Canada, son of John Pearce and Elizabeth Moorhouse; brother of John Seabury Pearce*; m. 20 Sept. 1881 Margaret Adolphine Meyer in

Jacques Perrault, a surgeon, and Marguerite Caché; d. 7 Aug. 1745 at Trois-Rivières. François Perrault perhaps came to Canada with his

circle of business connections, he greatly expanded his entrepreneurial activity so that he became involved in commercial transactions with the most important French and then British figures in Canada in

Provincial Grand Lodge of Lower Canada; six years later he became grand senior warden, and in 1820 provincial deputy grand master. In 1816, with notary Michel Berthelot and Joseph Leblond, he had founded a

merchant, Julien Perrault, and Marie-Sophie Gauvin; d. 22 Aug. 1866 in Varennes, Canada East. Joseph-Julien Perrault received his basic

pièces jud. et not., 2048. Jug. et délib. P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, II, 77; Inv. ord. int., I, II. “Les notaires au Canada,” 39

religious ceremonies on the prairies (Winnipeg, 1994). Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser, Loyal till death: Indians and the North-West rebellion (Calgary, 1997). J. L. Tobias, “Canada’s

Canada, at Annapolis Royal. Thus he has been considered the founder of freemasonry in Nova Scotia. In the spring of 1741 he served on a commission concerning the boundaries of Rhode Island and

(Berthier-sur-Mer), Lower Canada. Ordained to the priesthood in the diocese of Orléans on 21 Dec. 1782, Amable Pichard exercised his priestly

sums of money to habitants in his community. In November 1809, branching out beyond agriculture, he hired a number of people to work in the lumber camps on the Cataraqui River in Upper Canada. That

, and he went to Windsor, Canada West, to join his brother Pierre who was in charge of a parish serving mainly Indians. In 1848 he was transferred to Wikwemikong, on Manitoulin Island, where the Indian

from the salary of the position. Porteous moved to Upper Canada, and in April 1846 he was given a commission of the peace for the Newcastle

Royale (Cape Breton Island), arrived the following year to take possession of the island, now to be administered from Louisbourg. Dubuisson had evidently returned to Canada but in the fall of 1726 he was

regiment was chosen for service in Canada, and was sent to Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.), arriving in July 1755. The quality of the entrenchments he laid out there induced Governor Pierre de

-Pistoles; known in Canada from 1714 to 1718. During a journey to Holland, this Benedictine monk had struck up a friendship with the famous Father Pasquier

Canada until those on the stocks were completed and sent to France for inspection, but the outbreak of hostilities between France and England led to immediate demands for small warships to sail Lake

C.-É. Brasseur de Bourbourg, Histoire du Canada, de son église et de ses missions (2v., Paris, 1859), I, 263–68. Gosselin, L’Église du Canada, V, 353–405. Cyprien Tanguay

), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Poutré-Lavigne and Josephte Mercier; m. 28 Aug. 1837 Rose Bénac, at Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, and they had five children; d. 22

POWELL, ANN JANE (Gray), teacher and social reformer; b. 1 Oct. 1853 in Markham Township, Upper Canada; m. 12 Aug. 1879 Henry Gray (d

Gould, his father’s partners in London, and who returned to Canada in 1847 to take his place in his father’s firm. However, following a period of considerable development, especially after 1838 and

jp; probably b. in Connecticut, son of James Pritchard; d. c. 1830, likely in New Richmond, Lower Canada

. As a result of his strenuous advocacy of the agrarian cause, he came under attack. He was accused of being in favour of Canada’s annexation to the United States, but the charge had little impact at the

, 20. Allaire, Dictionnaire, IV, 278. Ivanhoë Caron, “Inventaire de documents concernant l’Église du Canada sous le Régime français,” ANQ Rapport, 1940–41, 436–38. Tanguay

