vocal cavalry from eastern Canada. After a troop commander was wounded and another killed, Campbell was promoted captain at Batoche (Sask.) and given command of his troop

, and Patriote; b. 8 Feb. 1808 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada, second of the eight children of Joseph Cardinal and Marguerite Cardinal; d. 21 Dec. 1838 in Montreal

Smith* for “Ladies wishing to study medicine in Canada.” He was “heartily in sympathy” with the medical program for women that she proposed to establish in Kingston, but his interest was hypothetical

Cartier, dit L’Angevin, and Marguerite Mongeon; d. 22 March 1814 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada. Jacques Cartier’s

-Pocatière in Lower Canada (1860–63). In 1864 he enrolled in the Toronto School of Medicine, where his instructors included William Thomas Aikins

& Honours” than wealth, he selected the Canadas as the site for his ambition. He purchased an ensigncy in the 100th Foot and joined the unit at Montreal in July 1810. What followed is largely known from

aspired to be a martyr in obscurity and without bloodshed, has had two biographers in our own day: Alfred Raymond, Saint Noël Chabanel, martyr du Canada (1613–1649) (Montréal, 1946

Hardi, Joncaire probably came to Canada in the late 1680s as cavalry sergeant in the governor’s guards. Soon after his arrival he was captured by the Seneca, who decided to put him to death. What happened

), Upper Canada, son of Dr Asher (Ashern) Augustus (Augustine) Chamberlain and Eliza Ann Toffy; m. 3 July 1862 Annetta Jane Parish in Farmersville (Athens), Upper Canada, and they had five

. 8 Dec. 1803 in Quebec, Lower Canada. Kenelm Chandler entered the British army at about 18 years of age, and was initially attached

Kenelm Chandler* and Elizabeth Conor; d. 29 Jan. 1850 in Nicolet, Lower Canada, and was buried there on 7 February

arts. This training appears to have instilled in him considerable self-confidence, which stood him in good stead, both in China and in Canada

. Little is known of Louis-Théandre Chartier de Lotbinière’s career before he came to Canada. He was prior of Saint-Étienne de Monays when a young man, but soon made over this living to his brother

 May 1842 in Oakville, Upper Canada. William Chisholm’s father was a Highland Scot who emigrated to Tryon County, N.Y., only to be swept up in the

COCKBURN, ALEXANDER PETER, businessman, politician, and author; b. 7 April 1837 in Finch Township, Upper Canada, son of

Elizabeth Foster of Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada, and they had six sons and three daughters; d. 28 Feb. 1901 in Brantford, Ont. Ignatius

rest divided among the three researchers for the support of their work wherever they went in Canada. This arrangement, together with grants from several organizations, meant that Collip had access to

COSTIGAN, JOHN, politician; b. 1 Feb. 1835 in Saint-Nicolas, Lower Canada, son of John Costigan and Bridget

was a military engineer who served in Canada and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). After 1760 his descendants tried to claim that they were of the nobility

 Dec. 1845, Cuoq embarked for Canada on 11 Oct. 1846 aboard the François 1er, and during the 38-day crossing from Le Havre to New York he studied English. He

the family farm in Perth County, Upper Canada. At Upper Canada College in Toronto in 1866–67, he was head boy for a time. He attended the University of Toronto, where he received a

the early years of the colony. He does not even seem to have engaged in fur-trading. He arrived in Canada around 1647, was sent to the little town of Trois-Rivières, and worked first for Jean

Prairie, Lower Canada, son of Roger-François Dandurand, a notary, and Marie-Jovite Descombes-Porcheron; d. 13 April 1921 in St Boniface (Winnipeg

majesty was having fitted out at Rochefort for Canada. It is very likely that Dauphin de Montorgueuil is the person of the same name, a “lieutenant

), teacher, Roman Catholic priest, author, editor and owner of periodicals, school administrator, and office holder; b. 10 Aug. 1863 in Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac (Coteau-du-Lac), Lower Canada

in Canada. On 2 June 1647 Governor Charles Huault de Montmagny granted him permission to

know very little about Jacques David. The earliest evidence of his presence in Canada is his marriage contract, which was received 12 Sept. 1715 by Florent de

