children’s education by herself since her husband was often absent, travelling or working as a lobbyist for various groups. From childhood Alexander must have dreamed of Canada, a country that promised

visitor for Canada. He took charge of the order’s houses in the district of Montreal, but the obedience over which he had jurisdiction extended to all the teaching houses in North America. He arrived at a

HOBSON, ROBERT, industrialist; b. 13 Aug. 1861 in Berlin (Kitchener), Upper Canada, son of Joseph Hobson and Elizabeth

for the “uplift” of natives in eastern and central Canada. In the summer of 1899 she was employed as teacher at the Mohawk reserve of Saint-Régis (Akwesasne). Two years later Hughes launched, with

spelling Hyppolite is used on certain documents including his certificate of baptism), politician and judge; b. 4 Oct. 1807 at Boucherville, Lower Canada, third son of Antoine Ménard, dit

LORANGER, THOMAS-JEAN-JACQUES, politician, judge, and writer; b. 2 Feb. 1823 at Yamachiche, Lower Canada, son of Joseph

(Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, second son of James Macaulay* and Elizabeth Tuck Hayter; m. 1 Dec. 1821 Rachel Crookshank Gamble in

Canada, son of Alexander McDonell* (Collachie) and Anne Smith; d. 9 Sept. 1888 at Toronto

. Catherine Crookshank; no surviving issue; d. 31 Dec. 1834 in Toronto, Upper Canada. John McGill emigrated to Virginia in 1773. When the American

*], Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe* of Upper Canada, and Prince Edward

ODIN, HENRIETTE (Feller), founder of the French Canadian Protestant mission at Grande-Ligne, Lower Canada; b. 22 April 1800

England was a topic of increasing discussion. One scheme was put forward successfully by Puisaye, who arranged with British authorities a grant of land for a French military colony in Upper Canada. A group

Canada, son of Nicolas Sutherland and Mary Henderson; m. 10 June 1859 Mary Jane Moore of Dundas, Upper Canada, and they had four sons, two of whom survived childhood, and three daughters; d

Vallance* in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had seven children; d. 2 March 1917 in Hamilton. Since his father was a prominent minister of

, but this report seems unlikely, for in 1826 he set sail for Lower Canada. In Montreal he studied medicine briefly with Dr Daniel Tracey*, a

. Thomas Appleton is remembered chiefly for his role in a minor dispute that symbolized a much broader issue. In the early 1820s he became the central figure in a debate over how schooling in Upper Canada

was soon to become Brighton Township, Upper Canada, son of Benjamin Franklin Austin and Mary Ann McGuire; m. 16 June 1881 Frances Amanda Connell (d. 1928), a music teacher, in Prescott

Pierre Théophile-Ferdinand Baillairgé, printer, and Charlotte Janvrin Horsley; m. first 23 Aug. 1852 Charlotte Rachel Giroux in Les Cèdres, Lower Canada, and they had five sons and five daughters

Montrose and Thomas Telford, a prominent British engineer, he departed for the Canadas. Baird’s letters brought him quick employment. On 5 July he

, the Netherlands and Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, the coastal areas of Britain, the Bosphorus, the Danube, the United States, and Canada. Bartlett became an accomplished traveller

 Oct. 1865 in London, Upper Canada, son of William Bayly and Susan Jane Wilson; m. 27 Oct. 1909 Florence Myrtle Campbell in Toronto, and they had two sons; d. there 29 Jan. 1934

Papineau*, a fellow passenger. After spending the winter in Quebec Bigsby received instructions in the spring of 1819 from the medical department to study the geology of Upper Canada. During that summer

. In 1848 Bovell emigrated to Canada and began practising in Toronto, where he became one of the most prominent physicians. His broad training and questing spirit engaged him in such ventures as the

in 1846 was ordained priest at Laval, France. He became curate at Laprairie (La Prairie) upon his arrival in Canada East in 1851, and four years later was appointed to serve at Quebec City, where

had established himself as a timber merchant in nearby Leith. In 1833 he immigrated to Upper Canada, bearing a letter from John George Shaw-Lefevre, the parliamentary under-secretary in the Colonial

assigned to the 1st Foot and then to the 13th Light Dragoons. In 1813 he attained the rank of staff surgeon, serving that year and the next in the Peninsular War. He came to Lower Canada in the summer of

