Johnson* recommended him for the executive council of the proposed province of Upper Canada. Two years later, at Lieutenant Governor

democratic upon the other branches of the Legislature,” and Jones wanted it “inviolable.” The same constitutional concern led to his opposition to the proposed union of the Canadas in 1822. At a Brockville

joined the synod of the ecclesiastical province of Canada and in 1879 Bishop Medley was elected to succeed Ashton Oxenden

. 1766 probably in Harford County, Md; probably unmarried, he had a daughter by Deborah Pettit; d. 2 May 1834 at Gravelly Bay, Niagara District, Upper Canada

advocated, had led Amor De Cosmos* to raise the matter of union with Canada in the Legislative Council on 10 March 1867. Seymour had

SIFTON, ARTHUR LEWIS WATKINS, politician, lawyer, and judge; b. 26 Oct. 1858 in St Johns (Arva), Upper Canada, son of

[Bruce*], governor of the United Province of Canada and a fellow member of the Society of Antiquaries. Wilson’s move to Canada accentuated some of

, to emigrate to Upper Canada. He sailed in 1798 with William, one other son, and four daughters. Forced to winter in England, the family set forth again the following spring. Although family accounts

of New Brunswick and of the district of Gaspé, in Lower Canada (Halifax, 1832; repub. Chatham, N.B., 1896), 86, 96, 109. [Beamish Murdoch], A narrative of the late fires at Miramichi, New

Rigaud* de Vaudreuil, who was appointed governor general of Canada in 1703. Their second son, Antoine, Gaspard’s father, was named governor of Menton in 1701 for the prince of Monaco

first worked in manufacturing in Britain, but in the 1870s he was bitten by the mining bug, which took him to Australia, New Zealand, California, Mexico, and, lastly, Canada. Styling himself variously as

woman was subsequently condemned to be hanged. After the surrender of Canada Alavoine thought of returning to France. But the numerous entreaties of the

century, exporting fish and seal products and importing provisions from the United States and Canada and manufactured goods from Britain. After the deaths of the two Stewart brothers, James and William, in

family. In 1754 he enlisted as a volunteer in the Régiment de Languedoc and in May of the following year sailed to Canada as a lieutenant. In September he served in the battle of Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake

ALLARD, JOSEPH-THÉOPHILE, Roman Catholic priest; b. 27 Aug. 1842 in Carleton, Lower Canada, son of Pierre Allard, a farmer

. Macdonald* and George-Étienne Cartier*, and from 7 Aug. 1858 to 23 May 1862 as provincial secretary for Canada East

, British railway promoters. In 1851, when hopes for an intercolonial railway linking the Canadas and the Maritimes were revived, Archibald attended a

corner frontage was regarded as an architectural ornament to the square and a tribute to a man who had succeeded in Canada “by steady industry and perseverance

ARMSTRONG, JOHN BELMER, businessman, inventor, and politician; b. c. 1838 in Guelph, Upper Canada, eldest son of Robert

later for his military services. Armstrong was appointed to the army’s general staff in Canada in 1841 with the rank of major-general. In July

Gaspé, Canada East, and they had one daughter; d. 25 May 1857 in Gaspé. William Arnold immigrated to Upper Canada with his parents, who

de Boston, en présence de M. le baron de Longueuil, gouverneur intérimaire du Canada, et des Iroquois du Sault-St-Louis et du lac des Deux-Montagnes (le 5 juillet 1752),” BRH

for the North West Company and during this trip he kept a diary in which he described the journey from Lachine, Lower Canada, up the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing (Ont.) and from there to Georgian Bay

George-Frédéric-Théophile; m. first 11 June 1849 Euphémie Duval in Beauport, Lower Canada, and they had 11 children, five of whom survived infancy; m. secondly 21 April

into fur-trade society. In 1840 Ballenden moved with his family to take charge of the HBC depot at Sault Ste Marie, Upper Canada; in 1844 he was promoted chief trader and assumed responsibility for

, “as skilful a surgeon as he was a clever doctor,” performed the surgery on 29 May – perhaps the first operation for cancer in Canada. Mother

BARR, ANNIE GARDNER (Gardiner) (Brown), artist and social reformer; b. 29 July 1864 in Norwich, Upper Canada, daughter of

as moderately capable. He had a good mind, common sense, and good health. Homesick perhaps for Canada, he seemed quiet and not over cheerful. In 1715

. Baudrand volunteered and was selected for the first group going to Canada. On 2 Dec. 1841 he arrived in Montreal along with fathers Jean-Baptiste

medicine man; b. on the Miamis (Maumee) River (Ohio); had three sons who survived to adulthood; d. late 1841 or early 1842 on Walpole Island (Lambton County), Upper Canada

. Biog. rev. of N.B. (Jack). Canada Lancet, 41 (1907–8): 475. Canadian album (Cochrane and Hopkins). Canadian biog. dict

the Frobisher expeditions, as stated in Sixteenth-century maps relating to Canada, since he did not sail with the 1576 expedition and he was not on board Frobisher’s flag ship on the later

 Allan Napier MacNab* and Morin, the Leader supported it, emerging as the chief Liberal-Conservative organ in Upper Canada, and

François*, intendant, Claude was sixth son in a family of seven sons and seven daughters. He never resided in Canada, but on three occasions (1711, 1712, 1713) he commanded the vessels which annually

. In the summer of 1847 Bell returned from furlough in Canada to conduct an advance party north from York Factory for the expedition of 1848–49 in search of Sir John

Livernois firm one of the few photography studios in Canada that reached its centenary. BENOÎT, dit Livernois, JULES

Catherine — of Newmarket, Upper Canada; m. 30 July 1884 Mary Amy Woods in New Westminster, B.C., and they had at least one son and one daughter; d. 1909 in Port Moody, B.C

. 1813 at the mission of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada. Attracted to the religious life, Laurent Bertrand entered the

the daughter of David Stevenson, master of transportation of the London and Northwestern Railroad. In November 1888 they set sail for Canada. In

, RG 30, 401–2. Bradstreet’s reports of the Dominion of Canada, February 1, 1876 (New York, 1876), 243, 247. London Advertiser, 12, 13, 15 Feb. 1875. London

. 25 Oct. 1901 in Greenbank, Ont. James Blair, with his parents, brothers, and sisters, arrived in Upper Canada at Windsor Harbour

politician; b. 17 May 1795 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Blanchet, a farmer, and Marie-Euphrosine Cloutier; d. 22 April 1857 at Quebec

-Thomas, La Flèche, France, son of René Boiret, master gardener; d. 5 Nov. 1774 in Quebec. Urbain Boiret arrived in Canada on 26 July

probability Gilles Bolvin came to Canada in 1729. Exactly when he settled at Trois-Rivières is not known but he was certainly there in 1731 already practising the wood-carver’s craft, as we learn from a bill of

influence on the development of the arts and of thought, both in the province of Quebec and in Canada. The fourth child in a family of seven, he first attended the primary school in his native village, and

promoted to command the French regulars in Canada, Bougainville was attached to his service as aide-de-camp. They sailed from Brest aboard the Licorne on 3 April

family came to Upper Canada about 1800 and George Strange Boulton attended John Strachan’s School at Cornwall

Chomedey de Maisonneuve, the governor of Ville-Marie (Montreal). Through her, Marguerite heard about Canada, and then was introduced to Maisonneuve, who was passing through Troyes in 1652. Sister

sent to Canada, but his mother was so grieved by this that she fell seriously ill. In the spring of 1673 he was sent to Nantes, with no very precise destination. There he found Father Antoine

. James Bowman typifies a number of successful American portrait painters working as itinerants in the Canadas and in the eastern United States during the 1830s and 1840s. Commencing life as a carpenter in