sat on the board of directors of the Canada Marine Insurance Company, which was founded that year and which had Forsyth as its president. From 1838

CADDY, JOHN HERBERT, soldier, engineer, teacher, and artist; b. 28 June 1801, in Quebec City, Lower Canada, son of

Adolphustown Township, Upper Canada, only child of Willet W. Casey and Sarah Melissa Farley; m. 4 March 1857 Anne Empey, and they had five daughters and a son; d. 10

Land. However, illness forced Chabert to abandon the project and he went instead to the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse in Lower Canada, where he redesigned the art course. He is thought to have done

Alexis Charland and Marie Poulin; m. first 17 Jan. 1803 Marie-Joseph Fearson on Île Perrot, Lower Canada; m. secondly 22 Feb. 1810 Sarah Jones in Montreal, Lower Canada; d. there 3

Collver and Freelove Lamb; m. Anna – and they had 13 children; d. 29 Dec. 1818 in Windham Township, Upper Canada

 –; (d. 1826), and they had one son and three daughters; m. secondly 6 Jan. 1829 Isabella Watson in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, and they had one son; d. 28 Oct. 1840 in Toronto

, son of Captain Allison Davie (who was buried in 1818 at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth) and Elizabeth Cock; drowned 9 June 1836 between Quebec and Pointe-Lévy (Lévis), Lower Canada, and was buried

DAWES, JAMES PAWLEY, businessman, jp, and sportsman; b. 17 July 1843 in Lachine, Lower Canada

[Kahkewaquonaby*]; m. secondly in 1858 John Carey of Muncey, Canada West; d. 17 Aug. 1890 at Brantford, Ont

, importing tropical fruit, and acting as executor for the estates of deceased members of pioneer families. He was held in such high esteem that just before the colony’s union with Canada the Nor

Forbes and Elizabeth Cobb; m. Sophia Browne on 20 June 1815, and they had seven children; d. at Carillon, Canada East, 22 Sept. 1862

FORTIN, PIERRE-ÉTIENNE, surgeon and politician; b. 14 Dec. 1823 at Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Fortin, carpenter

. Before his arrival in Canada, Thomas William Fripp, one of 12 children, had followed in his father’s path and pursued artistic training. He attended St John’s Wood School of Art in the early

for Canada with her husband. Major Ewing, attached to the 22nd Foot, was posted in Fredericton where the couple remained until their return to England in October 1869. It is clear in her many letters

mention of his coming to Canada was first made. He became the first doctor of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec in 1640, apothecary, and even “doctor in ordinary” to the king in 1647, a purely honorary title which

. 1841 in Mono Township, Upper Canada. John Goessman studied surveying and drafting at the military academy in the city of Hanover. Upon graduation he

the University of Edinburgh where he received the doctorate of medicine in 1834. Shortly after graduation, Hall returned to Canada and in 1835 began

HAMILTON, JOHN, businessman and politician; b. 1802 at Queenston, Upper Canada, youngest son of Robert

 June 1829 in Hinchinbrook Township, Lower Canada, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel James Hingston and Eleanor McGrath; m. 16 Sept. 1875 in Toronto Margaret Josephine Macdonald, daughter of

and one of the first novels of social conscience in Canada to explore the fate of native peoples, Argimou enjoyed enough popularity to be reissued in book form in Halifax in 1847 and in serial

 Aug. 1743; d. 8 Sept. 1765 at Branches, in the diocese of Sens, France. Jacques Imbert came to Canada sometime between 1737 and 1740, under

and a new prison at Quebec. In 1808 he received the post of surveyor for the preservation of woods and timber for Lower Canada. His loyalty to the crown also brought him appointment to the Legislative

. There is no evidence that Jackson’s concern for the frontier continued into his later years in the Canadas. The sending of his aide-de-camp and nephew by marriage, Henry James Warre, and Lieutenant Mervin

in Canada, Jaffray had become active in Reform politics; by 1857 he was a campaign worker in Toronto for George Brown*, an

