City. Dunbar Ross immigrated to Canada while still a youth. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada on 2 Feb. 1834 and practised law in

Sellar immigrated to Canada in July 1853. He found employment at the Toronto Globe, where he ran the counting room and became a lifelong confidant of George

Burgoyne proposed an expedition to take Albany (N.Y.) as part of a scheme to cut the colonies in two, he suggested that St Leger command a secondary advance from Canada through the Mohawk

. In 1827 Stayner succeeded his father-in-law as postmaster general of Upper and Lower Canada, where there were then more than 80 post offices. Since 1821 the Houses of Assembly of the two

1847, Anne MacIan Macdonald, by whom he had six children; d. 6 Aug. 1865 in Medonte Township, Canada West. Military careers were

. After leaving university Thompson immigrated to Canada, and at the outbreak of the South African War in 1899 he was living in Ottawa. As a Methodist from Cork deeply influenced by Rudyard Kipling, he felt

THOMSON, WILLIAM JAMES, artist; b. 28 May 1857 in Guelph, Upper Canada, son of Charles Thomson and Catharine Stewart; m. 26 June 1889

area around Oxford were acclaimed by important English geologists such as John Phillips and John Lycett. In 1861 he briefly visited Lower Canada. The following year he settled there, taking charge of the

YUILL, JOSEPH, farmer, breeder, butter producer, and educator; b. 1838 in Ramsay Township, Upper Canada, son of

of the Gospel. In 1818, at the age of 28, he left Britain with his younger brother William to take up a post at St Andrews (Saint-André-Est), Argenteuil seigneury, Lower Canada

inherited his land and fortune, turned to the professions of lawyer and notary. In 1793 he was elected by acclamation for the riding of Quebec to the house of assembly of Lower Canada

farm, but he failed to find suitable property and rejoined William in 1844. In 1845 he purchased the farm of John Crysler* in Upper Canada, site

Weston (Toronto), Upper Canada, eldest son of John Stoughton Dennis* and Sarah Maria Oliver; m. first 29 Dec. 1879 Mary

. 29 April 1805 in Montreal, Lower Canada. The Elmslie family came from the parish of Touch, Kincraigie, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where

FULLER, THOMAS BROCK, Church of England clergyman and bishop; b. 16 July 1810 at Kingston, Upper Canada, son of Major Thomas

excellent reputation, Graham accepted the mastership of a boys’ grammar school in Richmond, Lower Canada, and became professor of mathematics at St Francis College there. He took the chair of classics

HOPKINS, EDWARD NICHOLAS, farmer, cheese manufacturer, and politician; b. 3 Oct. 1854 in Brownsville, Upper Canada, third child of

Knowlton and Sally Holbrook, grandson of the Honourable Luke Knowlton, judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont in 1786 and a loyalist sympathizer; d. 28 Aug. 1863 in Knowlton, Canada East

to Upper Canada, where he made a successful career as a small businessman and landowner in St Catharines and where he contributed to his community through activism and philanthropy. In escaping bondage

. Macfarlane went to Lower Canada in 1860 and was first employed at a smelting works in Longueuil; the following year he became manager of the recently opened Acton Copper Mine in the Eastern Townships. Within a

American Revolutionary War. Although he was a free man in Upper Canada, his family remained in bondage to his former enslaver. Martin eventually managed to purchase the freedom of his son, George, and in

. 8 June 1814 Isobel Aitchison of Biggar, Scotland, and they had six sons and five daughters; d. 16 Jan. 1851 in London, Upper Canada

arrived in Canada from Paris in June 1843 and the next year applied to William Edmond Logan*, the new director of the Geological Survey

. In 1840 Taylor also published a popular account of his journeys through the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada, Journal of a tour from Montreal. Obviously prejudiced against the primitive state

, son of John Aston Wilkes and Susanna Philips; m. 5 June 1832 Lucy Hedge, in Montreal, Lower Canada; m. secondly in September 1839 Susan Holmes, widow of John McDonell; d. 17

Baillie was educated in Toronto’s public schools and began working about 1889 as a clerk with the Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, which by the 1890s was shifting its business from mortgage lending

pioneer Canadian painter and land developer, came to Upper Canada with his parents by way of Genesee County, New York, arriving at York (Toronto) in 1794. His father’s complex business affairs required

BILLINGS, ELKANAH, lawyer, journalist, official paleontologist of the Geological Survey of Canada, and member of the

light and of the aurora borealis. Blanchet returned to Lower Canada early in the summer of 1801. After passing the examination set by the medical

on 6 May 1844. Soon after he commenced to practise, James Bridgland was employed by the Crown Lands Department in making surveys in Canada

Condeau), Micmac chief; b. c. 1761, the son and grandson of chiefs; d. 24 July 1837 in Lower Canada or New Brunswick

demonstrated his interest in literary pursuits by publishing a book on the letters of Junius in 1825 and in 1830 a work on the revenues of the Church of England. Coventry immigrated to Upper Canada in 1835 and

Crestohl went to New York as an emissary of Mizrachi and he stayed there until 1911. During this period he probably visited Canada in connection with his promotion of the Mizrachi movement. It is likely that

Canada; d. unmarried 2 Aug. 1915 in Pickering, Ont. Sarah Dale was the youngest of the seven children of Richard Dale, a Quaker farmer

, Montreal, on 13 August of that year. Thanks to his report entitled “Relation d’un voyage de Paris à Montréal en Canadas en 1737” we are fairly well informed of the circumstances surrounding his

 1913 in Montreal, and was buried there 11 March. Shortly after his arrival in Canada in 1886 William Darlington became involved in the Montreal

DELAGRAVE, CYRILLE, lawyer, member of the Council of Public Instruction for Lower Canada; b. 25 Nov. 1812 at Sainte-Marie-de

for his involvement in the contraband salt trade and arrived in Canada in the 1730s with one of the numerous groups of salt smugglers deported to the colony between 1730 and 1742 [see Pierre

; d. 24 Nov. 1882 in Montreal, Que. Lewis Thomas Drummond, the son of a prominent Irish attorney, immigrated to Lower Canada with his

evidently became acquainted there with his future companions in Canada, Bishop Laval* and abbés Henri de Bernières and Louis

GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, LÉONARD, politician; b. 7 Nov. 1793 at Saint-Michel-d’Yamaska, Lower Canada, fifth child of Marie

he was among a group of 54 people, led by William Gooderham, who emigrated to Upper Canada. The party arrived at York (Toronto) on 25 July 1832. There the Gooderhams joined James Worts

) and Ann Charleton; m. in 1864 Margaret Stuart of Hamilton, Canada West, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 7 March 1886 at Hamilton

Glover and Stephen Jarvis, loyalist, of Danbury, Conn., who came to New Brunswick after the American Revolution and who in 1809 moved to York (Toronto), Upper Canada; d. at Cornwall, Ont., 15

 April 1896 in Monte Carlo. The financial system of the new Dominion of Canada was in large part shaped by a series of events during the second half of

-Rivières, Lower Canada; m. Julie Bélanger; d. 19 Jan. 1913 in Montreal and was buried 22 January in the Saint-Antoine parish cemetery at Longueuil

, blacksmith, violin maker, music teacher, and conductor; b. 22 Aug. 1816 near Verchères, Lower Canada, in what is now Calixa-Lavallée, son of Jean-Baptiste Paquet (Paquet, dit Lavallée), a

Ramesay; d. 6 Dec. 1873 at Montreal, Que. Before emigrating to Canada in 1804, James Leslie completed his studies at Marischal

, Scotland), son of Janet Macdonell (Aberchalder) and Alexander Macdonell* (Greenfield); d. 13 June 1861 at Quebec, Canada East. Donald Macdonell

ma. He never practised medicine, however. In 1845 he immigrated to Lennoxville, Lower Canada, where he became rector of the boys’ school and in 1846 took up the chair of mathematics and natural