Canada in 1851. That August the Agricultural Society of Lower Canada, which had been set up in 1847 to coordinate and direct agricultural development in the province above the level of the district

. 1888 in Toronto and was buried in Ottawa, Ont. Andrew Russell received his education in Glasgow before coming to Canada with his parents, sister

escape and immigrated to the United States. In 1850 he came to the Canadas and settled in Ottawa. Seven years later, on 7 April, he was certified as a land surveyor in Lower Canada. The following year

Elizabeth Rhodes; m. first in December 1839 Catharine Robinson (d. 1856) of Prescott, Upper Canada, and they had five children; m. secondly in August 1857 Rebecca Clarke of Ernestown, Canada

. In 1847 Wood accompanied the Reverend Dr Robert Alder*, representative of the British conference, to the meeting in Toronto, Canada West

Quebec in Lower Canada. On 9 March 1822 he married Susan Green; the first six of their seven children were born at Quebec, and the last in Madras, India

. Shortly after his arrival in Lower Canada in 1837, George Futvoye began working on the editorial staff of the Montreal Morning Courier. Under the administration of Lord Durham

, Scotland, son of John Hamilton and Isabella Torrance; d. 2 April 1857 in Scarborough Township, Upper Canada. The son of a stonemason turned

SCOTT, WILLIAM DUNCAN, land agent and civil servant; b. November 1861, likely on the 7th, in Dundas, Upper Canada, son of

the efforts of influential friends, he was promptly made attorney general of Upper Canada that March in place of Henry John Boulton*, who

1832 he came to Montreal, where he lived for the remainder of his life. In his Introduction of printing into Canada, Ægidius Fauteux

OZON, POTENTIEN, priest, Recollet, provincial commissioner for Canada; b. c

. Stisted was appointed to serve in Canada in November 1866 and in January 1867 he took over command of the 1st Military District at Toronto in Canada West. As the chief imperial officer in what was

through practical work and rose rapidly, becoming an engineer by 1821. After the completion of the canal in 1825, he was appointed resident superintending engineer of the Welland Canal, in Upper Canada, on

mission of renewing relations with Canada, a mission which, in the terms of the official mandate, was to be above all “commercial, with no diplomatic character.” This objective was exceeded: in Canada East

affaire du Canada after the conquest [see François Bigot*], but little is known of his business. Cardeneau is significant

, de Cazes purchased a piece of land of about 100 acres, at a cost of £100, in the sixth concession of Shipton Township (near Danville). Charles de Cazes’s coming to Canada cannot be placed within any

COOK, MICHAEL URIAS, farmer, butter producer, and breeder; b. 7 Feb. 1824 in Williamsburgh Township, Upper Canada, son

mortgages on real estate in Canada East, and government-appointed inspectors were responsible for maintaining efficient operation. When the faculty of law

Derbishire of Bath, England, and Ann Masterton of Edinburgh, Scotland; d. 27 March 1863 in Quebec, Canada East. Stewart Derbishire was of a type

EMERY-CODERRE, JOSEPH, doctor; b. 23 Nov. 1813 at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu, Lower Canada, son of Marc Coderre, a farmer

. 1857); m. secondly in 1865 Mrs Ann Down from Exeter, Canada West; there were no children by either marriage; d. 22 March 1888 at Exeter

campaign in the Low Countries in 1793 and 1794, but it is known that on 20 Oct. 1794 he was transferred to the 4th Battalion and posted to command a company stationed at Quebec, Lower Canada. His

at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1838, and received a diploma as a civil engineer. He arrived in the United States in 1841 and the following year settled in Canada. From 1842 to 1844

. Thomas Maclear opened a bookstore in Toronto in the summer of 1848. He advertised as an agent of the Glasgow publishing firm Blackie and Son, and he may have worked for this company in Scotland and Canada

, Ireland, 23 Oct. 1801; d. Grimsby, Ont., 22 Aug. 1879. James Lynne Alexander emigrated to Upper Canada with his parents when he was 16

(Republic of Ireland), and of his wife, née Macnamara; d. 24 Jan. 1862 on Point Frederick, near Kingston, Canada West, leaving his widow, one son, and four daughters

adopted the name of Jean-Pierre de Sales Laterrière after his arrival in Canada in 1766. Jean-Pierre practised medicine, engaged in commerce, and directed the ironworks at Saint-Maurice, before becoming

LE BAILLIF, GEORGES, Recollet, priest, missionary in Canada; fl. 1620–21

 1799, son of Dr William Lee, from Ireland, who was on the army medical staff in Upper Canada; d. Ottawa, Ont., 11 Sept. 1878. William Henry

 April 1890 in Toronto, Ont. Alexander Marling immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1842 and entered Upper Canada College in Toronto that year

Isabella McDonell and Miles Macdonell*, who came to Upper Canada from Schoharie County, N.Y., after the American Revolution and who was chosen by

ROBERT, CLÉMENT, priest, Sulpician, first visitor from Saint-Sulpice to Canada; b. at a date unknown, in the diocese of Angers; d

1834 and was immediately sent to the Canada Conference as a missionary by the British Wesleyan Conference. Received on trial by the Canada Conference in that year, he was sent to the Grape Island Indian

, Wilson. He emigrated to Canada in 1832 and settled at Nanticoke in what is now Haldimand County. In 1834 he moved to Simcoe and was appointed commissioner to the Court of Requests in the Talbot District

BADGLEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, judge, and politician; b. 27 March 1801 in Montreal, Lower Canada, son of Francis

child of Andrew Bell and Margaret Shaw; m. 13 Oct. 1802 Mary Black in Leith, Scotland, and they had eight sons and one daughter; d. 16 Aug. 1857 in Perth, Upper Canada

), Upper Canada. Eldest child of a middle-class farming couple, Alexander Gale was born and raised in the rural parish of Logie Coldstone, deep in

), Upper Canada, eldest son of William Gilkison* and Isabella Grant; m. 10 June 1835 Margaret Geddes, and they had at least seven

England; fl. 1806–16. John Lambert came to Lower Canada in 1806. He was accompanying his uncle, James

READ, DAVID BREAKENRIDGE, lawyer, politician, educator, and author; b. 13 June 1823 in Augusta Township, Upper Canada, third

, and Lower and Upper Canada, returning to Ireland via New York City. In January 1799 he published an account of his voyage, Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of

he was living with his family in Wales, intending to become a clergyman. Shepherd recommended him as a suitable attorney general of Upper Canada to William

DOOLITTLE, PERRY ERNEST, cyclist, physician, surgeon, inventor, and automobilist; b. 22 March 1861 in Luton, Upper Canada

), selling Charles Dudley Warner’s Library of the world’s best literature in Australia and the Encyclopedia Americana in the United States and Canada. In 1906 he became a sales agent for

out improperly and, on the advice of William Lyon Mackenzie* (who had opposed the scheme), he returned to Canada. But Mackenzie soon

 Feb. 1841 in Nicolet, Lower Canada, son of François-Félix Legendre, a farmer, and Marie-Reine Turcotte; m. 7 Oct. 1867 Marie-Louise St-George Dupré at Quebec, and they had one son and three

Cassils in Montreal, and they had two sons; d. there 13 June 1894. Duncan McIntyre came to Upper Canada with his family in 1849. He apprenticed

. 1786 in County Galway (Republic of Ireland); m. secondly Jane Stephens (d. 1842) in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada, and they had one child; m. thirdly 19 Feb. 1844 Selina Wood in Montreal

Berthier, Lower Canada, second son of Christopher Robinson* and Esther Sayre; d. 31 Jan. 1863 in Toronto, Canada West