Lower Canada . . . (London, 1799) would later persuade John Langton to immigrate to Upper Canada – and the noted travel writer Mariana Starke

 April 1858 on a farm in Westminster Township, Upper Canada, son of Alexander McCallum and Nancy (Annie, Anna) McAlpin (McAlpine, Macalpine); m. 28 Dec. 1881 Minnie Isabella Bruce in Cornwall

operated vessels between Montreal and the Maritimes in the summer and between the Maritimes and Portland, Maine, in the winter. He was also a director of the Merchants’ Marine Insurance Company of Canada and

Charlotte Guillimin, widow of Amable Trottier Desrivières, in Montreal, Lower Canada; d. there 19 Dec. 1813. A merchant

administrator; b. 14 April 1867 in Ingersoll, Upper Canada, son of David McLennan and Barbara Cunningham; m. 15 Sept. 1910 Elsie Monro Ramsay in Bowland, Scotland; they had no children; d

the Canadas, where émigré priests had found a refuge [see Philippe-Jean-Louis Desjardins

son of Richard Russell and his first wife, Elizabeth Warnar; d. 30 Sept. 1808 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada. Peter Russell was the

. Following their marriage in 1831, Susanna and her husband lived first in London then in Southwold for a year but poor economic prospects prompted a decision to emigrate to Canada. Undoubtedly Susanna had

, Patriote, and seigneur; b. 28 Sept. 1785 in Montreal, son of Louis Viger and Marie-Agnès Papineau; d. 27 May 1855 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, and was buried three days later in

native village and continued his studies in Derrykeighan and Loughgilly. It is not certain when he came to Canada, but his first employment here was in James Shepard Ryan’s Toronto hardware store in 1846

Dionne*, was a merchant, seigneur de La Pocatière, and mla for Kamouraska in Lower Canada’s House of Assembly. Despite his initial support for the 92

nearly 200 pages, based upon Sarrazin’s collections and notes, entitled “Histoire des plantes de Canada,” a sort of introductory study of a flora. Thanks to Bernard de Jussieu’s kindness no doubt, Gaultier

. 19 Feb. 1798 at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, third of seven children of Allan MacNab and Anne Napier; d. 8 Aug. 1862 at Hamilton, Canada West

1850. At the time Cazeau was appointed secretary in 1830, the Roman Catholic Church in Canada was suffering from a severe shortage of priests so that

, Lower Canada. Having lost his father by the time he was six and his mother when he was eight, John Molson was put under the guardianship of his

), army officer, author, newspaperman, and office holder; b. 4 Oct. 1796 probably at Fort George (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, son of Robert Richardson and Madelaine Askin; m

. The Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada Atlantic Steamship, Nova Scotia Telephone, and the bread and confectionery business of William Church Moir

. D’Alton McCarthy received his early education at schools directed by clergymen in Blackrock and near Dublin. The family immigrated to Upper Canada in 1847 and settled near Barrie, where D’Alton completed

evening of life,” he told his American friend Charles Eliot Norton. He was, as he remarked after Harriet died in 1909, “finally bound to Canada by the happiest event of my life

Pleasant, Upper Canada, son of George Bryce and Catherine Henderson; brother of Peter Henderson

Newmarket, Upper Canada, second of the five sons to survive childhood of the Reverend Thomas Swainston Campbell and Matilda Frances Wright; m. 6 Oct. 1883 Mary Louisa DeBelle (Dibble) in

for a commission in the corps of engineers. Evidently he came to Canada in 1683 under the nom de guerre of “La Liberté,” serving as a soldier and surveyor in the colonial regular troops

Alessandro Gavazzi to Canada [see Charles Wilson]. Chevalier, now co-owner of La Ruche

Ulster Recorder, which, he claimed, was forced to shut down because of pressure exerted by Lord Castlereagh. He emigrated to Upper Canada in 1818 and obtained a grant of 100 acres near York

the district of Quebec in January 1810. On 13 Jan. 1812 he was appointed to the Executive Council of Lower Canada. Three years later he received a nomination to the unsalaried position of

the Geological Survey of Canada, who thought he should be given an opportunity to inspire others with “that zeal for natural history work” which had earned him “such a prominent place among Canadian

dominion of Canada, a position which brought him in close contact with the Jewish communities of Toronto, Hamilton, and London, Ont. Although of orthodox doctrine and strict Sephardic tradition, de Sola

