in Lower Canada), the Montreal school had grown by 1897 to more than 100 boarders, taught by a staff of some 30 teachers and shop instructors. Under the impetus of Young and the able leadership of his

. Taken prisoner during the Spanish campaign, he bought his freedom by enlisting in the British army. After several tours of duty he was sent to Lower Canada and when discharged at Quebec in 1814, he

, Upper Canada, son of William Hume Blake* and Catherine Honoria Hume*; m

 Oct. 1792 in Kingston, Upper Canada, son of Robert Macaulay* and Ann Kirby*; m

Kingston, Upper Canada, eldest son of Henry Pellatt and Emma Mary Holland; m. first 15 June 1882 Mary Dodgson (d. 15 April 1924) in Toronto, and they had a son; m. secondly 12

Sir John A. Macdonald (1815–91) was prime minister for 19 of Canada’s first 24 years of existence. The key architect of

him before his arrival in Canada comes from his own testimony. In addition to falsifying his middle name, the year of his birth, his father’s occupation, and his family’s Catholic religious background

 Jan. 1818 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, eldest son of Jean Dessaulles*, a seigneur, and Marie-Rosalie Papineau; m. there 4 Feb

was the most renowned portrait painter in Canada; sitters came from as far away as New York City to pose for him. The more than 300 portraits known to exist in private and public collections

, Upper Canada, fifth son of John Mackenzie, a farmer, and Mary McLauchlan; m. 8 July 1872 Margaret Merry (d. 1917) in Lindsay, Ont., and they had three sons and six daughters; d. 5

, launched a campaign throughout Lower Canada in January 1818. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke*, the governor-in-chief, and Plessis were among

brother William for their tweed mills in Almonte, Upper Canada, and he would be among the incorporators of the Almonte Knitting Company in 1882. By 1866 he had met his cousin Donald Alexander

was a sister of William Warren Baldwin*. The first member of Robert’s family to come to York (Toronto), Upper Canada, was Daniel, his

he signed Queylus), priest, Sulpician, abbé of Loc-Dieu, doctor of theology, member of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, vicar general of the archbishop of Rouen in Canada, and

GEORGE, physician and surgeon, businessman, politician, and lieutenant governor; b. 16 Nov. 1851 near Strathroy, Upper Canada, son of James Brett and Catherine Mallon; m. 26

; b. 18 Feb. 1783 in New Jersey, son of Adam Burwell and Sarah Veal; m. 20 April 1810 Sarah Haun in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, and they had seven sons and two

, however, refused advancement and remained in Montreal, where he barely survived the typhus epidemic of 1847, which had been carried to Canada by refugees from the Irish famine. He returned to France that

. 30 July 1809 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada, son of Charles Cheniquy, a law student, and Marie-Reine Perrault; m. 26 Jan. 1864 Euphémie Allard, and they had three children; d. 16

, Upper Canada, son of Charles Clarke* and Emma Kent; m. first 20 Oct. 1880 Margaret DeVeber Andrews (d. 1902) in Parkdale (Toronto

faculty of law examinations, and was called to the bar of Lower Canada on 2 May 1859. The following year, on 30 April 1860, he married Lucianne (Lucie-Anne) Bossé, the eldest daughter of Joseph

son of David Dunlop, merchant and textile manufacturer, and his wife, a daughter of James McGregor of Clober; d. unmarried 28 Aug. 1815 in Montreal, Lower Canada

journalists Paul Granier de Cassagnac, Édouard Drumont, and Henri Rochefort in December 1900; on French Canada and foreign authors in December 1901; and on Émile Zola and his literary and social influence in

Canada College, graduating from the latter in 1889. But it was the knowledge he acquired on his own, at his home and in the neighbourhood of his boyhood years, that would determine the course of his adult

1787 at Quebec, son of François Gaulin, a cooper, and Françoise Amiot; d. 8 May 1857 in Sainte-Philomène (Mercier), Lower Canada. After

throughout his life. Though slight in build, he excelled at sports, especially rowing, at university and he was an accomplished horseman. In Canada he would demonstrate his skills in skating and curling and

