to teaching in Lower Canada, 28 of them in the Royal Grammar School. Among his former pupils were Stephen Randal, Dr Archibald
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada, he is thought to have entered the Grand Séminaire de Québec, but he soon left to pursue a career in what became his principal occupation, teaching. He lets the
stockings in France before coming to Canada late in the summer of 1719, under contract to François Charon* de La Barre, founder of
London, Upper Canada.
Young Henry Sovereene was among a large party of Sovereen and Culver relatives who immigrated to Upper Canada in 1799. Travelling
manufacturing in Canada, and it was Frank Stanfield who, during his more than three decades as a senior executive in the company, put the firm on the road to becoming a national leader in the industry. Stanfield
large Scottish family, Alexander Stevenson was expected to make his own way, so in 1870 he left Scotland for Canada. Experienced in farm work, he spent the next several years as a farm and forestry
losses and denounced French “pretensions” to Canada and Acadia.
Ochiltree applied for a grant in Nova Scotia under Sir William Alexander’s scheme
is the record of his being granted a licence to practise physic, midwifery, and surgery by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Upper Canada at its annual meeting on 6 Jan. 1840. Stewart
.
By 1858 the Maxwells, like Parker, had come to Upper Canada. At least two of their children were born there. They spent some years in Toronto but, finding work short, they moved north about 1871 to
they had six sons and two daughters; d. 10 March 1833 in Hamilton, Upper Canada.
An engineer, James Gordon Strobridge moved from the
the province. Two years later he became bâtonnier of the bar and in 1859 he was appointed assistant judge in the Superior Court of Lower Canada. The following year he was named puisne judge of
merchant, and Marie-Anne Grougnard; d. 15 Dec. 1810 in Saint-Vallier, Lower Canada.
Unlike his father and two of his brothers, François
.
Jean Taché was probably on his first voyage to Canada when he sailed from La Rochelle on 5 June 1727 for Quebec. He was coming to the colony to deal in furs as an associate of the La
. 1819; 7 Sept. 1820. F.-J. Audet, “Les législateurs du Bas-Canada.” Desjardins, Guide parl. Officers of British forces in Canada (Irving). Alexandre Paradis
was to be repeated when in the next decade Sitting Bull* fled to Canada
near Albany, New York, and in 1825 or 1826 came to Vaughan Township in Upper Canada. With his family he pioneered there for about nine years before beginning with his brother James to clear several lots
American revolution, Guy Johnson, successor to Sir William as Indian superintendent, fled to Canada, taking with
THOMSON, LEVI, farmer, lawyer, and politician; b. 17 Feb. 1855 in Hillsburgh (Erin), Upper Canada, son of John Thomson and
Canada North-West Land Company. His stay with the HBC was brief. He resigned in February 1883 to create his own general merchandise and lumber business, no doubt intending to profit by the boom taking
company. An opportunity then arose in Canada, whose railway system had recently undergone radical change. Wartime exigencies had left two new lines financially ruined: the transcontinental Canadian Northern
served in Flanders, where he was wounded. In 1716 he came to Canada as a cadet in the colonial regulars and seems to have spent most, if not all, of the next 13 years here, becoming a cornet in the
training school, a position she would retain until 1924. Through her efforts and her dynamic personality, the school would rank amoung the top centres in French Canada for hospital training
“best directed the Sault-Saint-Louis mission,” be sent back to Canada.
Jean-Marie Le Blanc
, Alta.
