Signay, recall Bellecourt, but this action had already been taken. In the fall of 1847, after suffering the indignity of having his luggage searched for furs, Bellecourt went back to Canada. A petition was

few of its clergy when they were completing their studies in Rome. As early as 1887 he was corresponding with Auguste Bodard, secretary of the Société d’Immigration Française in Canada, and soon after

dissenting minister of the gospel in Quebec, by the king’s attorney general of Lower Canada (Troy, N.Y., 1804). C. S. Cook

. C. Hewson, “A history of the Lake Winnipeg fishery for whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, with some reference to its economics,” Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Journal (Ottawa

. With the declaration of war on 4 Aug. 1914, Halifax was changed overnight from a sleepy and complacent imperial outpost into a marshalling station for Canada’s overseas efforts; the need for timely

Halifax merchant William Forsyth*, and for James Dunlop* of Montreal, Lower Canada’s

, translator, and office holder; b. 12 Feb. 1862 in Baie-du-Febvre, Lower Canada, son of Abraham Boisvert, a farmer, and Marie Bison; d. unmarried 15 April 1906 in Central Falls, R.I

. Charles Braithwaite, a farmer’s son with little formal education, left England in the early 1870s. He went first to Durham, Ont., before moving to western Canada during the boom of 1881 created by the

 Nov. 1940 in Calgary and was buried in Winnipeg’s Elmwood Cemetery. Paul Frederick Bredt immigrated to Canada with his family around 1900 and they

short and full of action, and came to a sudden end on the battlefield. The military always had a certain attraction for the Brillants. The family in Canada were descended from Olivier

-Hénédine, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Brousseau, a farmer, and Flavie Gagnon; d. 18 April 1920 in Saint-Damien-de-Buckland, Que. Even

the British Library in London and the Edinburgh University Library. Some of Brown’s documents and his handling of them have been appreciated by historians of Canada, notably by John Bartlet Brebner

Royal Newfoundland Regiment in 1806, in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Lower Canada until the outbreak of war with the United States in 1812 when he was sent to the Niagara frontier in Upper Canada to

who on its behalf chartered ships that came to Canada for cargoes of lumber to be sold on the British market. Charter contracts constituted the basis for this commercial activity. These specified the

member, Cyrias Roy. On 19 August, as a result of a cabinet reshuffle during the election campaign, Béland became postmaster general and a member of the Privy Council of Canada. The Liberals lost to

CAMERON, JAMES CHALMERS, physician, professor, and hospital administrator; b. 18 Jan. 1852 in Aultsville, Upper Canada, son

CAMERON, JOHN, newspaperman and office holder; b. 22 Jan. 1843 in Markham Township, Upper Canada, the third

(Kamouraska), Lower Canada, son of Michael Carroll, a mail driver and secretary to judge Joseph-André Taschereau*, and Margaret Campbell; m

Canada, son of Henry Carswell and Mary Hannah Hore; m. 25 Dec. 1883 Deborah Etta Woodward in the Nicola valley, B.C., and they had five daughters and four sons; d. 6 Feb. 1919 in

union with the Canadas. His Island contacts were normal by-products of his burgeoning import and export business, Carvell Brothers, which he managed with the intermittent assistance of his brothers Jacob

was settled. In 1802 he was appointed storekeeper for the Indian Department at St Joseph Island in Upper Canada and was there when his daughter Marie-Charlotte-Domitille died in October 1805. John

Architectural Institute of Canada, which was established in 1908 with Alexander Francis Dunlop* as president, and he served on its council for

growing number of non-anglophone immigrants to western Canada. He supported a non-denominational school system in which English was the sole language of instruction. This approach was crucial, in his

Fredericton area and got on better with the Indians and the French-speaking parishioners than he had before. Despite his poverty he made donations to nuns in Lower Canada and to various charitable endeavours

