BROWN, ADA MARY (Courtice), educator, social reformer, and office holder; b. 4 Nov. 1860 near Bloomfield, Upper Canada

-Dominique de Calonne and Anne-Henriette de Franqueville; d. 16 Oct. 1822 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada. In the 15th century the Calonnes

Toronto, Ont. Frederick Chase Capreol received a “commercial education” in England before arriving in Canada in 1828. For the next two years he

immigrated to Lower Canada in 1858 after having worked briefly in Europe and the United States. Other members of the Carli family would join him. Skilled

Scott*), Carman was lifted to fame in Canada by the wave of post-confederation nationalism and its accompanying call for a distinctive and distinguished Canadian literature. Outside the country

-Claver), organ builder and tuner, and businessman; b. 16 Sept. 1855 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Casavant

government. On 23 June 1847 he gave a dismal assessment, in the assembly, of its accomplishments, denouncing its favouritism towards Upper Canada and condemning as ineffective the measures passed to

to France by Bishop Ignace Bourget who sought to bring the Clerics of St Viator to Canada, he left France

 1792 in West Boylstone, Mass.; m., probably in 1819, Lydia F. Chadwick of Worcester, Mass., and they had two children who survived infancy; d. 6 March 1859 in Coaticook, Lower Canada

Jemima Mason; m. 29 Aug. 1795 Elizabeth Hare in Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, and they had four children, three of whom survived infancy; fl. 1790–1807 in Upper Canada

Britain in August 1791, Clarke took over command of the British forces in North America and the administration of what that month became the province of Lower Canada. His major task as civil administrator

, England, elder child of Richard Clarke and Jane Drury; m. first 2 June 1852 Emma Kent (d. 1878) in Williamsville, Haldimand County, Upper Canada, and they had four daughters and one son

its own products. Although the firm had been in a precarious financial position in the 1840s, it was now on a solid footing and became one of Canada’s largest foundries. In 1861 it had 65 employees on

press. Demers refused to admit defeat and got his business back into operation. He was able to provide space in the building for Le Courrier du Canada, which was owned by Thomas Chapais, and

Dewart and Margaret Hartley; m. 25 June 1856 Dorothy Matilda Hunt in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had three sons, of whom two survived childhood; d. 17 June 1903 in Toronto

lla (lady literate in arts), the equivalent to the ma awarded to men. From 1885 to 1900 she divided her time between Great Britain and Canada. After 1900 she

activities, the fur trade, Ermatinger was among the pioneers of new business directions. On 7 Aug. 1817 he was elected a director of the first banking institution in the Canadas, the Bank of Montreal

served as a missionary in India from 1875 to 1921, except for brief periods when she returned to Canada or made trips abroad. During her years there she lost three children and, in 1908, her husband. She

boys whose parents were serving abroad. Some basis for the suggestion that he was an orphan is provided by the fact that he did not proceed to university but in 1836 immigrated to Upper Canada, where he

. The Fidlers were a railway family who probably located first at Brantford when they arrived in Upper Canada in 1856. Brantford was an important railway town that became integrated into the national

Division of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Her contributions were recognized by her being made a life member by the Shubenacadie branch

. probably 14 Oct. 1855 in St George, Upper Canada, son of John L. Fraser and Nancy Clark (Clarke); m. 1 Feb. 1893 Mary Dorothy Purves (Purvis) (1867–1927) in Beloit, Wisc., and they had five sons and three

daughters; d. 12 Nov. 1853 in Fraserfield, near Williamstown, Upper Canada. In 1803 Alexander Fraser joined the Canadian Fencibles in Scotland

they had at least two sons and three daughters; d. 1 April 1857 in Fraserfield, Grenville County, Upper Canada. Richard Duncan Fraser’s

 Prairie, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Gagnon, a farmer, and Marie-Anne Longtin; d. 7 Jan. 1842 in Corbeau, N.Y., and was buried 11 January at Saint-Valentin, Lower Canada