, Canadian confederation was in no way necessary and indeed threatened to cause conflicts in Lower Canada. It was while working at this paper (which would cease publication in November 1867, shortly after

Canada, eldest daughter of Milton Davis, a stagecoach proprietor, and Hannah Cook; m. first 17 Aug. 1864 Daniel Black Chisholm in Hamilton, and they had a son and a child who died in infancy; m

. Following the outbreak of rebellion and the suspension of Lower Canada’s constitution, parliament was dissolved on 27 March 1838. Deblois none the less remained at Quebec, where he continued to

. Pierre Delaunay, the father of Charles, was born in Fresnay-le-Boesme in Maine in 1616. He came to Canada in 1635 as a clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and married Françoise Pinguet in Quebec on 7

withdraw at any time, taking out the entire $450,000 in capital and profits that he had invested in Canada. His commanding position was strengthened in 1894, when Beckett left Quebec to join Stevenson in

. Doucet served as parish priest of Notre-Dame for the next seven years, to Plessis’s entire satisfaction. He also maintained the reputation he had early acquired as the best preacher in Lower Canada. On 11

followed his elder brothers to Upper Canada College in 1844 and finished his education in 1853–54 at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He appears to have taken some years to settle down

Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières, 1955). L.-E. Duguay, Généalogie de la famille de Pierre Duguay (2v., Trois-Rivières, 1923), II. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada: aux Trois

. 5 Dec. 1793 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bout-de-Île (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue), Lower Canada, son of François Dumoulin and Louise Cressé; d. 27 July 1853 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

biog. record, county York, 519–20. Helmut Kallmann, A history of music in Canada, 1534–1914 (Toronto and London, 1960), 98. Middleton, Municipality of Toronto

Callière he is supposed to have arrived in Canada in 1685 as a half-pay ensign. In 1687 he was appointed an ensign on the active list. In 1688 Clérin was at Fort Niagara, and the following year at

, Fabre, owing to pressure exerted by his friends and admirers, was reinstated by the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada after six months. In 1915 Fabre

 July 1837 in Kemptville, Upper Canada, son of William Fannin, a tailor, and Eliza —, both of Irish extraction; d. unmarried 20 June 1904 in Victoria

themselves and not to be slaves to authority. From 1864 Fenwick edited the Canada Medical Journal and Monthly Record of Medical and Surgical Science (Montreal) with Francis Wayland

became the first such academic unit in Canada. As its head until 1919, Fernow would stamp its curriculum with his ideas about forestry and train a generation of professional foresters. Argumentative and

The Recollet priest Luc Filiastre (1646–1721) worked in Canada for nearly 30 years. He arrived in the colony from France in 1677

, actress; b. 21 Oct. 1859 in Tilbury East Township, Upper Canada, daughter of John Finlayson, farmer and mechanic, and Ann Mather; m. first 15 Feb. 1887 Emil Haberkorn in Buffalo, N.Y.; m

Canada and the British West Indies in a political and economic union, a course of action that many Atlantic Canadian businessmen supported as a potential counterweight to American wealth and power

1903 he had been taken on as a reporter at La Presse where Asselin first met him. The following year he moved to Le Canada (Montréal) as parliamentary columnist in Ottawa

Sigmund* was Frankel’s compatriot and competitor in the steel industry. Leo and Lena enrolled their children in the elite private school Upper Canada College, an Anglican institution. Another mark of

woodsmen, sawmillers, and lumber merchants, so it is no surprise that his father resumed that vocation soon after emigrating to Canada and that both his sons followed him into it. The family had arrived in

MacDonell; m. thirdly Cornelia Paterson, a widow, and daughter of John Munro*; d. 18 Oct. 1821 in Matilda Township, Upper Canada

treated in E. W. Sager, Seafaring labour: the merchant marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914 (Kingston, Ont., 1989). On the regional shipping industry see R. E. Ommer, “Ships and shipping