Scott emigrated to the Canadas, according to family tradition in the flood of mechanics and professionals hired to work on the construction of the Victoria Bridge in Montreal [see James
et les officiers de justice de Montréal sous le Régime français,” BRH, XXXVII (1931), 307. “Les notaires au Canada sous le Régime français,” ANQ Rapport, 1921–22, 46. Vachon, “Inv
, with its modest market in urban centres throughout Ontario, western Canada, and the northern United States, circulation figures appeared healthy. An average weekly run of 65,000 copies in the
convinced him that those who had emigrated to Canada and their descendants were far better off than those who had stayed in Scotland.
Throughout the 1870s
1868 to negotiate reciprocity, he became a staunch advocate of free trade. He was an eloquent voice in the Haythorne government’s rejection in 1870 of the “better terms” offered the Island by Canada to
British Columbia’s isolation from the rest of Canada. She talked her way into a job as drama and music critic for the Los Angeles Times. By mid 1901 her articles were being reprinted in papers
, The saga of Red Ryan and other tales of violence from Canada’s past (Saskatoon, 1982), chap.6. Edward Starkins, Who killed Janet Smith? The 1924 Vancouver killing that remains Canada’s most
Kingston, Upper Canada, son of Benjamin Starnes and Elizabeth Mainville; m. 5 Aug. 1840 Eleanore Stuart in Montreal, and they had seven children; d. 3 March 1896 in Montreal
.”
When Suckling arrived in Quebec is not known. On 16 Feb. 1764 the king appointed him attorney general of the province, an office for which London merchants doing business with Canada had strongly
in England and, after arriving in Canada in 1881, at Trinity College, Toronto (ba 1886, ma 1887). He also took a postgraduate
Juchereau Duchesnay, in Beauport, Que.; d. 18 Sept. 1809 in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada
Assembly for the riding of Montreal East from 1820 to 1824. He was also a shareholder in the Bank of Canada, and in March 1824 he transferred 100 shares to Charles Grant. He was likewise one of the
, and author; b. 30 April 1770 in the parish of St John the Evangelist, Westminster (London), son of David and Ann Thompson; d. 10 Feb. 1857 in Longueuil, Lower Canada
apprenticeship he entered the timber trade under an older brother, but when two of his brothers decided to emigrate to Canada in expectation of quick wealth from farming, Samuel went along
TIMMINS, NOAH ANTHONY (Noé Antoine), merchant, mining developer, and businessman; b. 31 March 1867 in Mattawa, Upper Canada
, for Robertine Barry*’s Le Journal de Françoise in 1903–4, and for Le Canada in 1904. From 1903 to 1905 she
to speculators, had disappeared. In Ontario, where the CPR had absorbed the Canada Central Railway, its contractor, whose progress did not satisfy Van Horne, was replaced by a vigorous protégé
object of the movement was to create in British Africa an exemplary colony of intelligent and industrious blacks drawn from Canada and other English-speaking countries. Walker travelled throughout Canada
Dalhousie, Upper Canada, second child of James Solomon Wetherell and Sarah Jane Hilts; m. first 15 Aug. 1878 Rebecca Randle Nason (d. 29 May 1912) in Weston (Toronto), and they had three
.
Allen, whose mother and stepfather, Sylvester Patrick, had attended a missionary-run day school, was one of more than 150,000 Indigenous children enrolled in Canada’s residential-school program between
Aug. 1859 in Bond Head, Upper Canada, son of John Wilson and Eliza Edmonds; m. 19 Oct. 1885 Minnie McDougall, niece of George Millward
this country and of Canada.” The English refused the demands and prepared for war, but Vaudreuil wrote Rale: “I am quite delighted that [Wowurna] thus distinguished himself in this parley.” Vaudreuil
desperate circumstances, and he requested a post in the proposed new colony of Upper Canada or elsewhere. No action was taken on the request and his salary was not adjusted until 1806
Sept. 1762 in Charlesbourg (Que.), son of Pierre-Stanislas Bédard and Marie-Josephte Thibault; d. 26 April 1829 in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada and was buried there four days later in the
*, served in the troops in Canada and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). Two of the five brothers, Antoine and François-Aimé, entered the church, and the other three, Arnaud the eldest, Philippe I, and the
. Historians of the 19th and 20th centuries have suggested 1567, 1570, and 1580 as the years of his birth. In Les voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr de
(baptized Carl Heinrich, he also appears as Charles Henry in church records), artist; b. 15 Feb. 1862 in Winfield, Upper Canada, son
. NYCD (O’Callaghan and Fernow), IX, 676, 847–48, 855. Recensement du Canada, 1666 (APQ Rapport), 108. A. Roy, Inv. greffes not., VII, 46. P.-G Roy, “Ce que Callières pensait de
Keiller and Sons, marmalade manufacturers. He immigrated to Lower Canada in 1840 with his wife and son and found employment with the Montreal branch of the Keiller firm. In 1841 he left to form a
Louis-le-Grand in Paris and did four years of theology at Bourges, where he was ordained a priest in 1683. After the third year of his noviciate at Rouen, he left for Canada in 1685
France c. 1633 (1639 according to the census of 1681); d. 28 July 1688 at Champlain.
