-lived Bank of Canada. By the late 1820s he was selling dry goods and insurance in Montreal. Armour became involved in numerous activities outside of

Spread Baldwin and Anne Shaw; m. first 4 Sept. 1861 in St Thomas, Upper Canada, Maria Ermatinger (d. 1863), and they had a daughter; m. secondly 21 April 1870 Sarah Jessie Day

1862 in Barrie, Upper Canada, daughter of Richard Barrett Bernard, a barrister, and Agnes Elizabeth Lally; m. 13 Aug. 1882 Clare Valentine FitzGibbon (1858–1919) in Marblehead, Mass., and they

BOLE, DAVID WESLEY, pharmacist, businessman, and politician; b. 15 Feb. 1856 in Watford, Upper Canada, eldest son of James

. 1935 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Mark Bredin was 20 years old when he immigrated with members of his family to Canada, arriving in

 July 1853 in Saint-Lazare (Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Brochu, a farmer, and Mathilde Naud; m. first 16 May 1878 Marie-Adéline-Eugénie Marois (d. 23

*, chief geologist of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Bell was one of Canada’s most distinguished geological explorers, and his continued

spent much of his time in more profitable ways. From the very beginning of his tour of duty in Canada, he held a one-fifth interest in a transatlantic trading company formed with Bigot and a Jewish firm

BULLER, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM, member of the Executive Council and the Special Council of Lower Canada and head of a commission of

appointed governor-in-chief of British North America with the special mission of inquiring into the government of Upper and Lower Canada following the rebellion of 1837. After initially refusing, Buller was

in Cobourg, Upper Canada. Raised in New Hampshire, Zacheus Burnham came in 1797 to central Upper Canada, a move facilitated by his cousin Aaron

CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM, surveyor, civil engineer, editor, and civil servant; b. 14 May 1863 in Wardsville, Upper Canada

Cuthbert Robertson in Montreal; d. there 24 Sept. 1842. David Chisholme arrived in Lower Canada in 1822, probably under the auspices of

COCHRANE, MATTHEW HENRY, industrialist, livestock breeder, and politician; b. 11 Nov. 1823 in Compton, Lower Canada, son of

-Madeleine Mireux; d. 17 Nov. 1852 in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Lower Canada. Jean-Denis Daulé belonged to a family of modest means, originally from

1879 Drummond had it incorporated as a joint-stock company called the Canada Sugar Refining Company Limited, of which he became president. Peter Redpath retired to England the following year, and on 31

minister at Brockville, Upper Canada, and William Bell* and William Taylor, two ministers recently arrived from Scotland who probably

), Upper Canada. Although the town’s building needs following the War of 1812 had attracted “many good tradesmen,” Ewart was quickly recognized as a builder of some accomplishment and found work almost at

in London while he held the stewardship, he resigned soon after being commissioned (19 March 1807) attorney general of Upper Canada through the influence of William Windham, colonial

Leslie Gault, a merchant and shipowner, and Mary Hamilton; m. in May 1854 in Montreal, Canada East, Elizabeth J. Bourne, and they had 16 children; d. 1 June 1887 at Montreal

, and his wife had heard some “very flaming accounts” about Canada and were intent on moving there. Gosse decided to join them and together they purchased 110 partially cleared acres just north of

years there he attended school in St Austell. In 1829 the family immigrated to Upper Canada, settling in Matchedash Township, near Penetanguishene; James stayed behind to complete his education

), Canada West; b. 15 June 1789 in Charles County, Md, to slave parents; m. first c. 1811 Charlotte, a slave (she probably died October 1852), and they had at least 12

 July 1872. In 1871 the imperial military forces had been withdrawn from Canada. Professional military education became one concern among the

, eight of whom survived infancy; m secondly 7 May 1806 Margaret S. Beke (Beck, Beek); d. 24 Jan. 1812 in Augusta Township, Upper Canada

in Saint-Charles, near Quebec, son of Jacques Nau, dit Labry, a farmer, and Marie-Louise Brousseau; d. 26 Oct. 1831 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada

. It is not clear when Lee entered Canada, but he most likely arrived around 1880. Initially he worked as a labourer in Esquimalt, B.C., and then by “studying and saving” he became a tailor. In 1882 he

LEGGE, CHARLES, civil engineer and patent solicitor; b. 29 Sept. 1829 at Silver Springs, near Gananoque, Upper Canada; d

Canadian printed works, his many bibliographies are concerned primarily with the activities of the Franciscans in Canada. Thus his major work, which appeared at Quebec in 1916 and then in enlarged editions

. Alexander Luders Light came to Upper Canada with his family in the early 1830s and attended the Royal Grammar School at Kingston. From about 1842 he worked as an assistant engineer for the recently formed

also been opened in London under the same name. This became Lyman, Moore and Company by 1840; the business apparently did not last long, but it was the first drugstore in that area of Upper Canada. There

Maralin, County Down (Northern Ireland), third of the four children of James Macoun, a soldier, and Anne Jane Nevin; m. 1 Jan. 1862 Ellen Terrill (d. 1921) of Brighton, Upper Canada, and they

Markland*; d. 31 Jan. 1840 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Before the American revolution Thomas Markland was a large landowner in

serious phase of the Fenian troubles. Whenever the Fenian menace moved the government of the Province of Canada to call out units of the volunteer force for active duty, these were placed under Michel by

decorum, despite (or perhaps because of) her milliner’s past and the impropriety of her marriage. As the capital of Upper Canada, York had from the beginning pretensions beyond its size and a fixed social

[Douglas*] in 1815, Roderick MacBeth was among the early generations of settlers in what would become western Canada. His life there provided him with an invaluable perspective on the evolution of the

Douglas Borthwick. From about the 1880s, McCord’s chief interest was the collecting of material relating to the history of Canada, in which endeavour his

presbytery. In 1829 the long-established Presbyterian congregation of Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, petitioned the Glasgow Colonial Society

three children; m. secondly Margaret Badden, and they had two children; d. 27 Aug. 1832 in Kingston, Upper Canada. According to his own

-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada, son of Protais d’Odet d’Orsonnens and Louise-Sophie Rocher; m. first 22 Feb. 1841 Marie-Louise-Adeline Dorval in L’Assomption, and they had seven children; m

, Lower Canada, fifth of the 11 children of Basile Papin, a well-to-do farmer, and Marie-Rose Pelletier; d. 23 Feb. 1862 in the town of his birth

Middlesex County, Upper Canada, with his parents in 1832. Like many of his siblings, he was educated by his father at home, a farm near London. The family was reform-minded in politics, and he would become a

ROWELL, SARAH ALICE (Wright), social reformer and editor; b. 4 Dec. 1862 in London Township, Upper Canada, daughter of

Hope, Upper Canada, daughter of Isabel Julia Harper and the Reverend Jonathan Shortt*; m. there 27 Sept. 1871 Willoughby Cummings

service he gave up writing music criticism, which he had contributed to Le Canada (Ottawa) beginning in 1868, but from January until October 1870 he was editor of Le Courrier d

“Cotton King of Canada.” It was perhaps through his peripatetic employment that Snell became familiar with Moose Jaw, which was incorporated as a city in 1903. By 1904 he had bought into the menswear store

be loyal to Britain.” SNOW, ALEXANDER JOHN RUSSELL, lawyer and office holder; b. 2 Dec. 1857 in Hull (Gatineau), Lower Canada, son

SPENCER, JOSEPH WILLIAM WINTHROP, geologist, teacher, geomorphologist, and author; b. 26 March 1851 in Dundas, Upper Canada

 July 1925 in Camberley, England. Thomas Bland Strange was one of the most colourful of the British army officers who served in Canada in the 19th

carried into Spain, from whence he contrived to escape. In 1805 he was appointed puisne judge of the Court of King’s Bench in Upper Canada. Arriving in