, but it certainly helped consolidate the already vocal secessionist sentiment which led to the formation in 1844 of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada (Free Church) in Canada West and Free

BÉLANGER, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, naturalist and museum curator; b. 1833 at Saint-Vallier, Lower Canada; m. Vitaline

CARPENTER, SILAS HUNTINGTON, detective, police administrator, and magistrate; b. 29 Jan. 1854 in Brownsburg, Lower Canada

observatory, was establishing the Meteorological Office (later the Meteorological Service) of Canada. Kingston’s primary goals were the recruitment and training of a network of observers to collect climatic and

 Feb. 1863 in Kingston, Upper Canada, youngest of the six children of John Carruthers and Mary Matthews; m. there 11 Dec. 1901 Henrietta MacPherson (d. 1905); they had no children

in France to gain promotion. Accordingly, when his enlistment expired in March 1857, he took his discharge and returned to Canada where he wrote a series of articles describing his experiences in

Canada, to Dumfries Township, near Galt (Cambridge). John Caven taught in Ayr and later served as superintendent of schools in Waterloo County. William taught school for a few months in Blandford Township

same time, they put her in charge of the newspaper, for which her husband had worked before founding L’Avant-Garde at Quebec in 1896; he had also written for the Quebec newspaper Courrier du Canada

young; d. 17 Feb. 1842 at Quebec and was buried on 24 February at Saint-François (Beauceville), Lower Canada. Charles-Étienne

Collège Saint-Raphaël in Montreal (Que.); b. 17 March 1737 in Meung, France, son of Guillaume Chicoisneau and Hélène Gaulthier; d. 28 Feb. 1818 in Montreal, Lower Canada

this position Chipman organized Canada’s contribution to the universal exposition held in Antwerp the following year and in 1886 he served as accountant for Canada’s participation in the Colonial and

Toronto, Canada West. George Skeffington Connor entered Trinity College, Dublin, at age 14 and received a law degree in 1830. He and his wife

CONROY, GEORGE, priest, Catholic bishop, and apostolic delegate to Canada; b. 31 Dec. 1832 at Dundalk

under what circumstances Jean Corpron arrived in Canada. He first worked as a clerk for different Quebec merchants, but his “rascally tricks” did not permit his remaining long in their service. A clever

by the deputy provincial secretary, Lewis Foy, to practise medicine, surgery, and pharmacy in Lower Canada. Remaining active professionally for about

is known of William Couper’s youth but he is believed to have arrived in Canada in 1843 and established himself in Toronto. He worked as a typographer in the printing shop of Henry

 1908 in Toronto. John Warren Cowan’s parents emigrated to the Canadas about 1852 and settled in Princeton, east of Woodstock, Upper Canada. John

in Bertie Township, Upper Canada, third child and only son of Alexander Cruikshank and Margaret Milne; m. first 26 June 1879 Julia E. Kennedy (d. 5 June 1921) in Buffalo, N.Y

the National Council of Women of Canada in 1902. Following a devastating fire in Saint John in 1899, the Local Council established a clothing distribution centre and secured a $500 grant from the Common

battalion’s first commander, congratulated him “for this valuable work of simple and kindly charity.” Doyon left Canada on 20 May 1915 to go overseas with his unit. In England he was attached to the

Vansittart to develop a farming estate in Upper Canada. Under the terms of the partnership Vansittart supplied capital of £1,800, one half on his own account and one half as an interest-free loan for Drew’s

Adam Elliot and Margaret Little; d. at Grand River (Tuscarora) Reserve, Ont., 4 June 1878. The Elliot family came to Upper Canada and

; m. May 1804 Magdalena Erb in Lancaster County, Pa; d. 6 Sept. 1830 in Waterloo, Upper Canada. The history of Waterloo

community of English merchants who sought to benefit from the trade of Canada after the conquest, and who formed committees, wrote petitions, passed resolutions, and generally sought to influence political

power had been installed and 40 persons were on the payroll; the pottery was now one of the largest in Canada. But George W. Farrar’s

