, Île d’Orléans, Lower Canada, son of François Leclerc, a shoemaker, and Marie-Rosalie Ferland; m. 20 Jan. 1890 Zélia Richard (d. 5 July 1918) in the parish of Saint-Sauveur at Quebec

him to go to Paris to specialize in psychiatry. On his return to Canada in 1909 he was appointed physician in charge of the women’s section at Saint-Jean-de-Dieu and assistant to Alcée Tétreault, chief

), 90, 131. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada: aux Trois-Rivières, 32–34.

in New Jersey; m. 17 Aug. 1800 Mary Johnson, and they had four sons and three daughters; d. 26 Oct. 1842 in Drummondville, Upper Canada

Canada, 1666 (APQ Rapport). P.-G. Roy, Inv. coll. pièces jud. et not., II, 14; Inv. concessions, II, 137; III, 88; IV, 102; Inv

and nation building; for example, The wooing of Miss Canada (Toronto, 1917) presents an allegory of the country’s new maturity. Between 1914 and 1918 she penned 19 of her 21

practices of its kind in Canada and designed several of Toronto’s most notable landmark buildings, including Old City Hall and Casa Loma. The son of Irish Anglican immigrants, E. J. began his training at

. In 1798 he turned to the manufacture of potash, a product still little used but destined within a few years to become one of Lower Canada’s principal exports. The undertaking must have proved lucrative

Canada had only one school for nurses – the St Catharines Training School and Nurses’ Home, which had opened in Ontario in 1874 – young women attracted to the profession often went to the

des engagés pour le Canada au XVIIe siècle (1634–1715),” RHAF, VI (1952–53), 189, 379. [Melançon], Liste des missionnaires jésuites: Nouvelle-France et Louisiane, 1611–1800

experimental. For his passage along the route, Beaujeu came armed with authority – in association with Pierre Landriève – to decide all arrangements necessary for supporting Canada’s southward

. Lorit arrived in Canada in 1664 as a voluntary indentured worker, and was sent to the Jesuits’ seigneury at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Probably because of a speech defect which earned him the nickname of

up a teaching career. He was the first layman, in Lower Canada, to devote himself to elementary teaching after having gone so far in his classical studies. At that period, a schoolteacher was regarded

helped to establish the local branch of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada [see Marjory Laing

MACKAY, ANGUS (McKay), farmer, office holder, and agriculturalist; b. 3 Jan. 1840 near Pickering, Upper Canada, second child and

modern medicine (St Louis, Mo., 1918). Partly out of a desire to return to British soil, as Canada was then perceived, Macleod accepted

lives had been devastated by fire in 1898. As provincial vice-president of the National Council of Women of Canada from 1903 to 1907, she advocated greater rights and better conditions for British

); Marie Morin, “Histoire simple et véritable de l’établissement des Religieuses Hospitalières de Saint-Joseph en l’Île de Montréal, dite à présent Ville-Marie, en Canada, dé, l’année 1659

. Le Clercq, First establishment of the faith (Shea), I, 284. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), II, 445–46.

Canada, was organized under the presidency of Bellelle Guerin, with Lovering as honorary treasurer. A vice

Kiskakons at Michilimackinac by an Illinois.” In 1688 he obtained permission to go to France. Having returned to Canada, he married Catherine Niquet on 5

report on the medical schools in Canada and the United States that deplored the lack of practical instruction and laboratories at the Université Laval in Montreal. Martigny took up this cause. With the

AAQ, Registres d’insinuations C, 1, 2, 4, 5. AQ, NF, Ins. du Cons. sup., II, 136v; V, 52v; VI, 102. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada: aux Trois-Rivières, 116. Gérard Morisset, Coup

. Hélène Bernier AAQ, Copies de documents, Série A: Église du Canada, III, 35. AHDM, Mère Chauvelier, Livre ou second recueil de

