Champlain, Œuvres (Lavredière), 1110, 1155–56, 1214, 1244. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, 155; IV, 830–35, 837–38, 840–41, 892–95; Long journey (Wrong and Langton), 48, 299.

Institute of Canada, a body that represented Canadian engineers. From the office of the Quebec section, one of the most vocal of the regional divisions demanding professional status for engineers, he

winter in the Montreal region. On 20 May 1848 he set out for Sandwich (Windsor), Upper Canada, site of the most westerly Roman Catholic parish at that time. Only after his arrival was he informed

Gadoys* (1594–1667) and came to Canada with his parents. The family arrived at Ville-Marie (Montreal) about 1647 after a sojourn in the Quebec region. Pierre the younger was, according to Marguerite

. 6 Nov. 1842 in the parish of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada, youngest of the nine children of Charles-Édouard Gagnon, a notary, and Julie-Jeanne Durand; m. 9

. When he arrived in Canada in 1688 his superiors entrusted to him the mission of La Montagne, where he learned several Indigenous languages. In 1696 the mission moved to Sault-au-Récollet and the priest

, politician, and businessman; b. 3 Oct. 1832 in Varennes, Lower Canada, son of Félix Geoffrion, a farmer, and Catherine Brodeur; d. 7 Aug. 1894 in Verchères, Que

GEOFFRION, LOUIS-ÉLIE, shop assistant, grocer, and businessman; b. 17 May 1853 in Varennes, Lower Canada, elder son of Élie

by 1851 Lower Canada had 584 coach-builders and wheelwrights and Upper Canada 1,789. The author of a work published in Paris on the exposition spoke highly of the Canadian entries: “These vehicles are

Lake (Ont.), son of the fur-trader George Gladman and of an Indian woman; d. 24 Sept. 1863 at Port Hope, Canada West. George Gladman entered

year he was raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and appointed assistant chief of staff of the French regular troops in Canada, then under the command of Jean-Armand

Goldie’s grandfather, John Goldie, a renowned Scottish botanist, toured Upper Canada and the northeastern United States in 1817–19 and immigrated to Ayr, Upper Canada, in 1844. Thomas’s parents, who had

continued to be a major interest. When in 1903 the diocese of Fredericton formed a chapter of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada [see Roberta Elizabeth

Green published six memoirs in the Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society. One, entitled “Memoranda respecting colouring materials produced in Canada,” attracted Lord Dalhousie’s

Carrying Place, Upper Canada, third daughter of John Grier and Eliza Lilias Geddes; m. 23 July 1859 Charles Horace Coome; d. 9 Feb. 1921 in Toronto

HARRIS, JOHN, manufacturer; b. 21 July 1841 in Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Canada West, eldest son

, whether soldiers or ecclesiastics, are shown full face, with little depth. His use of colour and his emphasis on surface pattern make him, however, one of the best primitive portrait artists in Lower Canada

-Catherine André* de Leigne; d. 30 Nov. 1817 in Chambly, Lower Canada

Battalion of Rifles (Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada) and in 1877 he became a captain. Following his move to Ottawa, he transferred to the No.1 Battalion of Infantry (Governor General’s Foot Guards); promoted

Nations sachems to a condolence council at Onondaga (near Syracuse, N.Y.), Hotsinoñhyahtaˀ received the mourners. Later that year he sent Johnson word that he was going to Canada and would report on his

(Leskard), near Bowmanville, Upper Canada, son of Irish immigrants Edward Hunter and Nancy Dodds; m. 12 July 1882 Jennie Jones in North Ridge, Ont., and they had two daughters and one son; d

daughter, Élisabeth, in November 1645, there were two violins – something never before heard in Canada – accompanied the cantors in the chapel. The early 1660s, however, brought bereavement to Mme

Hannah Luckens; m. Hester (Hetty) Marsh; d. without issue April or May 1806 in Chatham, Upper Canada. Prior to the American

United States with his parents at an early age. In 1857 or 1858 he settled in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and found employment with W. E. Tunis of Detroit, who controlled the sale of books and periodicals

