the many footwear factories located in Saint-Sauveur and Saint-Roch wards. In May 1917, when Demeule was only 13 and Canada was at war, Prime

and Françoise Boyer; d. 17 Jan. 1806 in Longueuil, Lower Canada. Pierre Denaut, the seventh son of a Montreal mason, went to the Latin

Hall, where Denke became a teacher, and later from Upper Canada until the War of 1812 rendered correspondence impossible. While teaching, Denke, a

general all crimes which the provosts of our said cousins the marshals of France deal with.” In reality the provost of the marshalsea in Canada never exercised these judicial functions, restricting himself

himself to joining his brother, who had emigrated to Lower Canada the year before. He reached Quebec in June, along with Jean-Denis Daulé*, Jean

DESJARDINS, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, merchant and Patriote; b. c. 1802, probably at Saint-Benoît, Lower Canada, son

Guillaume Hébert. The wedding took place in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec on 1 Oct. 1634. About this only son of Canada’s first settler little is recorded except an occasional instance of his

 Sept. 1822 Mary Price in Montreal, and they had seven children; d. 23 Oct. 1857 in Stanstead-Plain, Lower Canada. Silas Horton

1694,” APQ Rapport, 1923–24. “Un compte de ‘chirurgienne’,” BRH, XXXII (1926), 167. Jug, et délib., III, IV, V. Recensement du Canada, 1681 (Sulte). Catalogue du

DOAN (Done), JOSHUA GWILLEN (Gillam), farmer, tanner, and Patriot; b. 1811 in Sugar Loaf, Upper Canada, youngest son of Jonathan

Joseph Thaddeus Dormer, 11th Baron Dormer, and Elizabeth Anne Tichborne; d. unmarried on 2 Oct. 1866 at London, Canada West. The Dormers

subsequently transferred to Canada, where there was still some opportunity for officers of the colonial troops to learn by direct experience the arts of gunnery and fortification. Posted in 1752 to Fort Niagara

far from Quebec, son of Louis Cotin (Cottin), dit Dugal, a tavern-keeper, and Madeleine Bernard; d. 5 May 1829 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada

Mary Duggan; d. at Toronto, Ont., 14 June 1876. George Duggan came to Canada as an infant with his parents. They joined John’s brother

la Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Villemarie en Canada, suivie de l’histoire de cet institut jusqu’à ce jour (2v., Villemarie [Montréal], 1853), II, 290, 296, 327; Vie de Mme d’Youville

in the Canadas. At the same time an organizational change in the Ordnance department created a civil establishment for the Royal Engineers in Quebec, and Eaststaff was placed in charge of it. His work

. 1756; d. 1 Sept. 1816 in Montreal, Lower Canada. In 1781 Edward Edwards became the Montreal bookseller and agent for William

family immigrated to Dundas, Upper Canada, and he followed when he had completed his schooling at the age of 15. In 1834 he took up land near the town and started farming. He married Mary Oliphant and

court martial at Fort Chambly. Two years later he received the rank of colonel in the Lower Canada militia; Governor Sir John Coape

Prevost* to practise medicine in Lower Canada, but he was not granted a licence until two years later. After that his reputation spread quickly, and soon several institutions sought his services. He

(Berthierville), Lower Canada. Barthélemy Faribault belonged to a family trained in the law: his father and three of his brothers were notaries. Seeking to

Canada in 1854, reaching Quebec at the end of October. He was immediately taken on staff at the Journal de Québec by the owner, Joseph-Édouard

Canada during the late 1830s; his father died en route. After a brief stay in Montreal, the family settled near Cookstown in 1842 where Ferguson became a farmer. He bought more property in Innisfil

(Cambridge), Upper Canada. Adam Ferrie was born into a family long engaged in commerce. In 1824 his father, a successful Glasgow merchant, established an

jp; b. c. 1767 in Rochester, England; d. 11 Oct. 1844 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada. John Fletcher, whose

. One of 14 children, Gordon Flowerdew was educated from 1894 to 1899 at Framlingham College in Suffolk, where he shone more on the playing-fields than in the classroom. After coming to Canada in 1903, he

founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph in the United States and Canada; b. 24 Dec. 1813 at Bas-en-Basset, France, eleventh child of Claude Fontbonne, vine-dresser, and Marie

