maker; b. 22 Nov. 1801 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Lévi Martel, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Léonard, dit Mondor; m. there 1 Oct. 1822 Marie-Darie Beaupré, and they had

five children; d. between March 1804 and March 1806. Alexandre Menut came to Canada after the conquest to work as a cook for Governor

the other. In 1698 Merlac was living in France. He did not return to Canada

MOIREAU (Moreau), CLAUDE, Recollet, missionary in Canada and in Acadia; b. c. 1637; d. 14 Oct. 1703 at Nemours

. Arriving in Canada on 7 Sept. 1659 with Jeanne Mance, Mother Macé, and Mother Maillet, she organized her little

 June 1871. Simeon Morrill was raised in Maine and was a tanner in Kingston, Upper Canada, in September 1817. Nothing else is known about him

MULKINS, HANNIBAL, Wesleyan Methodist minister and Church of England clergyman; b. in Upper Canada in 1811

1873, at Stratford, Ont. John George Delhoste MacKenzie came to Upper Canada in 1834 with his family, who settled near St Thomas. He

McConville and Mary McCardle; m. 7 Jan. 1832 Mary Magdalen Mackie in Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, and they had three daughters and three sons, two of whom, Joseph Norbet Alfred and

Smith, sister of Samuel Smith*, in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, and they had five sons, including Allan

. James McKeand was a partner in a wholesale dry goods firm in Glasgow which had a branch in Hamilton, Canada West. In 1854 he and his family settled in Hamilton, where he personally managed this branch

notable of whom was Archibald* – and five daughters; d. 3 Sept. 1832 in St Andrews, Upper Canada

adulthood; d. 22 Nov. 1791 at Detroit. A descendant of the kings of Navarre, Robert Navarre was educated in Paris. When he came to Canada is

 1872 at Gaspé, Que. Terence Joseph O’Neill arrived in Canada in 1829; he was serving in the British army, a member of the 30th infantry regiment. When

the transfer of the northwest to Canada. A provisional government had been organized by Louis Riel*, a bill of rights had been approved

Canada in 1626 with the Recollet Father Joseph de La Roche Daillon, who arrived in August of that

study of engineering in Wales and completed his studies under Sir John Benjamin MacNeill in Dublin. After some experience in railway and bridge construction in Ireland, Perry immigrated to Canada

Raymond, and they had 11 children; d. 27 May 1832 in La Tortue (Saint-Mathieu), Lower Canada, and was buried in the church of Saint-Philippe

Canada, the son of Joseph-Étienne Provancher and Geneviève Hébert; d. 23 March 1892 in Cap-Rouge, Que. Léon Provancher’s predilection for the

; d. in 1650 at La Rochelle. Pierre de Puiseaux arrived in Canada shortly after having received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, on 15

wheat distribution to 284 mills in central and eastern Canada. Shortly afterwards, he was asked to assume the vice-presidency of the Wheat Export Company Limited, which the commission had created as its

education at the town’s historic grammar school, John Andrew, at his father’s suggestion, emigrated to western Canada in 1888. He farmed in Manitoba before attending St John’s College, an Anglican

York (Toronto), Upper Canada, second son of John Beverley Robinson* and Emma Walker; m. there 30 June 1847 Mary Jane Hagerman

, and Agathe de Lacelle; m. Angélique Beauchamp; d. 20 Dec. 1813 in Kingston, Upper Canada. By the mid 1760s Charles Réaume had

letter was published in London in 1691 under the imposing title An account of the late action of the New-Englanders, under the command of Sir William Phips, against the French at Canada

her profession under the name Marie de Saint-Bernard. Towards 1636 she heard about Canada and her interest in distant missions was aroused. Three years later she volunteered to accompany Marie de

Schuyler volunteered to join a colonial expedition against Canada. Troops under the command of Major-General Fitz-John Winthrop were to proceed against Montreal via Lake Champlain, while Sir

SHEPPARD, WILLIAM, businessman and member of the Executive Council of Lower Canada; b. 16 Aug. 1784 in

network of branch lines during the 1880s provided Stewart with experience as a supervising engineer. In 1886 he spent four months in eastern Canada preparing a survey for the Ontario and Quebec Railway

church in Canada was under one organization. Stewart also gave full support to the church’s missionary work in the New Hebrides and Trinidad and was the leader of missionary activities in the synod for a

. In late 1837, after news of the rebellion in Lower Canada had reached Buffalo, N.Y., sympathizers with the Canadian cause organized meetings to enlist volunteers for an “Independent Canadian Service

; buried 1 March 1707. Nothing certain is known about his origins or his life before he came to Canada. When he arrived in 1665, Edmond de Suève

Ontario Workman (Toronto), 18 April, 10, 31 Oct. 1872. Charles Lipton, The trade union movement of Canada, 1827–1959 (Montreal, 1966). H. A. Logan, Trade

he was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada. His law practice and commercial ventures brought him almost instant wealth. He began his political career as an annexationist in 1849, entering politics in

of direct concern to Canada: his manuscript “Le grand insulaire et pilotage d’André Thevet . . .” (BN, MS Fr. 15452–53

enlisted in the 1st Foot, 3rd battalion, of the British army in 1808 or 1809, and saw action in Europe in the Walcheren expedition and the Peninsular War before arriving in Upper Canada in 1812 and serving

service among the Missouris and Illinois. On 16 Feb. 1722, during a brief visit to Canada, he married Marie-Madeleine Sabourin in Chambly. Their only child, born in April 1723, died at

important families in Canada including the Charests, adopted from the Charests the name Dufy and subsequently was known as Dufy Desauniers. His brother, Pierre

a photographer. From 1910 to 1914 he published illustrated articles on countries such as the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, and Canada. Beguiled by the beauty of the Canadian landscape and

. Little is known of Vignal’s life before 1648. According to Le Jeune, he may have been ordained a priest about 1628. According to O. Maurault, he may have come to Canada as a secular priest to

Lacombe*, who had founded the mission of Saint-Paul-des-Cris in 1865. After the acquisition of the Hudson’s Bay Company territory by Canada in

1930s, the shock of World War II, and then the post-war reconstruction, and for 21 of these years he was Canada’s prime minister. His

Cauchon was a descendant of one of the oldest families in the colony. His ancestor Jehan Cochon, originally from Dieppe, in Normandy, France, is thought to have arrived in Canada with his family, including

shareholder in the Commercial Bank of Canada, and when it suspended payments in 1867 he faced a loss of $70,000. The following year Anderson began a long association with the Merchants’ Bank of Canada [see

(Neuville), Lower Canada, son of François Angers (Anger), a farmer, and Marie-Desanges Larue; m. 4 April 1842 Louise-Adèle Taschereau (d. August 1849) at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte

, Ashe had proved to be a resourceful and productive scientist. In particular, his determinations of longitude laid the groundwork for the subsequent half-century of practical astronomy in Canada, and his

Townshend; d. about 16 July 1813 and was buried on 17 July in Stamford (Niagara Falls), Upper Canada. Cecil Bisshopp devoted his

Methodist minister in 1894 and served briefly as a mission preacher in western Canada. A poor speaker but a brilliant student, he graduated from Victoria University in Toronto in 1897, winning several medals

 Alfred Booker, a Regular Baptist clergyman; d. 27 Sept. 1871 in Montreal, Que. The Booker family had been in Hamilton, Canada West, for

, although stressing agriculture. Boucher-Belleville attributed the slump in agriculture in Lower Canada to the unenterprising methods of the French Canadians. Under the pen-name of “Jean-Paul Laboureur” he