. Godbout, “Nos ancêtres,” APQ Rapport, 1951–53, 472. Ægidius Fauteux, La famille d’Ailleboust (Montréal, 1917), 140–42. Gosselin, L’Église du Canada, I, 394f

. Alexander’s father, a wine merchant, brought his family to Toronto in 1855, and established himself in the same trade. In Scotland, young Richard had been educated at Edinburgh Academy, and in Canada he

Pierre Allain, a carpenter, and Jeanne De Lille; d. 19 June 1812 at Quebec, Lower Canada. After studying with the Spiritans, Jean-Baptiste

Canada. Anderson had married in 1820 Elizabeth Ann Hamilton, eldest daughter of Captain James Matthew Hamilton of the 5th regiment of foot, by whom he

carpenters and joiners in that city. Originating in the United States, the brotherhood was one of the largest trade unions in Canada at the start of the 20th century. It practised a form of business unionism

and promised to try to bring those Indians then in Canada into the agreement. They refused to stop travelling to Canada, however, since they would then be wholly dependent on the English for trade

Sainte-Croix de Troarn (diocese of Bayeaux), son of Jacques Auber and of Marie Le Boucher; d. 1694 at Quebec. His arrival in Canada is

military headquarters were located. In the first elections to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada in 1792 Barnes was elected for William Henry. This

Jeanne Desrues; d. 1700 at Quebec. Baudouin came to Canada about 1677. On 6 Nov. 1683 he married Anne Auber, daughter of the notary

invasion of the Canadas. Le Caron sent reports on Fenian projects to his father in England, who showed them to the Liberal mp for Colchester, John Gurdon Rebow. Impressed

. After the death of his mother, he immigrated to Canada, landing at Halifax early in 1882 and leaving immediately for Brandon, Man. Like many immigrants, Bell lacked both capital and farming experience

Robinson*, and they had a daughter; d. 14 Oct. 1821 in Newmarket, Upper Canada. Elisha Beman settled at York (Toronto), Upper Canada, in 1795

. Once in Canada, La Rivière asked Intendant Champigny [Bochart] to commission him as “royal

apothecary in France, and his reputation in Canada was excellent. He lavished his care not only upon the members of the Society of Jesus but also upon the other inhabitants of New France. Several statements

. 1820 in Woolden Hall, near Warrington (Cheshire), England, sixth son of John Arthur Borron and Mary Geddes; m. 1854 Marie-Edesse Février, dit Laramée, in Bruce Mines, Upper Canada, and they

Marguerite Raimbault; d. 31 Aug. 1812 in Boucherville, Lower Canada. Following his father’s example René-Amable Boucher de Boucherville chose

Cerf, who at that time was fishing at Percé. We do not know whether Jean Bourdon de Romainville returned to Canada. A court officer of the same name

Canada, sixth of the nine children of Hans Denaston Breakey and Theresa Murray; m. 5 Nov. 1867 in Lévis, Que., Helen Anderson, half-sister of the Reverend Duncan Anderson, and they had four sons

BRIEN, JEAN-BAPTISTE-HENRI, physician and Patriote; b. 1816 in Saint-Martin (Laval), Lower Canada

BRISTOL, EDMUND JAMES, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 4 Sept. 1861 in Napanee, Upper Canada, son of Amos Samuel Bristol, a

and Jean Milne; m. Jean (Jane Anna) Macpherson (McPherson) of Whitby, Upper Canada, and they had one son and six daughters; d. 6 Aug. 1909 in Toronto

Tyne. His departure after four years was “due to circumstances beyond his control,” possibly related to the death of his father. In 1857 he immigrated to Upper Canada and settled in Toronto with his

(1883–84). In 1887 he and five others from Halifax founded the Eastern Canada Savings and Loan Company. Brookfield became the first president, a position he was to hold for the rest of his life. The

1855 he was appointed official printer to the archbishopric of Quebec, and two years later he was given charge of printing Le Courrier du Canada, a religious organ with ultramontane

