States and preached briefly with immense effect in Upper Canada. Nothing is known of his early years except that he was converted in 1791 and achieved sanctification or holiness in 1792. He was taken on

. 1891 in Charlottetown at age 77. Fanny Amelia Wright came to Lower Canada in 1833 when her father, a captain in the Royal Engineers, was posted

Hannah Palmer and Dr William Yates; m. 8 Sept. 1846 at Kingston, Canada West, Jane Bower, and they had three daughters; d. 11 March 1882 at Kingston

. David Young was an orphan when he came to Canada at the age of ten to live with his uncle, Robert Young, in Georgetown, Canada West. In his early teens he ran away from home and over the next six years

ended when the government of Canada suppressed it with the troops sent to put down the Métis rebellion in 1885 [see Louis Riel

AIKINS, WILLIAM HENRY BEAUFORT, physician, medical editor, and founder of radiotherapy in Canada; b. 22 Aug. 1859 in Toronto

 1834 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Louis Archambault, a farmer, and Angélique Prud’homme; brother of Louis

, however, claimed that he had been born in County Monaghan (Republic of Ireland) and had come to Canada with his parents, who settled in Toronto in 1852; Irish origins are supported by census returns

. Two years later his parents, along with Thomas and his sister, immigrated to Upper Canada and settled on the farm of their eldest son, in Downie Township, Perth County. In 1853 Thomas was hired to teach

, politician, and author; b. 24 March 1848 in Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie (Lanoraie), Lower Canada, son of Louis Beaugrand, dit Champagne, a mariner, and Marie-Josephte (Joséphine) Marion; m

, “a steady Loyalist during the american war”; m. with three children; fl. 1799–1814. Elijah Bentley’s life in Upper Canada is little more

 Quebec. Edward Bowen came to Lower Canada in 1797, after finishing his secondary education at Drogheda Academy (Republic of Ireland). His great-aunt, the

of Ireland); m. Ann Hall, and they had nine children; d. 20 May 1864 at Toronto, Canada West. John George Bowes came to Upper

Bobcaygeon, Upper Canada, son of Mossom Boyd and Caroline Dunsford; m. 5 Sept. 1883 Ida Lillian DeGrassi (d. 1942) in Lindsay, Ont., and they had four sons and three daughters; d. 8

agent of the treasurers general of the Marine in Canada, who was visiting France. By 1752 Brassard Deschenaux was in a position to buy at public auction the house of Nicolas

returned to Europe in 1851, and concerned himself particularly with the writing of an Histoire du Canada. . . . The work was dedicated “to His Excellency Jean-Bernard Fitzpatrick, bishop

firm selling paper and office supplies, in Hamilton, a city becoming the distribution centre for the north and west of Upper Canada. Buntin formed a partnership with his brother James on 1 May 1852

the union or in recognition of his family’s prominence in local Irish politics, Burton was appointed lieutenant governor of Lower Canada on 29 Nov. 1808. For more than a decade thereafter he was

appointed deputy agent to the Six Nations in Canada in October, and Campbell’s responsibilities were thereby reduced to some extent. But since Haldimand seems to have been friendly to him and Guy Johnson was

1 Sept. 1886 of the much larger Canada Atlantic Railway, controlled by timber magnate John Rudolphus

CLARKE, LIONEL HERBERT, grain merchant and office holder, b. 20 July 1859 in Guelph, Upper Canada, son of William Clarke and Clara

into a church in Jersey City, N.J. After returning to Scotland to be married, he visited Brantford, Upper Canada, in 1861. Shortly thereafter he

Boston, son of John Coffin* and Isabella Child; d. 18 July 1841 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

businessman; b. 3 Oct. 1819 at Fort Malden, Amherstburg, Upper Canada, only child of Michel Coursol and Mélanie Quesnel; m. 16 Jan. 1849 at Montreal, Émilie-Hélène-Henriette, daughter of

Rose*, he came to Canada and entered the public service on 2 June as chief clerk and assistant secretary to the Treasury Board, under John

they had two sons and eight daughters; d. 13 Nov. 1858 in Prescott, Upper Canada. Nothing is known of Samuel Crane’s early life but by May

