Canada, only surviving son of John A. Macdonald* and Isabella Clark; m. first 1 June 1876 Mary Jean King, née Murray (d

MACDONELL, ALEXANDER, Roman Catholic priest and bishop; b. 1 Nov. 1833 in Lochiel Township, Upper Canada

ecclesiastical province of Rupert’s Land, which at the beginning of the 20th century covered all the territory in Canada whose waters drain into Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean. Machray, Sharpe, and their new

of which were compiled as Tunes to favorite hymns; her setting for “Nearer, my God, to Thee” was included in the hymnal of the Methodist Church of Canada. Mackintosh reputedly continued to

professions of law, notarial practice, or medicine. Both in Canada and elsewhere in the world, engineers adopted those professions as their models and provided themselves with tools to enhance their status and

; namely, Paris, St. Petersburg, Nantes, Bordeaux.” According to another advertisement in the same newspaper on 28 June 1792, Beaucourt had “just arrived in Canada

Bigot*, whereas the little group was surviving in the most wretched conditions. After 1760 Abbé Manach’s testimony was in fact added to the file on the bad administration of Canada

, southwest of Montreal. Named in 1823 vicar general to the bishop of Quebec, Manseau was given responsibility for the missions of Upper Canada for two years during the absence of Alexander

taken them “upon our expeditions over fifteen or sixteen years before.” Now we know that Champlain had in fact left France in 1613 for a sixth stay in Canada, during which time he went up the Ottawa River

Sarah Fraser in Kincardine Township, Upper Canada, and they had one daughter; m. there secondly 7 Jan. 1869 Margaret McLennan, and they had two daughters and seven sons; d. there 29 July 1922

Crimmon, Abraham Lincoln, educator and author; b. 6 March 1865 near Delhi, Norfolk County, Upper Canada, son of Daniel McCrimmon and Mary Miller; m. 15 April 1889

outside Canada: admitted to membership in the American College of Surgeons, he was a corresponding member of the Société des Chirurgiens de Paris from 1910 to 1929

, N.Y.; m. there c. 1765 Polly Kruger (Cruger), and they had seven children; m. secondly c. 1817, probably in Belleville, Upper Canada, Sophia Davy; d. 22

MOLLEUR, LOUIS, schoolteacher, businessman, and politician; b. 7 July 1828 in L’Acadie, Lower Canada, son of Louis Molleur

Upper Canada, and was licensed to practise “Physic, Surgery and Midwifery.” Morrison prospered as a physician, establishing a large practice in the town

they belonged within the sphere of the British constitution. Canada, he argued, was a Protestant country. Although much of Murray’s energy was directed

Canada and, for the rest of their lives, relied on remittances from home. The truth is different. William had been living in the American west for many years when he met Elsie, and he had returned to

, JOHN DUNCAN, railway contractor, lumberman, and businessman; b. 25 June 1854 in Lancaster, Upper Canada; m. there January 1889 Mary McIntosh; they had no children; d. 10

Anne McTavish, sister of Simon McTavish; d. 9 April 1808 in Montreal, Lower Canada

made by the HBC governor from eastern Canada via the Mississippi en route to Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg). “Jeemie McKay was proud of the fact that, always on the tenth day of their start from Crow Wing

 1802 at Quebec, Lower Canada. John Nairne came from a Scottish family with Jacobite sympathies. After studying in Edinburgh he enlisted at the age of

, Lower Canada, son of Guillaume Nantel, a tanner, and Adélaïde Desjardins; m. there 26 May 1885 Georgiana Gauthier, and they had four children; d. there 23 May 1940

Maria Jane Waddell, the widow of Samuel Bingle, and they had two sons and four daughters; d. 27 July 1842 in Grimsby, Upper Canada

to be evangelized. He had no regrets. In fact, he thanked his superior for having chosen him for this mission: “It seems to me that I have never known God except in the dense forests of Canada, where

