), Upper Canada, with his parents in 1833. When York was incorporated as Toronto in the following year, Todd, although barely in his teens, produced an engraved plan of the city. His efforts

VENNOR, HENRY GEORGE, geologist, ornithologist, and weather prophet; b. 30 Dec. 1840 in Montreal, Lower Canada, son of Henry

. Adam Wilson immigrated to Upper Canada in 1830 and went to work for his uncle George Chalmers, the owner of a mill and store in Halton County. Young Wilson moved to Toronto in 1834 and became a pupil of

ba from the University of Toronto in 1863 and an ma in 1864, when he was also ordained. Two years later he transferred to the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada

placements in Upper Canada. They arrived in Quebec City in September 1832, and Hume and Dominick Blake proceeded to Middlesex County, Upper Canada, where Dominick became rector of Adelaide and Hume took

Canada and by Phyn, Ellice, and Company in England. These firms concentrated on the financing, provisioning, and marketing aspects of the fur trade, as agents for the North West Company, the XY Company

truth. “I am known both in England and in Scotland because of my peculiar opinions, and these opinions are by many misunderstood.” It was with this reputation that he departed in 1817 for Upper Canada, in

LOGAN, Sir WILLIAM EDMOND, geologist and geological cartographer, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada

accused of malversation of funds. The family settled in Upper Canada at Bath just before the War of 1812. The young Bidwell was educated in the local schools and at home by his father who laid the

pigments to perfect his own paint colours. Gagnon created the 54 illustrations that appeared in Louis Hémon’s novel Maria Chapdelaine, which enjoyed immediate success in France and Canada

Dominion of Canada.” The firm had a capital stock of $200,000 in 2,000 shares; Gordon and his partners took up 50 per cent of it, with Gordon himself holding 343 shares. In 1901 the capital

), third and only surviving son of Henry Hatton Gowan and Elizabeth Burkitt; m. 7 July 1853 Anne Ardagh in Shanty Bay, Upper Canada; they had no children; d. 18 March 1909 in Barrie

KINGSMILL, Sir CHARLES EDMUND, naval officer and administrator; b. 7 July 1855 in Guelph, Upper Canada, eldest son of

MAULE, author and social reformer; b. 23 Jan. 1837 in Kingston, Upper Canada, daughter of John Machar* and Margaret Sim; d

of Veterinary Surgeons, of which he would be made an associate in 1873. In the fall of 1862 he immigrated to Upper Canada and settled in Woodstock, where he opened a private practice. In 1863

Barrie, Upper Canada, the second of six children of Edward George O’Brien* and Mary Sophia Gapper; m. first 1860 Margaret St

embraced nearly the entire 19th century and though she spent nearly 70 years in Canada, the roots of her values, beliefs, and interests belong to the rural Suffolk of her girlhood. Not long after her birth

[Ukrainian Labour News] and Holos pratsi [Voice of Labour]. As well, five of his plays with leftist themes were published in Winnipeg in 1923, the year Babiuk came to Canada

indicate he had settled there. (Secondary accounts that date his arrival as early as 1840 or state that he had painted “in Canada” from 1837 to 1841 before returning to England and then settling in Toronto

Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, fifth of the 14 children of Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain* and Eliza Anne Baby; d. 11 Feb. 1904 at

married Mary, one of the daughters of Jonathan Barber. The latter’s professorial activities were increasingly being divided between Massachusetts and Lower Canada, and this probably provided an incentive

professor; b. 22 Sept. 1853 in Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada, son of Magloire Gonthier, a farmer, and Catherine Mitron-Jolivet; d. 16 June 1917 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que

. Her father (the second son of the 2nd Earl Grey) was lieutenant-colonel of the 71st Foot at the time of the uprising in the Canadas [see William Lyon

 1791, the longed-for son was born. That same year her husband was appointed lieutenant governor of the new province of Upper Canada, and on 26

chemistry. The chief superintendent of schools of Upper Canada, Egerton Ryerson*, was intent upon improving technical education, and he drew Hind