Shamrocks played in the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, having succeeded the Montreal Crystals in 1895. Canada’s leading hockey league at the time, the AHAC also included the Ottawa Silver Seven, the

1843 in Trafalgar Township, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Featherstone and Margaret Ford; m. first 26 Feb. 1867 Isabella Malloy (d. 1893) in Vaughan

FERLAND, JEAN-BAPTISTE-ANTOINE, priest, professor, and historian; b. 25 Dec. 1805 at Montreal, Lower Canada, son of Antoine

signed Sifroy), civil engineer and civil servant; b. 6 May 1867 in Saint-Sébastien, Lower Canada, son of Jules Fortin, a farmer, and Sophie Roy; m. 14 June 1894 Maria

. 14 Oct. 1838 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada, son of François Foucher, a merchant, and Sara Dugas; m. there 26 Nov. 1860 Exerine Lesage, sister of Siméon

seigneury of Pointe-du-Lac, on which he tried to build a village for nomadic Indians. Visiting Canada in 1752, the military engineer Louis Franquet

GOOD, JAMES WILFORD, physician, professor, and health officer; b. December 1852 in Kincardine, Upper Canada, son of John Good and

GOYER, OLIVIER, priest, Recollet, provincial commissioner of the Recollets of Canada; b. 1663 in France; d. 8 Oct. 1721

the longevity record as a public servant in Canada, illustrates the tradition of anonymity associated with the permanent public service. Griffin spent his entire career with the post office, beginning

Rémy Guillouet d’Orvilliers (d. 1713) arrived in Canada in 1682 as captain of the guards of his father-in-law, Governor General Le

. Guy led the opposition among Canadians to the proposed union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1822. On 7 October in Montreal he presided over the first meeting of citizens opposed to the measure. With

-Josephte Hervieux; m. 16 Nov. 1801 Catherine Vallée in Lachine, Lower Canada, and they had six children, three of whom reached adulthood; d. 29 Dec. 1820 in Montreal

, then to replace his ailing father as receiver general of Lower Canada. His hopes of succeeding him on his death in 1838 unfortunately came to nothing. Jeffery Hale does not seem to have held any other

. George Benson Hall was of Irish descent and was an Anglican; his father had come to Canada with the British troops sent to defend the colonies during the Anglo-American War of 1812, and had assumed command

Canada to work as a teacher during the late 1820s. Joseph was educated in Toronto and, at a young age, was employed by grain merchants there. He decided to pursue a career in that business at a most

Westmoreland, Oneida County, N.Y., around 1821. They remained there for 11 years before moving to Upper Canada and settling in Hamilton. Harrison’s mother was a competent artist, and he displayed an artistic

. In 1842 Thomas Hart accompanied his family to Perth, Upper Canada. He received his early education at the public school there and he later enrolled at Queen’s College, Kingston, from which he would

, Upper Canada, and they had a son and three daughters; d. 5 Sept. 1917 in Guelph, Ont. John Harvey had a grammar school education, and at

stone in Canada by a Canadian-born artist. The sketches, charming and sensitively delineated scenes, compare favourably with the work of other artists of the early 19th century

, Conn., son of John Hebbard, farmer, and Martha Durkee; d. 4 Oct. 1809 in St Armand East (Frelighsburg), Lower Canada. One of 13

experiences “in their arduous yet delightful employment.” The following month the Lower Canada Teachers’ Association was founded with “the welfare of the teacher and the advancement of education” as its objects

. Sallie Holman was the undisputed star of the Holman opera company which toured the eastern United States and Canada from the late 1850s to the early 1880s. Her parents were active in the theatre in New

be happy when the moment arrived when I can leave the United States, and exchange their vaunted liberty for the slavery of Canada, where at least one can serve God according to his

decided to learn the hatter’s trade. His grandfather Michel Huppé, dit Lagroix, a Norman who had come to Canada in the mid 17th century, had followed the trade, and Joseph may have had some

Augusta, Upper Canada, the fourth son of 16 children of Heman Hurlburt and Hannah Mosier; m. 1832, Betsy Almira, eldest daughter of the Reverend Ezra Adams; d. 14 April 1873, at Little