia, was commissioned, and served in Upper Canada. In 1814 he was severely wounded in

RYERSE, AMELIA (Harris), author and diarist; b. in February 1798 at Port Ryerse, Upper Canada, the daughter of Samuel

* de Beaujeu de Villemonde and Geneviève Le Moyne de Longueuil; d. 19 June 1832 in Montreal and was buried in the church of Soulanges (Les Cèdres), Lower Canada

SAWYER, WILLIAM, portrait painter and photographer; b. 9 Nov. 1820 in Montreal, Lower Canada, son of John

MADELINE, nurse and educator; b. 15 Jan. 1864 in Perth, Upper Canada, daughter of Henry Dowsley Shaw and Flora Madeline Matheson; d. unmarried 27 Aug. 1927 in Liverpool

sent to Canada in 1744 by the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères. He arrived in Quebec at the beginning of October and was soon regarded by the members of the seminary as “an excellent acquisition.” In

SPARLING, JOSEPH WALTER, Methodist minister and educator; b. 14 Feb. 1843 in Blanshard Township, Upper Canada, son of

of James Stevenson; m. 6 Jan. 1847 Harriet Harris, daughter of the Reverend Michael Harris, in Perth, Upper Canada, and they had at least two daughters; d. 10 Dec. 1894 at

studies for the priesthood at Marseilles, Notre-Dame de l’Osier, and Goult, dept of Vaucluse. In 1850, on medical advice, the seminarist moved to Canada West where he was ordained priest on 21 December

Canada in 1862, at which time he was attached to the British commissariat. Retiring the following year, he opened a banking firm in London, known successively as Taylor’s Bank and the Banking House of

, he decided to remain in Canada. He devoted some of his time to the question of a railway link between Montreal and Quebec, and it was this interest in railway matters and especially his knowledge of

a bookish tendency. Van Cortlandt returned to Canada in 1832, and on 26 December was authorized by the provincial secretary to practise

Carroll* who served on a neighbouring circuit in 1830. Although his father was one of the founders of the Hay Bay chapel near Adolphustown, the first Methodist church in Upper Canada, the young Vandusen

. 1831 Paul Robins, and they had two sons; d. 18 Sept. 1853 in Bowmanville, Upper Canada. Ann Vickery experienced a religious conversion at

dispel the traditional belief that relations between whites and Indians in Upper Canada were generally harmonious. Wabakinine signed several early land

 Oct. 1806, probably in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada. In 1798 William Weekes settled at York (Toronto), Upper Canada, where, having

. 7 Jan. 1813 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada. William Willcocks spent his childhood with his first cousin, Peter

Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History in Regina), and, in Ottawa, the National Herbarium of Canada and the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Never short of energy, Willing was also a founding member in

WILLMOTT, JAMES BRANSTON, dentist and educator; b. 15 June 1837 near Milton, Upper Canada, son of William Willmott and Ann

Tourcoing, dept of Nord, France, son of Charles-Théophile Wugk, an immigrant from Saxony (German Democratic Republic), and Sophie-Joseph Vercambre of Tourcoing; d. 22 Aug. 1862 in Montreal, Canada

Kingston, Upper Canada. Richard Cartwright’s father was a native of England who had emigrated to New York in 1742 and his mother was from a “loyal Dutch

 March 1860 in West Flamborough Township, Upper Canada. In 1791 James Crooks immigrated from Scotland to join his half-brother Francis, who about 1788

Historical sketches of O’Connell and his friends (1845). While in Boston, McGee had the opportunity to comment on Canada, and his perspective was

. The next year, on 25 July, the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited came into being, and on 6 Jan. 1917 the firm was licensed as the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S. entity. The CCC

 Sept. 1795 Frances Abbott, and they had eight sons and four daughters; d. 27 Aug. 1852 in Windsor, Upper Canada. François Baby belonged to

. Much of the early life of William Berczy, one of the more colourful characters in the history of Upper Canada, is rather obscure. The son of a prominent diplomat, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in

had nine children; d. 23 Sept. 1815 in Williamstown, Upper Canada. John Bethune was born into a respected family on the Isle of Skye, his

convinced him that an ambitious Englishman could thrive in Canada’s inchoate arts community. In Maud’s words, Heaton’s intervention was “an answer to prayer.” On his arrival in Canada shortly thereafter

. Indicative of the family’s rising wealth and social status, their eldest son was sent to the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont., and eventually achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the

the House of Assembly of Lower Canada from the summer of 1812 on, Faribault became a lieutenant in the 6th battalion of light infantry on 20 March 1813, and in 1815 was appointed clerk of

they had seven sons and seven daughters; d. 28 Aug. 1819 near Richmond, Upper Canada. Charles Lennox was apparently born in a barn, his

the influence of Frances’ husband, chaplain at Quebec since 1760, in its opposition to a proposal that the British leave Canada to France in exchange for Guadeloupe, and in its suggested guiding

father had moved his lumber operations from New England to the Ottawa valley in 1852, the family remained in Lebanon for several years. Lumbermen in Canada benefited from the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854

, a task which he accomplished most expeditiously. Two Canadian subsidiaries were formed in 1880 – the Canadian Telephone Company and the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. The first was to hold

emigrated in 1786 with other Catholics from Scotland to settle in what was to become Upper Canada. He married Nancy Macdonald, the daughter of a distant cousin, and John Sandfield was the first of their five

McGee* would refer as the “greatest Tory in Canada,” belonged to a Highland clan which had supported Prince Charles, the Young Pretender, in 1745, and had suffered the consequences of his failure

well as in the Channel Islands and locations in southern England. In 1792 he was posted to Quebec and promoted clerk of the cheque in the Ordnance department. Heriot was to remain in Lower Canada until

Scottish heritage. Raised on a farm on Yonge Street north of York, William attended school in Toronto before entering Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg on 3 Nov. 1840. From this remarkable Methodist

. 11 Oct. 1817 in Johnstone (Strathclyde), Scotland, son of Charles McLachlan and Jean Sutherland; m. c. 1841 Clamina McLachlan in Upper Canada, and they had six sons and five

-Anne-de-Beaupré, L.C., son of Élisabeth Lessard and Augustin Caron, a well-to-do farmer and mha for Lower Canada; d. 13 Dec. 1876 at Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery (Que

. John Lovell’s family farmed near Bandon until 1820 when they immigrated to Lower Canada and took up a farm near Montreal. One of the eldest of ten children, John hated farming, and in 1823 he was

revealed a penchant for collecting pictures and historical memorabilia, an aptitude for swimming, hockey, and rowing, and a love for parades and decorations. At Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was

inhabitants, the majority of whom were French speaking. It was the seat of the government of Lower Canada and of both Catholic and Anglican dioceses. The English speaking group (English, Scottish, Irish), who