. 11 March 1853 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, son of François Forget, a farmer, and Appoline Ouimet; m. 2 May 1876 Maria Raymond in Montreal, and they had four daughters; d. 7

. Agnes volunteered in February 1917, the year that conscription was introduced in Canada. Her brother David Alwyn was serving in France but unfortunately was killed in action one month before she

de documentation, Fonds Morisset, Dossier Louis Foureur, dit Champagne. [F.-M.] Bibaud, Dictionnaire historique des hommes illustres du Canada et de l’Amérique (Montréal, 1857

Quebec, Lower Canada. John Fraser served in the 78th Foot during the Seven Years’ War and fought in the battle of the Plains of Abraham on 13 Sept

of Louis Frasse de Plainval, but he seems to have been well born and to have had some military training before he arrived in Canada. The title of “Vicomte” appears to have been bestowed on him

1869 at Ottawa, Ont. Henry James Friel was born of Irish Catholic parents. In 1827 the family moved to Bytown (Ottawa), Upper Canada, where

Montreal Stock Exchange, and the Canada Inland Steam Navigation Company. He was also associated with the British and Canadian School of Montreal and the Montreal Horticultural Society. His principal outside

.D., ed. James Douglas Jr (New York, 1910). Université Laval, Annuaire (Québec), 1852–53. M.-J. et George Ahem, Notes pour servir à l’ histoire de la médecine dans le Bas-Canada

Wiebe* persuaded the entire Bergthal colony, including Funk and his second wife, Susanna, as well as Funk’s parents, to emigrate to Canada. They settled in the village of Bergthal, founded in the East

the banks there, but economic conditions stood in the way. He then applied to the Bank of British North America for a position in either the United States or Canada. From 1867 Fyshe worked for this bank

affluent than he – would come to recognize as the best and most complete in Canada. In 1895 Gagnon published privately a systematic catalogue of his library entitled Essai de bibliographie

Prince Edward Island (Willowdale, Ont., 1988). Harvie’s Prince Edward Island almanack . . . (Charlottetown), 1872. Ships and seafarers of Atlantic Canada: the

. 31 May 1789 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Que., son of Pierre Gamelin and Marianne Lemaître-Lamorille; d. 14 April 1856 in Iberville, Lower Canada

manager at the Royal Bank of Canada. In 1916 the family moved into the manor house at Sainte-Catherine, where Paul tried in vain to work the land and manage the forested areas. After a brief stay in Quebec

, Grandeurs et misères de l’Église trifluvienne (1615–1947) (Trois-Rivières, 1947). A.-H. Gosselin, L’Église du Canada après la Conquête. Jouve, Les franciscains et

. 1776 at Quebec, son of Jean-Baptiste Gatien and Marie-Françoise Aubin-Delisle; d. 19 July 1844 in Cap-Santé, Lower Canada. Félix

. Father Valérien remained in New France until 1742; he then went to France on the Canada as chaplain. He returned the following year as provincial commissioner. His active participation in the

lieutenant for service in the West Indies, he preferred to remain in Canada with his lower rank, which he was to keep until his death. Pierre was at Michilimackinac when he learned in December 1749 of his

Varennes, Lower Canada, son of Félix Geoffrion, a farmer, and Catherine Brodeur; d. 18 July 1899 in Dorion, Que. Christophe-Alphonse

GILDERSLEEVE, OVERTON SMITH, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 13 Jan. 1825 at Kingston, Upper Canada, eldest of the

North America and established the family business in New Brunswick, first on the Miramichi and then at Saint John. Allan Jr, the older brother of John and David, came to Lower Canada in 1828 to tap the

in attending the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste convention in Quebec City to which French-speaking peoples from across Canada had been invited. Inspired by the resulting realization of themselves as a

at Quebec, son of Joseph Girouard and Marie-Anne Baillairgé; d. 18 Sept. 1855 in Saint-Benoît (Mirabel), Lower Canada. Jean-Joseph