, Upper Canada, son of Duncan Cameron* and Margaret McLeod; m. first 6 Aug. 1845 Mary Ann Cumming (d. 1858); m. secondly 1861

produced in western Canada. He became a partner in the firm in 1879 but left it in 1885 to join with James Sylvester Norris in founding a grain trading company, Norris and Carruthers. Norris lived in

career with the CPR, Cauchon was appointed deputy engineer of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada in 1908. From then on, he built an extensive network of contacts in the Canadian capital, where

), soldier, accountant, writer, magazine owner, and professor; b. 23 Nov. 1852 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Chartrand, a joiner, and Virginie Lacasse; m. 1

COSTE, EUGENE MARIUS ANTOINE, geologist, civil servant, and businessman; b. 8 July 1859 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, son of

. 1770 in England, possibly in Christchurch (Dorset); m. Elizabeth – and they had at least two sons and two daughters; d. 5 Sept. 1843 at his farm, New Lodge, near Cobourg, Upper Canada

Beauharnois, Lower Canada, son of Charles Daoust, farmer, and Françoise Dandurand; m. 16 Dec. 1856 Angèle Doutre, and they had one son; d. 27 Feb. 1868 at Montreal

-Charles cemetery. Born in France, François-Théodule Daubigny was to follow in the footsteps of his father, Victor-Théodule, who had come to Canada in

speech he gave on this occasion. After condemning the “band of mad revolutionalists” desirous of starting a Canadian civil war, he adamantly defended the continuance of British immigration to Canada and

. In the mid 1820s James Dougall’s father, whose family had long been established in the muslin trade, decided that economic conditions in Scotland necessitated emigration to Canada. In 1826 Dougall sent

London, Upper Canada, in 1859. Over the next three decades Thomas’s father, a teacher, editor, and evangelical Anglican, worked tirelessly for his church in London, helping to organize its Sunday school

gifted scholar and a brilliant conversationalist. He was also being drawn into the leadership of the church in the Canadas. Rallying his fellow clergymen in opposition to a plan of Canadian secessionist

. Edward Farrer was an itinerant journalist who worked to promote political union between Canada and the United States. The facts of his parentage, birth, and education are obscure, and it appears he may

Peterborough, Upper Canada, son of John Flavelle and Dorothea Dundas; m. 20 Sept. 1882 Clara L. Ellsworth in Ashburnham (Peterborough), and they had a son and three daughters, one of whom died in

FLEURY DE LA GORGENDIÈRE, JOSEPH DE, merchant, seigneur, agent-general in Canada for the Compagnie des Indes; b. 28 March

FOTHERINGHAM, JOHN TAYLOR, militia officer, educator, physician, and army officer; b. 5 Dec. 1860 in Kirkton, Upper Canada

Canada, the eldest son of Thomas Gibbs and Caroline Tate; m. in August 1843 Almira Ash, and they had seven children; d. 7 April 1883 at Oshawa, Ont

Republic of Germany), came to Canada in 1776 as bandmaster of a regiment of auxiliary troops of Brunswick and Hesse. His mother was the sister of Jean-Baptiste O’Neil, the well-known verger of the cathedral

painter. In 1875 Arthur was enrolled in Haileybury College, located close to Hertford, but his studies were interrupted when, following a setback in his father’s finances, the family emigrated to Canada

first legislative assembly in 1856 and remained speaker of the legislature through the union with British Columbia in 1866 until confederation with Canada in 1871. From 1863 to 1870 he was a chief trader

necessary for the Jews to become regenerated as a people, Klenman aspired to move to western Canada and settle on one of the quarter-section homesteads being offered by the Canadian government for a

, 19 Aug. 1849. Le Canada, 23 mai 1903. Le Devoir, 19 mai 1917, 5 févr. 1921, 17 mars 1928. L’Étendard (Montréal), 28 avril, 3 mai 1888

writer; b. 19 Sept. 1849 in Saint-Anselme, Lower Canada, son of David Kemner, dit Laflamme, a farmer, and Josephte Jamme; d. 6 July 1910 at Quebec

settled near St Catharines, Upper Canada. He became acquainted with William Hamilton Merritt*, worked on the Welland Canal