. During these early years he strengthened Presbyterianism by helping found the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in Connection with the Church of Scotland (1831). He was elected its second

MOCKRIDGE, CHARLES HENRY, Church of England priest, editor, and author; b. 15 Dec. 1844 in Brantford, Upper Canada, son of

Morris and Janet Lang; m. Emily Rosamond Murney, daughter of Henry Murney of Kingston, and they had nine children; d. 23 Sept. 1865 at Brockville, Canada West

Elizabeth Alexowina Bender in Montreal, and they had six sons and four daughters; d. 11 May 1829 in William Henry (Sorel), Lower Canada

 May 1784, probably in the Ohio country, eldest child of Alexander McCormick and Elizabeth Turner; m. 29 Jan. 1809 Mary Cornwall in Colchester Township, Upper Canada, and they had 13

Allsopp* in 1817 by Artemas Jackson, who had set up the first paper-mill in Lower Canada at Saint-André-d’Argenteuil (Saint-André-Est) between 1804 and 1806. The Scotsmen came to Jacques-Cartier and

and four daughters; d. 13 Oct. 1855 at his farm near Williamstown, Upper Canada. John McGillivray was a child of the late 18th-century

. In 1892 Eliza Ann founded one of the first women’s associations in Canada, the Montreal Women’s Club, drawing her inspiration from similar organizations in a number of American cities. The club’s

settled in the area that became Glengarry County, Upper Canada. Around 1790 McKay entered the service of the North West Company; it was probably at about the same time that his brother

had served as principal of the central school in Oshawa, Upper Canada. He received his certificate from the Toronto Normal School in 1857 and in 1858 was appointed to the central school in St Marys

large family, immigrated with his wife and children to the Muskoka district of Canada West, where he became one of the first settlers in Draper Township (included at that time in Victoria County). He

Hagerman, in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, and they had at least two sons; d. 9 Feb. 1838 in Toronto. James Newbigging received his

American Alpine Club and the Alpine Club of Canada, the latter formed in 1906. He wrote articles on mountaineering and a book, In the heart of the Canadian Rockies (London, 1905), an engaging

Canada, son of Asa Patrick and Belinda Gilbert; m. 31 May 1835 Abigail Ann, daughter of George Brouse*, and they had one child who died

to Canada in 1850 to work for the Grand Trunk; in 1859 he was a wine merchant. Though born in Montreal, Arthur was raised in Toronto and he attended private schools in Ontario and England. His business

PHILLIPS, ALFRED MOORE, temperance leader, Methodist minister, and editor; b. 1847 in Hillier Township, Upper Canada, eldest son of

in La Prairie, Lower Canada. Jean-Baptiste Raymond’s parents may have been Huguenots, but Jean-Baptiste was necessarily baptized Roman Catholic

Marie-Clotilde Girardin; d. 8 Feb. 1843 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, and was buried in L’Assomption

for the second time and settled in Upper Canada, first at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), where he entered government service, and then, in 1797, at York (Toronto). Samuel remained in Maryland where he

ROTTOT, JEAN-PHILIPPE, physician, professor, editor, and politician; b. 3 July 1825 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son

 Dec. 1858 in Pointe-Lévy (Lévis), Lower Canada, son of Léon Roy and Marguerite Lavoie; m. 26 May 1885 Lucienne Carrier in Lévis; they had no children; d. there 8 May 1913

most of the ideals of the independent “new woman” of the 1890s. “The best men in the land are the men who admire and help,” she wrote in 1898 of the newly founded National Council of Women of Canada

Supreme Court of Canada. After attending Halifax and Pictou academies, George continued his education at Dalhousie University (ba, 1902) and Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto

to the Wesleyan Methodist Church, but it was the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada that accepted her for service in Japan, and she left the same year. By the following April she

. Sheppard was accepted into the three-year program administered by the Law Society of Upper Canada at Osgoode Hall in Toronto [see Newman Wright

