. Joseph Jeffery was “very carefully educated in the private schools” in Ipswich before his family immigrated to Upper Canada in 1845. The Jefferys settled in Port Stanley but, the father not being “as

to send him by ship, taking care to have him insured. Dunlop may have sent several blacks in this way to his two former employees, and perhaps Joe came to Canada through his agency. After Gilmore’s

Company who held the position of aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington before emigrating to the Niagara District of Upper Canada in the 1830s; Dr Arthur Jukes served as an inspector of hospitals in

construction firm in Canada, he held the posts of general manager (1892–1904), director (1903–26), general manager and chief engineer (1904–19), managing director (1910–13), and president (1913–19). After his

 Sept. 1843 in Whitchurch Township, Upper Canada, son of Norman Jones, a farmer, and Theresa Jane Patterson; m. first 21 Feb. 1866 Huldah Stephens of Tecumseth Township, Upper Canada; m

JONES, DAVID ALLANSON, merchant, postmaster, apiarist, and publisher; b. 1836 in Whitchurch Township, Upper Canada, son of Norman

-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, second son of Henry Joseph* and Rachel Solomons (Solomon); m. 3 May 1848 Sarah Gratz Moses in

*]. As proprietor of western Canada’s first hospital elevator, King pioneered the treatment of wet and smutty wheat. He constantly upgraded his cleaning and drying equipment, adapting the latest American

author; b. 27 Feb. 1857 in Hespeler (Cambridge), Upper Canada, son of Ludwig (Lewis) Kribs, carpenter, and Elizabeth Pannebecker; m. 1880 Millie Cliff, and they adopted six children; d

-Calais), and rhetoric for 2 years at the college in Eu (Normandy). He was ordained a priest in 1693, and arrived in Canada the following year. From 1694

. Jacques de Lamberville became a Jesuit at the age of 20 and taught in various colleges of the society in France before coming to Canada at the age of 34. He was immediately assigned to the Iroquois

LAMONT, JOHN HENDERSON, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 12 Nov. 1865 near Horning’s Mills, Upper Canada, son of Duncan

circulated a request for information on all Indian bands in the Canadas, and Lamothe was one of the few officials to reply fairly promptly. In early 1812, supported by Johnson, Lamothe petitioned Craig’s

of the first members of the socialist Fabian Society. Early in 1893 the family bravely came to Canada’s North-West Territories to seek their fortune in farming. Langley was a raw homesteader and “no

. Tanguay, Dictionnaire, I, 345. Émile Vaillancourt, La conquête du Canada par les Normands (Montréal, 1933), 148

administration of the church. He functioned as financial secretary of his conference (1865–66, 1870–72) and as a delegate to the first general conference of the Methodist Church of Canada (1874). His abilities

Marguerite Bourgeois. AHDM, Annales. AHDQ, Annales, 1636–1716. Jug. et délib., VI, 671. “Éloges de quelques personnes mortes en odeur de sainteté à Montréal, en Canada, divisés en trois

, William Dawson LeSueur, would become president of the Royal Society of Canada as well as an essayist of

. He was an only child and was educated in the city of his birth, at St George’s School and later at the Quebec High School. After graduation he worked first at the Union Bank of Canada, then on a

and was replaced in 1910 by the Banque Provinciale du Canada, which had its head office also in Quebec. The Acadians of northern New Brunswick thus gained their first experience with banking. The

* of Upper Canada to deny him entry. Ledru had to stay at Detroit, where he was forced to rely on rations from the commandant. In the delicate period before the signing of Jay’s treaty in November

, Scotland, son of John Leitch, a customs officer, and Margaret Sharp; m. Euphemia Paterson in 1846, and they had four sons; d. 9 May 1864 at Kingston, Canada West, and was buried at

*, also entered the partnership in 1755. The company lasted until 1757. In 1763, during his trial at the Châtelet in the affaire du Canada, Martel declared that it was Lemoine Despins who had

