HANNA, WILLIAM JOHN, teacher, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 13 Oct. 1862 in Adelaide Township, Upper Canada, son

HART, AARON EZEKIEL, lawyer, militia officer, and office holder; b. 24 June 1803 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of

, England, daughter of John Hayr; m. 13 June 1860 Robert Jack (d. 1900), probably in Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada, and they had 12 children, 11 of whom survived to adulthood; d. 15

Aberdeen, John returned home to work at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Georgina and the girls stayed on, intending to travel back to Canada in mid September on the Athenia’s sister ship

became familiar with the deep discontents that stirred many people in both Upper and Lower Canada. The outbreak of rebellion in the lower province in 1837 [see Wolfred

HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM, marble cutter, sculptor, and teacher; b. 8 May 1861 in Shipton (Danville), Lower Canada, son of George

. unmarried 18 Nov. 1889 at Sussex, N.B. William George Richardson Hind, the son of a lace manufacturer, immigrated to Canada in 1851 and

York, where a French businessman by the name of Bonnefoux (Bonnafoux) recruited him for the Patriote army in Lower Canada and introduced him to Ludger

Montreal, Que. After studying in Dublin and at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, Henry Howard immigrated to Kingston, Canada West, in 1842. He

 Oct. 1833 Margaret Seaman, a widow, and they had no children; d. 24 Nov. 1843 in Brockville, Upper Canada. Peter Howard’s father was a

year the offices of surveyor general and commissioner of lands were reunited under Baillie. Hurd was transferred to Upper Canada to succeed its late surveyor general, Thomas

 Dec. 1735 in the parish of Stamford, Conn., son of Joseph Jessup and Abigail James; m. 1760 Abigail Dibble, and they had two children; d. 3 Feb. 1816 in Prescott, Upper Canada

or 1758 in the Hudson River valley, N.Y., son of Ebenezar Jones; d. 16 Nov. 1836 near Paris, Upper Canada. Augustus Jones’s grandfather

as a poet soon expanded from that of an Irish bard celebrating his homeland and lamenting its wrongs to that of a minstrel singing about the natural beauties of the Canadas and sighing over the plight

 March 1833 at Saint-Jean, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of Nazaire Larne and Adélaïde Roy; m. 10 July 1860 Marie-Alphonsine, daughter of Judge Philippe

City, son of Joseph Laurin and Catherine Fluet; m. 3 Sept. 1839, in the parish of Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), Lower Canada, Marie-Louise, daughter of merchant Étienne Dalaire (Dallaire); d

Canada in 1657 and settled in Montreal, where he formed a business partnership with his brother-in-law, Charles Le Moyne, the following year. Thanks to the fur trade, their enterprise quickly prospered. Le

. Born into a respectable Anglo-Irish family, Stephen Lett was educated privately and at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Little is known about his early career except that he joined the militia in 1862

. 17 June 1790 Marianne Melvin in Quebec City; d. there 11 Jan. 1834, and was buried 14 January in Saint-Charles-Borromée parish at Charlesbourg, Lower Canada

traditional family, and a classical approach to the civil law, and fearful of the effects of capitalism on these institutions in French Canada, Bibaud undoubtedly helped orient Lorimier towards his belief that

Lorimier* de La Rivière and Marie-Louise Lepallieur de Laferté; d. 7 June 1825 in Caughnawaga (Kahnawake), Lower Canada. Claude

-in-chief of the British army, not by the Canadian government. Luard’s genuine qualifications, experience with a part-time volunteer force, and previous service in Canada were unfortunately countered by

career in Upper Canada would be fully committed to a merger of the tutorial and the spiritual. Following a medical discharge from the army and his

L’HEUREUX, JEAN, interpreter; b. c. 1837 in Lower Canada; d. 19 March 1919 in Midnapore, Alta

Township, Upper Canada, youngest of six children of George MacKay, a farmer, and Helen Sutherland; m. May 1878 Tui Chang-mia, and they had a son and two daughters; d. 2 June 1901 in