MERCHANT, FRANCIS WALTER, educator, author, and civil servant; b. probably on 25 Nov. 1855 in Oil Springs, Upper Canada, son

. JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain), 174. Vachon de Belmont, Histoire du Canada. For information about Martine Messier, her husband, and

workers’ districts. He owned a sizeable amount of stock in insurance companies and banks, and served as a director of the Bank of Hamilton and of the Canada Life Assurance Company. For a short period he was

governor of Lower Canada, and on 15 June 1799, at 53 years of age, he was sworn in; on 30 July 1799 he replaced Governor Robert Prescott

Mondelet* and Marie-Françoise Hains; d. 15 June 1843 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada. Jean-Marie Mondelet, the only surviving child of 12 or

ASQ, Thomas Morel, “Miracles arrivez en leglise de Ste. Anne du petit Cap Coste de Beaupré en Canadas” (1687), dans Paroisses diverses, 84, et Polygraphie, XIII, 2; Paroisses diverses, 72, 87; Séminaire

Laval even judged it fitting to confer the tonsure and the minor orders on him, despite his youth. This was done on 2 Dec. 1659, and was the first ceremony of its kind in Canada. After

Toronto; he studied there until June 1886, when he obtained a ba from the University of Toronto. He was accepted as a student by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the fall

been an associate since 1898, and in private galleries and to serve as secretary of the Canadian Art Club. About this time he wrote Art in Canada: the early painters ([1911?]), one of the first

Tract, near the site of Clinton, Upper Canada, daughter of Sidney Harman Mountcastle and Frances Laura Meikle; d. unmarried 24 May 1908 in Clinton

-Haut (Berthierville), Lower Canada, son of Louis Mousseau and Sophie Duteau, dit Grandpré; m. there on 20 Aug. 1862 Hersélie Desrosiers, and they had 11 children; d. 30

the first medical journals in Canada East, La Lancette canadienne. In 1855 they moved to Montreal, where he became surgeon to an army regiment, a city councillor, professor of medicine

served as the latter’s vice-president (1898, 1901) and corresponding secretary (1899). She represented Lady Tilley at the meeting of the National Council of Women of Canada in Toronto in 1895, and at

 Dec. 1900 in Clifton Springs, N.Y., and was buried in Hamilton, Ont. Donald McInnes’s family emigrated to Upper Canada in 1840 and settled at

recognized courtroom lawyer, he appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain. Many of his cases

. He returned from the British Isles early in 1843, and in May led an HBC brigade from Lachine, Canada East, to Norway House. Accompanying him was Lieutenant John Henry

central Canada. Nova Scotia probably had “more ships in the Port of Calcutta, in any day of the year, than . . . in all the ports of [the Province of] Canada

central and western Canada. When he aired his dissident views and disputes with competitors, exposing in the press what propriety compelled others to reserve for backrooms, he gave the public cause to

 Nov. 1796 in Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Méthotte, a farmer, and Josephte Gouin; m. 8 Sept. 1829 at Quebec Dorothée Measam, daughter of William Measam, a

trade Slavery in colonial Canada was part of the much broader Atlantic slave trade. The major European powers and several African kingdoms were

Canada, son of Guillaume Nantel, a tanner, and Adélaïde Desjardins; d. 30 July 1929 in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville (Sainte-Thérèse), Que. In

Neilson, called Harry by his family, was born into a distinguished Scottish and French Canadian family with important connections to the early history of printing in Lower Canada. In 1764 a great-great

NEILSON, WILLIAM, businessman; b. 16 March 1844 near Ramsayville (Almonte), Upper Canada, son of John

were obtained from archival documents and oral history interviews. s.d.g.] Canadian Heritage, Parks Canada

. c. 1780 in Scotland, possibly in Dumfries; m. 21 Dec. 1811 Theresa Wright in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 3

colleague had suggested the change because Beardy sounded like a nickname rather than a Native name. Hannah and Frances visited Winnipeg for the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada in