–83. Heagerty, Four centuries of medical history in Canada, I, 131–60. A. W. Cochrane, “Notes on the measures adopted by government, between 1775 and 1786, to check the St

boy on the Saint-Michel, which was bound for Canada. All this, of course, under different assumed names. At a period when a monolithic

people (Toronto, 1973). D. C. Scott, “The Canadian Indians and the Great World War,” in Canada in the Great World War; an authentic account of the military history of Canada from

colonisation du Bas-Canada depuis dix ans, de 1851 à 1861 (Québec, 1863), 425–31. Fidelis [J.-H. Prétot], Mère Marie-Rose, fondatrice de la congrégation des SS. Noms

, NWMP officer, politician, and civil servant; b. 7 March 1850 at South Durham, Canada East, son of Joseph Brisebois, a hotel keeper and jp in Drummondville

of Séraphin Bréaux and Brigitte Martin; d. 12 Jan. 1824 in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada. Deported

La Prairie, Lower Canada, son of Julien Brosseau, an innkeeper, and Émérence Robidoux; m. first there 29 Aug. 1857 Philomène Fortin (d. 1887), and they had

, dit L’Estang, and Marguerite Dubois; d. 12 June 1810 in Montreal, Lower Canada. Véronique Brunet, dit L’Estang, came from one

Duberger*, in Charlesbourg, Lower Canada, and they had 12 children; d. 7 March 1899 at Quebec. Wilfrid-Étienne Brunet

children of the Reverend Horatio Walpole Bucke and Clarissa Andrews; m. 7 Sept. 1865 Jessie Maria Gurd in Mooretown, Upper Canada, and they had five sons and three daughters; d. 19 Feb

. secondly 31 March 1827 Margaret Barnard, née Berkley, and they had one child; d. 8 Aug. 1832 in Brockville, Upper Canada

BURK, DANIEL FRANCIS, business promoter and politician; b. 25 Dec. 1848 in Darlington Township, Upper Canada, son of William

inquiry.” Given Burns’s reputation, it is understandable that some members of the Methodist Church of Canada viewed his commitment to critical inquiry as

unrelated to the imperial government’s decision to maintain the seigneurial régime in Lower Canada. On 14 Aug. 1793 Thomas-Laurent Bédard was

. McWilliams and R. J. Steel, The suicide battalion (Edmonton, 1978). G. G. Nasmith, Canada’s sons and Great Britain in the World War . . . (Toronto, 1919

 May 1810 at Quebec, Lower Canada. Henry Caldwell was appointed ensign in the second battalion of the 24th Foot on 5 Sept. 1756. On 7 Oct

Canada, where he received the minor orders and the diaconate on 23 and 24 Dec. 1752; he was ordained a priest on 24 Feb. 1753, without any of the difficulty which might have arisen

CAMPBELL, COLIN H., lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 25 Dec. 1859 in Wellington Square (Burlington), Upper Canada

-des-Aulnaies, Que., son of Michel Caron and Marie-Josephte Parent; d. 30 Jan. 1853 in Yamachiche, Lower Canada. Charles Caron was

. 1795 in Ireland; d. 4 Feb. 1858 in London Township, Upper Canada. Little is known about George Marcus Cary’s family or childhood. He

1771 at Quebec, son of Jean Casgrain and Marguerite Cazeau; d. 17 Nov. 1828 at Quebec and was buried four days later under the seigneur’s pew in the church at Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada

. The date of his arrival in Canada is not known. Massicotte has speculated that the founder of the Brothers Hospitallers, François

. Chambalon arrived in Canada in 1688 or shortly before. He was first a clerk with Messrs Hazeur, Quebec City merchants. On 2 Oct. 1689, in return for a salary of 1,000 livres a year and the right

source of priests and missionaries for the colony. In the years after the conquest the British government had been reluctant to allow French priests to come to Canada, for fear of encouraging among the

Blanchard, L’Est du Canada français, province de Québec (2v., Montréal et Paris, 1935), II, 202ff. Carrière, Histoire des O.M.I, III, 137–46. Drolet, Ville de

–24, 144. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), IV, 829f., 908–11. Dionne, Champlain, II, 409–12. Marcel Trudel, L’esclavage au Canada français: histoire et conditions de

Island), and in 1758 was transferred to Canada where he served with distinction in the campaign of 1759. For this he was appointed major of Île Gorée in Senegal in 1766. Thus, by acquiring social status

instruction in law from Louis de Gonzague Baillargé*. On 28 July 1842 he was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada. Barely two

, to go to Canada, to build a house there under his patronage, and to devote herself to the service of little Indian girls. The next day, contrary to everyone’s expectations, she had no fever and was

Affairs, 1902–7. J. R. Miller, Skyscrapers hide the heavens: a history of Indian-white relations in Canada (Toronto, 1989), 164. Morris, Treaties of Canada with the Indians

CHOQUET, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, lawyer, judge, and social reformer; b. 8 Jan. 1851 in Varennes, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste

, Artistes et artisans du Canada (5 sér., Montréal, 1940–46), 4e sér., 49–81. Gowans, Church architecture in New France, 85, 132, 143–44. Gérard Morisset, Coup d’œil sur les arts

exhibition, 1848 . . . ([Toronto?, 1848?]). British Canadian, and Canada West Commercial and General Advertiser (Toronto), 27 March 1847. British Colonist

he could be installed; Goussé, Collet’s immediate predecessor, never came to Canada. Collet reached Quebec in the autumn of 1712 aboard the ship Héros, presented his letters of appointment to

travelled to Lower Canada with Edward Gibbon Wakefield*, manager of the seigneury of Beauharnois for the North American Colonial Association

, naturalist, and author; b. 11 May 1848 at the trading post of Îlets-Jérémie (Colombier), Lower Canada, son of Antoine-Alexandre Comeau, a Hudson’s Bay Company agent, and Luce Hall, named Mary Bédard

Canada ([Toronto], 1970). M. B. DesBrisay, History of the county of Lunenberg (2nd ed., Toronto, 1895). J. R. Harper, Painting in Canada, a history

Robert Conefroy, a merchant, and Marie-Josette Métivier; d. 20 Dec. 1816 in Boucherville, Lower Canada. Pierre Conefroy grew up in comfortable

, after arriving in Canada, he was given the rank of ensign and garrisoned in Montreal. He was promoted lieutenant in 1715 and appointed commandant at the post on the St Joseph River in 1725. There, five

Brassard, Armorial des évêques du Canada . . . (Montréal, 1940). Gauthier, Sulpitiana. [É.-M. Faillon], Vie de Mme d’Youville, fondatrice des Sœurs

Lefebvre de Bellefeuille]. When Cox arrived at Quebec with his family in August, Canada was threatened with attack by American forces and he was immediately put to work training recruits. It was

offered Croft the chair of chemistry and experimental philosophy. At the end of 1842, at the age of 22, Croft left for Canada and took up his new duties in Toronto in the following year

Isabella Deacon; d. unmarried 25 Feb. 1901 in Cushing, Okla. By the early 1860s the Crozier family had settled in Belleville, Upper Canada. Lief

superior of the Grey Nuns of Nicolet; b. 30 March 1833 in Sorel, Lower Canada, daughter of Médard Crépeau, a butcher, and Geneviève Hus-Lemoine; d. 21 Dec. 1910 in Nicolet, Que

People’s Street Railway, and the Saint John Rural Cemetery Company; at some time he was also president of the Joggins Coal Mines Association. His desire to promote Saint John within Canada led him to serve

AN, Col., B, 104, ff.172v, 333. C11B, 33, ff.242, 341–43. ASQ, Polygraphie, VII, 5. PAC, MG 18, F12. Coll. doc. inédits Canada et Amérique, I, 12–16, 41–46; II, 10

John), 29 March 1915. Saint John Globe, 29 March 1915. Irving Abella, A coat of many colours: two centuries of Jewish life in Canada (Toronto, 1990). A

Montreal, Lower Canada). Although in 1818 François Decoigne could be described as “the celebrated Mons De Quoine,” little is now known of his life or

the coast of Cape Breton Island on 15 Nov. 1761. In the confusion which followed the conquest of Canada, Villebon was accused of having amassed money unlawfully through dealing in brandy or

Meteorological Office (later the Meteorological Service) of Canada was formed by George Templeman Kingston