. Peter Robinson spent his childhood on the move. He was in New Brunswick for three years, in Lower Canada for four, and in Kingston, Upper Canada, for six before his family settled in York (Toronto) in

children; m. secondly 26 Oct. 1859 Charlotte Verchères de Boucherville, widow of Auguste Quesnel, at Boucherville, Lower Canada, and they had five children; d. 3 Nov. 1896 at Quebec

Canada from 1830 to 1836. Defeated in 1836, he again sat for Prince Edward in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841, when he defeated David Barker

of Detroit, Mich., and they had four children; d. 7 Aug. 1801 in Upper Canada. Walter Roe was one of the first lawyers to practise in

. Henry Rowsell learned the book business in his father’s Cheapside bookshop, and in 1829 established his own business in London. In 1833 he immigrated to Canada with his brother William, and by 1835 had

the Amateur Skating Association of Canada chose Rubenstein to represent the country at the international figure-skating competition to be held in St Petersburg, Russia, the following February. The

position at a mass meeting of delegates from various Hamilton shops on 1 February to appoint officers and adopt a constitution for the league, the first in Canada. On 24 February he spoke to

Lanctot*’s sojourn in the American west (he had come to Detroit in 1868 and in 1869) and of his crusade for the annexation of Canada to the United States intrigued him; the Métis uprising in the

SCOTT, Sir RICHARD WILLIAM, lawyer and politician; b. 24 Feb. 1825 in Prescott, Upper Canada, son of William James

. 1747 in Alnwick, England, son of George Selby and Mary Selby; m. Elizabeth –, and they had at least three children; d. 9 May 1813 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada

Logan* to become his successor as director of the Geological Survey of Canada. The task of filling the enormous gap left by the departure of Logan’s independent wealth, social status, political acumen

to the Canadas in 1802, arriving with the 49th in Lower Canada late that summer and taking up commands in the spring of 1803 in the upper province: Brock at regimental headquarters in York (Toronto

ERNEST, journalist and author; b. 29 Sept. 1855 in South Dorchester Township, Elgin County, Upper Canada, only son of Edmund Sheppard and Nancy Bently; m. 8 Oct. 1879

Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada. The Swayze family emigrated from Germany in the early 17th century and settled in Salem, Mass. Isaac

 July 1848 in Thornhill, Upper Canada. No man became a success in Upper Canada faster than Benjamin Thorne, few were more successful, and few fell

Vancouver and was buried in Ottawa. Brought up in Aylmer, Lower Canada, William James Topley was probably introduced to photography by his mother, who

. 1 March 1821 in Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Toussaint, master pilot, and Justine Fortier; m. there 7 Aug. 1845 Marguerite Noël; d. 2 Dec. 1895 at

TRENHOLME, CLEMENTINA (Fessenden), imperialist and author; b. 4 May 1843 in Kingsey Township, Lower Canada, daughter of

TURCOTTE, JOSEPH-ÉDOUARD, lawyer, politician, and entrepreneur; b. 10 Oct. 1808 at Gentilly, Lower Canada

TYE, WILLIAM FRANCIS, civil engineer; b. 5 March 1861 in Haysville, Upper Canada, son of Francis Edward Tye and Anna Shelly; m. 13 Oct

of the Marine in Canada, and also assumed the duties of controller, substituting for Jean-Eustache Lanoullier* de

declined to accept his more radical views. Verigin also called on his flock to practise celibacy during the period of instability (this exhortation would be rescinded on their emigration to Canada). He

his history of the Church of England in Canada, The old church in the new dominion … (London, 1929). Shortly after moving to North Sydney, he and Norwood privately published Driftwood

), occasioned his removal to Boston, where by 1705 he could see the possibility of undertaking new trading ventures to Canada under the cover of negotiations for prisoner exchange. Governor Dudley entrusted him

