; his father did garrison duty in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Upper and Lower Canada. Where Edward was born is obscure, his birthplace being variously given as New Brunswick and Upper Canada

Elizabeth Mitchell; m. first 3 July 1862 Annie Kendall (d. 1867) in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had two sons; m. there secondly 1872 Mary Manson, and they had two sons; d. there

 April 1812 in London, England, the son of Henry Smith; m. Mary Talbot of Kingston, Upper Canada; d. 18 Sept. 1868 at Kingston. Henry

the southern states” and had at least two children; d. in or after 1816. Compiler or author of a valuable description of Upper Canada in the years

Kachenooting), Methodist missionary, school teacher, and translator; b. probably c. 1818 in Upper Canada near the present Rama Indian Reserve, eldest son of Bigwind and Mary

Camberwell (now part of London); m. first 5 Dec. 1838 in Toronto, Upper Canada, his second cousin, Mary Elizabeth (d. 1851), second daughter of Colonel George Taylor Denison I, and they had

 July 1840 at Saint-Urbain-de-Charlevoix, Lower Canada, son of Olivier Thibeault, a farmer, and Carmelle Tremblay; d. there on 10 Aug. 1881

immediately to announce its reorganization as Canada’s first suffrage society, the Canadian Women’s Suffrage Association, with McEwen as president. In her acceptance speech she noted that she was the “first

. 1851 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Lower Canada, son of Paul Filiatreault and Mathilde Charest; m. 24 Nov. 1877 Octavie Desmarais in Montreal, and they had three daughters

MATTHEWS, WILMOT DELOUI, businessman; b. 22 June 1850 in Burford Township, Upper Canada, son of Wheeler Douglas Matthews and

Matthew Elliott, one of Upper Canada’s largest slave-holders. The identities of most of the 50 to 60 individuals who toiled on his farm are not known, including Name Unrecorded (fl. 1802–3

 Dec. 1843 in Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume-Eusèbe Amyot, a pilot, and Louise Gosselin; m. 27 April 1874 Marguerite-Alice-Gertrude Pennée (d. 21 Dec. 1884) at Quebec

27 years. For the last five of these he superintended a survey district in the Isle of Lewis before coming to Canada with his family in 1855. He was recruited for the Geological Survey of

County, Upper Canada, son of Mary and Joseph Beamer; m. Mary —, and they had two children; fl. 1837–47. Jacob R. Beamer’s father

Buade de Frontenac vainly asked the minister to send Bonamour back to Canada. Until Sarrazin*’s return in 1697 there was no

the Royal Agricultural Society of England when he toured parts of Canada and the United States in the early 1840s. In Toronto he became acquainted with William G

. In May 1822 Rollo Campbell emigrated to Montreal from Greenock, Scotland, where he had learned his printer’s trade with several small weekly newspapers. In Canada he was employed as a printer by

, probably in 1811; d. in 1872, probably at Saint-Hilaire, Que. Captain Thomas Edmund Campbell arrived in Canada in 1837 after 14 years of

Ottawa, Ont. Solomon Yeomans Chesley’s parents left Shodack “for the wilds of Canada” in 1800, settling in Cornwall, Upper Canada. In February

New York, his itinerant ministry in New England, and his move in 1825 to York (Toronto) in Upper Canada. Christian, himself a black, ministered there to a small congregation of blacks and whites, and

Hicks Eynon*, and they had one daughter, who died at birth; d. 13 Jan. 1857 in Little Britain, Upper Canada

Isabella Robinson; m. 8 May 1839 Ann Benson of Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had four sons and four daughters, including Dr

Forillon” in the diocese of Avranches, France, son of Jacques Digé and Jeanne Augé; d. 14 July 1813 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), Lower Canada

ventures in the adult world were commercial. He immigrated to Canada to 1826 and, using his ties with Scottish merchants, established with James a commission business for the distribution of textiles in

subsequently took part in several European campaigns. In 1746 he was made captain of a company in the second battalion of his regiment, and he still held this command when he arrived in Canada in 1755 with the