. 13 Aug. 1817 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada. William Jarvis joined John Graves

of the Canadas, he has been considered a founder of Canada’s merchant marine. In 1817 he was among those who petitioned the House of Assembly for a charter for the Bank of Montreal

Ottawa valley, mainly at Fort Coulonge, Lower Canada. Transferred to the Ungava and Labrador area, he then served at forts Chimo, Trial, and Nascopie on Lake Petitsikapau (Labrador). Kennedy’s religious

of alienation and exploitation that characterized modern times. Both Kurikka and his friend Mäkelä, who joined him from Finland in 1901 (and would sometimes be known in Canada as Austin McKela), held

LAGORCE, CHARLES-IRÉNÉE, priest, Cleric of St Viator; b. 6 June 1813 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

to enlighten the king’s council; the first, 15 pages long, was entitled: Plainte de la Nouvelle France dicte Canada, à la France, sa

LE MARCHAND DE LIGNERY, CONSTANT, esquire, lieutenant and midshipman in France, lieutenant and captain in Canada, knight of the order

”), garrison adjutant (major des troupes) of the troops in Canada (1706–13), knight of the order of Saint-Louis, co-seigneur of the Saint-Denis fief; b. c. 1659, son of Auguste

first Finnish-immigrant child to graduate from Upper Canada College. In 1902 Lindala, who had worked for a number of tailoring concerns, established a

of England in Canada. In 1873 Ashton Oxenden*, Anglican bishop of Montreal, invited

. Mann spent 1792–93 in the Netherlands, participating in various sieges of French forces. Promoted lieutenant-colonel late in 1793, he was ordered to return to Lower Canada to prepare defences at Quebec

Canada. Very little is known about George Martin’s youth. In the early 1780s he married Catherine Rollston, who was alleged to be of Dutch

William Miller and Helen Farrish; m. first 8 March 1848 Margaret Whiteside (1823–66) of Pickering Township, Upper Canada, and they had four sons and four daughters; m. secondly 19 Feb

was well educated, most likely by her mother, who found it necessary to take in pupils after being widowed at age 25. Harriet and her sister Mary Louisa came to Canada in 1851 when their mother

Johnston, and they had one son and one daughter; d. 26 June 1906 in Toronto. Alexander Muir was brought to Canada in 1833 and received his early

. 17 July 1849 in Upper Canada, probably in Wellesley Township, son of Samuel McKee and Margaret Roseborough; m. 5 July 1876 Laura Emma Harris in Ingersoll, Ont., and they had five daughters

McKee* and a woman said to be a Shawnee; d. 20 Oct 1814 at the Cascades (near Île des Cascades), Lower Canada. A son of one of the most

), Methodist missionary; b. c. 1807 near Rice Lake, Newcastle District, Upper Canada; m. first c. 1826 Mary (d. 1828), a member of the Credit band of Mississaugas, and

along. When the American army escorted the Cree back to Canada in 1881, Lucky Man and his people returned. Later that year Little Pine [Minahikosis

. at La Rochelle in January 1717. The son of Guillaume Pascaud and Catherine Berteau, Antoine Pascaud arrived in Canada in the early 1680s

. 20 Sept. 1845 in Queenston, Upper Canada. Hannah Peters’s father was the Church of England minister in Hebron; her mother died when she was two

PHILIPS, JAMES, businessman and Patriot; b. c. 1800 probably in Yonge Township, Upper Canada; m

to him at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, appear in October 1792. On 16 Jan. 1793 he was promoted first lieutenant

had one daughter; d. 1 Jan. 1828 in Saint-Ambroise (Loretteville), Lower Canada, where he was buried four days later. When he was

Legislative Council of Lower Canada on 22 July 1824, and he remained a member until 1838. In April of the latter year, at the request of the administrator, Sir John