sisters and his brother Richard, who later followed him to Canada, to the care of a paternal uncle, the Reverend George MacDonnell, rector of Trinity College, Dublin. Robert completed his elementary

local official; m. secondly Mary Herkimer, and they had one daughter; buried 1 Sept. 1795 at Kingston, Upper Canada. Details of Neil McLean’s

and Hannah Hicks; d. 17 Aug. 1873, London, Ont. William E. Niles apparently first came to Upper Canada as a child with his brother

purchased the viceroyalty of New France the following year and asked the Recollets of Canada to give the Jesuits a part in their missionary efforts. In

missionary in 1808 at North Wilbraham, Mass. Osgood’s early work as a travelling preacher brought him to the Canadas in 1807 and he adopted the two colonies

to be admitted to the Jesuit noviciate on 7 Aug. 1879, the very day that the decree separating the Canada mission from New York was promulgated. His training within the society, to which he was

after the battle of the Nive. He had “a respectable fortune to expend” in 1826 when he moved to Upper Canada with his wife Marian Murray and settled near York on a farm in what is now the Parkdale

), seventh son of Gerald O’Reilly; d. 26 Feb. 1861 in Hamilton, Canada West. Gerald O’Reilly was sent to Dublin to study medicine in 1823 and

REGNARD DUPLESSIS DE MORAMPONT, CHARLES-DENIS, officer in the colonial regular troops in Canada, provost marshal; b. 22 June

 Nov. 1823, eldest of 12 children of Anne Farley and John Scatcherd, who emigrated from Yorkshire in 1821 and became member for Middlesex West in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

stationed in Canada. Short is known for two sets of views, which were engraved by various hands after sketches he made in Canada; the engravings were

and ordained in 1831. Between that date and his departure for Canada in 1833, he ministered in the Secession Chapel at Peebles. In July 1833 he

probably the son of John Todd and Alice (Alison) Clow; d. 7 May 1866 at Toronto, Canada West. Robert Clow Todd spent his youth as a painter

languished because land was too easy to acquire and labour insufficient for development. Canada appears as an illustration of the effects of bad policy, on the evidence largely of Robert

Montréal. Then in October, after a sojourn in Paris, where he met eminent syphilologists, he published his first article in the Montreal journal L’Union médicale du Canada on the current state of

, jp, and author; b. 16 Nov. 1834 in Restigouche, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Barthe and Marie-Louise-Esther Tapin, and younger brother of

Canada, son of Jean-Louis Beaubien, a farmer, and Marie-Jeanne Manseau; d. 9 Jan. 1881 at Outremont, Que. After studying at the Séminaire de

BEST, THOMAS HENRY, businessman; b. 17 April 1850 in Perrytown, Upper Canada, son of John Best and Ellen (Elonor) Cory; m

Township, Upper Canada, youngest of nine children of the Reverend John Bethune* and Véronique Waddin; d. 19 June 1869 at Toronto

, Patriote, and civil servant; b. 12 March 1805 at Quebec, L.C., fourth son of Joseph Bouchette*, surveyor general of Lower Canada

Saltkill’s Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, N.B., the elder of twin sons of Joseph Carroll and Molly Rideout; m. in 1833 Beulah Adams of Perth, Upper Canada, and they had one son; d. 13 Dec. 1884 at

Lartigue, to come in August as preacher for the first sacerdotal retreat to be held in the diocese. Despite the troubled times in Lower Canada and the discretion essential on Chazelle’s part, his

Legislative Council of Lower Canada, William looked to the colony for a career. In 1830 he came to Canada, articled in Montreal, and, after reading law with Charles Richard

officer; b. 17 Dec. 1851 at Oakland Lodge near Aylmer, Lower Canada, son of Louis Maurille Coutlée and Jane Maria Clegg; m. 7 April 1880, in Kingston, Ont., Charlotte Margaret Wilson of