MACLEAN, WILLIAM FINDLAY, newspaperman and politician; b. 10 Aug. 1854 in Ancaster, Upper Canada, eldest son of John Maclean

MACPHERSON, DAVID MURDOCH, farmer, manufacturer, and politician; b. 17 Nov. 1847 in Lancaster Township, Upper Canada

education would have relished the title posthumously bestowed on him by the trade, “dean of Canada’s furniture manufacturers.” Malcolm’s character had none

 Jan. 1849 in Kingston, Upper Canada. The names of Anthony Manahan’s parents and his early circumstances are unknown, but it is evident that he came of

president of the Confédération des Travailleurs Catholiques du Canada. Many members had at that time left the Knights of Labor and, according to Marois, the organization did not recover from the blow in

officer; b. 29 Sept. 1865 in Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, son of Henri-Adolphe Mignault, a physician, and Marie-Émélie-Valérie Brodeur; m. probably 23 Dec. 1912

Massachusetts; m. Mercy – , and they had at least four children; d. 26 July 1806 in Markham Township, Upper Canada. Abner Miles’s early

MILLER, ROBERT, livestock breeder and importer; b. 15 July 1857 in Brougham (Pickering), Upper Canada, third son of John

. Mulock was educated at Upper Canada College and at the University of Toronto, where his father was vice-chancellor and which he left after 1901, prior to graduating but with his future secured. In 1897 his

the United States in 1892, under Albion Woodbury Small, and was the most important centre for this discipline. (The Royal Society of Canada would adopt it as a field of study only in 1912 [see

years McCaul published several textbooks, treatises, and editions with classical themes and authors. In 1838 Upper Canada College in Toronto was

Charles McLean, a merchant, and Jannet Watson; m. in 1861 Kathleen Wilhelmina, daughter of the Reverend Richard Flood and Frances Mary Blake, at London, Canada West, and they had ten children; d

 March 1801 Mary Ann Fraser in Fredericksburg (North and South Fredericksburg) Township, Upper Canada, and they had one son; d. 5 April 1820 en route from York (Toronto) to Belleville

. Jean Orillat came to Canada when he was quite young and soon took an interest in business. It is not known whether he brought capital from France, but in 1757 he signed on 16 men as engagés to

France. His duties included writing press communiqués and directing photographers and cinematographers. At this time, he also continued to develop his political ideas. “The issue in Canada after the war is

Bank of Nova Scotia, the Standard Bank of Canada, and the Union Bank. The Canadian bank branch system allowed the firm to practise in every province; its most important early client was the Canadian Bank

Scotland to New York City, where he taught mathematics and geography and married Clementine Menzies in 1843. In 1865 he moved his family to Woodstock, Upper Canada, and established a woollen factory and a

railway charters in the Ottawa and Montreal areas and amalgamated the charters to form the Canada Atlantic Railway which would run from Ottawa to the American border by way of the port of Montreal. Perley

secretary of the Bureau of Agriculture and the Board of Agriculture of Lower Canada (created in 1852), in succession to William Evans* who had

their infant son, Dennis, immigrated to Canada from England in May 1874. The family first settled in Toronto; Ernest found work (the city directory for 1877 would describe him as an accountant), and

and Lower Canada and in 1823 spoke at the farewell dinner before Papineau left for England with John Neilson* to fight successfully against the

 Aug. 1931 in Montreal. Charles Alfred Riordon was one of the pioneers in the development of Canada’s modern pulp and paper industry. He was born

. 1888 in Quebec City. The son of a merchant, James Gibb Ross came to Canada and settled in Quebec City at the age of 15. Entering the

. A fervent royalist, Sanguinet took an active political part in the defence of Canada, using his time, his money, and his social contacts. He was one of eight Montrealers made responsible for preparing

Robinson*, and they had a daughter and five sons; d. 13 Sept. 1914 in London, Ont. William Saunders came to Canada with his parents