. GAGNIEUR, WILLIAM FRANCIS, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit missionary, translator, and scholar; b. 10 May 1857 in Guelph, Upper Canada, son of Étienne-François-Antoine (Anthony) Gagnieur and Elizabeth

TORRANCE, office holder, businessman, and developer; b. 24 May 1850 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada, son of Alexander Tilloch

; b. 3 April 1840 in Saint-Pie, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Gendreau, a blacksmith, and Adelaïde Normandin; d. 11 Sept. 1918 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que

 Sept. 1890. He studied in Paris with the painter Léon Gérôme and did not return to Montreal until June 1892. In October he left again for Paris and he came back to Canada for good in the spring of

, Radisson was bringing a French party from Canada into Hayes River. By a combination of guile, luck, and superior knowledge of the area, Radisson

of A sermon preached before a lodge of free and accepted masons, at Sorrel in Canada, on the day of St. John the Evangelist, 1783 (London, 1788), a copy of which is preserved in

market. One of the few square-timber firms to make the transition, Gilmour and Company repositioned itself for this trade. In 1852 the company built mills at Trenton, on the Bay of Quinte in Upper Canada

Canada. He joined the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers when it was formed in 1887 and the Mining Society of Nova Scotia in 1892. A commitment to technical training was reflected in his appointment as

against the Spaniards, at some point also spending a year or two in the United States. Such an extraordinary past would explain why on his arrival in Lower Canada, he knew not only French, German, and

Goffe participated in the preparations for Sir Hovenden Walker’s expedition to Canada. Four years later he

the young man to accompany him to Canada. After his arrival the following year, Henri attended the noviciate of Notre-Dame-des-Anges at Lachine, Que., and he made his perpetual profession of faith on 27

*, president of the Executive Council of Lower Canada, and they had eight children; d. 20 March 1882 in Toronto, Ont. Henry Grasett brought his

Margaret Swartz, and they had at least six children; d. 25 April 1813 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Michael Grass was part of the considerable

, arriving there in September aboard the sloop Endeavor. He proceeded to erect on Grafton St (north of Duke St) the first printing office in what is now Canada, but died sometime in October. In

. 15 April 1761 at the mission at Lac des Deux-Montagnes (Oka, Que.). Hamon Guen entered the Sulpician community in 1711. He arrived in Canada

Adolphustown Township, Upper Canada, son of Nicholas Hagerman and Anne Fisher; m. first 26 March 1817, in Kingston, Elizabeth Macaulay, daughter of James

1762 and 1763, with instructions to prepare sectional maps of the province of Canada. He was also to draw up historical accounts of the towns of Montreal and Trois-Rivières and collect details of their

HALLMAN, HENRY SCHLICHTER, teacher, Mennonite elder, printer, editor, and publisher; b. 5 Aug. 1859 in Wilmot Township, Upper Canada

seem to have returned to New France. We do not know the date of his death, but he was still living in 1729, for in that year he sent a letter to Canada

HARCOURT, GEORGE, horticulturist, professor, and civil servant; b. 3 Nov. 1863 or 1864 near Auburn, Upper Canada, son of

to Canada to retrieve a Huson family investment which was in trouble. Whatever the nature of that investment, the result of Harman’s rescue attempt was probably not satisfactory, for though Harman

Dewey; d. 23 April 1843 in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada. At the time of his birth Daniel Williams Harmon’s parents

other activities for the rest of his life. He would, the editorial stated, “adhere to the traditional lines and policy of liberal journalism . . . [since] the best interests of Canada are

. By the mid 1880s Hawkes had decided to immigrate to Canada; he arrived in 1885. He went west, where he once more found employment as a labourer, working on a “flying gang” maintenance crew for the

. Henry assiduously cultivated his new-found friends in Lower Canada by writing anonymous letters to the Montreal Gazette in October and November 1807 defending the North West Company against

[see Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski]. By 1859 it was completed from Sarnia, Upper Canada

