the son of Thomas Nisbet, a master shipbuilder of Rutherglen on the Clyde, who brought his family to Canada West in 1844 and settled at Oakville on the shore of Lake Ontario. James had served an

Galiffet* raised in Picardy for service in New France – whence the nickname. Scarcely had they arrived in Canada when Galiffet and his 300 men went to Montreal, the crucial point for the

had one child; d. 17 Aug. 1801 in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada. In the early years of Upper Canadian settlement major crimes

parents emigrated from Ireland to Boston in 1823 and he was born there the following year. In 1828 the family moved to Maidstone Township, a Roman Catholic settlement in Essex County, Upper Canada. O’Connor

Papineau. O’Sullivan also professed different politics: his reformism had entirely given way to toryism. In 1835 Louis-Joseph Papineau felt that the political crisis in Lower Canada would be

Quebec. Jean-Claude Panet arrived in Canada at 20 years of age as a soldier in the colonial regular troops. He had sailed from La Rochelle on 10

, dit Rottot, at Quebec, and they had 17 children, only 4 of whom survived them; d. 15 June 1804 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Pierre

PAQUIN, JACQUES, Roman Catholic priest and author; b. 9 Sept. 1791 in Deschambault, Lower Canada, son of

. 1814 by the Reverend Edward Parkin and Sarah Cullen; d. 16 Dec. 1875 at Quebec. John Buckworth Parkin arrived in Canada with

The old régime in Canada, 1874, had depicted the Jesuits and the Canadians in the worst possible light. The proposal somehow was made public and created a storm. The ultramontanists, led by

civil authority. In 1679 he was appointed to the important post of intendant of the French West Indies, where he endeavoured to stimulate trade between the islands and Canada. In 1683 he was recalled to

Normandy, 7 Oct. 1663, son of Pierre Payen, chevalier, seigneur of Chavoy; d. in 1707, probably at sea. Payen came to Canada as a lieutenant in

CHARLES, teacher, farmer, colony co-founder, businessman, leader of a cooperative, and author; b. 6 July 1866 in Owen Sound, Upper Canada, son of William Daniel Paynter and Sarah Alice Doyle; m

. Pearkes immigrated first to eastern Canada, later to California, and finally arrived in Vancouver Island in 1858. Here he became the colony’s first practising solicitor and was appointed the first notary

Perrault l’aîné, and Charlotte Boucher de Boucherville; d. 7 Aug. 1812 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada. Jacques-Nicolas Perrault

du Canada depuis Monseigneur de Laval jusqu’à la conquête (3v., Québec, 1911–14), I.

, Inv. coll. pièces jud. et not., I, 58, 89; Inv. ord. int., II, 96. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” 263–527.

Jug. et délib., I, 993; III, 517f., 988. Recensement du Canada, 1666 (APQ Rapport). P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, I, 13; IV, 71f.; Inv. ins

, Caen, and Paris, he was ordained priest on 16 April 1631 and left for Canada in 1637. He worked for three years at Quebec and Trois-Rivières in order to learn Algonkin. Then he went off with

, 185, 194, 196, 200. “Les notaires au Canada,” APQ Rapport, 1921–22, 45. J.-E. Roy, Histoire du notariat, I, II. Gérard Malchelosse, “Un procès criminel aux Trois-Rivières en

. In 1906 Plamondon gave two concerts in Canada, one at the Monument National in Montreal on 1 October and the other at the Auditorium de Québec on the 4th. It would be 14 years before he

 1830. Audet, “Les législateurs du Bas-Canada.” J. D. Borthwick, History and biographical gazetteer of Montreal to the year 1892 (Montreal, 1892). Montreal directory, 1819

–47, 178, 187. Jouve, Les Franciscains et le Canada (1615–1629).

