Ernestown (Bath), Upper Canada. In 1777 William Fairfield’s father, a farmer in southwestern Vermont who had managed to clear only a small portion of his

career he was vice-president of the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company Limited and the Eastern Canada Savings and Loan Company. In 1900 he helped found the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nova

FIELD, ELEAKIM, iron producer and founder; fl. 1831–35 in Upper Canada

championship of Canada) in 1908, 1909, and 1910. Con Jones, owner of the Vancouver Lacrosse Club, set out to assemble a team that could beat New Westminster, and any other team. He fixed his sights on two

of Philadelphia) even hints that she was aware of living in exciting times in Lower Canada. But all the tales have a distinct flavour and a decided moral lesson. In the fashion of the polite literature

1st riding of York in the assembly; his electorate, despite later changes, always included both Mimico and Woodbridge, and his political stronghold was Etobicoke. He opposed the union of the Canadas as

sometime before April 1745. Charles-René Gaudron de Chevremont came to Canada in 1726 as one of Governor Charles de

Montreal, he made a survey of the timber-producing potential of the upper St Lawrence and Upper Canada. As a result of this survey, it was decided to establish a firm in Quebec under the name of Allan

, Goldstein was also concerned about the acculturation of “foreign” Jews into Canadian society, which led him to advocate and support controlled Jewish immigration to Canada

. A pioneer sports leader and writer, Henry J. P. Good linked two of the principal institutions that gave Canada’s burgeoning cities their public discourse

iron foundry Good was able to bid on contracts for several locomotives at the beginning of the first major railway boom in Canada. Between 1853 and 1855 he built nine engines, at an average cost of

Canada, youngest son of Joseph Graham and Ann Brown (LeBrun); m. 15 July 1873 Mary Jane Aikins, daughter of James Cox Aikins*, and

Thompson; m. 7 Aug. 1864 Caroline Drum in Sillery, Lower Canada, and they had one son; d. 2 June 1917 in Brighton, England. Almost

GRIER, ROSE JANE ELIZABETH, educator and author; b. 10 Feb. 1832 in Carrying Place, Upper Canada, eldest daughter of John

Gugy had to record statements and administer oaths to those holding “bills of exchange of Canada, payment orders, card-money and certificates,” who were to be reimbursed by France. Three commissioners

Port (Trenton), Upper Canada, son of John Vandal Ham and Eliza Anne Eleanor Clute; m. 24 Dec. 1870 Martha Helen Blow in Shannonville, Ont., and they had two daughters and three sons; d. 16

, Upper Canada, son of John Harris and Jane Jones; m. first 12 April 1876 Susan Elizabeth Smith (d. 1918) in Waltham, Iowa; they had no children who survived birth; m. secondly 15

capture of Île aux Noix, wrote that had Bougainville been able to hold out for as long as had been hoped, “Canada might have perhaps been saved for this year.” With the rangers in the vanguard, Haviland

Tibbermore, Newbigging (Tayside), Scotland, the youngest child of Robert Hay and Bettrice Henderson; m. 18 Nov. 1847 in Toronto, Canada West, Mary Dunlop (1828–71), of Glasgow, Scotland, and they had

hesitate to rent the building to the parliament of the United Canadas on a six-month lease at £125 per month. Three years later during the great fire of 1852 Hayes House itself burned to the ground, and

Republic of Germany) and was sent to Canada shortly afterwards; he was at Quebec in 1734. Nine years later he was appointed superior and parish priest of Trois-Rivières, and in 1744 he went to the convent in

FREDERICK, harness maker, businessman, and politician; b. 13 June 1855 in Newboro, Upper Canada, son of Elijah Hutchings and Harriet Gifford; brother of Robert John

. Like many English Canadians, Iffland was an early supporter of the idea of the union of Upper and Lower Canada. But despite an effort, unsuccessful, to win election to the legislature for Gaspé in 1834

could provide. Louis Riel was their choice, and a delegation was sent to Montana to seek his aid. Its only English member, Isbister worked hand in hand with Riel upon his return to Canada, trying to