 Nov. 1687 at Quebec. The records of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec mention the arrival in Canada in 1642 of a young Scottish girl whose family was

, speculated that in 1855 he met the painter Cornelius Krieghoff*, who had already become established in Lower Canada

, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Johnson and Dederika Memlingh; m. in the parish of Dunn, Upper Canada, 13 Dec. 1836, Laura Eliza Jukes; d. in Yorkville (now in Toronto, Ont

JOHNSTON, WYATT GALT, physician, professor, researcher, and author; b. 22 Aug. 1862 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada, son of

; b. 26 July 1846 in Grande-Rivière, Lower Canada, son of Léon Joncas and Esther Beaudin; m. 18 July 1870 Émérentienne Blouin, daughter of François Blouin, of Saint-Vallier, Que

, and Mississauga Ojibwa chief; b. 10 July 1798 at the Humber River, Upper Canada, son of Augustus

population of Toronto augmented by the arrival of Jews from England, Germany, Lower Canada, and the United States. Primarily shopkeepers and skilled artisans – grocers, clothiers, jewellers, tobacconists

, Lower Canada, and was buried two days later under the seigneurial pew in the parish chapel at Sainte-Catherine. Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay came

few years later was one of the Plains Cree chiefs who welcomed the news that the government of Canada intended to make treaty with the Indians of the Saskatchewan River district. However, he refused to

, where a brother-in-law practised medicine. After a few years he returned to Upper Canada and kept general stores at Mud Creek, Beaver Dams, the Deep Cut, and Thorold. In 1826 he was commissioned to

KEEFER, THOMAS COLTRIN, engineer, author, and businessman; b. 4 Nov. 1821 in Thorold Township, Upper Canada, eighth son of

, settler; b. c. 1772 in Pennsylvania; m. Molly Ann —, and they had several children (one daughter was adopted); d. 1855 or 1856 in Nanticoke, Upper Canada

Canada. As a lieutenant in the Auvergne regiment, he came from the West Indies to Canada, arriving with

1806 Larocque left the northwest for Montreal, where he founded an unsuccessful business firm. During the War of 1812 he was an ensign in the 3rd militia division of Lower Canada, then a captain in

France. Conflicting sources have placed Jean-André Lamaletie’s first appearance in Canada in 1739 and 1741, but the articles of his partnership with the

. By 1891 the health of both Sanfords had been broken, and they had to return to Canada. After a furlough of four years Rufus went back to India, this time to the more promising Vizianagaram station, a

 Dec. 1866 at Ottawa, Canada West. Joseph Larocque, whose brother

Durham, England, William Lash located in Newfoundland in the 1830s and became associated with the Bank of British North America at St John’s. In 1854 he settled in Dundas, Upper Canada, as manager of

about 1730, and he was probably in command of a merchant ship when he came to Canada. In 1737 he was at Quebec, and there, on 7 October, he married Angélique-Jeanne, daughter of Charles

that time there were but six clergymen of the Church of England in all of Upper and Lower Canada, a situation created in part by the “higher advantages” offered by the older and more settled colony of

, Lower Canada, son of François Lefebvre, a farmer, and Marguerite Rinfrette; d. 27 Jan. 1914 in Sudbury, Ont. Eugène

. Jean Lefebvre first set foot in Canada in 1732. He was only 18 and had come to act as assistant to his cousin François Havy

Canada.” This ruling created an administrative and supervisory council. Meanwhile, Legardeur (director of transport to New France in 1645 and 1646) was

Desbarats published in Ottawa Un art nouveau, la leggo-typie: procédé photo-électrotypique, breveté au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Angleterre, en France et en Belgique

 May 1835 in Bécancour, Lower Canada. François Lejamtel studied at the Séminaire du Saint-Esprit in Paris and was ordained on 14 June 1783. In

, and militia officer; b. 20 Feb. 1823 in Yamachiche, Lower Canada, the eighth child of François Lesieur-Désaulniers and Charlotte Rivard-Dufresne; m. 16 Nov. 1850 Marie Flora