. 1845), with whom he had two children; d. 19 Feb. 1857 in Chatham, Upper Canada. John Landon Read’s father and his grandfather, Moses, came

rudiments of Latin and Greek. Little is known of Richards’s life until 1807, when he became a Methodist itinerant and set out for the Canadas. After a stay in Buffalo, N.Y., and a visit to Niagara Falls, he

to the Upper Canada assessment act, the Grand Trunk Railway charter, and the usury laws; and he opposed Francis Hincks*’ tariff and efforts

.). In 1822 the Riel family returned to Lower Canada from the west, and Louis was baptized at Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville, Que.) on 23 September. He attended a local school and learned the trade of

Dublin portrait painter, and Christiana Jaffray; d. 26 Sept. 1866 at Toronto, Canada West. As a youth Thomas Jaffray Robertson attended

the eighth in a family of nine children. She is listed in all censuses taken in New Brunswick and Canada from 1851 to 1921. The enumeration of 1851 indicates that the little girl, who was baptized Hanna

own people all helped to make his stay more agreeable. His status probably explains why his name does not appear on the lists of Acadians who applied to go to France, Canada, or Saint-Domingue

ROBINAU DE PORTNEUF, RENÉ, officer who served in Acadia and Canada; b. 3 Sept. 1659 at Quebec, son of René

ranks of women attempting to improve the quality of life in Canada at the turn of the century

ROBLIN, DAVID, lumber merchant and politician; b. 19 April 1812 in Adolphustown Township, Upper Canada

Canada, Louis Tantouin* de La Touche, until 1692 when Intendant Champigny

Brotherhood of Railway Employees in western Canada, 1898–1905,” Labour, 11 (1983): 63–88. W. P. Ward, White Canada forever: popular attitudes and public policy towards Orientals in

ROGERS, ROBERT, businessman, political organizer, and politician; b. 2 March 1863 in Lakefield, Lower Canada, second son of

, support the suggestion, for he hoped that Villeray would receive an appointment in Louisiana. Villeray nonetheless became second ensign in Canada on 1 April 1733. Six years later, with

, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Rouleau and Euphrosine (Euphrosie) Patouël (Patoine); m. 8 April 1883 Catherine O’Meara of Bryson, Que., and they had five children, one of whom died in infancy; d

woodworker, and Marguerite Gauvreau; d. probably around the beginning of 1848 in or near Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada. Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy was baptized in

Amable Sénécalle; d. 3 Dec. 1863 at Saint-Laurent, Montreal Island, Canada East. Jean-Baptiste Saint-Germain attended the College de

politician; b. 19 May 1813 at Saint-Jean-François-Régis (Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie), Lower Canada, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel

regularly received the reports of the Public Archives of Canada, the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and the auditor general. Unfortunately, all the old documents he had accumulated disappeared in the

. c. 1750; d. 2 Oct. 1818 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Lower Canada. John Sayer first appeared in the fur trade in the late

then in Vancouver. He was appointed a county court judge in 1914, the first Jew in Canada named to the judiciary. During his years in Victoria, Schultz was an active member of the Congregation Emmanu-El

Edinburgh. On 24 May 1841 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Shortly thereafter he immigrated to Canada, and in 1844 married the daughter of John

, probably in England; d. 21 March 1813 at Quebec, Lower Canada. Little is certain about the life of Thomas Charles Heslop Scott. He

government and the Methodist Missionary Society. Along with his mother and sister, he had left England in 1860 to join his father at Bruce Mines, Upper Canada. He enrolled in Victoria College, Cobourg, in 1868

in Montreal; Short was manager of its substantial Digby operations. Maritime Fish was the first company in Atlantic Canada to consolidate successfully the harvesting, processing, and marketing of

SIMPSON, MELANCTHON, shipbuilder; b. c. 1827 at Ox Point, near Belleville, Upper Canada; m. first 1848 Esther

shameful cruelty”; he is said to have encouraged his Indian allies to kill some prisoners. In the spring of 1778 he was allowed to go to Canada, but he remained on parole at Montreal for two years. Returning