. at Toronto, Ont., 16 Feb. 1875. Educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto, D’Arcy Boulton then studied for the legal profession. He was

possibly even to present-day Canada; b. c. 484; d. c. 578. It is believed that he was born near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, the son of

failure of the manufacturing firm in which Thomas Stewart and Robert Reid, who had married Stewart’s sister, were junior partners, the two men decided to emigrate to Upper Canada with what small capital

family from the north of Ireland who traded in timber and grain and arranged passages for travellers on both sides of the Atlantic. In the mid 1820s he left Londonderry for Montreal in Lower Canada, where

Father Bulteau died, after 22 years of apostolate work in Canada. Jacques Valois

Fort-Royal (Fort-de-France), Martinique, and in 1762 at Havana, Cuba. Most of Busby’s remaining time with the 27th Foot was spent in Canada, where he

Canada. John Dugald Cameron was probably born in the loyalist town of Sorel, Quebec, where his family settled while his father fought for the British

after his ordination, and arrived in Canada the following year. He was first attached to the parish of Ville-Marie, and in 1724 he was appointed parish priest of Longue-Pointe but only for a few months

La Malbaie, Lower Canada, son of Hubert Simon and Angèle Simard; m. 9 Nov. 1848 Marie-Claire, daughter of Pierre Garon of Rivière-Ouelle, Canada East, who represented

; they had no children; d. 6 Oct. 1835 in Niagara Falls, Upper Canada. Thomas Clark arrived in Upper Canada in 1791 to work for his

.” Their antecedents in the fur trade were similar and after Smith became Canada’s high commissioner in London in 1896 Clouston represented his financial and philanthropic interests in Canada. In 1879

Canada with his mother about 1871 to join his father, who had settled in Maberly, Ont., two years earlier. After working in a general store, his father had entered the lumber business. Leizer and Fraida

settled in the London District of Upper Canada in 1819; he was educated at the London grammar school and called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1855. A conservative and a member of the Orange order, Francis

, X (1904), 51–57. Jug. et délib., I, II, III. Ord. comm. (P.-G. Roy), I, 88f. Recensement du Canada, 1666 (APQ Rapport). Recensements du Canada

DESAUTELS, JOSEPH, Roman Catholic priest and vicar-general; b. 26 Oct. 1814 at Chambly, Lower Canada, son

Lavaltrie, Que.) and was buried in the parish cemetery two days later. The date of Maurice Desdevens de Glandons’ arrival in Canada is not known, nor is

Aurélie Denis in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, and they had at least two children; d. 24 Feb. 1900 in Amiens, France

Charles Le Moyne; known to have been in Canada during the period 1631–48; d. some time after 1656. It is not known whether he was married

attention. Once, on 11 April 1676, he is named in an act of the Conseil Souverain, although we do not know if he was then in Canada; the act mentions his procurator, Sieur Jean

represented it at the 1894 annual meeting of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, which passed resolutions that called for improved working conditions and were later sent to the federal and provincial

. 1843 in the parish of Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada, son of Augustin-Candide Duclos De Celles, a notary, and Marie-Sarah-Anne Holmes; m. 25 Oct. 1876 in Saint-Ours, Que., Eugénie Panet

they had two children; d. 26 July 1900 in Winnipeg, Man. Simon Duffin immigrated to Upper Canada in his youth, working as a merchant in

long list of novels. From all sources her yearly income in the depressed 1870s was in excess of $10,000 a year, making her Canada’s first outstanding success as a

(Toronto), Upper Canada, son of John Elmsley* and Mary Hallowell; m. Charlotte Sherwood and they had seven sons and three daughters; d

—, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 4 Dec. 1905 in Winnipeg. Charles Esplin went to Lower Canada with the rest of his

master navigator with the reputation of never having lost a vessel. It was because of this reputation that he was chosen as “captain and pilot of King François I,” to lead to Canada

arrived in Kingston, Canada West, in February 1861 to sell pianos made by this firm. By June he had a branch store in Kingston and within a year had started a piano factory. He was a resident of

in Ireland for 16 years, came to Canada and in 1874 joined the North-West Mounted Police, then being organized by his brother George Arthur

founding member of one of the first proto-Zionist societies in Canada, probably the Hovevei Zion Society of Montreal. It never flourished, however. He remained at Shaar Hashomayim until 1896, when he

. Phoebe (Phebe) Wallen, and they had three children; d. 18 June 1803 at Quebec, Lower Canada. James Frost’s career in Canada can be traced

Onondaga, Upper Canada. Having received a liberal education, William Gilkison went to sea and served on a merchant vessel. The ship was captured by the

Parisiensi exclusus erat, quia surdaster.” When he arrived in Canada in 1640 he seems to have sought to carry out his missionary vocation as a layman

. In August 1904 the government of Arthur James Balfour named Grey governor general of Canada, to succeed his brother-in-law the Earl of Minto

HAMILTON, JOHN, lumberman, financier, and politician; b. 16 Dec. 1827 at Hawkesbury, Upper Canada, son of George

interest in the Canadian market, as a considerable portion of his production was being sold in Montreal, the traditional metropolis of northern Vermont. He realized that the expanding market in Canada could

Helliwell and Sally Lord; m. first Mary Wilson (d. 1833), by whom he had six children, and secondly Ann Ashworth, by whom he had seven children; d. 9 March 1862 at Toronto, Canada West

[Weyapiersenwah*], wounded in battle against the Americans. Garrisoned next in Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, he proposed to settle in the province; in 1792 he was granted 1,200 acres in Pickering

shop. Shortly after his arrival he organized, in company with several other Montreal Orangemen, what was possibly the first civilian Orange lodge in the Canadas: Moving to Huntley in the Dalhousie

ready for a larger challenge. After brief service in Ireland, the challenge came in July 1898 when he was appointed general officer commanding the militia in Canada, where he attempted to replicate

Krugerdorf, Ont. Having immigrated to Canada, August Kruger bought land in 1879 at Germanicus, a scattered rural community of German settlers in Renfrew

Meilleur gave it resounding praise in his Mémorial de l’éducation du Bas-Canada. For many years Kérouac devoted himself to teaching the children of the Richelieu valley. On 4 March

LA FAYE, LOUIS-FRANÇOIS DE (when he arrived in Canada he signed Delafaye, but from 1704 on he adopted de la Faye

priest at Rouen, and upon being appointed lecturer in philosophy at the convent in Quebec he arrived in Canada in 1702. He returned to France in 1703 or 1704, then finally came back to Canada in 1705. He

Roberval’s companions on his voyage to Canada were Marguerite and a young man, her lover, but the latter is not named either by the Queen of Navarre or by Thevet, both of whom recount this romantic adventure

he went to Detroit, Michigan, to found a residence there, but returned to Canada shortly afterwards. In 1858, at the request of Anthony O’Reagan, bishop of Chicago, he worked in association with Father

to the economic and political problems of Canada. He was mayor of Laprairie from 1858 to 1862. In 1863 he took up residence at Saint-Hyacinthe, an important legal and political centre, and shared in

first to Acadia and then to France. His titles of nobility were confirmed by Louis XIV in 1667 and registered in the Conseil Souverain of New France in 1675. He was possibly back in Canada by 1667

the turn of the century he was active in the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, serving as its president on nine occasions. In his time he achieved international recognition as one of Canada’s

John* and William*; d. 1 Sept. 1800 at Kingston, Upper Canada

, lecturer, and feminist activist; b. 5 Dec. 1861 in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, daughter of Félix-Gabriel