, at the request of the federal Department of the Interior, which had hired numerous journalists, she lectured throughout Britain and Ireland on opportunities for women in Canada. After her return, she

was one of the Indian Department officers ordered to the Niagara frontier with a detachment of warriors from Lower Canada for service in the conflict with the Americans

Le Nationaliste, Le Canada, and a number of other Montreal periodicals. In 1907, through the good offices of the French critic Charles ab der Halden, he published his first collection of poems

England to the Haliburton and Muskoka districts of Ontario in 1868, gathered information useful for settlers, and, back in London the following year, published Farming in Canada and Canada

. Raised on floggings and Presbyterian prayer-meetings to be an intensely serious lad, John Macdonald came to Canada in 1837 when the regiment in which his father was an officer was sent out in response to

. 1745, probably in the Scottish Highlands; d. 7 June 1830 in Mount Pleasant, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada. Although it is known that an

, nurse, and educator; b. 9 Feb. 1865 in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, daughter of Magloire Mailloux, a blacksmith, and Rosalie Langlois; d. 27 Dec. 1937 in

’esclavage au Canada français; histoire et conditions de l’esclavage (Québec, 1960), 226–29.

MARTER, GEORGE FREDERICK, businessman, office holder, and politician; b. 6 June 1840 in Brantford, Upper Canada, eldest son

business in Montrose. In 1857 the Glasgow firm of Gilmour and Company sent him to Chelsea, Lower Canada, to manage its timber operations on the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers [see Allan

of Maugue in Canada is his signature on a certificate that he witnessed on 17 April 1673 at Beauport: “sieur Claude Maugue schoolmaster to the children of the said little town of Fargy.” On the

Gazette, 3 Sept. 1789. Quebec Gazette, 12 July 1787, 25 July 1799, 16 Feb. 1815, 16 Nov. 1820, 22 Feb. 1821. Encyclopedia of music in Canada, ed. Helmut

agree neither on his ethnic origin nor on the date of his arrival in Canada. Undeniably, he “came from Scotland”; but, as a notarial contract designated him “Sieur de La Ramée, and as his brother

, Scotland; m. 13 Feb. 1841 Harriet Burton; d. 4 March 1847 in Woodstock, Upper Canada. On 3 April 1846 and on many

Moffatt*; m. 17 Jan. 1842 Caroline Covert, daughter of John Covert*, in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and they had at least two sons and three

of the colony is the object here, and no consideration should hazard that object with a politic Man.” Monk arrived back in Lower Canada in October

(Fredericton). Here Morehouse eventually acquired over 1,200 acres and built a grist-mill. In 1791 Simcoe, as lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, was

road, but always for our benefit.” Coincidentally, and very much in keeping with his personality, Morrison served as an artillery officer in Canada’s

15 June 1813 and 19 days later marched to Kingston, Upper Canada. There Morrison spent the summer serving on courts martial, doing general garrison duties, and drilling his battalion, which

College, Kingston, Upper Canada, in 1862 and was attracted to McGill College, Montreal, in 1872 by the promise, unfulfilled, of a position combining philosophy and English literature. Murray held the John

 Jan. 1864 at the Rama Reserve, Canada West. Musquakie has often been confused with his father, also called Yellowhead, who had preceded him as an

Lower Canada, where he joined his younger brother Alexander* as a clerk in the head office of the Montreal department. Although

Mackenzie]. Succeeding to the share of John Finlay in 1808, he served as proprietor of the Fort William department until late 1815, apart from his rotation to Lower Canada in 1812–13

. 1740 in Scotland; d. 3 Dec. 1812 in Montreal, Lower Canada. George McBeath arrived in Canada immediately after the conquest. His

studied at Cambridge, because a letter written by John Samuel in 1825 mentions debts that William had contracted for this purpose. Whatever the case, he returned to Lower Canada in 1823 and the following

Canadas and being put through the same kind of apprenticeship in the fur trade as his two brothers, Simon McGillivray worked for McTavish, Fraser and Company of London. This enterprise, which had been

 John’s Evening Herald. In 1894 he would become Newfoundland correspondent for the London Times, and he would later write for other newspapers and magazines in England, Canada, and the