LESPINAY, JEAN-MICHEL DE, officer in Canada, then governor of Louisiana; he came originally from the region of Fougères in the province

, Boston, and Portland, Maine, and was listed in local directories as a physician with the Invalid Food Office. Litchfield came to Canada in 1853, and

servant, author, activist, army officer, and Mohawk pine tree chief; b. 3 Feb. 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve, Upper Canada, son of George Rokwaho Loft and Ellen

LORANGER, LOUIS-ONÉSIME, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 7 April 1837 in Yamachiche, Lower Canada, son of

[Blackwood*] as the governor general of Canada. The couple landed at Halifax on 25 November to great fanfare. Although Louise learned on arrival that a young niece had just died, she carried on with

noviciate of Bordeaux on 31 Aug. 1695 and arrived in Canada on 14 June 1704. Around 1709 he succeeded Father Aubery* as missionary

dockyard there. In 1819 he was sent by the Admiralty to Kingston, Upper Canada, to take charge of stores. The following year he settled in Montreal, and when the British naval establishment was withdrawn in

member of the Upper Canada Clergy Corporation established to manage the reserves in Upper Canada. His mission of Hallowell was made into a rectory in 1836 and it was endowed with lands from the reserves

Leirobol in Kildonan, Sutherland County, Scotland, were evicted in the Highland clearances and arrived at the Red River Settlement in 1815. In 1838 the family travelled to Upper Canada by canoe, to farm

of its resident engineers. In 1868 Macdougall came to Canada, where he headed the preliminary and location surveys for the Toronto, Grey and Bruce

Maria Barbara Poore, and they had a son; d. 6 May 1853 in Cobourg, Upper Canada. Stuart Easton Mackechnie toured widely in the United

replied anonymously in the Quebec Gazette to William Smith*’s History of Canada . . . (issued in 1826), which

. 1803 in Saint-Laurent, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of Charles Maranda and Marie-Angèle Beaudoin; d. 10 March 1850 in Arichat, N.S

Matheson moved to Lower Canada with a brother at the age of 12. He was a sergeant in the Canadian Fencibles when, on 6 Feb. 1812, he was named ensign and joined the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles

MATHISON, JOHN AUGUSTUS, soldier; b. 25 Dec. 1781 in London, England; m. in Saint-André-Est, Lower Canada, Harriet

. there 16 Aug. 1785. Marie-Josèphe was the first Maugue-Garreau in Canada. Her name derived from the linking of the family names of her mother

Merritt* and Catharine Rodman Prendergast; m. 17 Jan. 1853 Mary Benson in St Catharines, Upper Canada; they had no children; d. there 11 Jan. 1906

late-Victorian, middle-class, rural culture that were common to many who made careers as lawyers and judges in Canada before World War I. When he was six or seven years old, his

professional training. He completed a 1st class certificate at the School of Musketry at Hythe, Kent, and passed into the Staff College at Camberley in December 1866. The 29th Foot was transferred to Canada in

Montreal city archives. He continued to be interested in geography, and in Montreal in 1912 he published his first book; entitled Terres et peuples du Canada, it had a preface by Desrosiers. This

workers. The conditions in the factory were widely publicized in testimony by injured and overworked men and children before the royal commission on the relations of labour and capital in Canada when it

RCA and her most famous work (now in the National Gallery of Canada), illustrates a tragic moment from an Irish ballad. As a young patriot makes his confession, the priest reveals himself to be a

immigrating to Upper Canada with his family at the age of 26. His sisters launched a ladies’ seminary in York (Toronto) in July 1831 and he apparently opened a dry goods business there before

. In 1926 McCormick Manufacturing absorbed several regional concerns and its long-time competitor, D. S. Perrin and Company, becoming in the process the Canada Biscuit Company

McDOUGAL, FRANCIS (Frank), businessman and politician; b. April 1826 in Lancaster, Upper Canada

in Lachine, Lower Canada. Alexander McDougall’s introduction to the fur trade may have come about through his brother Duncan, who married a sister of

