sons and two daughters; d. 5 May 1847 in Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada. Charles Shirreff came from a Scottish family of merchants and

recovered. During this period Smith visited Grimsby, in the Niagara peninsula of Upper Canada. There fruit was being grown for local use and he recognized

on the first of these boards in 1900–1. In the late 1890s she and her husband had begun to play important roles in the Montreal branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, she as chair of the

Fredericksburgh (North and South Fredericksburgh) Township, Upper Canada. About 1767 Benjamin Spencer moved his family from Rhode Island to what is now Vermont

, England, son of the Reverend Thomas Stevens and Sarah –; m. 4 Sept. 1820 Elizabeth Nelles in Grimsby, Upper Canada, and they had six children, of whom two died in infancy; d. 13

Green*, and they had eight children, of whom five survived childhood; d. 5 June 1858 in Sillery, Lower Canada. Nothing is known of

the same time, he did not hesitate to call for more assistance from the international unions, reminding organizers that “Montreal is not the eastern extremity of Canada, despite the fact that some of

. Sullivan first came to Canada in July 1893 to take up the post of assistant engineer for the Alberta Railway and Coal Company [see Sir Alexander Tilloch

time its first and only representative to come to Canada, Thomas-Jacques Taschereau, arrived in the country. He was descended from a line of royal or municipal officials whose toponymical surname was

Brampton, Upper Canada, son of John Todd and Isabella Hunter; m. first 25 Jan. 1854, in Brampton, Anne Fox (d. 1866), and they had two sons and two daughters, of whom a son and a daughter

performance. In 1878, for example, the Notre-Dame de Beauport one took first prize in a competition held at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal in which musicians from all across Canada took part. In 1879

 1843 in Hamilton, Upper Canada. Although James Matthew Whyte’s family background and early experiences are obscure, he apparently was born into

in Russia chose to leave, Wiebe persuaded the entire colony of Bergthal to immigrate to Canada during the years 1874 to 1876. Wilhelm Hespeler

strong interest in contemporary events and a natural ability to record them. His presence in the northwest during the critical years of the transfer of power from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Canada and of

 April 1864 in Sainte-Julie, Lower Canada, son of Azari Bienvenu, a day labourer, and Marie-Louise-Odile-Octavie Chagnon, dit Larose; m. 13 May 1885 Clara Martin in the parish of

. probably in England; m. secondly 23 April 1793 Jane Holmes, widow of the merchant Charles Grant, at Quebec, Lower Canada; d. 24 June 1819 in Bath, England

-way trade between Canada, the West Indies, and France. Jean Bourdon became a prominent figure in the colony. In 1645 he was appointed acting governor

, Cannon represented Georges‑A. Vandry and insurance companies, first in the Supreme Court of Canada and then, in 1920, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, in the case of Quebec

CRONYN, HUME BLAKE, soldier, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 28 Aug. 1864 in London, Upper Canada, son of Verschoyle

Indian affairs, whom he supplied with goods as late as 1817, and George Ermatinger, a merchant of Amherstburg, Upper Canada, whom he supplied in conjunction with Frederick William

, a hatter, and Hannah Dean; m. 12 Jan. 1816 in Dunham Township, Lower Canada, Sophronia Frary of Montreal, and they had at least four children, one of whom was living in Iowa at the time of

Leneuf* de La Poterie, had arrived in Canada in 1636 and had made his permanent home at Trois-Rivières in 1640. His paternal grandfather, Simon

secretary of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lower Canada and grand director of ceremonies. He was elected in 1821 to a committee, chaired by Joseph-François

parents to Lower Canada and soon found employment as a teacher near L’Orignal, Upper Canada. About three years later he and his wife moved to Augusta Township, on the St Lawrence River, where he

. John Gerald FitzGerald’s paternal great-grandfather had emigrated to Upper Canada from Clones, County Monaghan (Republic of Ireland), in 1824. His mother was English born. Gerry, as the young boy was