, near Goderich, Upper Canada. Sent to sea at 13 as a cabin-boy in the Royal Navy, Robert Graham Dunlop rose to the rank of lieutenant during the

and Joan Patterson; d. 26 Sept. 1873, at Hamilton, Ont. John Farrell emigrated to Canada with his parents, who settled in Kingston

 April 1865 at Montreal, Canada East. Samuel Gale came to Canada with his parents, ardent loyalists who left the United States after the American

apprenticed to his grandfather as a carpenter and then set up a small business in Plymouth before immigrating to Upper Canada in 1834. Settling in Guelph that summer, he began working with hotel-keepers John

ba with first-class honours in literae humaniores in 1898. Grant returned to Canada prepared to become an educator in his own right. To

Guyon du Buisson and of Mathurine Robin; d. 13 Jan. 1694 at Château-Richer, New France. Jean Guyon probably came to Canada

. Adolphus Mordecai Hart took up the study of law and spent part of his time as a law clerk in the office of the attorney general of Lower Canada, Charles Richard

, who came from an important merchant family in London, received an education in the classics and left to settle in the Canadas in 1802. He first lived in Upper Canada, where he became acquainted with

LAUSON, GILLES, Montreal settler, forefather of all the Lauzons of Canada and the United States; b. in the parish of Saint-Julien

subsequently to the Canadas. In December 1811 the settlers in Glengarry County who had come to Canada as a disbanded military unit in 1804 with Bishop

Morisset believes that it was she who painted some panels in the chapel of the Hôpital Général in Quebec. In Painting in Canada: a history, J. R. Harper remarks: “While artistically of no

the Royal Navy, and Margaret Ellis; d. 9 July 1866 at Toronto, Canada West. Susan Mein spent her childhood in Cornwall, first at Fowey

Americans who strongly sympathized with the “Patriot” cause. He studied law with Judge James Mullett, and in early spring of 1838 he visited Upper Canada to verify the views he held on the situation in the

. 14 Oct. 1669 in Lauson and was buried the next day in Quebec. Swiss by birth, Miville came to Canada via La Rochelle at a date that has

the third son of John Murray of Banbridge (Northern Ireland); m. Jessie Dickson; they do not appear to have had any children; d. 30 March 1853 in Port Albert, Upper Canada

immigrated to Canada at the age of 14 in 1902 to join his elder brother, J. W. McKean, who farmed near Lethbridge (Alta). After some years of ranching and farming, in 1912 he enrolled at Robertson

Hamilton, Canada West. Little is known of William Paterson McLaren’s parents and childhood. He was born in a region of Scotland from which emerged what a

O’SULLIVAN, DENNIS AMBROSE, lawyer and author; b. 21 Feb. 1848 in Seymour Township, Upper Canada, youngest son of Michael

deal of animosity and, after a riot in which he was hurt, he went to live for a while in Chicago and then moved to Canada. Around 1859 he settled at Montreal, where he worked for the printing firm of

 Roy, he came to Canada as a missionary at a date which is uncertain but which was not in any case earlier than 1620. In 1625 he was secretly the chaplain of Queen Henrietta Maria in England. Some

Columbia views suggest that he went north from California to sketch there before that province had been linked to central Canada by rail. Perré’s rural landscapes, primarily in oil and water-colour, are

POLETTE (Paulet), ANTOINE, lawyer, judge, and politician; b. 24 Aug. 1807 at Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville), Lower Canada

, farmer, and Marie-Charlotte Sabourin; d. 21 Aug. 1829 in Sandwich (Windsor), Upper Canada. Marie-Clotilde Raizenne’s paternal grandparents

studying in his native town, he attended Madras College at St Andrews. In 1847 he emigrated to Canada with his parents, and they settled at Saint-Hugues. He articled in the Montreal office of William

, rn; m. Annie Elizabeth —, and they had three sons and one daughter; d. 13 Sept. 1859 in Balsam Lake, Upper Canada