missionary and was appointed to Montreal. The War of 1812 had temporarily disrupted the work in Upper and Lower Canada of the Methodist Episcopal Church

dominated. He worked in publishing in Edinburgh and is said to have been given the opportunity to come to Canada and to enter the book business of John Cunningham Geikie in Toronto through the Blackwood

energy both in Canada and abroad. Left without any means of support after her federal appointment ended, she eventually succumbed to despair, with tragic results

, magazine owner, composer, numismatist, and teacher; b. 27 June 1835 in Maskinongé, Lower Canada, son of François-Xavier-Olivier Boucher, a physician, and Émilie Munro, who had been born in the

Donlevy; m. 26 Oct. 1846 Mary Walsh in Brockville, Upper Canada, and they had at least one child, a son; d. 22 July 1858 in Toronto

Elizabeth Abbott, and they had five sons and one daughter; d. 19 Feb. 1833 at York (Toronto), Upper Canada. An elder son of a prestigious family

-speaking families and quickly mastered the mysteries of their language. He then sailed to Gaspé, Canada East, where he was immediately charmed by the

Frances Johnstone, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 3 Nov. 1847 in Kingston, Upper Canada. Richard Henry Bonnycastle’s family was

, Dorchester made Bouchette a master and commander, a commission confirmed for Upper Canada by Lieutenant Governor Simcoe

Provancher. In 1860 the professor of the Université Laval had gone to Niagara on his first journey in Upper Canada. The following year, alone, or with T. S. Hunt or Abbé Jean-Baptiste-Antoine

. c. 1806 Margaret ——, and they had at least two sons and six daughters; d. 28 Dec. 1851 in Springfield on the Credit (Erindale), Upper Canada

Engineers, and he may have attended an engineers’ academy. After immigrating to Canada, he was appointed a provincial land surveyor on 11 June 1846, becoming a surveyor and draftsman in the Crown Lands

Burnham, and they had nine children; d. 15 Sept. 1859 in Port Hope, Upper Canada, and was buried in nearby Cobourg. One of four

. Green came to Upper Canada in 1823 while en route to Ohio, decided to remain, and, although largely self-educated, obtained a teaching post at West Lake in Prince Edward County. He was licensed

father originated in France and immigrated to Ireland in the 1600s. In the 1830s Thomas came to Lower Canada from Clonbeg (Republic of Ireland) and settled in Montreal. He married Mary Maguire, also of

Geddes in Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had four sons and two daughters; d. 27 June 1860 in Belleville, Upper Canada. Walter Henry

Scotland, E. F. B. Johnston moved to Upper Canada as a young boy. He was likely a son of James and Agness Johnston, who took up farming in East Garafraxa Township. Ebenezer continued his education

 Sept. 1853 Jemima Nicolina Baxter (d. 1887) at Buxton, Upper Canada; d. 5 Jan. 1895 in Chatham, Ont. The son of a farmer, William

department and his vision of Canada’s place in the empire. He divided his scholarly energy between medieval England, publishing The English correspondence of Saint Boniface . . . (London

had been curate of Cullen in the diocese of Emly. From 1820 until his immigration to Lower Canada in 1836, he may have been rector of Kilnasoolagh and several other parishes in the diocese of Killaloe

. John Paterson’s father was a Presbyterian minister and teacher in Scotland and England and he continued in the ministry after immigrating to Canada with his family in 1858. John was then enrolled at

Kildare. Thomas attended from 1815 to 1822, after which he emigrated to Canada to enter into business with his brother Edward. Initially, the brothers maintained commercial ties with the Liverpool office of

and Catherine Ferguson; d. 18 Dec. 1851 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada. William Henry Scott came from a thoroughly Presbyterian family

College in London, Upper Canada, visited England and was impressed with his reputation for work with youth. He persuaded Sweatman to become first headmaster of the London Collegiate Institute, an Anglican

15 cities across Canada. Torrington had established the Toronto College of Music in 1888, two years after Edward Fisher began the Toronto

), Upper Canada, son of William Youle Watson and Mary Ann Aldred; m. 23 Sept. 1885 Sarah Anne Grimshaw Clare (d. 13 March 1937) in Toronto, and they had two daughters and five sons; d