Canada, eldest son of Joseph Dennis and Mary Stoughton; m. 13 Sept. 1848 Sarah Maria Oliver, and they had several children; d. 7 July 1885 at Kingsmere, Que., and was buried at

Charles Dent immigrated with his family to Canada West as a small child. He studied law in the Brantford office of Edmund Burke

DUNN, OSCAR, journalist and public servant; b. 14 Feb. 1845 at Coteau-du-Lac, Canada East, son of William

 March 1838. His regiment had been ordered to New Brunswick in June 1834 and had made a renowned overland trek to Lower Canada in December 1837 to reinforce Sir John

the Fields Medal; b. 14 May 1863 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, son of John Charles Fields and Henrietta (Harriet) Bowes; d. unmarried 9 Aug. 1932 in Toronto and was buried two days

was likely born into one of the wide connections in the forefront of what was known as the “Canada trade.” Consisting principally of Hunters, Patersons, Parkers, Robertsons, and Dunlops in London

, Joseph*, settled in Kingston, Upper Canada, ten years later and did business with Phyn, Ellices, and Inglis, successor firm to Phyn, Ellice and Company, through their Montreal branch. Following Robert

in Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume Fournier and Marie-Archange Morin; m. 22 July 1857 Hermine Demers in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets (Les Becquets

, England; d. 27 June 1826 in Farnham, Lower Canada. Samuel Gale came to America about 1770, apparently as a paymaster in the British army

GIBBONS, Sir GEORGE CHRISTIE, lawyer, businessman, and representative of Canada; b. 2 July 1848 in St Catharines

GIROUARD, DÉSIRÉ, lawyer, politician, judge, and author; b. 7 July 1836 in Saint-Timothée, Lower Canada

with unanimous appreciation. On his arrival in Canada in August 1675 he took up residence in the seminary of Quebec while working in the secretariat of the bishopric. Several documents in the “Livre du

facilitated Hazen’s entry into the timber business. The following year he signed a personal agreement with Samuel McKay, deputy surveyor for the navy in Canada, and a London naval supplier, John Henniker, to

(Etobicoke), Upper Canada, elder son of William Pearce Howland* and Mary Ann Blyth, widow of David Webb; m. 18 Oct. 1872 in Saint

HUNTINGTON, LUCIUS SETH, lawyer, journalist, businessman, politician, and author; b. 26 May 1827 at Compton, Lower Canada

(near Brights Grove, Ont.) and was buried in Plympton Township, Upper Canada. Henry Jones, founder of Canada’s only Owenite community and perhaps the

backers applied for a patent giving them the sole right to trade and settle in Canada. Sir William Alexander complained that such a patent would infringe upon the land granted to him under the Great

 April 1808 at Blythe Hall, near Ormskirk, England, youngest of four children of Thomas Langton and Ellen Currer; m. 8 May 1845 Lydia Dunsford in Verulam Township, Upper Canada, and they had six

-Geneviève Joybert de Soulanges; d. 19 Jan. 1807 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Joseph-Dominique-Emmanuel Le Moyne de Longueuil’s noble descent

Lindsay’s senior. He later recalled that Bill was a “small, chubby boy.” In 1897 Lindsay went to Kingston’s Royal Military College of Canada, where he obtained a three-year degree in engineering. During his

interests in the early summer of 1925 when he played a significant role in negotiating a trade agreement between Canada and the British West Indies.) Equally important, King wanted Marler’s help in preparing

a year he met such musical figures as Ignaz Moscheles, Karl Czerny, and, more important, Ludwig van Beethoven, and possibly Franz Schubert. On his return to Lower Canada the following year Molt

. Elizabeth –, “the daughter of an old Servant of the Crown,” and they had at least six children; d. 7 April 1810 at Four Mile Creek, Niagara Township, Upper Canada