, composer, office holder, and author; b. 7 Nov. 1834 in the parish of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), Lower Canada, fifth of the nine children of Charles-Édouard Gagnon, a notary

her return to Canada, Gass turned to medical social work. In 1924 she undertook what would become a 28-year career as director of the social service department in the Western Division of the Montreal

and South America. Upon arriving home in the spring of 1845 he found his family in difficult straits and almost immediately departed again, this time for Canada, with his brother Hartley. They purchased

occupied me for nearly 3 years . . . is this. To emigrate to Canada . . . our most important [colony]. . . . Though not able to do so in England I might perhaps lead a

 1867 he undertook his apprenticeship as a painter with the most famous portraitist in Canada, his uncle Théophile Hamel*. By early September

, won easily. In doing so he became the new nation’s first world sporting champion in an individual or singles event. (Canada’s first world champions were the “four sturdy New Brunswickers” – Robert

HILL, JAMES JEROME, railway official and capitalist; b. 16 Sept. 1838 in Eramosa Township, Upper Canada, son of James Hill

administrator; b. 7 Feb. 1799 in Windsor, Vt, son of John Holmes, shoemaker and farmer, and Anna Bugbee; d. 18 June 1852 in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Lower Canada, and was buried 21 June

incendiary tract titled Plainte de la Nouvelle-France, dite Canada, à la France sa germaine ; pour servir de factum en une cause pendante au conseil, which was based in part on false documents

Quebec, a diocese that embraced both Upper and Lower Canada. Inglis entered upon his new duties amidst considerable opposition from the local clergy

. Percy had high expectations for Joe. He believed that his son had what was needed to play a leading role in the national life of Canada, by which he meant the country’s business, governing, and opinion

during the Civil War. The boys remained there for the next four years. It was not uncommon for people in difficulty to temporarily surrender their children to orphanages. Canada’s federal Indian Act of

Taillant de Lanaudière) at Lavaltrie, Lower Canada, and they had one child, Charles Barthélemy, who died in 1820 at five years of age; d. 21 June 1850 in Industrie (Joliette), Lower Canada

Armstrong, tailors (1873), and Thomas May and Company (1877) to American néo-grec for Canada Life Assurance (1874–75). All but the bank have been demolished, and its symmetrical appearance has been

Canada College. Financial difficulties forced his withdrawal in 1848, but he returned three years later to pass with honours his final examinations and the entrance examination for Queen’s College

the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. This collaboration reinforced his Canada-wide reputation, which he had already acquired in erecting the cathedral at St Boniface in Winnipeg (1904–8

in 1837; in 1842 he rejoined other members of his family in the Canadas, living first in Toronto and then in Montreal. Called to the bar in 1844, he did not practise law. At first he aspired to a

, social reformer, feminist, and spiritualist; b. 20 Feb. 1867 near Bridgewater (Actinolite), Upper Canada, daughter of George A. Merrill and Elizabeth MacTavish Thompson; m. 12 Aug

McDougall*, commissioned in 1875 to “tranquillize” the Plains Indians regarding the treaty Canada planned for them. The Methodist missionary found most of the “principal men . . . moderate

and legal matters was gained in the Chambre des Comptes at Paris. He also served with several public and private financial agencies before coming to Canada with La Salle as the explorer’s business

ILWRAITH, JEAN NEWTON, author, journalist, and editor, b. 29 Dec. 1858 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, daughter of Thomas McIlwraith

Canada Pearson first became involved in Canada in 1889 through his Boston firm, Grant, Pearson and Company, which had been hired to build a gas plant

W. E. Phin (1863–1939) grew up on his family’s farm in Waterloo Township, Upper Canada, and went on to become one of Canada’s

. A regular contributor to the “Young people’s corner” of the Mail and Empire, Pickthall was also invited to write for the Globe’s “Circle of young Canada.” She won the Mail and

POPE, JOHN HENRY, farmer, lumberman, railway entrepreneur, and politician; b. 19 Dec. 1819 in Eaton Township, Lower Canada