, Canada East, son of Antoine Gérin, dit Lajoie, and Amable Gélinas; m. 14 Oct. 1873 at Trois-Rivières Marie-Agathe-Élodie Dufresne; d. during the night of 18–19 Aug. 1887 at

general for the province of Quebec in Brussels; b. 26 Dec. 1866 in Sainte-Scholastique (Mirabel), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Langlois and Olympe Clément (Proulx, dit Clément); m. 24

LE GALLO, MARIE, named Marie de Sainte-Élisabeth, founder and provincial superior of the Daughters of Jesus in Canada

 Potherie went back to France. On 1 May 1698 he was appointed comptroller of the Marine and of the fortifications in Canada, and arrived at Quebec on 28 November, just in time to attend

deep concern to Le Vasseur Borgia. In the house on 6 March 1815 he had argued with conviction in favour of the adoption in Lower Canada of British civil law and the repeal of the Coutume de

(Aberchalder); d. 14 Oct. 1812 in Queenston, Upper Canada. Little is known of John Macdonell’s early life. In 1792 his family immigrated to

in 1981. On his arrival in Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, in August 1826, Mactaggart was assigned to check the route recommended by Samuel

. In the fall of 1836 she reluctantly came to Toronto to join her husband who in 1833 had become attorney general of Upper Canada. Jameson was hoping to be appointed to the vice-chancellorship of the

Seven, the Toronto-based painters who gave Canada a visual identity to accompany its birth as a nation in the years leading up to and the decade and a half following the First World War. Since he was the

author; b. 27 Dec. 1842 in Sydenham (Owen Sound), Upper Canada, son of George Millward McDougall*, a farmer who was to

records. In the 1880s as well Nanton became involved in the Manitoba Cartage and Warehousing Company, one of the early important businesses in Winnipeg and western Canada. Elected a director within a few

PEEL, ANNA BELLA (Durie), war mother and author; b. 13 Nov. 1856 in Thornhill, Upper Canada, second daughter of John

. According to the anonymous author of the “Mémoire du Canada,” the huge warehouses that he had erected on his seigneury of Saint-Michel (Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse) were the loading point for wheat being sent

. 17 June 1851 in Bolton Township, Lower Canada, son of Orrin Rexford and Eliza Dimond; m. 13 Sept. 1882 Louisa Norris in Montreal, and they had five sons and three daughters; d. 21

family to Canada and settled on a farm near London, Ont. James went to work in a cheese factory at Ingersoll; he learned so rapidly that by 1884 he was managing eight factories. This success and his

. secondly 1811 Elizabeth Playter (they had no children); d. 18 July 1824 at his residence in Haldimand Township, Upper Canada. David McGregor

after graduation Ross seriously considered entering the Presbyterian ministry, but an opportunity to teach at Upper Canada College changed his mind. However, the death of an older brother, William, in

with his famous waiver, he returned to Quebec in the autumn of 1682, at the time when Frontenac, who had received his recall to France, was preparing to leave Canada

Delezenne; m. 16 Aug. 1815 Mary Ann Bulmer in London, and they had at least five children; d. 15 Dec. 1834 in Les Éboulements, Lower Canada

Although fervent in his hatred of slavery, English-born John Scoble (1799–1877) was not free of prejudice. He was drawn to Canada

army, but an opportunity awaited him in Upper Canada instead. Concern over the lack of people qualified to guard the province’s increasing livestock population against disease had prompted Adam

Salisbury offered him the governor generalship of Canada. Stanley accepted almost at once. He was gazetted on 1 May and was in Quebec a month later. He and his wife were delighted with the prospects from

City when, in 1840, he produced his seminal work: The presentation of a newly-elected chief of the Huron tribe, Canada demonstrates his technical competence and is the painting on which his

. In 1819 Thomson wound up his mercantile business to become proprietor and editor of the Upper Canada Herald, a weekly journal which began publication that September as a rival of the

Laurier to follow the lead of Germany, Britain, and the United States in the area of national trade exhibitions. In 1902, when Canada was vying