, Upper Canada, son of Francis (François) Antoine Gaudaur, a bridge tender, and Jeanette (Janet, Jennet, Jessie) B. Gill; m. first 7 Nov. 1883 Cora M. Coons (1859–94) in St Louis

responsible for Glapion’s return to Canada. The ageing superior, then 72, was undoubtedly glad to see Glapion, whom he knew and esteemed and whom he thought of as his successor. The

there. They had a lengthy engagement, during which she returned to her native Canada for some time. In his leisure hours Gosling sought solace in reading. “I find it helps me a lot in my work,” he told

 June 1830 at Saint-Denis, on the Richelieu, Lower Canada, and was buried 23 June 1830 at William Henry (Sorel). Pierre Guerout was born

with James Spurr Harding. It flourished, carrying sugar, flour, fish, and a variety of teas (the firm was one of the first in Canada to import tea directly from China). When the partnership was dissolved

Manufactures for Upper Canada and was secretary of the Association of Architects, Civil Engineers, and Provincial Land Surveyors of Canada. An ardent freemason, he was associated with many masonic organizations

. As late as 1854 Heneker and Lawford displayed designs at the Royal Academy. There was nothing to suggest that Heneker would soon embark upon a business career in Canada, nor is there any evidence to

), second son of Johann Georg Hespeler and Anna Barbara Wick; m. first 21 Dec. 1854 Mary H. Keatchie (d. 1872) of Galt (Cambridge), Upper Canada, and they had three children, two of whom

year with heavy debts. At the time Holman considered moving to Hamilton, Upper Canada; instead, he appears to have received some assistance from his brother James Ludlow, and took sole responsibility for

CECIL, farmer, Methodist clergyman, revivalist, and holiness bishop; b. 22 Dec. 1853 near Shawville, Lower Canada, eldest son of James Horner and Ellen Richardson; m. 27

his degree and returned to Canada in September 1890. After a brief stay at the scholasticate, he was sent to the Collège de Saint-Boniface in Manitoba, where he taught mathematics and science until

a ba in 1895. That year he began to study law with the Winnipeg firm of Richards and Bradshaw. In 1900 he was called to the bar, the first lawyer in Canada of Icelandic

his brother, Seneca*, who had come to Upper Canada in 1796 and was farming on Yonge St north of York (Toronto

, with the lawsuit under way, he would be able to return to Canada before the end of 1751 leaving Hazeur with power of attorney. On arrival he consulted lawyers who concluded that the chapter’s requests

), lawyer, professor, politician, and judge; b. 13 Jan. 1842 in Boucherville, Lower Canada, son of Louis

LAFLEUR, EUGENE, lawyer and university professor; b. 12 April 1856 in Longueuil, Lower Canada, eldest son of the

established in 1811, based on Andrew Bell’s monitorial system. Echoes of the controversy had been heard in the Canadas in the opinions of schoolteacher and Anglican minister John

[see Borden], he warned that the measure would result in Canada’s becoming “mixed up in all the wars of the Empire, whether just or unjust” and he became increasingly concerned that French Canadians

Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Lower Canada, eldest son of Dr Joseph-Olivier Laurendeau and Céline Dostaler; m. 23 Sept. 1879 Marie-Georgianna Mérizzi in Napierville, Que.; d. 19 Aug

census of 1901 gives 28 Dec. 1871. Her familial connections in Canada included three Roman Catholic priests: her great-great-uncle Edmund

Papineau* and later, in the era of the United Province of Canada, with William Lyon Mackenzie*. Keenly interested in history, he was one

Sabine. Lefroy was one of the first three officers chosen for the observatories planned for Upper Canada, St Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope. Shortly after their selection they proceeded

Company, the Elk Point Trading Company, W. A. MacKenzie and Company, and the Commercial Life Assurance Company of Canada. Beyond his multifarious

LIVINGSTON, JOHN (Levingston), colonel in the Connecticut militia, participant in the attempts to take Canada during Queen Anne’s

the end. For my part I have no faith whatever in Canada’s ‘good intentions’ towards us.” His paper tentatively endorsed the anti-confederation position on some issues and even attacked the Maritime