Canada, son of Robert McLaughlin* and Mary Smith; m. 23 Oct. 1890 Maude Christie in New York City, and they had a daughter and three

Redmond in November 1850; d. at Kingston, Ont., 15 May 1875. James O’Reilly came to Upper Canada in 1832 with his father, who settled in

. In 1843 he was called by Dr Henry Wilkes* of Montreal, the superintendent of missions for Canada East and Canada West for the Colonial (later

, England, son of a naval officer; d. 2 Sept. 1862 at Toronto, Canada West. John Roaf was educated at a boarding school and was subsequently

of the Lower Canada Reports/Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada. This collection sought to make known to lawyers and to the public the most important rulings in civil matters; it constituted

’s shop apparently, that the new lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, Colonel John Graves Simcoe*, found him and hired him as the

, Ont. Having failed in England as a farmer and a merchant, John Simpson emigrated to Augusta, Upper Canada, in 1815 with his wife Zipporah Tickell and

Elizabeth Young; m. 22 June 1835 Agatha Georgiana Street, and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 24 Jan. 1866 at Dundas, Canada West

William Stinson and Mary Cheatle; m. the daughter of the Reverend John Chettle in 1829; d. 26 Aug. 1862 at Toronto, Canada West

. 1866 at Montreal, Canada East. Rémi-Joseph Tellier entered the noviciate of the Society of Jesus at Rome in October 1818. Before his ordination in

at Kingston, Upper Canada, son of loyalists Archibald Thomson, a carpenter, and Elizabeth McKay; d. 20 April 1865 in York Township, Canada West. Thomson married first in 1815 Sarah Maria

Sophie Delesdernier in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada; d. 11 Dec. 1846 in Halifax. The eldest son of Nova Scotia’s attorney general, Norman

. Few verifiable facts are known about Stefan Ustvolsky, a shadowy figure who attained some importance among Ukrainian immigrants in western Canada during the early 20th century. A Russian Orthodox priest

Germany), and they had five sons and three daughters; d. 5 Jan. 1838 in Toronto. When settlers during the elections of 1835 in Upper Canada

. in 1842 M. C. Jackson of London, Canada West, and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 25 Nov. 1890 in Hamilton, Ont. James Miller

. The son of sixth-generation Americans, Elijah Crocker Woodman worked as a farmer, lumberman, and stone mason before moving in 1830 to Upper Canada. He built a sawmill on Big Otter Creek near Dereham

Canada, only son of George Young and Mary (Polly) Platt; m. 13 July 1848 Mary Alsy Holmes of Brantford, Upper Canada, and they had one son; d. 1 Aug. 1910 in Toronto

ÉLIE, JACQUES, fifth official executioner in Canada; b. c. 1682

. 1799 at Waverley Abbey, England, third son and youngest of nine children of John Poulett Thomson and Charlotte Jacob; d. unmarried 19 Sept. 1841 in Kingston, Upper Canada

during the Napoleonic wars, remained after 1815 with the British forces in France, where his son John Hillyard was born. In 1825, when Angus was posted to Kingston, the family emigrated to Upper Canada

, with a group of London businessmen, founded the Lower Canada Land Company; Hart Logan was on the correspondence committee of the land company’s London subscribers. In 1826 Fleming subscribed 25 of the

FOSTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, barrister and essayist; b. 16 July 1840 at Toronto, Upper Canada, son of James Foster and Mary

of Black migrants who faced discrimination from the Department of the Interior’s immigration officials, who tried to discourage them from entering Canada

expanded to become Auldjo, Maitland and Company by 1800. Supplied in part from London by Auldjo’s younger brother John, it imported a wide variety of manufactured goods, which it sold in Lower Canada or

, Scotland, eldest son of Thomas B. Burns, a farmer, and Ann Tod; m. Jane —, and they had at least six children; buried 27 Feb. 1822 in Stamford (Niagara Falls), Upper Canada