Newfoundland’s union with Canada and, in both 1909 and 1915–16, he served as an intermediary in failed discussions between Canadian and Newfoundland politicians and the Reid Newfoundland Company on the matter. His

. Sarah – and they had six sons and at least two daughters; d. 5 Sept. 1849 in Kingston, Upper Canada. A brewer, James Cull moved in 1803

 Feb. 1862 at Nottawa, Upper Canada, son of John Currie and Catherine McAllister; m. 6 June 1893 Elizabeth Helen Sparks (d. 2 April 1938) in Toronto, and they had one daughter; d

 June 1863 in Upton-Partie-Nord-Est (Saint‑Guillaume), Lower Canada, son of Antoine Lesieur-Desaulniers, a physician, and Hélène-Lucil-Virginie Tellier; m. 5 July 1887 Elizabeth Martin in the

Kingston, Upper Canada, son of John Robinson Dickson*, a physician, and Ann (Anne) Benson; d. unmarried 9 July 1938 in Toronto and

. The three brothers, who hoped to obtain real estate in Montreal left by their grandfather, contended that their uncle, an alien, could not inherit property in Canada, and that they, born in Canada, were

of allegiance on 30 June. In addition, he was given commissions as captain and second major in the 3rd Select Embodied Militia Battalion of Lower Canada on 25 May 1812 and 25 Sept

in Upper Canada to Kingston, Toronto, and Hamilton, before a relapse of malaria in 1863 forced him to take a year’s leave. The nerves and muscles of his hands atrophied so badly that he was

, with highly skilled curlers who favoured a hitting style. In the winter of 1922–23 a large group of curlers from Scotland visited cities in Canada and the United States, and they left a record of their

they had four sons and a daughter; d. 22 March 1833 in Hamilton, Upper Canada. James Durand arrived in British North America in 1802 as an

 Oct. 1798 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Démarest, a carpenter, and Louise Patrie; m. 15 June 1825 Marie-Jovite Descombes-Porcheron, widow of notary Roger-François

involvement with Canada began in 1885 when the Canadian Pacific Railway invited him to assist in the relocation, from

married, he set sail for Canada, armed with testimonials from architects Joseph Taylor, Thomas Dickinson, and James Aitken attesting to his excellent drafting skills and industrious work habits. A friend in

(Stirling), teacher, missionary, and physician; b. 14 Oct. 1846 in Bowmanville, Upper Canada, daughter of David Fairweather, a shopkeeper, and Anna

 Aug. 1859 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada. Joseph-Édouard Faribault was a clerk in his father’s office by the age of 15 and received his commission as

Memorial Hospital admitted its first patients in January 1904 and can be considered one of the first institutions in Canada devoted to the treatment of children’s orthopaedic diseases

Hamilton; m. 18 Dec. 1862 Janet Clarke Innes (d. 1917) in Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 7 July 1921 in Kensington (London), England

GAGE, Sir WILLIAM JAMES, teacher, businessman, and philanthropist; b. 16 Sept. 1849 in Toronto Township, Upper Canada, son

firm sent nearly 100 boatloads of general merchandise to Upper Canada in 1817. In December 1821 Gerrard sold his share in the three firms to his partners for £40,000

circumstances bringing him to Lower Canada. He arrived at Quebec in 1814 at the age of 15 and went to work as a clerk for William Torrance who, like his brothers

 Oct. 1851 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Henry Gildersleeve came from a family of shipbuilders: both his father and his grandfather, Obadiah Gildersleeve

; b. 24 Dec. 1801 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Gosselin, a miller, and Thérèse Viger; m. 21 Aug. 1830 Mary Graddon at Quebec, and they had at least two children; d

GRAFTON, JAMES BEATTY, businessman and politician; b. 9 Sept. 1826 in Toronto Township, Upper Canada, son of Stewart Grafton

unidentified, while his mother is known only through the probate of his will, where she appears as “Mary Roche, heretofore Hall”; d. unmarried 7 Feb. 1818 in Kingston, Upper Canada