Hull, Lower Canada. Philemon Wright’s forebear arrived about 1620 in what would become Salem, Mass., and succeeding generations of the family spent

island of Assumption or Natiscotec (Montagnais: Natiskotek, our Anticosti) – which was, he knew, “in the very mouth of the great river that runneth up to Canada” – he took the Grace

merchant family of German origin which had integrated into the Anglo-Protestant élite of Lower Canada, Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele grew up on Bourg-Marie-Est, the seigneury his father inherited from his

to Amherst that there should be a double attack on Canada. It was necessary, he wrote to Lord George Sackville in January, “to lay the axe to the root, and there are but two roads to get to it

infantry captain who was killed at Quebec in 1760, and Louise Prud’homme; d. 6 Sept. 1816 in Beauport, Lower Canada. Pierre-Amable De Bonne

of Canada from England, and the making of the former into another sovereign and independent American nationality.” “I was [born] a British colonist, but do not wish to die a tadpole British colonist

position remained ambiguous. He continued to talk about Maritime union within or without Canada. Yet his active involvement in Honoré Mercier*’s

Puisaye*, Comte de Puisaye, established a settlement of French refugee nobles at Windham, Upper Canada; soon finding that he lacked workers, Puisaye hired a number of Canadians, including Jean-Baptiste

Nashwaak River before returning. Gabe was subsequently invited to England, first in 1883 as one of Canada’s entries in the International Fisheries Exhibition in London. With his canoe and wigwam and wearing

consideration was being given to forming companies of troops for the defence of Canada, Grandfontaine, along with four former officers of the Carignan regiment, offered his services to raise a company, with the

, son of the Reverend Peter Barclay; he may have been engaged to be married at the time of his death, which occurred on 26 Sept. 1826 in Kingston, Upper Canada

BARNARD, FRANCIS JONES, businessman and politician; b. 18 Feb. 1829 at Quebec City, Lower Canada, son of Isaac Jones Barnard

Canada: “English people, untainted by political speculations, are naturally attached to their own constitution. I confess, for my own part, that when I first . . . set my foot on British

new ghetto] in 1898, and Max Nordau’s Paradoxe [Paradoxes] in 1900. Brainin’s association with Canada’s first and most influential

the Channel Islands, where he made friends with Victor Hugo. The Fenian raids brought the regiment to Canada in 1867. Here the real foundations

. 20 Feb. 1822 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada. William Caldwell came to North America in 1773. He served as an officer in the campaign of 1774

be an inadequate base and in 1844 Calvin relocated on land rented at the eastern end of Garden Island, two miles south of Kingston, Canada West, where he could operate within the British trading system

figures in the Church in Canada and one of the purest glories of the Society of Jesus.” His father was “a poor vine-grower,” and his mother “a poor

considered that Colvill’s ability to place his squadron, including five ships of the line, in the St Lawrence by 16 May was one of the decisive factors in the conquest of Canada. Only then did James

DARLING, FRANK, architect; b. 17 Feb. 1850 in Scarborough Township, Upper Canada, son of William Stewart Darling, a Church

Boishébert the honour of carrying the official dispatches to France; at court he received a gratuity of 2,000 livres. The next year he was back in Canada, and he soon became involved in the west once

Canada; he was promoted lieutenant in 1749 and captain in 1750. In mid September 1750 he was dispatched aboard the brigantine Saint-François to convoy the schooner Aimable Jeanne, which

Gale, he drew the outline of a map of Lower Canada, and this work became a major element in the important topographical map of the province published in 1803 by William

Fassio’s activity in the Canadas, was characteristic of itinerant portraitists of that era in America. To attract the curious, he exhibited “a collection of choice pieces of the Italian School.” His work was

Joseph Fleury Deschambault’s early life or career, but by 1736 he was employed at Montreal as general agent for the Compagnie des Indes. His father was the company’s agent-general in Canada, which position

