Canada. No evidence exists that H’damani ever broke that resolve. In the early years the bands had lived by hunting, fishing, and trading furs at Fort

following year he rose to 1st lieutenant and was posted to Canada. He was recommended for his participation in the battle of Plattsburgh on 11 Sept. 1814. Jebb remained in Canada after the war and

the office uncongenial,” he enlisted in the 1st Dragoon Guards in March 1838, on the eve of their departure to reinforce military units in Lower Canada in the wake of the rebellion of 1837

 —; m. 13 Feb. 1791 Robert Macaulay* in Crown Point, N.Y., and they had three sons; d. 20 Jan. 1850 in Kingston, Upper Canada

army commissariat, and Mary Ladly; d. unmarried 15 Feb. 1914 in Westmount, Que. James Kirby’s father came to Lower Canada in 1827. Kirby

of John Kirby and Charlotte Parker; m. 23 Nov. 1847 Eliza Magdalene Whitmore in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, and they had three sons, one of whom died in infancy; d. 23

9 July 1816 Rose-Louise Bergevin, dit Langevin, and they had a daughter who died soon after birth; m. secondly 3 Aug. 1820 at Chambly, Lower Canada, Josephte

, poet, and journalist; b. 4 March 1794 in Boucherville, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Pierre Guernier, dit Laviolette, a merchant and militia captain, and Charlotte Lenoir; d. 23

Le Boutillier and Anne Amy; d. unmarried probably in 1854 in Paspébiac, Lower Canada. David Le Boutillier came to Paspébiac in 1827

LE MOYNE DE MARTIGNY, VITE-ADÉLARD, notary, administrator, and financier; b. 24 Dec. 1826 in Varennes, Lower Canada, son of

Canada. Lebeau claimed that he left Paris 10 April 1729, to be presented to his protector at La Rochelle. The facts, however, are rather

. 13 Oct. 1811 Mary (Polly) Stone, and they had four sons and three daughters; d. 18 Dec. 1855 in London, Upper Canada. Elijah

under construction at Bath, Upper Canada), ordered a steam-engine from Boulton and Watt. The London firm also requested that a competent engineer be sent to assemble, install, and operate it. Leys offered

Synod of Upper Canada’s Presbyterian Church and was a selfless founder and promoter of Queen’s College (now Queen’s University), where he acted as temporary principal and taught Hebrew. His daughter

of the Province of Canada and of the Canadian Senate; b. 11 Oct. 1808 at Verchères, L.C., second son of François-Xavier-Amable Malhiot, seigneur of Verchères, member of the assembly and

remained until the summer of 1822. Then, having heard of “the fame of Canada,” he decided to pay a visit. Travelling by way of the United States, he crossed the Niagara River into Upper Canada and visited

centres in southern Ontario around the turn of the 20th century. His life was undistinguished, but his burial would spark one of the first Armenian protest strikes in Canada against a large industrial

MAREUIL, JACQUES DE, half-pay lieutenant of a detachment of colonial regular troops, amateur actor; he arrived in Canada in the spring

Massey and Rebecca Kelley; m. January 1820 Lucina Bradley, and they had three sons and seven daughters; d. 15 Nov. 1856 in Newcastle, Upper Canada

, Scotland; m. 8 June 1847 Helen Dow in Whitby, Upper Canada, and they had seven children; d. 24 Dec. 1898 in Toronto. Hugh Miller

Sir Oliver*, and two daughters; d. 4 Feb. 1860 in Kingston, Upper Canada, and was buried at nearby Waterloo (Cataraqui

of the evangelist George Whitefield. He came to Canada in 1788 and preached effectively in the homes of loyalists in the Bay of Quinte area. His attempt to settle there was frustrated by the

; b. 2 Jan. 1829 in Westminster Township, Upper Canada, son of John McClary and Sarah Stark; m. first 1853 Mary Ann Drake (d. 1862), and they had two daughters; m. secondly 1866