. directory, 49. W. H. Kesterton, A history of journalism in Canada (Toronto, 1967). MacNutt, New Brunswick, 223, 237–38. J. S. Martell, “The press of the Maritime

significant event in which he lost his life. The incident has an explanation in social problems in the North-West Territories when the area was acquired by Canada in 1870: horse stealing was rife among the

IRWIN, CAROLINE LOUISA JOSEPHINE (Wells), homemaker and dentist; b. 5 Aug. 1856 in Aurora, Upper Canada, daughter of Charles

of tinsmith. After his marriage in 1826 to Lydia Ann Sanford of Redding he emigrated to Niagara, Upper Canada, moving shortly after to Ancaster, and, in 1830, to Hamilton. There he sold tinware and set

(Sainte-Geneviève and Pierrefonds), Lower Canada; m. fourthly 27 May 1839 Marie-Élize Dorval in L’Assomption, Lower Canada; there were several children; d. 11 Oct. 1853 in Sainte

, Upper Canada, eldest son of John “Smoke” Johnson and Helen Martin; d. 19 Feb. 1884 at Chiefswood, near

(Berthierville), Lower Canada, third son of Henry (Harry) Joseph*, shipowner and trader, and Rachel Solomons (Solomon), daughter of Lucius Levy

his arrival in Canada, Jérémie married Jeanne Pelletier at Quebec. He had already been interested in the fur trade, travelling with his brother-in-law François Pelletier among the northern tribes. On 28

Canada. In about 1750 George Keefer’s father, then 10 years old, went to live near Paulins Kill, Sussex County, N.J., with his stepfather, Frederick

mha, premier of New Brunswick, and judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. Richard Rice

of philosophy, and left for Canada in 1721. He was sent immediately to the Sault-Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga, Que.) mission, where he was to spend several years

AN, Col., C11A, 79, pp.157–59 (PAC transcripts). ANQ-M, Greffe de J.-C. Porlier, 12 juin 1741. “Les congés de traite sous le régime français au Canada,” APQ Rapport, 1922–23

that on the orders of the governor of Canada the body of Father Simon was taken to Quebec to be buried in the Recollet church there

Dominicaines de l’Enfant-Jésus; b. 1 April 1852 in Saint-Raphaël, Lower Canada, eighth of the ten children of Augustin Labrecque and Sophie Gagnon; d. 1 July 1920 in Sillery, Que

Relations of previous missionaries and claimed that five of his six years in Canada were spent among Indigenous people, and he was not content simply to know their practices. Instead, he wanted to erect

(Laverdière et Casgrain), passim. Claude de Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire, état provisoire des officiers de milice, de 1641 à 1760,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 294. A. De Léry Macdonald

the first religious who came to Canada in 1670 to restore the Recollet order which had been prevented, since 1632, from returning to Quebec, where it had been established in 1615. Under the direction of

, author, journalist, and politician; b. 13 March 1848 at Mount Johnson (Mont-Saint-Grégoire), Canada East, son of Pierre-Bénoni Lareau and Odile Sylvestre; m. 9 Feb. 1880 Marguerite

was never to return to Canada, although on 3 Oct. 1733 the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères appointed him parish priest for the cathedral parish of Quebec. He resigned from this office on 8

Canada and Newfoundland, Mgr Pietro di Maria. Presenting himself as the “defender of the Acadians, [who are] too often ignored and humiliated,” he strongly recommended the appointment of Patrice

international economy (The relations of Canada and the United States series, New Haven, Toronto, and London, 1940). C.-E. Roy et Lucien Brault, Gaspé depuis Cartier (Québec, 1934). Firmin

AN, Col., C11A, 11, ff. 299–300. Ferland, Cours d’histoire du Canada, II, 233f. Frégault, Iberville, 128–40. A. Jodoin et J.-L. Vincent, Histoire de Longueuil

, A-2. Jug. et délib., I, II, III, IV, V. Ord. comm. (P.-G. Roy), I, 128f. Recensement du Canada, 1681 (Sulte). Tanguay, Dictionnaire, I, 386. P.-G

LEBLANC, ÉTIENNE, businessman and office holder; b. 25 Nov. 1839 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada; m. first before 1866