, his parents sent him to Canada. He was educated first at Bishop’s College, in Lennoxville, Que., and later at St Mark’s School in Windsor, England. His classmates nicknamed him Chile Price. In 1885

of the extensive stables of the Prince de Condé. He came to Canada in 1685 as a lieutenant in the colonial regular troops and was promoted to the rank of captain two years later. On 8 Nov. 1690

medicine in Canada. He played a large role in putting new practices linked to medical bacteriology on a firm footing in the faculty of medicine at the Université Laval and at the Hôtel-Dieu and the other

to Canada.” These prophetic words were not long in being fulfilled. The Hospitallers of Quebec were at that moment requesting reinforcements from

 Jan. 1901 in Toronto. In 1832 Frank Smith’s widowed father, lured by the promise of inexpensive land, immigrated to Upper Canada with his three

came to have a virtual monopoly on twine in Canada. Credit for turning the rope-works into the most successful one in the country belongs to Stairs, whose skills as an industrial manager it showed

election of 1870 in 3rd Queens, and another by-election in 1st Kings in 1871. A liberal during his early career, he opposed “any scheme of Union [with Canada] which would take the management of the public

in the Montreal labour movement. At the end of the 19th century craft unions were growing rapidly in Canada, at the expense of the Knights of Labor and Canadian unions. Although they described

Archives of Canada. In 1842 Wills exhibited in the architectural section of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, for the first time. He had very likely

). The Brackens were of Scottish, Irish, and English origin. John was named for his paternal great-grandfather, who had come to Upper Canada by way of the Mohawk valley in northern New York State following

by three of his sisters and his brothers Robert and James, Eaton travelled to the Georgetown area of Upper Canada, where a maternal aunt and her husband had settled in 1833. He found employment as a

Indian territory to the west; d. c. 1823 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada. Trader, diplomatic courier, and vocal champion of her own

Canada, most had little good to say about any of their chaplains except O’Leary. Almond took a parish in Grand-Mère (Shawinigan), Que., until 1904, when

L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Louis Archambault, a farmer, and Angélique Prud’homme; m. first 11 Jan. 1853 Odile Leblanc in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan, Lower Canada; m. secondly 29 April

the introduction of British commercial law, were opposed in this particular instance. They alleged that, because of the economic conditions prevailing in Canada, the law would, if put into effect

ornamentation of history.” He had assembled one of the finest collections in Canada of medals and coins, which he bequeathed to the Collège Joliette. He had also collected hundreds of works on Canadian history

contact for scientists and naturalists elsewhere in Canada and in the United States. One opportunity to play this role arose when a farmer in New London, Benjamin McLeod, found a fossil while digging a well

Canada, son of William Barber, a farmer and mason, and Maria Dunn; m. 20 Feb. 1878 Sarah C. Allison in Tyendinaga Township, Ont., and they had two sons and five daughters; d. 22

to Halifax in February 1813. He conducted a small group of officers overland to Kingston, Upper Canada, and when he arrived on 5 May he took charge, as an acting commander, of all naval forces on

not to lose Barnston, Simpson, despite “a half impertinent Letter” from him, was already in the summer of 1831 instructing that he be re-engaged “if he be at a loss to find employment in Canada

1849 in Montreal, daughter of Joseph-Guillaume Barthe*, clerk of the Court of Appeal of Lower Canada, and Louise-Adélaïde Pacaud; m

BAWLF, NICHOLAS, grain merchant; b. 17 July 1849 near Smiths Falls, Upper Canada, son of Nicholas Bawlf and

, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Silvestre, dit Beausoleil, a farmer, and Rosalie Charron, dit Ducharme; m. 29 Jan. 1868 Henriette Lapointe, daughter of the late François Audet

Beechey’s daughters, Frances Anne*, who spent a number of years in Canada. Beechey apparently had no formal schooling, but he probably

, they settled in Fredericksburgh Township, Upper Canada, as United Empire Loyalists. They became prominent in local business, medicine, and politics. McKelvey’s father, William, was a photographer, as was