. 8 Dec. 1852 in Lindsay, Upper Canada, son of Michael McEvay and Mary Lehane; d. 10 May 1911 in Toronto. Named

Indians); d. 15 Jan. 1799 on the Thames River, Upper Canada. As a young man Alexander McKee was a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania forces during

-Fortune, Lower Canada. However, in 1837 Daniel moved to Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, already the entrepôt of the Ottawa River timber trade. No longer working with his brother, he obtained

. 1766 at Loch Earn, Scotland, son of Donald McLaren; d. 25 Sept. 1844 in Port-au-Persil, Lower Canada. Neil McLaren belonged to the ancient

during the Napoleonic Wars – he was discharged as a sergeant from the 127th Lancers – Alexander McLeod emigrated to Upper Canada in the early 1820s. On two occasions he began a grocery business

 1853 in Martintown, Upper Canada. Alexander McMartin’s loyalist father settled in Charlottenburgh Township and in 1789 began acquiring land along the

McMULLEN, HULDAH S. (Rockwell), temperance reformer and editor; b. 22 Nov. 1854 in Picton, Upper Canada

Hamilton, Canada West; d. there 18 June 1886. Katie McVicar, daughter of a poor Scottish tinsmith and his English-born wife, joined two older

, Tuscarora Township, Canada West. Nawahjegezhegwabe, the son of Wahbanosay (Wabenose, Wobenosay), “a chief of the Messissauga Tribe of the Ojibway

of women who have been connected with Canada, ed. H. J. Morgan (Toronto, 1903). J. E. Middleton, “Music and the theatre in Canada,” Can. and its provinces (Shortt and

Cartier and had himself made a sketch, knew Canada well from having been there in 1585 at least; he had seen the ruins of his uncle’s forts, had gone as far as the rapids of Hochelaga (Montreal), and had

OUIMET, GÉDÉON, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 2 June 1823 in Sainte-Rose (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Jean

. Thwaites (2v., Chicago, 1905), I, 233. NYCD (O’Callaghan and Fernow), IX, 360, 681–82. Vachon de Belmont, Histoire du Canada, 20. Eccles, Canada under Louis XIV (Canadian

Canada. After leaving Ireland Felix O’Hara went to live in the colony of New Jersey. A naval lieutenant in the British forces, he was put on half pay

; baptized 15 June 1845 at Montreal, Canada East, son of Charles-Heliodore Panneton, businessman, and Zoë Durondu; d. unmarried on 3 Jan. 1890 at Montreal

PARÉ, HUBERT, businessman; b. 5 April 1803 at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu River, Lower Canada, son of Léon

-chance’ and other like suggestive, but unpoetic, sounds.” Whilst in Newfoundland Pedley travelled both in the United States and in Canada. He attended

return to Canada, he received authorization to practise medicine, and was appointed professor of physiology in the new Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, which had been established three years

. Louis Pennisseaut arrived in Canada around 1747 and settled there, dividing his time between Quebec and Montreal. “Quick and enterprising by nature,” he soon made friends with people in high office. On 2

Le Moyne* d’Iberville et d’Ardillières, and in 1918 for a narrative entitled “Mathias l’Anglais”), as a writer he focused on the history of French Canada. He

the affaire du Canada; b. c. 1724 near Brest, France; d. 9 Aug. 1784 at L’Acul (Dominican Republic). Charles-François

study, he did only one year of theology (La Flèche, 1634–35) before setting out for Canada. He reached Quebec 10 July 1635 and immediately departed for the Huron country, which he did not

; d. there 13 Feb. 1826 and was buried three days later at Sainte-Foy, Lower Canada. Joseph-Bernard Planté attended the Petit

near the Mississagi River, Upper Canada; d. 1891. Nothing is known of Ponekeosh’s family or early life. He was one of the chiefs or “Principal Men