The son of a free Black loyalist, George Martin (d. 1845) inherited his mother’s status as an enslaved person in Upper Canada

Canada’s attorney general, Charles Marshall. He was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada on 30 Dec. 1822 and practised first in Trois-Rivières. On 21 June 1824, in Montreal’s Christ Church Cathedral

following the bishop’s death was considered to be the “first vicar general.” After the ratification of the transfer of Canada by France to Great Britain

attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in 1826; in 1830 his family immigrated to Upper Canada. In 1831 his father became an innkeeper at York (Toronto) and Joseph was attending Upper Canada

father, who in 1840 had come with his Presbyterian family to Upper Canada from Argyll, Scotland, was a prominent educator. During his 28 years as principal of the Toronto (later Jarvis Street) Collegiate

 Oct. 1855 in New Edinburgh (Ottawa), Upper Canada. On leaving school Thomas McKay was apprenticed to the mason’s trade. Induced by the depression

McKindlay’s keen interest by the 1790s in the increasingly favourable prospects of Lower Canada as a grain-growing centre and a supplier of potash for markets in Britain and the West Indies. By 1795 he had

Bradshaw McMurray and Mary —; m. first 26 Sept. 1833 Charlotte Johnston (Oge-Buno-Quay) in Sault Ste Marie, Upper Canada, and they had three sons and a daughter; m. secondly 4

England in 1795. This time Prescott’s sojourn at home was short-lived. He was appointed lieutenant governor of Lower Canada on 21 Jan. 1796 in

Price’s life before he arrived in Upper Canada in 1828 with his wife and young son, except that he had studied law at Doctors’ Commons in London. Two years after his arrival he acquired two tracts of land

, Thibaudeau*, followed in his father’s footsteps and pursued a career in law. From 1924 he sat on the Supreme Court of Canada, where he was chief justice from 1944 to 1954. The other brother, Charles

), Lower Canada, son of Charles Routhier, a farmer and veteran of the War of 1812, and Angélique Lafleur (Biroleau, dit Lafleur); m. 12 Nov. 1862 at Quebec

SOUTHAM, WILLIAM, publisher and philanthropist; b. 23 Aug. 1843 near Lachine, Lower Canada, first son of William Southam and

successes. The information, which was also circulated in France by the Parisian publication Paris-Canada, owned by Hector Fabre*, and taken

. Anne Jones, and they had at least three children; d. 30 Oct. 1819 at Quebec, Lower Canada. Jenkin Williams left Wales in 1767 in order to

then accepted appointment as commander-in-chief of the British forces in British North America, and was thus in a position to organize the defences of the Province of Canada when the American Civil War

camp of instruction at La Prairie, near Montreal. The camp was designed to provide practical experience for the graduates of the schools of military instruction operated in Canada by the British

commodore and commander-in-chief on the lakes of Canada. Prior to this date he had never commanded a capital ship, much less a squadron, but in his new assignment he was strictly enjoined never to undertake

Hume*; m. first 3 Feb. 1859 Rebecca Cronyn, daughter of Bishop Benjamin Cronyn*, in London, Upper Canada, and they had a son and

devastated by his death. In 1878 Lorne was appointed governor general of Canada by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, to succeed Lord Dufferin

was deeply mortified at his inability to provide for his family as an artist. He decided to immigrate to Upper Canada, and in June 1843, with his wife, three children, a nurse, and a brother

). Harrison’s promising legal career in England was cut short by ill health, and in 1837 he dramatically altered his life. Immigrating to Upper Canada, he bought a section of the former Mississauga Indian reserve

. The arrival of the Mountain family in Quebec City on 1 Nov. 1793 marked an important step in the establishment and development of the Church of England in Canada. George Mountain’s father, Jacob

reforming headmaster of Uppingham School, and saw in Thring’s ideals a necessary corrective to the lower standards of pioneer schools in Canada. Thring was equally charmed and, after many years of friendship