Canada (Vancouver, 2010). Jan Forster, “The Maritime Olands,” Chatelaine (Toronto), 47 (1974), no.5: 40–41, 52–54, 56, 58; no.6: 30–31, 48–50, 52–53; no.7: 28–29, 48–51. G. B. Haliburton

aspects of Poulin de Francheville’s establishment, and he appended a “draft of the expenses to be incurred to set up and run the ironworks in Canada” [see François-Étienne

period. His principal works are: History of New Netherlands . . . (1846–48); Jesuit relations of discoveries and other occurrences in Canada and the northern and western states of

. 1913. Little is known of Eugene O’Keefe’s early life. His family came to the Canadas when he was five; two years later they settled in Toronto. It

, Fils de Québec, 4: 32–33. C.-J. Magnan, Le docteur Joseph Painchaud, fondateur de la Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul au Canada, 1819–1919 (Montréal, 1919). Robert Rumilly, La

artisan; b. 16 April 1823 in Saint-Martin (Laval), Lower Canada, daughter of Joseph Pariseau and Françoise Rousseau; d. 19 Jan. 1902 in Vancouver, Wash., and was buried in Seattle

Salem Church in 1876 and his move to New Glasgow, he remained active in church affairs. In 1878, on behalf of the national Presbyterian Church in Canada, he travelled to Britain on a less than successful

Lighthouse Board, a position he would hold for seven years. From the union of Vancouver Island and British Columbia in 1866 until the united colony’s entry into Canada in 1871, he was assistant surveyor

withdraw gradually from Canada, Peck spent most of his time in fund-raising to ensure that the work of evangelization would continue on Baffin Island. His main residence was in Ottawa, but he still made a

. Before both the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Peters made strong arguments that the circumstances of the Island, in terms of its smallness and manner of joining

. In 1901 Poole resigned from the Acadia Coal Company and joined the Geological Survey of Canada as a part-time geologist; he played a vital part in surveys of New Brunswick coal seams and the Nanaimo

River settlement (Man.). John Pritchard came to the Canadas in 1800 and on 20 Feb. 1801 signed up for a five-year term as clerk for Forsyth

the dynamic and extensive commercial activity of rural Lower Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Richard

Alexander Purse, a tailor, and Isabel Blenshel; d. unmarried 8 April 1803 at Quebec, Lower Canada. John Purss came to Quebec at the time of the

(Republic of Ireland); d. 24 Oct. 1802 in Montreal, Lower Canada. John Ramage entered the school of the Dublin Society of Artists in 1763. By

Congressi, America settentrionale. Archivio Segreto Vaticano (Rome), Delegazione apostolica del Canadà, 113.1, 178.111. Centre d’Études Acadiennes, Univ. de Moncton, N.-B., Fonds C.-A. Doucet; Fonds M.-F

; b. 25 Dec. 1825 in L’Assomption, Lower Canada, son of Joseph-Isaïe Ritchot, a farmer, and Marie Riopelle (Riopel); d. 16 March 1905 in St Norbert, Man

“Compagnie des Pesches Sédentaires de Canada.” Riverin and his wife had four children born between 1697 and 1700. There are various opinions regarding the

Margaret Murray Robertson emigrated with her family to Derby, Vt, in 1832. Four years later they moved to Sherbrooke, Lower Canada, where James Robertson was the

Canada, eighth of the ten children of John Hill Roe, a physician, and Jane Elizabeth Ardagh; m. first 1855 Elizabeth Julia Smith (d. 1896), and they had

when he himself made a second trip to Canada in 1854. From the time of his arrival Rousselot began to familiarize himself with the two fields in which

citizens of Chatham asking that the increase in timber fees be rescinded. The petition was unsuccessful. Following the rebellions of 1837–38 in the Canadas, Russell’s resolution “detesting the behaviour of

his actions in “Histoire de l’insurrection du Canada,” published in the Paris weekly Revue du progrès politique, social et littéraire. Signed Sabrevois de Bleury, the Réfutation de

. On his return to Canada in 1919 Saint-Martin went immediately into commercial aviation. This field was beginning to emerge at that time, and Saint-Martin contributed to the formation of the first

offensive against Canada in 1759 would succeed, the chief engineer was instructed to make the colony’s fortifications ready for it. Pontleroy directed further construction and repair at Carillon, and then

England; d. 24 April 1810 near Quebec, Lower Canada. Thomas Scott had established himself as a merchant at Quebec by August 1762. A