Canada in 1885 under unknown circumstances. The place and date of her marriage remain a mystery. Charles, Rose, and daughter Ida Jane (b. 25 Nov. 1890) all appear at a Montreal address in the

Canada, younger son of the Reverend John Bell Worrell and Elizabeth Jane Lamb; m. first 3 Jan. 1877 Charlotte Ann Ward (d. 23 Aug. 1915) in Stanhope, Que., and they had one son and

and Mary Louisa Oliver; m. 1826 Augusta White in York (Toronto), Upper Canada; d. 3 Nov. 1877 at Yorkville (Toronto), Ont. Educated by

. 1885) in Chippawa, Upper Canada, and they had three sons and three daughters; m. secondly 1 Dec. 1887 Helen Amanda Mair in Perth, Ont., and they had two daughters; d. 6 June 1925 in

, Upper Canada, only son of William Hamilton Merritt and Janet Lang Morris; m. 10 April 1890 Margaret Simpson, only daughter of Robert

relocated at Sandwich (now part of Windsor), Upper Canada, and at that remote outpost of the British world made an apparent attempt to hide, to escape the humiliations which he felt humankind wanted visited

), Upper Canada. He had visited the colony during the winter of 1830–31 while investigating business opportunities in the West Indies and the Canadas. Early in December he opened a wholesale dry goods, wine

, Scotland, son of John Hunter of Knap and Euphemia Jack; d. 21 Aug. 1805 at Quebec, Lower Canada. Peter Hunter belonged to a family of landed

Upper Canada. He himself attributed it to the influence of Charles Grant (later Lord Glenelg), the chief secretary of Ireland and a relative of Mary Ann’s husband

Mary Askin; m. Hannah —, and they had a daughter; d. 22 Feb. 1808 at Quebec, Lower Canada. The Allcock family came from Edgbaston

to Canada with his wife and son. They settled at Melbourne, Lower Canada, where Brymner made an unsuccessful attempt at farming. Active in church and community affairs, he served two terms as mayor

Jonathan Howland and Lydia Pearce; m. first 12 July 1843 in Lambton Mills (Etobicoke), Upper Canada, Marianne (Mary Anne) Blyth (Blythe) (d. 1860), widow of David Webb, and they had a daughter

registrar of Upper Canada, and was living in Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Peters’s first visit to the province was a brief one in 1794. Instead of returning to England to complete his education, he stayed in

Church in Canada had come into existence [see John Cook*; William Snodgrass

GEORGE, Presbyterian minister and reformer; b. 9 Aug. 1859 near Bright, Upper Canada, son of John Shearer and Margaret ———; m. 8 Aug. 1883 Elizabeth A. Johnson

a frame.” This was perhaps the pioneer gang-saw in Canada, and Usborne’s background suggests that he was the builder. In 1804 he purchased a further 2,500 acres of timber land on the Maskinongé. About

. Alexander Wood came to Upper Canada as a young man, settling in Kingston about 1793 and investing £330 in the Kingston Brewery in partnership with Joseph

sister, he emigrated to Upper Canada in 1837. Charles Ambrose purchased Farm Hill, near Guelph, with the intention of becoming a farmer but, lacking the necessary training and experience, he found the task

; d. 4 Feb. 1853 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada. William Arms immigrated to Lower Canada at an unknown date and settled at Stanstead, an

; d. 18 June 1874 at Montreal. Edwin Atwater emigrated to Canada around 1830. He took up residence at Montreal and carried on his trade as a

Badgley*, merchant and member of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, and Elizabeth Lilly; brother of William*, judge and attorney general

BAKER, LUCY MARGARET, teacher and lay missionary; b. 1836 in Summerstown, Upper Canada; d. unmarried 30 May 1909 in Montreal

commission in the Army Medical Service had been disappointed, and he came instead to Canada in 1841. He was already a highly competent surgeon when he established himself in

forebears had immigrated to Canada from France in the 17th and 18th centuries, may have been working as governess in the Fredericton household of Thomas