James Oscar Triplett’s origins are uncertain, although it appears that he arrived in western Canada around 1912 from Missouri. A sister, Daisy
-Rémi-de-La Salle (Saint-Rémi), Lower Canada, son of Amable Troie, dit Lafranchise, a farmer, and Marie Pinsonneau (Pinsonneault); d. 15 March 1919 in Montreal
Catholic priest, Protestant evangelist; b. 25 Feb. 1803 at Verchères, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Tétreau and Marie-Anne Guyon; d. 1 Dec. 1877 at Montreal
traders of Canada,” but Umfreville and the company could not agree on terms for his re-employment. This failure marked the end of his career as a fur-trader. Even if terms had been settled, it is unlikely
superior of the Sisters of Charity at the Red River mission; b. 26 Dec. 1808 at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada, eldest daughter of a farmer, François Valade, and Marie-Charlotte Cadotte
engravers. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of paintings and sculpture, ed. R. H. Hubbard (3v., Ottawa and Toronto, 1957–60), 3. William Colgate, Canadian
been crowding in, and since 1908 the prior, Paul Picard, had been preparing to set up a new refuge in Canada for his community. In 1910 Bishop Paul
by his stepfather, Levi Veney, came as fugitives to Canada. They settled in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, among numerous other escaped slaves. Veney took up the trade of barber, married, and had two
, 121, 130, 211. Recensements du Canada, 1666 (APQ Rapport), 1681 (Sulte). “Les notaires au Canada,” 34. Vachon, “Inv. critique des notaires royaux,” RHAF, X (1956–57), 388. J.-E
1908 in Ottawa.
Beaufort Henry Vidal and his brother accompanied their father to Upper Canada in 1850 when he went to settle on lands he had acquired
hand beyond entries in church registers and a few documents that he witnessed. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Paris on 27 Nov. 1691 and arrived in Canada in July 1697
father came to Canada as a lieutenant in the Carignan-Salières regiment, with which he participated in the 1666 campaign against the Iroquois. In 1672 he received from
.
According to the obituary in Le Pays of 1 Dec. 1860, Laurent Vivant is thought to have arrived in Lower Canada around 1848, but no trace of him has been found there before 1850. His
facilitate, for a fee, the change of employment. In 1848 the government of the Province of Canada had attempted to curb desertion by appointing a shipping-master for the port, but he had been unable to break
keep their Scottish connections. Their house was open to all young Scots who came to Winnipeg and soon after his arrival in Canada Waugh acted as a correspondent for the Scotsman (Edinburgh
years, and then spent one at Rapid City, Man., and one at Moose Jaw (Sask.). In 1884 he accepted a position in Toronto as editor of the Canada School Journal, and while fulfilling this
WESTLAKE, KATE EVA (Yeigh), journalist and author; b. 1856 in Ingersoll, Upper Canada, daughter of William Westlake and Ruth
.
Patrick James Whelan was apprenticed to a tailor at age 14. About 1865 he came to Canada and worked for Vallin, a tailor in Quebec City. He also joined the cavalry volunteers. He was later employed as a
WHITE, JOHN, English artist and the first to draw Eskimos in Canada; b. c. 1540–50; fl. 1593 in County Cork
birth her family moved to Scotland, and then, in 1848, they immigrated to Huron County, Upper Canada, where they lived in and near what became the village of Clinton. Charlotte attended school in the
firm in Toronto; he subsequently expanded to Montreal, Hamilton, and western Canada. He was sending travellers to Manitoba and British Columbia by 1872. He diversified his business interests as he grew
minister and wrote a narrative of the Deerfield attack and of his experience in Canada, which was published at Boston in 1707 as The redeemed captive, returning to Zion
, Nova Scotia, from Scotland, settled near Perth, Upper Canada, about 1823. John attended district common and grammar schools, then taught school himself before beginning the study of law at Perth in 1830
, Upper Canada, son of John Wood and Mary Ann Wadden; d. unmarried 14 March 1899 in Toronto and was buried in Brockville
HENRY, educator, physician, and office holder; b. 6 April 1846 in Brampton, Upper Canada, son of Henry Wright and Sarah Jane Webb; m. 6 Jan. 1874 Flora Mary Anne
WRIGHT, AMOS, politician and public servant; b. 24 Nov. 1809 in Leeds County, Upper Canada, near the present