, he came to Canada in 1685 as either a cadet or a second lieutenant in the colonial regular tropps. Four years later he was taken prisoner by the Iroquois who, in the course of his captivity, chewed off

theology. After the year of tertianship made in Rouen, 1705–6, he set out for Canada, and in 1708 with his calm confidence headed for the Illinois mission where he was to spend the rest of his life. Before

Fenwick, who became a lifelong friend. Apprenticeship was then the common way to pursue a medical education in the Canadas, the only medical school being the McGill College medical faculty in

commercial, legal, and administrative details which it provided that contributed to his successes in Canada. Though his progress through the ranks had been slow, by 1728 he was second in command to the

authorities to intervene in disputes between the Church and its believers no longer held any validity in Canada. Long after he had retired as a justice, Doherty continued to be referred to, respectfully and

, military chaplain, and office holder; b. 13 Sept. 1860 in Indian Lands, Glengarry County, Upper Canada, son of the Reverend Donald (Daniel) Gordon, a minister of the Free Church, and Mary Robertson

. Arriving in Lower Canada from Scotland in 1836, he became a well-respected lawyer in Montreal and a director of several companies. A friend of John A. Macdonald, he was appointed minister of finance in the

CLIFFORD, lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and office holder; b. 10 March 1861 in St Johns (Arva), Upper Canada, second son of John Wright Sifton and Kate Watkins; m

, Upper Canada, second son of James Cox Aikins*, mla, and Mary Elizabeth Jane Somerset; brother of

John Baker (d. 1871) was “perhaps the last surviving Canadian slave.” Born in Quebec and brought as a child to Upper Canada, he

, Lower Canada, son of Michel Bibaud*, a journalist and historian, and Élizabeth Delisle; d. unmarried on 9 July 1887 at

BRYCE, PETER HENDERSON, physician and civil servant; b. 17 Aug. 1853 in Mount Pleasant, Brant County, Upper Canada, son of

Ketchum School in Toronto, and then, from 1863 to 1865, continued at Upper Canada College, where he placed near the top of his class. At age 14 he was indentured to his uncle, Toronto architect Henry

*, dit Dupéront; m. 10 Jan. 1831 Mary Frances Réaume, widow of Francis Baby, and they had a son; d. 5 June 1851 in Malden Township, Upper Canada

Journal of Western Canada. She argued staunchly in favour of a liberal education curriculum which would provide students with the analytical skills necessary to become citizens. This view brought her

. 1830 in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, son of Alexander Clark, a farmer, and Anne McIntosh; m. November 1859 Jennie Elizabeth Gissing of Princeton, Upper Canada, and they had five children, all of whom

CROOKS, ADAM, lawyer and politician; b. 11 Dec. 1827 in West Flamborough Township, Upper Canada, the fourth

campaigns be launched and dispensaries set up, endeavours to which Dubé would devote the rest of his career. In one of the more than 100 articles he published in L’Union médicale du Canada, he

of William Fearman, a shoemaker, and Elizabeth Calver; m. first 16 Dec. 1851 Elizabeth Holbrook in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had eight sons and three daughters; m. secondly 5

to Regina in the North-West Territories. They had apparently met many years before, possibly in Belfast. In 1883 he and his wife, Emily, had immigrated to Canada, and in 1890 they got a land grant in

. 27 Oct. 1935 in Toronto. William George Gooderham was born into one of Canada’s wealthiest and most tight-knit families, and he was greatly

Convention. In November 1884 the society sent Holmes to the North-West Canada mission as a Christian farming instructor and catechist. He arrived in

left in 1805 to visit Lower Canada. There he possessed, “by right of inheritance, a claim to a large and very valuable tract of land.” He also had an interest in Upper Canada and, prior to leaving

. Invited that month to vacation in Lower Canada by Jules Hone, a former fellow student then residing in Montreal, Jehin-Prume soon appeared in concerts and recitals in that city. Blessed with “an appearance

Lacasse in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, and they had three children; d. 10 March 1891 in Montreal. Born into a

Great Famine and Lewis’s mother emigrated to Canada in 1848, settling near London. The next year Lewis followed her to Canada as a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He was