Alberton Museum (Alberton, P.E.I.), Eileen Oulton, “Robert Trenholm Oulton.” PARO, Acc. 2860, esp. items 8 (A. M. Behling, Robert T. Oulton, the founder of Canada’s black fox

Montreal, Lower Canada, and they had nine children of whom four survived infancy; d. 28 Aug. 1819 in Mascouche, Lower Canada. Little is

of Peter Paterson and Jean Frazer; m. 28 July 1831 in Dundas, Upper Canada, Grace Lesslie, sister of James Lesslie*, and they had no

. c. 1749 in Philadelphia, Pa; m. Susan –, and they had six children; d. in Grantham Township, Upper Canada, and was buried 16 Dec. 1818

, Noyan requested retirement, which was granted with a pension in January 1759. After the surrender of Canada, Noyan went to France where he was imprisoned in the Bastille from March 1762 to December 1763

PEARCE, JOHN SEABURY, merchant, seedsman, author, and office holder; b. 1842 in Tyrconnell, Upper Canada, eldest son of John Pearce and

, France, son of François Pellegrin and Marie-Anne Bonnegrâce; d. 19 June 1788 at Brest, France. Gabriel Pellegrin came to Canada in 1734

with a commission as “comptroller general, intendant and sovereign judge in the said country of Canada,” granted by the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, the seigneur of the country. He immediately undertook

Elizabeth Heath; m. 26 Feb. 1747 Margaret McFarland, and they had one son and six daughters; d. 9 March 1803 in Ancaster, Upper Canada

Berthier-en-Bas (Montmagny), of which he was the founding parish priest. His name appears among the 13 signers of an important report on the tithe, presented to the court by the parish priests of Canada and

was in the midst of the fray over Nova Scotia’s entry into confederation. As a prominent merchant he saw union with Canada sounding the death knell of Nova Scotia’s important trade with the New England

: trading to the Iberian Peninsula, the West Indies, and the Canadas; privateering on the south Atlantic; and trans-shipping British goods to the United States to thwart the embargo. In 1809 Joseph Allison

*’s flagship, the San Domingo (74 guns), and on 5 March 1813 he was sent, with Lieutenant Robert Heriot Barclay and several other officers, to command vessels on the lakes of Canada

Provinces of Canada, Baptist year book (Halifax), 1892. I. E. Bill, Fifty years with the Baptist ministers and churches of the Maritime provinces of Canada (Saint John, N.B., 1880

Saint-Gervais, Lower Canada. Nothing has been discovered of the early part of François Quirouet’s life. Since he had the same given name as his father

the main competition for Upper Canada’s leading sewing-machine producer, Richard Mott Wanzer* of Hamilton. Initially, the reduction in

Scotland. Brought to Canada in 1873 as a consequence of further railway projects undertaken by Reid Sr, he received his education at a variety of public schools in the United

. Dubuisson carne to Canada in 1685–86 and was a cadet until 1696: he became a half-pay ensign in that year and was made lieutenant in 1698. He was assistant town major at Quebec in 1704. In 1707 he was in

“remembrance” of his companion Hertel to be shot. This sentence was, however, only “read and posted before the troops” in the three governments of Canada, since Dubuisson had fled before he could be arrested. He

Émeri, but Édouard-Emery is incorrect), lawyer, politician, office holder, businessman, and historian; b. 14 March 1844 in Stanfold (Princeville), Lower Canada, son of Louis-Eusèbe

, Nova Scotia: a sequel to Campbell’s “History” (Boston, 1888). Busy East of Canada (Sackville, N.B.), 7 (1916–17), no.11/12. J. R. Campbell, A history of the county of

early 1860s Robertson built the Auburn Woolen Mill at Peterborough, Canada West, to manufacture Canadian tweed, only to sell the mill in 1867 in order to buy George

Dominique Rollin and Magdeleine Bouthellier (Bouteiller); m. 3 April 1815 Zoé Pétrimoulx in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada; d. 1 Dec. 1855 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville

time. His parish covered a vast territory stretching from the village of Les Cèdres to Kingston in Upper Canada. His ministry among the Iroquois proved barren and difficult because their customs did not

. 1834 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada. Charles de Saint-Ours, a distinguished representative of the old aristocracy that stayed on in the colony after the

settled in Lower Canada with his wife around 1834. Alfred grew up in Griffintown, a largely immigrant neighbourhood where many Irish lived. He attended elementary school but soon gave up studying for work