. Joseph-André-Mathurin Jacrau must have arrived in Canada by 1725; he received the tonsure and minor orders from Bishop Saint-Vallier

Pickering Township, Upper Canada, and was buried at Columbus (Oshawa), Upper Canada. Philip James experienced an evangelical conversion in 1820 on the St

. Although his formal education was limited, “Bill” Johnston learned blacksmithing and boat building as a youth in Ernestown Township, Upper Canada, and in the years 1804–13 operated first a lake freighting

cholera at the Grand River, Upper Canada. The name Kenwendeshon, borne in the early 19th century by the subject of this biography, apparently belonged to

Charles-Louis), Sulpician and missionary; b. 12 Jan. 1795 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada, younger son of Antoine Lefebvre de Bellefeuille, seigneur of Cournoyer, and Louise-Angélique

in Canada, he used his considerable language skills to make a living as an intermediary between Canadian authorities and migrants from China. Lew

Alma Hopkins Freeman in St Thomas, Upper Canada, and they had at least three children; d. there 13 or 14 Oct. 1833. The date of Asahel

 JAMES ALEXANDER, carpenter, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 1 Sept. 1854 in Brampton, Upper Canada, son of John Lougheed and Mary Ann

medal by the Société pour l’Encouragement des Sciences et des Arts en Canada, founded in Quebec, for his painting Le massacre des Hurons par les Iroquois. Despite obvious weaknesses, the

Montreal Stock Exchange, where Mackintosh was a full member, and were resold to customers throughout eastern Canada. By at least 1912 J. C

, Scotland, he came to Canada in 1873. He was received on trial as a minister of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1875 and spent two years northwest of London, Ont., before entering Victoria College, Cobourg

Danville, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Marceau and Marie-Onésime Morier; m. 21 July 1879, in Montreal, Elvina Tassé, daughter of François-Zéphirin Tassé, a physician, mla

, and author; b. 16 March 1791 at Quebec, son of Joseph Marcoux and Marie Vallière; d. 29 May 1855 on the Caughnawaga (Kahnawake) reserve, Lower Canada

after John’s birth to serve as a ship’s doctor. In 1849 he sent his family to Philadelphia and a year later they all moved to Brantford, Upper Canada. In October 1855, at the age of 13, John started

; she bore him two daughters, whom he brought back with him to Lower Canada. The exact date of this return is not known, but it was certainly at the beginning of the 19th century, since Mayrand married

 Jan. 1846 in Woodstock, Upper Canada, son of William Mills and Elise — ; m. secondly 12 Oct. 1886 Katharine Sophia Bagg in Montreal, and they had a son; d. 4 May 1917

The fourth-generation head of one of Canada’s most successful business dynasties, Herbert Molson (1875–1938

MONK, HENRY WENTWORTH, farmer, social reformer, author, and journalist; b. 6 April 1827 in March Township, Upper Canada

. As a faithful subject, Monro in July 1794 had signed a declaration of loyalty to the constitution and government instituted in Lower Canada by Great Britain, and in 1797 he served on the jury at

evident. Until this time his writings had been positive and promotional with regard to Canada but he was now less sanguine about the country’s prospects. He amplified his position in The United States

MOORE, JOHN THOMAS, accountant, businessman, and politician; b. 3 July 1844 in Markham Township, Upper Canada, son of William

seamstresses during a strike in 1899 which established one of the first unions of women wage-earners in western Canada, and he pressed for legislation to improve conditions in the workplace. He also urged that

. 11 April 1868 at Buffalo, N.Y. Michael Murphy came to York (Toronto), Upper Canada, from Ireland with his parents as a young boy. He

family emigrated early in the 1840s. They became pioneers on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Upper Canada. Louisa served as a schoolteacher while beginning to write with the encouragement of her neighbour

McCABE, WILLIAM, teacher and businessman; b. 12 June 1835 in Hallowell (Picton), Upper Canada, son of John

British North America with his family and settled at Martintown, Upper Canada. In February 1799 Allan, who signed his name McDonell, joined the Montreal fur-trading firm of Forsyth, Richardson and