. Chambers attended grammar school in Penkridge, and in 1870 the family immigrated to Canada, where his father would become headmaster of the British and Canadian School in Montreal. Chambers continued his

Yorkshire, England, son of an officer of the East India Company; m. 1800 Mary Stewart, and they had three children; d. 7 July 1829 in Ancaster, Upper Canada

Canada. Details about Alexander Davidson’s childhood and youth are not known. He came to Upper Canada in 1821 under the auspices of Lord

. 1782 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Que., son of Dominique Debartzch, a merchant, and Marie-Josephte Simon, dit Delorme; d. 6 Sept. 1846 in Saint-Marc on the Richelieu, Lower Canada

. Following the family’s immigration to Upper Canada in 1834 – they settled near Lundy’s Lane (Niagara Falls) in 1835 and then near Newmarket in 1839 – he continued his education at Upper Canada

Whites towards our People” in Canada. Blacks were usually relegated to menial jobs and were employed as porters or domestics, while those with the most skills and education were increasingly emigrating to

two daughters; d. near there 23 April 1916. William F. King’s family emigrated to Upper Canada when he was eight, settling in

Canada, son of Otto Klotz and Elise (Elizabeth) Wilhelm; m. 4 Dec. 1873 Marie C. Widenmann (Wiedeman), and they had three sons and a daughter; d. 28 Dec. 1923 in

), England, son of James Lowe and Anne Clarke; m. 16 Aug. 1852 Almira Chamberlin in Frelighsburg, Lower Canada, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 7 Nov. 1913 in Ottawa

LYON, GEORGE SEYMOUR, insurance agent, militiaman, and athlete; b. 27 July 1858 in Richmond, Carleton County, Upper Canada

is known of Andrew Bell’s life before he came to Canada in 1858, and nothing at all of his birth and family. A Scottish background, a good education, and a superior intellect are revealed to us through

 1868. As a young English immigrant in Quebec City, Bristow plunged into the agitation for reform of parliament in Lower Canada and for union with Upper

CASGRAIN, HENRI-EDMOND, dental surgeon, inventor, and first motorist in Quebec; b. 5 Aug. 1846 in L’Islet, Lower Canada, son

. 1834 in County Cavan (Republic of Ireland); m. 18 June 1857 Catharine Lynch Davidson near Churchville, Upper Canada, and they had one son and two daughters; d. 24 May 1901 in Los

after 1882 as the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada) but withdrew from the company soon after its incorporation. Three years later he was listed among the shareholders of the Bank of British North

DAY, BARNABAS W., dentist; b. 2 July 1833 in Kingston Township, Upper Canada, son of

to Drummond until the general’s recall in the summer of 1811. At that time Captain Evans was posted to Upper Canada as brigade-major to Major-General Isaac

to Frost (near Waterloo, Lower Canada), in 1822 and was educated in the village. In 1837 he returned to the United States where he joined his uncle, S. K. Belknap, a railway contractor, and for 15

Company in Quebec, Toronto, and London provided important links with the major commercial centres of Canada and Britain. During these years copartnership arrangements were commonly made and within this

GLOBENSKY, MAXIMILIEN, soldier, b. 15 April 1793 at Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Dr Auguste-France

-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada. Charles Frederick Grece immigrated to Montreal in the autumn of 1805 as part of a costly but

chronic respiratory illness forced him to emigrate to Canada, apparently in the spring of 1913. Koreichuk immediately became active in the Montreal

agreement of 1820 between British and American Methodist authorities [see Henry Ryan*] which left Upper Canada under the influence of the

following year accompanied Simcoe to Upper Canada. Macaulay and his wife, a naval officer’s daughter who had become close friends with Mrs Simcoe

Captain Kenneth Macaulay, a mariner, and Margaret Noble; m. 18 Aug. 1859 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, Barbara Maria Reid of Edinburgh, and they had one son; d. 27 Sept. 1915 in