. 9 Feb. 1805 near Elizabethtown (Brockville), Upper Canada, son of Billa Flint and Phoebe Wells; m. 10 Sept. 1827 Phoebe Sawyer Clement in Brockville, and they adopted a child, John

c. 1797 Ann Bell in Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had one son; m. there secondly c. 1803 Alice Robins, and they had six children, including James Bell

* d’Abergemont. On 20 Aug. 1738 the fires were lit. Gamelin, the only partner who was a native of Canada, maintained rigorous control of operations, but to no avail. Since they were unable to make the

. 1864 in the parish of Saint-Raphaël-Archange on Île Bizard, Lower Canada, son of Léon Gravel and Marie Lauzon, farmers; m. 26 May 1891 Sophie (also called Laura) Roy (d. 26 Nov. 1943

and three sons; d. there 7 April 1935. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton’s father was born in Glasgow and immigrated to Canada in 1830. His

[Marjoribanks] and other dignitaries, Belle moved the establishment of a local branch of the National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC); she subsequently served on its executive and was vice

sympathetic friends, even though, as he remarked, Canada was not a country where circumstances favoured the writer. Heavysege’s first published work is

shoemaking machine. At the end of the century he joined the Union des Cordonniers-Machinistes, a strong union which in 1899 became a member of the Fraternité des Cordonniers Unis de la Puissance du Canada

-François-Marie de Charbonnel*, and expressed to him a desire to work as a missionary in Canada. Charbonnel advised him to

other buildings on the domains. Of the seigneurial properties belonging to Canadians, it brought in the largest revenues, being among the five most lucrative in all of Lower Canada at that period. The few

varied subjects, but he insisted above all that it was necessary for Canada to be annexed to the United States. In a series of articles that appeared in L’Avenir from 2 June to 30 Oct

-Eustache, Lower Canada. Nicolas-Eustache Lambert Dumont was born into a prominent and well-connected Canadian family. The Lambert Dumonts had been

-Lavigne to a street located in the parish of Saint-François-d’Assise in Longue-Pointe; in the 1980s the Encyclopedia of music in Canada ranked Lavigne among the “pioneers of instrumental music in

adopting Le May), lawyer, librarian, writer, and translator; b. 5 Jan. 1837 in Lotbinière, Lower Canada, fifth of the 14 children of Léon Lemay and Marie-Louise Auger, who kept a general store

, Scotland; d. 9 Aug. 1811 at Quebec, Lower Canada. George Longmore seems to have come from a family of some means. Probably Scottish

. first 6 Feb. 1850 Adeline Augusta Whittemore in Toronto; m. secondly 1 Aug. 1861 in Sherbrooke, Lower Canada, Susan Celina Smith, daughter of Hollis

; d. 20 Nov. 1809 in Berthier (Berthier-sur-Mer), Lower Canada. Pierre Marcoux’s career has often been confused with that of his father

 November yet another daughter, Louisa Augusta Elizabeth Canada, was born, but she died five months later. The Riedesels remained at Sorel for the next two years, making lengthy visits to Quebec at

), Upper Canada, son of William Nicholas Miller and Frederica Louisa Lash; nephew of Zebulon Aiton Lash*; m. 11 July 1895 Pauline

author; b. 22 Feb. 1847 in Brockville, Upper Canada, son of James Mills and Alice Welch; m. first Eleanor — (d. 1901), and they had one daughter; m. secondly September

rank and pay and allowances as Dieskau – 25,000 livres salary, 12,000 livres to cover his expenses in moving to Canada, 16,224 livres living allowance – plus a

and the Home and Foreign Record. In 1884 Murray contributed to Picturesque Canada (Toronto), edited by his friend the Reverend George Monro

 May 1803 in Lachine, Lower Canada. Born of a Catholic father and a “heretic” mother, Alexander MacDonell entered the Jesuits’ Scots College at Rome

Glengarry region of Upper Canada, at Martintown, they first lived near Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada. By November 1791 three sons, Donald

Brunswick for negotiations on the Intercolonial; partly as a result of these negotiations and partly as a result of reaction to the American Civil War, a conference on the Intercolonial Railway between Canada