Patriote party. He allegedly belonged to the Society of the Friends of Ireland, an organization which helped found in 1828 a Montreal newspaper, the Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser

1922 to 1938 he was the union’s general vice-president and representative for all of Canada. Over the years Brunet held numerous positions within the

Elizabethtown (Brockville), Upper Canada, eldest son of Martha Naughton and William Buell*, the loyalist founder of Brockville; m. first

education elsewhere in Canada was below that in Nova Scotia, and that “it was not much use trying to raise the standard in Nova Scotia with the low averages about us.” Needless to say, his Bluenose chauvinism

the commission which produced the monumental Revised statutes of Canada. He himself drafted a bill in 1884 to codify the criminal law for this work, but although Sir Alexander

Butler (1728–96) and Catalyntje Bradt (Catharine Bratt); d. unmarried, 30 Oct. 1781, at West Canada Creek, N.Y. Having taken

. Roy, Inv. greffes not., X, 5–27. Massicotte, “Les tribunaux et les officiers de justice,” BRH, XXXVII (1931), 127, 179, 180, 182, 187, 189, 252f. “Les notaires au Canada,” 26

of the seminary of Quebec, parish priest, and missionary; d. 26 Nov. 1719 in the Mississippi region. Before coming to Canada Abbé Goulven

. In 1739 and 1740 Chabert served with the force that travelled from Canada to the lower Mississippi valley to aid Jean-Baptiste

Mills (Chaffeys Locks), Upper Canada. Samuel Chaffey was the fifth son of a Somerset wool-stapler and woollens manufacturer. The economic slump

, according to Odoric-Marie Jouve, “he obtained admission as a member of the Friars Minor of the Observance [cordeliers]; but he subsequently went back to the Recollets, and in 1749 returned to Canada.” This

, Methodist minister, merchant, and Church of England clergyman; b. 1818 near Belleville, Upper Canada; d. 21 March 1900 in Sarnia, Ont

La Roche de Mesgouez, viceroy of Canada, on 4 March 1597, whereby he undertook to lead to the Île de Sable an exploring and fishing expedition of which they were to share the

Richelieu, Lower Canada. François Cherrier was the second of 12 children; he spent his youth at Longueuil, where his father had settled in 1736. In 1765 he

before the expiration.” That trust, was well founded and by 1792 he had secured a spot in the administration of the new province of Upper Canada

which had been established by the previous administration. Christie actively promoted schools and Protestant missionary activity in Lower Canada, taking

Chinese and actively supported the education of his own children. In 1899 he subscribed $20 to the Le Qun Yishu, the first formally constituted Chinese-language school in Canada and a free school financed

left him no time to look after Canada. Claus was accordingly made the deputy agent to the Canadian Indians on 20 Sept. 1760. He was based at Montreal and reported both to Johnson and to the

. Thomas Coffey’s formal education was meagre and probably did not extend beyond elementary school. After his family arrived in Lower Canada on 1 June 1852, they settled in Montreal, where he was taught

Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1861–62. Despite poor health, he agreed to leave for Lower Canada. Colin was assistant priest and bursar at the parishes of

then turned his attention to Canada, attracted by the newly discovered mines in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. As the example of the Cœur d’Alene suggested, substantial profits could be made by

, Alta. Filumena Costanzo immigrated to Canada with her mother and father, sister and brother, in 1909. The family settled in Fernie, where Costanzo’s

 May 1792 in L’Islet, Lower Canada, son of Emmanuel Couillard-Després and Marie-Françoise Robichaud; d. 15 July 1853 in Saint-Aimé (Massueville), Lower Canada

highly decorated brother Thomas Joseph, little else is known about him at this time. It is uncertain why or when he emigrated to Canada, although he is remembered today by family as a black sheep. Over six

France. They were both reduced to accepting command of a company of colonial regular troops bound for Canada, where they arrived probably in 1684

Dorset, England; d. 8 Jan. 1833 in North Hatley, Lower Canada. Henry Cull was the youngest in a family of ten children, several of whom