, Lower Canada, son of Samuel E. Shorey, shoemaker, and Fanny Jones; m. first 1844 Fanny Wheeler (d. 1850), and they had a boy and a girl; m. secondly Clara Gibson, and they too had a

and other emblems of the Khalsa Sikh discipline. Among Sikhs of his generation who immigrated to Canada, however, that discipline enjoyed a renaissance. As a Khalsa Sikh, Mewa Singh was active in the

. James Skead was educated at Moresby and came to Canada in 1832 with his widowed father and two brothers. The family first settled on a farm at Île Jésus, Lower Canada, at the mouth of the Ottawa River

Smith and Isabella Gair Rose; m. 30 Aug. 1838 Jane Morson, in Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, and they had six children; d. 18 April 1851 in Beckwith Township, Upper Canada

Stephenson pointed out, McGill graduates acquired “Medical Honors” without difficulty from foreign countries; it was unfair that they had to travel outside Lower Canada to obtain them. Before

Eunice Buck of Pittsford, and they had at least ten children; d. in 1825 or 1826, probably in Steventown (near Delta), Upper Canada. Abel Stevens’s early

Park), N.Y., son of Timothy Stevenson and Phoebe Barker; m. 14 Dec. 1830 Agnes Rebecca Dougall of Hallowell (Picton), Upper Canada, and they had one daughter; d. 3 March 1859 in

Browne*, and they had five daughters and six sons; d. 6 Sept. 1847 in Douro Township, Upper Canada. Thomas Alexander Stewart was born and

SUZOR, LOUIS-TIMOTHÉE, soldier and author; b. 24 Aug. 1834 at Cap-Santé, Lower Canada, son of Hippolyte

Edward Allen* and John*; d. 29 Jan. 1853 in London Township, Upper Canada

then enrolled in Victoria College in Cobourg, Upper Canada, but he returned to his native city and entered the School of Military Instruction of Quebec. Subsequently he took medicine at McGill College in

at Cobourg, Canada West. William Weller came from northern New York with his father to settle in Upper Canada. In 1829 he and a partner, Hiram Norton

. In 1911, acting on a plan originally promoted by Niagara-area entrepreneur C. R. Morden, to merge several large bakeries into one, Weston and others had formed the Canada Bread Company Limited

. c. 1777; d. 13 Aug. 1849 near Brantford, Upper Canada. James Winniett was a career army officer who joined the 68th Foot in

 1815 in Dunham, Lower Canada, eldest son of Thomas Wood and Anna (Mary) Skeels, both originally from the United States; d. 13 Nov. 1898 in Dunham

of the Free Church and took up his first charge at Martyrs’ Church, Paisley. In 1847 or 1848 he immigrated to Canada and on 22 Nov. 1850 was inducted as minister of Knox Church, Hamilton, Canada

accepted the possibility of advancement and adventure. He arrived in Canada in 1908, just in time to supervise the engineering summer camp. At 22 he was

able to apply in Lower Canada the techniques of conciliation that he had employed so successfully in Ireland. For agreeing to accept the appointment he had been made Baron Worlingham in the United

ADAMS, JOHN GENNINGS CURTIS, farmer, dentist, and reformer; b. 16 March 1839 in Adamsville (Acton), Upper Canada, son of the

of Canada. The big break for Ahearn came in 1879 when, together with his friend and business partner Warren Young Soper, he won a contract to

 Sept. 1752 in Morristown Township (Morristown), N.J.; d. 13 April 1813 in Delaware Township, Upper Canada. Ebenezer Allan may have

shipping interests helped to bring Andrew Allan across the ocean to Lower Canada. At the death of one of Hugh’s Montreal partners in 1839, his firm was reorganized as Edmonstone, Allan and Company. Later

by 1848. One can only speculate why Allanson, now about 35, decided that Upper Canada would be an appropriate residence for one of his skill and

sponsorship of further geological surveys. After confederation the director of the Geological Survey of Canada, Sir William Edmond

BAKER, MARY JANE (McQuesten), social activist; b. 10 Oct. 1849 in Brantford, Upper Canada, daughter of