Jacques Babie came to Canada
Tullis, and they had nine children; d. 10 Aug. 1857 in Pickering Township, Upper Canada.
Little is known of George Barclay’s early life. He
; XLIII (1937), 106; XLIX (1943), 165. William McLennan, “Anciens montréalais, I: Bénigne Basset, notaire royal, 1639–1699,” Le Canada Français, 2e série, III (1919–20), 469–77. É.-Z
la médecine, 42–43. Amédée Gosselin, L’instruction au Canada, 413, 433.
.
In the summer of 1869, with Melville Bell considering a return engagement in Boston, Henderson encouraged him to emigrate to Canada. The Bells considered the idea because of Melly’s illness, but put it
of Johann Theodor Besferer, known as Jean-Théodore Besserer, a German military surgeon and a Calvinist, who came to Canada in 1776, and Marie-Anne Giroux, a Canadian; d. 3 Feb. 1861 at Ottawa
(Dorchester, N.B.), libro V, 297. Canada, Sessional papers, III (1870), pt.5, no.13, app.C, 27–28. Moncton Daily Times (special edition for the diamond
and a maternal great-grandmother. Her grandfather William Black emigrated from Carlisle, England, to Ontario County, Upper Canada, in the 1840s, while Roderick Macdonald, her mother’s father, moved from
. 1612 or 1616 at Saint-Laurent, diocese of Rouen; d. c. 1675–76.
François Boivin came to Canada prior to 1639 with two of his brothers, Charles
Canada, son of Jean Boivin, a stonemason, and Françoise Anger; m. first 21 May 1860, in the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste at Quebec, Adéline Lefebvre (d. 1875), and they had at least
Edward Augustus, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe of Upper Canada, and officers from the
, and politician; b. 5 July 1837 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, son of Pierre-Claude Boucher* de La Bruère
BOUCHER, CYRILLE, journalist and lawyer; b. 30 July 1834 at Saint-Rémi, Lower Canada, son of François-Xavier Boucher, a
woman studied her husband’s religion and adopted the Catholic faith at the age of 14. In 1620 she decided to accompany M. de Champlain to Canada. At Tadoussac the traveller met her brother
seigneurie de d’Autray par La Salle. Auguste Gosselin, Jean Bourdon, 1634–1668 (Les Normands au Canada, Évreux, 1892); “Les sieurs de Dombourg et d’Autray,” BRH, VII (1901), 122–24
before in Canada.” The wording of the vows required her “to concern herself to the best of her ability with the teaching of little French and Indian girls.” Hence the necessity of learning, in particular
); 1709–1748 (mariages et sépultures) (copies at Diocesan Archives, Yarmouth, N.S., and PAC, MG 9, B8, 12). Coll. doc. inédits Canada et Amérique, II, 175. Coll. de
roi au sieur Bouteroue s’en allant au Canada comme intendant, 5 avril 1668. Ord. comm. (P.-G. Roy), I, 85–95. “Armes de Bouteroue,” BRH, VIII (1902), 343
.593v–94v, 603v, 642; 11, f.23; 12, ff.624, 671. “Recensement du Canada, 1681” (Sulte). “Recensement de Montréal, 1741” (Massicotte). P.-G. Roy, Inv, jug, et délib., 1717–1760, II, 41; IV