EDSON, ALLAN AARON, artist; b. 18 Dec. 1846 in Stanbridge Township, Canada East, son of Hiram Edson and Elvira Gilmore; m

his parents to Lachute, Lower Canada, and four years later he moved to Upper Canada to teach school. There, despite a strict Methodist upbringing, he began work on a novel. In 1827, however, he was

the Crimea in 1856, and promotion to captain (and lieutenant-colonel in the army) came in June 1859. He travelled to Canada with the 2nd Battalion in the Guards brigade at the end of 1861, when

published, in the Philosophical Magazine, his first essay on North America, his hastily compiled “Statistical account of Upper Canada,” which stemmed in part from his interest in emigration to the

. In 1905 Lake, now chief of the general staff (CGS) in Canada, summoned Gwatkin as director of operations and staff duties to develop plans and procedures for a militia that was becoming an army

HARRISON, ROBERT ALEXANDER, lawyer, author, politician, and judge; b. 3 Aug. 1833, at Montreal, Lower Canada, son of Richard

selected to succeed James Fletcher* as dominion entomologist of Canada; in September he arrived and was officially appointed. During his 11 years

, then a lieutenant-colonel, to Bermuda and Canada to report on fortifications there. Jervois visited the United States twice that year, setting out into the harbours of Portland and Boston in a row-boat

KEEFER, FRANCIS HENRY, lawyer, politician, and office holder; b. 24 July 1860 in Strathroy, Upper Canada, son of James

1849. After teaching at Eton College for some time, he came to Canada in 1852 to become the first principal of a nautical college in Quebec. When that school closed in May 1855 he began his

, daughter of William Campbell*, in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, and they had two sons and three daughters; m. secondly 19 July 1828 Ann

of Ephraim Miles; m. first 22 June 1812, Laura Spafford of Kingston, Upper Canada, and then 21 Aug. 1822 Lucinda Daniels of Windsor, Vt; d. 13 Dec. 1870 at

MOSS, THOMAS, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 20 Aug. 1836 in Cobourg, Upper Canada, eldest of the four

William Randall Roberts, which favoured attacking Canada. In 1866 as a Fenian colonel he led a group from Nashville to take part in the proposed invasion. The person intended to command the operation on the

state (1848–50), and they had two children, one of whom died in infancy; d. 12 June 1859 in Guelph, Upper Canada. Heinrich Wilhelm

. 1809 in London, England; d. 24 Oct. 1866 in Frankford, Canada West. Little is known about George Playter’s early years. His literary

POWELL, WALKER, office holder, businessman, politician, and militia officer; b. 20 May 1828 in Waterford, Upper Canada, son

. William Albert Reeve’s parents met and married in York County, Upper Canada, in 1832, shortly after they had immigrated from England. William Sr took up farming but soon turned to the manufacture of

, Lower Canada. William Rintoul, the second son of a merchant, was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was ordained by the Church of

*. In this capacity Robertson travelled extensively across Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and became known as a leading authority in his field. After Sifton resigned in 1905, Prime Minister

, politician, and office holder; b. 30 Nov. 1859 near Lucan, Upper Canada, son of William Elliott Roche, a merchant, and Maria Carter Hodgins; m. 17 July 1884 Annie Elizabeth Cook (d. 1946) in Toronto, and they

RUTTAN, ROBERT FULFORD, chemist, university professor and administrator, and office holder; b. 15 July 1856 in Newburgh, Upper Canada

costs and adverse Australian publicity caused her to consider ports nearer to Britain, in Canada. Criticism by newspapermen and public officials of the suitability, supervision, and placement of the 200

* to found the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company (from 1913 Canada Steamship Lines), which operated a total of 18 ships on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence and had a paid up capital of

in London. Wilberforce recommended Spragg to Sir Peregrine Maitland*, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, for the post of teacher at

STANTON, ROBERT, businessman, public servant, and publisher; b. 6 June 1794 at Dorchester (Saint-Jean), Lower Canada, eldest