Grant entitled “The Dominion of Canada” (May to August 1880). Such an important contribution to one of the leading monthlies of its type in the United States went a long way to establish

Penobscots’ moves for peace were a radical break with the policy of the French and the Canadian Abenakis. To maintain the traditional alliance, Sauguaaram travelled to Canada between conferences, trying

, Upper Canada, son of William Ludwig Schultz of Bergen, Norway, and Elizabeth Reily of Bandon (Republic of Ireland), widow of Henry McKenney; m. 11 Sept. 1867 Agnes Campbell Farquharson; d

of a farmer; d. 15 March 1862 at Galt (first called Shade’s Mills, now part of Cambridge), Canada West. He married first, Mrs Andrews of Canandaigua, N.Y., and secondly, Isabella

SHIBLEY, SCHUYLER, farmer, businessman, and politician; b. 19 March 1820 in Portland Township, Upper Canada

Nerve than any worse feeling.” From 1816 to 1823 Siveright served at Sault Ste Marie, Upper Canada, employed as a clerk by the NWC until 1821 and then

her life up to 1805 – a document that captures her difficult circumstances in Maritime Canada. STATIA (Hopefield) (she may

Hubbardton. He later owned a small shoe factory in Swanton before moving in 1825 to Missisquoi Bay, Lower Canada, where he operated a large tannery. Two years later he relocated in either Bedford or Stanbridge

in Canada to require its students to take rotations in the treatment of tubercular patients; and with setting up, after 1926, mobile diagnostic clinics that visited remote communities. A passionate

Stewart*, member of the Executive Council of Lower Canada, and Eliza Maria Green; m. in 1854 Margaret Mowat, and they had at least five sons; d. 1 Sept. 1881 near Edmonton (Alta

STINSON, MARION ELIZABETH (Ottaway; Crerar), philanthropist and war worker; b. 8 Sept. 1859 in Hamilton, Upper Canada

censitaire and the grandson of the carpenter-sawyer who established the Tessier, dit Lavigne, family in Canada. In November 1719 Paul’s father apprenticed him to Louis-Jean Denys, a Montreal

, Lower Canada, son of Louis-Gonzague Tessier, a farmer, and Rose de Lima Laquerre; m. 14 Aug. 1888 Marie-Louise-Elmire Guillet in Trois-Rivières, Que., and they had five children, two of

the earliest major cast-iron front in western Canada. His last important commission was the new provincial courthouse (1887–88), later altered by Rattenbury. Symmetrically designed with Italianate

Canada, formed at Saint John in 1872. Perhaps anticipating the problems the bank would encounter before its failure in 1887, Troop remained a director only until 1875

GILLANDERS, farmer, entrepreneur, politician, and civil servant; b. 14 Dec. 1855 of Scottish Presbyterian ancestry in Petit-Métis (Métis-sur-Mer), Lower Canada, son of Robert Turriff

quarter of the 19th century he owned one of the biggest furniture factories in Canada and the largest east of Toronto. His most important market was at Quebec, where he supplied the furniture for numerous

Veltri began to work in Canada. Subcontracting for Guthrie, Foley, and Folette, they obtained work building an eight-mile line from Kaslo to Three Forks in the interior of British Columbia. Four months

Canada, son of Vital Vigneau and Élise Boudreau; m. first 9 Jan. 1865 Louise Cormier in Pointe-aux-Esquimaux (Havre-Saint-Pierre), Lower Canada, and they had one child; m. there secondly 23

Carluke, Upper Canada, son of James Walker and Margaret Allison; m. 17 May 1876 Euphemia (Effie) Davidson Quarrie in Galt (Cambridge), Ont., and they had a son; d. 31 March 1936 in

John Wallace and Anne (Ann) Spiers; m. in 1852 Mary Ann (Anne) Kent of Simcoe, Canada West; d. 28 Aug. 1887 at Simcoe. William Wallace

WALSH, WILLIAM LEGH, lawyer, politician, sportsman, judge, and office holder; b. 28 Jan. 1857 in Simcoe, Upper Canada, son

took advantage of the occasion to give speeches, encouraging the workers to maintain union solidarity and to vote for the labour candidates in the next elections. The celebration spread across Canada

led the Virginia Collegiate Institute in Norfolk. He moved his family to Canada to avoid the Civil War, remaining here until 1869, when he left to establish the Webster Institute in Norfolk