Canada, son of William Ross and Frederika Grant; m. 1857 Hester E. Harrington, and they had five children, of whom two daughters and a son survived infancy; d. 27 Oct. 1897 in Detroit

Canada. His achievements caught the attention of the Toronto business community. Joseph Wesley

. The establishment of the new province of Upper Canada in 1791 did not provide any salary for a surveyor general, it being the view of the secretary of state, Henry Dundas, that the three assistant

administration of Lower Canada. In June 1830 the secretary of state for the colonies, Sir George Murray, who had

. 17 March 1826 in Perth, Upper Canada, eldest son of William Morris* and Elizabeth Cochran; m. in November 1851 Margaret Cline of

CARTWRIGHT, Sir RICHARD JOHN, businessman, politician, and author; b. 4 Dec. 1835 in Kingston, Upper Canada

committee which met in 1870 and, as moderator, represented the Maritime synod of the Church of Scotland at the conference in Montreal in 1875 when the Presbyterian Church in Canada was formed

 Jan. 1853 in Darlington Township, Upper Canada, son of John Hughes and Caroline Laughlin; m. first 1872 Caroline J. Preston (d. 1873); m. secondly 5 May 1875 Mary Emily Burk in

, first superintendent of education in Lower Canada; b. 8 May 1796 at Petite-Côte, in the parish of Saint-Laurent (Montreal Island), L.C., son of Jean Meilleur and Marie-Suzanne Blaignier; d

of Canada, and in 1762 it participated in the attacks on Martinique and Havana, Cuba. Montgomery rose steadily in rank in these years. In July 1758 he became a lieutenant, in May 1760 the

Canada, eldest son of Levius Peters Sherwood* and Charlotte Jones, daughter of Ephraim

(Republic of Ireland), son of Richard Talbot and Margaret O’Reilly; d. 5 Feb. 1853 in London, Upper Canada. An aristocrat by birth, Thomas Talbot

Palmerston (Republic of Ireland), second son of Robert Willcocks and Jane Powell; d. unmarried 4 Sept. 1814 at Fort Erie, Upper Canada. A man of

Bodwell, Lawson and Lane. In Canada he was known as Ian Alistair, a makeover that emphasized his Scottish ancestry. When war was declared in August 1914

his practice. By the 1920s his work extended to cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. St-Laurent, according to a contemporary at the Quebec bar, Warwick Fielding Chipman, “was solid, sound, pleasing

he commanded one of the four brigades sent from Bordeaux to reinforce the British army in the Canadas; the forces under his command served in the Montreal District, on the Niagara frontier, and at

Graves Simcoe* of Upper Canada requested a bishop for his colony, but possibly on the insistence of the governor-in-chief of the colonies

duties both at Montreal and at Quebec, where he lived, and he even went into the Iroquois country, as his Histoire des plantes de Canada testifies: “I saw plane-trees 12 or 13 years ago in the

fund-raised and campaigned for Canadian government support of expeditions to the far north, which were undertaken between 1904 and 1925. He claimed large swaths of territory for Canada during some of the

CADET, JOSEPH-MICHEL, merchant butcher, businessman, and purveyor general to the French forces in Canada; b. 24 Dec. 1719 at

made for the insane in Upper Canada. “Quiet lunatics,” who posed no threat to the community, were either confined at home or, if destitute and without family, boarded out to another family or “warned out

his first trip to France and England. On 9 April 1778 he was in London when a petition signed by 23 British merchants in Canada was presented to the secretary of state for the American

, William Bent* and Charles Albert*; d. 18 Sept. 1839 in Sainte-Mélanie, Lower Canada

. Ameau, a garrison soldier, signed a contract at Trois-Rivières on 19 June 1649, and therefore must have been in Canada since at least the preceding summer. Because of his education it was not long

AMES, ALFRED ERNEST, financier and philanthropist; b. 3 Sept. 1866 in Lambeth (London), Upper Canada, son of William Ames, a

ANSLEY (Annesley), AMOS, Church of England clergyman; baptized 25 Jan. 1801 in Kingston, Upper Canada, seventh child of Amos