McDonald* of Garth. The following summer he travelled overland with the NWC brigade to the Canadas in company with two other former Astorians, Donald

that Catholicism in Canada does not have a single organ in the English language to repel the ceaseless attacks of Protestant journals, we have reached the following decision. We fully approve, as being

difficult to establish with certainty the chronology of events prior to 1881, when, according to his memoirs, he first considered immigrating to Canada

Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Cloutier, a sailor, and Rose Gingras; m. there 12 April 1853 Amanda Lambert, and they had two sons and one daughter, all of whom survived him; d. 28 Jan

COOKE, THOMAS, Catholic priest, missionary, bishop; b. 9 Feb. 1792 at Pointe-du-Lac, Lower Canada, eldest

embarked upon a campaign to make the Sun, whose name would vary over the years, an authoritative voice in western Canada. Curious and energetic, he did not hesitate to seek advice wherever he could

. Thomas Crosby’s family immigrated to Woodstock, Upper Canada, in 1856. He was earning his living as a tanner there in 1861 when he read a call in the Methodist Christian Guardian (Toronto) for

affairs “wherever they are in Upper or Lower Canada or the United States of America.” The exact reasons for his trip are not known, but both business matters and his private life were probably involved. No

for the Meterological Service of Canada between 1872 and 1886, and he was a pioneer amateur photographer. He had become interested in the camera by 1859 and was one of the first in British North America

. After his release, he spent some time in England in 1777 before returning to Canada, probably the following year, to resume his seigneurial activities. He immediately rebuilt the manor-house at Berthier

Catalyntje Schuyler; m. 10 April 1764 Jane Elizabeth (Jannetie) Glen in Schenectady, N.Y., and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 5 Feb. 1810 in Montreal, Lower Canada

Davie* and Elizabeth Johnson Taylor; m. 3 Sept. 1860 Mary Euphemia Patton in Lévis, Lower Canada, and they had two daughters and four sons; d. 1 Sept. 1907 in Lévis

pupils, who at the time of her death numbered thousands; and by the sisters of the institute in Ireland and in Canada. Dearly loved by young children, she had the gracious and gentle manner of a Victorian

. On 14 May 1798 Desbarats and Roger Lelièvre were appointed official printers for the statutes of Lower Canada, succeeding William

Jean-Pierre De Saulles and Marguerite Crevier Décheneaux; d. 20 June 1835 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada. Having “made up his mind to

(Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, and they had three sons; d. 19 Feb. 1846 in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake). Following reverses in his

Cartwright* of Kingston, Upper Canada, and they had one daughter and four sons, including Sir Richard John Cartwright*; d. 14

discovered in 1535 the great river which he had missed the previous year. Under the guidance of his two interpreters Cartier sailed up the river and took “the route to Canada”; on 7 September the

Barrie, Upper Canada, son of Richard Drury and Elizabeth Bishop; m. first 12 April 1877 Mary Ann Elizabeth Varley (d. 1878) in Barrie, and they had a son

American Presbyterian records for 1794, but by the fall of that year he was resident at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada. It seems probable that

Du Pont* Duchambon de Vergor]. Three years later he received a Massachusetts captain’s commission to raise a company for “the Reduction of Canada,” but the expedition was aborted after James

advertising medium in Canada east of Montreal. Much of the Telegraph’s success is attributable to Elder’s complete reorganization of its

Elliott established himself on a farm at what later became Amherstburg, Upper Canada. His home developed into a show-place in the region; he eventually owned over 4,000 acres and many slaves, a number of

the country, a 15-year-old Ojibwa girl, Charlotte Cattoonaluté, with whom he had eight children by 1815; one boy was sent in 1817 to be educated in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, and another was sent the

FASKEN, DAVID, lawyer and businessman; b. 31 Dec. 1860 in Pilkington Township, Upper Canada, son of Robert Fasken and Isabel

one, and when her husband also died, Kathleen was disinherited by his family. After going first to London Kathleen emigrated to Canada in 1884. Shortly after she arrived she married a charming and