in Canada. This document describes in intimate detail the daily life of the Huron Christians there and inveighs with stinging asperity against those who debauched indigenous people with spirits

display team at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, the first occasion on which formation flying was performed in Canada for a non-military audience. On 25–27 August he participated in an air

provide facilities for casualties of the Crimean War. In 1857 Barry was posted to Canada as inspector general of military hospitals. He worked to improve

BEAUCHEMIN, CHARLES-ODILON, printer and bookseller; b. 29 March 1822 at Sainte-Monique, Lower Canada

Surgeons of Lower Canada. The fact that this profession was in ill repute among doctors perhaps explains why he failed in his attempt. In 1869, however, when the number of dentists in Quebec had increased

. He was in favour of the creation of a house of assembly, and in 1788 he signed a petition asking for one. Then in 1792, in the first elections held in Lower Canada, he ran as a candidate in the riding

nobleman born at Trois-Rivières; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As La Vallière brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments

AJM, Greffe d’Antoine Adhémar; Greffe de Bénigne Basset; Greffe d’Hilaire Bourgine; Greffe de Claude Maugue; Greffe de Pierre Raimbault. Jug. et délib., II, 734. Recensement du Canada

several very extensive buildings,” but nothing is known of these. He seems to have returned to Canada by the time of the rebellions in 1837–38; Borthwick states that he held a commission in the militia and

1690. He was ordained a deacon at Trèves on 22 Dec. 1696, and he received the priesthood the following year. In 1698 Father Michel sailed for Canada together with Father Olivier

Simcoe of Upper Canada, concerned about the presence of republican agitators in the vicinity of the western posts, appealed to Lord Dorchester [Guy

. Nine years later he was appointed a half-pay captain in the colonial regular troops in Canada, to which he went with his brother Michel, the new intendant. In 1713 he became a full captain with a company

businessman, and Charlotte Saxton; d. 16 July 1862 at Bic, Lower Canada. Archibald Campbell’s father was a loyalist who came to Quebec soon

French-speaking Presbyterian congregation in Montreal. In the early 1870s Campbell was editor of the Canada Presbyterian Church’s Home and Foreign

, learned the pottery trade in County Tyrone. Immigrating to New Jersey in 1846, he moved to Wellington Square (Burlington), Upper Canada, six years later and entered business with his brother, William, who

partnership with Jean Becquet of Quebec to sail this ship between Louisbourg and Canada. He also chartered his schooner to shipowners trading with the West Indies. He had been working a fishing concession at La

Canada, to succeed the Duke of Connaught [Arthur*], just days before the

-Malo in the trade with Canada; he took part in an expedition to the Sunda Isles in 1616 and in an expedition to the East Indies in 1619. He was a partner in the commercial enterprise carried on by his

, Chambly had served in Hungary and had commanded the regiment of the Maréchal d’Estrades. He arrived in Canada in June 1665 as captain of a company in the Carignan-Salières regiment; he directed the

Hartford, Connecticut, and came to Canada in 1799, settling with his wife, Dolly Ayer, in “Slab City,” an early local name for Frelighsburg. There Edmund Leavens was born. After receiving an “Academical

take training there as an engineer and artillery officer in the colonial regulars. Three years later Chartier de Lotbinière returned to Canada with the title of king’s engineer and the rank of lieutenant

. Louis Chartier crossed over to Canada with the great contingent of 1653 which was intended to strengthen the settlement of Ville-Marie (Montreal). Like his travelling companion Étienne

Charlevoix, Histoire, III. La Potherie, Histoire, III, IV. NYCD (O’Callaghan and Fernow), IX. Ferland, Cours d’histoire du Canada, II, 133. Gérard

de Léry was prepared from childhood for the same profession in Canada. As a cadet in the colonial regular troops from the age of 12, he learned surveying, mapping, and construction; in 1739 he was

, Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Charles Chauveau and Marie-Louise Roy; m. 22 Sept. 1840 Marie-Louise-Flore Masse at Quebec; d. there 4 April 1890

CHERRIER, CÔME-SÉRAPHIN, lawyer, politician, and businessman; b. 22 July 1798 at Repentigny, Lower Canada, son of Joseph

daughters who survived to adulthood; d. 11 Nov. 1826 in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada. A man of modest abilities, William Claus was

years in the priesthood. In 1854 he was nominated to the New York–Canada mission, which was subject to the ecclesiastical province of France. He went to New York, and for a year devoted himself to

adults in allegorical roles such as Civilization or John Bull. Her first and most successful show, “The courtship of Miss Canada,” premiered

when, having completed his preparation, he asked for and obtained permission to go to Canada as a missionary. He arrived in 1690, the year of the expedition led by Sir William

, Elizabeth, and Walter; m. secondly 9 March 1799 Eleanor Birnie; d. 4 May 1807 in Montreal, Lower Canada. On 10 July 1766

death. Davies was the most talented of all the early topographical painters in Canada, surpassing his predecessor Richard

in Yorkville (Toronto), Upper Canada. Peter Boyle de Blaquière’s Canadian career clearly owed much to the reputation and rank of his

exhibition in Montreal. In June 1896 his portrait of Wilfrid Laurier* – who became prime minister of Canada on the 23rd of that month

Paul Denys de Saint-Simon (1649–1731) was the second provost of the marshalcy of Canada and a member of the Conseil Souverain of

. When introducing Derome to its readers, Le Canadien portrayed him accurately as a well-informed man of rare talent, who wrote his language with an elegance and purity uncommon in Canada

Lafitau as procurator in Paris of the Jesuit missions in Canada. He sailed for France in the autumn of 1741 and on 25 Jan. 1742, “about one or two months after his arrival in Paris,” he

troops at Rochefort. That year, 1685, he accompanied his nephew, François, to Canada on the Diligente to serve under the command of New France’s new governor general, Jacques-René de

response to appeals from Canada for missionaries, immigrated to Montreal where he studied theology at the Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Early in 1836 he was ordained by Bishop Jean-Jacques

. 1789, son of Noël Dorion and Barbe Trudelle; d. 12 Sept. 1850 in Drummondville, Lower Canada. An active and enterprising man, Pierre

Township, Upper Canada, and they had four sons and three daughters; d. 19 Aug. 1920 in Tantallon, Sask. The son of a Roxburgh agricultural

DRAKE, Sir FRANCIS, English navigator, probably the first European to sight the west coast of Canada; b. near Tavistock

. In March 1681 there was a Dubreuil among the governor general’s guards. Was he Jean-Étienne, who was barely 15 years old, or a relative whom he presumably had accompanied or followed to Canada? We

DUMOULIN, JEAN-GASPARD, lawyer and office holder; b. 19 April 1832 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, son of

Canada, an encyclopædia, IV, 357. G. C. Groce and D. H. Wallace, The New York Historical Society’s dictionary of artists in America, 1564–1860 (New Haven

.), daughter of Jean Dussaus and Marie-Angélique Huard; d. 7 June 1809 in Montreal, Lower Canada. On 14 Aug. 1756 Marie-Angélique

Delorme in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, but she died childless the next year; m. secondly 26 May 1807 Adélaïde Gauvreau, daughter of Louis

Felton came to Canada with his parents, who settled at Belvedere, near Sherbrooke (then called Hyatt’s Mill). He attended Mr Johnson’s school at Hatley, then that of Mr Dricoll

at Champlain. Fillion, the son of André Fillion and of Gabrielle Senler (Senlet or Sanlerg), arrived in Canada before 10 April 1654, at

. Fisher departed from there in 1791 for Lower Canada, where, by his account, he “had the honour of attending” Prince Edward* Augustus. This