, DUNCAN WENDELL, educator of the deaf; b. 1858 in Martintown, Upper Canada, youngest child of John McDermid and Janet Christie; m. 7 Oct. 1882 Mary Ettie Lorenzen in Trenton

of Samuel McDougall and — MacLean, a daughter of the chief of the MacLean clan; m. 1 Sept. 1835 Catharine Cameron in Pointe-au-Chêne, Lower Canada, and they had five sons and four

, WILLIAM BRUCE, Ojibwa chief; b. 1844 near Sydenham (Owen Sound), Upper Canada, son of Alexander MacGregor and Mary Wahbahdick; m. c. 1865 Philomène Nadjiwon

James*, he was fluent in French, English, and several indigenous languages of western Canada. McKay settled at Red River in the parish of St

McKENNEY, HENRY, merchant and office-holder; b. c. 1826 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, the second

McPherson, and they had seven children; d. 24 Oct. 1865 at Toronto, Canada West. Archibald McLean’s father was prominent in the Eastern

Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland; he married and had several children; d. 26 June 1861 at Goderich, Canada West. Thomas McQueen’s father was

, probably at Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Scotland; d. April 1864 at “The Station” (Thunder Bay), Canada West. First employed as a Hudson’s Bay Company

Navières was ordained a priest on 14 Dec. 1733 and at the end of June 1734 he left France for Canada, sailing on the ship which was carrying

this part of Canada.” It was also the resort of those imbued with the spirit of Canadian patriotism and British imperialism. “He would not keep or sell certain publications which he found offensively

), Lower Canada, son of Ambroise Nolin and Sophie Lagüe; d. 16 Nov. 1914 in Midland, Ont. From his youth, Jean-Baptiste

. Clarke*. The longest work published in Abraham’s lifetime was Clarke’s Lays of the maple leaf, or songs of Canada (1853). The firm undoubtedly produced the largest number of Canadian

OGDEN, UZZIEL, physician, educator, and editor; b. 6 March 1828 in Toronto Township, Upper Canada

, Lower Canada, second son of Samuel G. P. Orr, shoemaker, and Jane Hicks; m. c. 1863 Priscilla Victoria Miller, and they had two daughters and one son; d. 16 Feb. 1898 in

without foundation or plausibility. He had enough influence in Whitehall to be appointed first chief justice of Upper Canada (31 Dec. 1791

 1865 in Westminster Township near London, Canada West. Dennis O’Brien emigrated to the United States in 1811 and lived for a time in Maine. He moved to

 William Holmes. On 29 March 1845, he was one of those who obtained from the government of the Province of Canada the right to establish a school of medicine at Quebec. Painchaud, who had professed

president, Paterson, the vice-president, John Herbert Mason, the accountant, and several leading Toronto businessmen established a permanent institution, the Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society

Taschereau*, a member of the Legislative Council, in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada, and they had eight children; d. 19 March 1827 at Quebec and was buried

, b. 1652, and d. 12 Aug. 1697 in Newfoundland on his way to Canada). Joseph-Antoine Poncet de La Rivière was admitted into the

Marie Clameron; d. 10 May 1811 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Claude Poncin completed the sixth year of the classical program (Rhetoric) with

in the colonial regular troops be increased from one company to two. To assist in this expansion a draft of six officers and 20 men of the regular artillery was sent to Canada on detachment

of Seth Putnam; m. Eleanor Dygart, and they had seven children; d. 4 Dec. 1838 in Windsor, Upper Canada. About 1795 Seth Putnam, who

, Upper Canada. The Radcliffs were a prominent Irish Anglican family. Thomas Radcliff Sr was chaplain to Ireland’s lord lieutenant as well as

Rattray; d. 26 Sept. 1883 in Toronto, Ont. William Jordan Rattray came to Canada West with his parents in about 1848, his father

anonymous author of the “Mémoire du Canada” commented irreverently. Péan would soon, however, enjoy high rank in Quebec society, when he became the confidential agent of Intendant

Toronto Building Society, established in 1846, joined to form the Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society (later the Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation) [see Peter