Gaulin*, began to seek some assistance in the ecclesiastical government of his vast diocese, which covered all of Upper Canada. He wanted a division of the diocese, whether by the appointment of an

POWLIS (Powles), GEORGE, convicted murderer; b. 1812 in the Mohawk Village (Brantford), Upper Canada, son of Paul Powlis (Paulus

PYNE, ROBERT ALLAN, physician, politician, and office holder; b. 29 Oct. 1853 in Newmarket, Upper Canada, son of Thomas Pyne

the diaconate 23 Sept. 1679 at the seminary in Sens (France), and the priesthood probably the following year. He returned to Canada in 1684

regent at Amiens, and his third probationary year in Belgium, he taught for three years at the Collège in Eu, and then left for Canada. He arrived at Quebec on 17 Aug. 1635

seminary to cede its rights of lods et ventes to the government of Lower Canada in return for an annuity, precipitated an acute internal conflict between the French Sulpicians, who supported it, and

Nims (Towatogowash, rebaptized Élisabeth); d. 20 April 1811 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Marie Raizenne’s parents had both been born in

community interests were the Presbyterian Church in Canada and, after 1925, the United Church of Canada and their respective women’s missionary societies, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Imperial

. 13 March 1810 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Raimond, a merchant, and Louise Cartier; d. there 3 July 1887

booming economic growth in Ontario and the west. Both branch and office occupied space in the Canada Life Assurance Building on King Street until the construction nearby in 1902–4 of separate premises

councils of the proposed new province of Upper Canada. He was appointed to the former on 9 July 1792 and the latter three days later. Although Lieutenant Governor

. Charles-Séraphin Rodier was the grandson of Pierre Rodier, a native of the Dauphiné, who fought in the Seven Years’ War and remained in Canada after 1759. One of 16 children, he was born in the Saint-Joseph

 1674),” APQ Rapport, 1921–22, 157, 187. Jug. et délib. “Les notaires au Canada,” 30. J.-E. Roy, Histoire du notariat, I, 132f. “La haute justice dans les

Mercer*] in June 1916. Later that year he was invalided home to Canada, where he underwent prolonged medical treatment. He was discharged in 1918 as a lieutenant

Sagard, the first marriage solemnized in Canada with the rites of the church took place, that of their daughter Anne and Étienne Jonquet. Anne died in childbirth the following year, but there is

senator; b. 2 Jan. 1815 at Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Roland, a farmer, and Euphrasine Donay; m. 7 Oct. 1839 Esther Boin at Saint-Laurent, near Montreal, Lower Canada, and

father, a surgeon, emigrated about 1808, staying briefly at Les Cèdres, Lower Canada, and then settling near Vittoria in Norfolk County, Upper Canada, where he died in 1814. The family was soon respected

make no claim on the estate, as both sought to do. Because of the huge sums involved, the case would go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which in 1894 was to declare the will valid and uphold

. Caron, “Inventaire de documents,” APQ Rapport, 1941–42, 223. Jouve, Les Franciscains et Le Canada: aux Trois-Rivières, 220. Trudel, L’Église canadienne. J.-C. Taché

land agents, and encroachment by a railway. In 1907 Rouillard became the province’s representative on the Geographic Board of Canada, which had been

l’histoire de la médecine, 465–72. Auguste Gosselin, Henri de Bernières, premier curé de Québec (Les Normands au Canada, Québec, 1902), 175, 183. P.-G. Roy, A travers l’histoire de

. His first visit to Canada was a key event in Russell’s life. He rode north from Helena, Mont., with two friends in late May 1888. A job awaited one of them, Philip A. Weinard, who was to take

son of Martin Ryan and Margaret Conway; m. 20 March 1858 Margaret Walsh in Perth, Upper Canada, and they had four sons and four daughters; d. 13 Feb. 1899 in Toronto

-Étienne-de-Beaumont; d. likely 2 or 3 Sept. 1758 at Gaspé. Banished from the kingdom of France, Pierre Révol arrived in Canada on the king’s

SACCARDY (de Saccardy, Saccardie), VINCENT, engineer-general for the French king in Canada; baptized 26 Sept. 1630 at Tours

Winslow* of New Brunswick, and they had six children; d. 9 Nov. 1861 at Kingston, Canada West. James Sampson was educated in Dublin and was

. Sandom’s career in Upper Canada began in the spring of 1838 when he arrived in Kingston as captain commanding on the lakes. The unrest caused by the rebellion of 1837–38 and the threatening posture of the