IDINGTON, JOHN, lawyer and judge; b. 14 Oct. 1840 in Puslinch Township, Upper Canada, eldest child of Peter Idington, a

associate Garneau. His outstanding work, however, remains a voluminous monograph entitled The railway law of Canada (Montreal, 1909), which examines a body of legislation that was going through

KEEFER, SAMUEL, civil engineer and public servant; b. 22 Jan. 1811 at Thorold, Upper Canada, fourth son of George

in Lincoln, at the age of 22 he immigrated to Upper Canada “in search of some occupation as a writer.” By submitting letters to the editor and columns with a reform bias, he was able to join the

​GREGOR, JAMES DUNCAN, businessman, livestock breeder, rancher, and office holder; b. 29 Aug. 1860 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, son of David McGregor, a livery-stable owner, and Annie

River, Lower Canada, son of Charlotte Boucher de Grosbois and Jean-Marie Mondelet*, notary, member of the assembly (1804–9), and coroner of

, Margaret Florence, achieved extraordinary professional success, he as Canada’s long-serving deputy minister of justice and subsequently a judge on the Supreme Court of Canada, she as the first

candelabrum in his left. This colourful cityscape now hangs in the National Gallery of Canada. During his early years in Lower Canada Raphael sustained

(Steinberg) (the family used the surname Sternberg before their arrival in Canada in 1911), grocer and businesswoman; b. 26 Jan. 1883 in Balkány, Hungary, daughter of Hani Fogel

the United States, he was placed in command of the Montreal district. The responsibility was a heavy one, for Montreal was second only to Quebec in importance to the defence of the Canadas, and it was

converted to Methodism in the evangelical awakening which followed the war in Upper Canada as were his two older brothers George* and William

. 1857 in St Catharines, Upper Canada. A member of a Lutheran family of Germanic origin, George Rykert came to the Niagara District of Upper Canada

pastorate in Montreal he enhanced his reputation as a preacher and distinguished himself as a leader in church affairs. From 1857 to 1864 he served as clerk of the synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada

distinguished history in the Netherlands. Its Upper Canadian connection began in the 1830s with the real estate speculations of Carel Lodewijk van Tuyll van Serooskerken on the western fringe of the Canada

, arousing the concern of his bishop over charges of “popery” from some parishioners. Meanwhile, his family had immigrated to Lower Canada and in 1857 his father died in Montreal. These events, combined with

included Upper Canada, New York, a return to his native Scotland, and his first visit to London. In April 1831 Hugh returned to Canada and after meeting James

. 1770 at the Moss, near Huntly, Scotland, son of Alexander Allan and Margaret Mowatt; m. 24 July 1809 Leah Tyrer Gamble in Kingston, Upper Canada; d. 11 July 1853 in Toronto

a brief sojourn in New York, the Abbotts moved to Toronto in late 1835 or early 1836, one of hundreds of Black American families who sought a greater degree of freedom in Upper Canada at this time

ARMOUR, EDWARD DOUGLAS, lawyer, educator, journalist, and poet; b. 26 May 1851 in Port Hope, Upper Canada, son of Robert

. Jacques Baby de Ranville, grandfather of Jacques Baby, dit Dupéront, was a scion of the decayed nobility of southern France and a sergeant in the Régiment de Carignan-Salières who married in Canada

children, of whom one daughter survived him; d. there on 14 March 1932. Alexander Dougall Blackader grew up in Upper Canada, where he had

McGill* in establishing a French royalist colony at Windham, Upper Canada, under Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye*, Comte de Puisaye

natural history at Université Laval), he organized the Quebec City branch of the Entomological Society of Canada, which had been founded at Toronto the previous year. The Quebec branch remained active until

Ogle. At the same time the government of Lower Canada was considering the establishment of a series of navigational aids to provide greater safety for maritime traffic in the area. Consulted by Canadian

. Efforts to organize women opponents nationally had failed, but, fired by the responses of Mary Macnab and others, elements of strident resistance persisted in Atlantic Canada and Ontario. Though nearly 70