Colborne* as lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. Lord Glenelg, the colonial secretary, selected Head not because he had confused him with his cousin Edmund Walker

Upper Canada in 1832 with his uncle and guardian, Robert Foster. After they settled in Galt (Cambridge), Hodgins clerked in his uncle’s dry goods store until 1838, when he accepted a similar position with

) on a farm near St George in Brant County, Upper Canada, 12th child of David Hunter and Jane Hamilton; m. 15 Sept. 1881 John Hoodless in Cainsville, near Brantford, and they had two sons

(Kérkira, Greece), son of Captain Henry Bowyer Lane and Elizabeth Lacey; m. 9 May 1844 Lucy Anne Sharpe in Thornhill, Upper Canada; they had no known children; d. 30 Sept. 1878 near

sailed for Canada to serve as a missionary of God and the British empire. Lloyd ministered briefly near Maynooth, Ont. In 1882 he enrolled at Wycliffe

maintaining assets in Canada to cover their liabilities, chose to leave instead. As county treasurer, Macdonald understood finance, but he also saw provision for others through insurance as an instrument of

. Army nursing in Canada Possibly Macdonald knew of something brewing closer to home. Earlier in 1906 the British had relinquished control of the

transferred to the Canadas, with a resulting influx of settlers on a scale similar to that experienced by the United States. The American bishops confirmed his fears that his church would be unable to meet the

1852 to 1854 he was the Washington correspondent for the New York Daily Times and wrote for several other papers; in 1854–56 he was a member of the Times staff. He came to Upper Canada

1790s saw Mure move towards the front rank of merchants in the transatlantic trade as a period of unprecedented economic development, extending to 1815, began in Lower Canada and other British North

OSLER, Sir EDMUND BOYD, businessman, politician, and philanthropist; b. 20 Nov. 1845 near Bond Head, Upper Canada, fourth

 Oct. 1812 he became captain in the Corps of Canadian Voyageurs recruited from the NWC. After the unit was disbanded, he served on the staff of the sedentary militia of Lower Canada with the rank of

superintendent Annie Amelia Chesley*. Three-year hospital-based training programs were then proliferating in Canada, shaped by the professional

. After returning to Canada in 1884, Rutherford settled in Portage la Prairie, Man. He built up a large veterinary practice and continued in the horse business, with a particular interest in remounts for

face in British North America, the paper became a vehicle for Thom’s antagonism to French Canadian views. His stated aim was to make Lower Canada a British province in fact as well as in name, an

, school administrator, historian, polemicist, archivist, and author; b. 6 Sept. 1828 in L’Islet, Lower Canada, son of Germain-Alexandre Verreau and Ursule Fournier; d. 15 May 1901 in

shipowners of Dieppe. Why does Cartier, in the accounts of his travels, never allude to Verrazzano or to the coast visited in 1524? When he compares the natives or the produce of Canada with those of Brazil

Lower and Upper Canada, on coal, iron, copper, and phosphate deposits. His first major assignment, in August and September 1848, for the government of Nova Scotia, was the evaluation of prospects for the

marked by disparate settlements of native-born Newfoundlanders, some of them Micmac (Mi’kmaq) and Acadian, and immigrants from Canada, Scotland, and Ireland; Irish Catholics constituted the majority

. 1861 at Toronto, Canada West. William Lyon Mackenzie’s career can only be understood if the man and the legend are separated. Virtually all

, author, editor, and educational administrator; b. 24 March 1803 in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada, fifth son of Joseph Ryerson and Mehetable Stickney; m. first 10

Canada in 1683 with the rank of lieutenant in the land forces. His 30 years in New France were distinguished by an active military career. He was promoted to captain in 1688 by

commissioned lieutenant in 1710, captain in 1734, and captain of grenadiers (an élite company in a battalion) in 1748. He bore the latter title upon his arrival in Canada, as a member of the second battalion of

Shepherd and artist; b. 24 Dec. 1844 in Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville), Lower Canada, daughter of Séraphin Anger and Rose de Lima Anger; d. 5 Nov. 1901 at Quebec

. 16 May 1825 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada. Phebe Arnoldi was only 15 when her father forced her to marry John Justus Diehl on 22