. Philippe Gaultier, of a noble family, enlisted in the Carignan-Salières regiment, and accompanied it to Canada. He reached Quebec on 18 June 1665, but on 10 May a court of law in Poitou had

Nouvelle-France (Québec, 1941), 35–39. Émile Vaillancourt, Une maîtrise d’art en Canada (Montréal, 1920).

GENDRON, PIERRE-SAMUEL, notary and politician; b. at Sainte-Rosalie, Lower Canada, and baptized 31 Aug. 1828

Quebec in 1707. Geoffroy’s life in North America began with hardship and frustration in Acadia but was followed by a period of accomplishment in Canada

GILL, IGNACE, businessman and politician; b. 15 March 1808 at Saint-François-du-Lac, Lower Canada, son of

Antoine Girouard and Marguerite Chaperon; d. 3 Aug. 1832 in Varennes, Lower Canada. Antoine Girouard, whose father had died before he

, convinced the notorious financier Jay Gould that he held 60,000 shares of Erie Railway stock. Gould began court proceedings against Gordon when the deception was revealed, but his lordship fled to Canada

; b. 14 Aug. 1859 in Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport (Lac-Beauport), Lower Canada, son of John Gosnell (Gosnold, Gosneld) and Margaret Fachnie; m. 20 Oct. 1886 Agnes Theresa Wilson (d

conference convened on 1 Sept. 1864, Gray, as premier of the host colony, was selected chairman. The conference was dominated by the persuasive delegates from Canada, and Gray, along with the rest of the

 Dec. 1857 near Brantford, Upper Canada, son of Daniel Green and Mary Crawford; m. 11 Sept. 1889 Mary (Minnie) Catherine Plumb (d. 26 May 1935) in Prescott, Ont.; they had no children

unreliable. The most common errors consist in calling him Charles instead of Claude and in maintaining that he arrived in Canada in 1675, accompanied Dulhut on his expedition to the west in 1678, and returned

travelling to the land of the Sioux, the powerful tribe settled near the headwaters of the Mississippi. This is the project to which he devoted himself in earnest after his return to Canada in 1675. He

arrival in Canada is unknown, but in 1736 Le Moyne* de Bienville said that he had been in the king’s service for over 50

rhetoric classes at the Jesuit college in Pau from 1705 to 1710 and subsequently studied philosophy and theology in Poitiers. He left France for Canada in June 1716. He probably spent several months at

came to Canada as a soldier. When he arrived is unknown, but in 1721, at the time of his first marriage, he was a sergeant in the colonial regular troops. Since he arrived in the colony without an

highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York through the Dominion of Canada in the year 1901 (Ottawa, 1903). S. A. Speisman, The Jews of Toronto: a history to 1937 (Toronto, 1979).

(Halifax), May 1877, April 1882. Canada, an encyclopædia (Hopkins), II. Dent, Canadian portrait gallery, III. Standard dict. of Canadian biog. (Roberts and

, New Brunswick, Canada, 1773–1919 (N.B. Museum Hist. Studies, 10, Saint John, N.B., 1960).

ledger, Canada, 9: 31. GRO (London), Death certificate, John Haws, 11 Dec. 1858. Liverpool Record Office (Liverpool, Eng.), Toxteth Park Cemetery, reg. of burials, no.5008. N.B. Museum, Reg

union of the British North American provinces took place on 1 July 1867, Hazen was appointed, by royal proclamation, to a seat in the Senate of Canada. He remained a senator until his death, but

Henderson, a boy with hair “as red as a carrot,” attended school at Peterhead, Scotland, before immigrating to Canada with his family in April 1835. Henderson’s father “was completely strapped on arrival at

. When Montreal surrendered on 8 September and Canada became open to English traders, Henry immediately travelled to Albany to purchase merchandise. He sold the goods at Fort William Augustus (east of

 Peregrine, was appointed lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, Hillier took up duties as his civil secretary. Hillier arrived in York with Maitland and his

of leading citizens of the province of New Brunswick, ed. I. A. Jack (Boston, 1900). Census of Canada, 1870–71 (5v., Ottawa, 1873–78), 111. F. W. Wallace

. 1832 in New Carlisle, Lower Canada. Benjamin Hobson apparently served in Major-General John

Free Press, 24 Sept. 1909, 8–9 April 1926. Encyclopedia of music in Canada (Kallmann et al.). G

large sums of money in the United States and Canada by describing the living and working conditions of the people, Howley and others in the colony reacted with anger. He openly criticized the mission in a

 Naturaliste canadien, to disseminate information about natural history in French Canada. A firm friendship developed between the young college student and the man who would become his mentor. Their

and the deaf that Alexander Graham Bell met Mabel Hubbard. One year out from Scotland, he had left Canada for Boston in 1871 to give a series of talks and he quickly became admired for his teaching

Canada, son of Gabriel Hurteau and Louise Duhamel; d. 16 Dec. 1879 at Longueuil, Que. Isidore Hurteau completed his course of study at the age

Hutton married Annie McCaul, his predecessor’s daughter. They would have three children: Guy Maurice, who attended the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston and joined the Indian cavalry; Ruth

cruel man who dreams of seducing every woman he meets. It would not be published until 1950, probably to avoid jeopardizing the success of Maria Chapdelaine: récit du Canada français, the

). Maurice Albéric, “Les capucins en Acadie, 1632–1654,” La Nouvelle-France, XIV (1915), 337–45; 416–25, 565, 573; XV (1916), 27–34. Alexis, Le Canada héroique et pittoresque

Newfoundland and became a probationer of the Newfoundland Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada. He was stationed from 1911 to 1913 in Campbellton, and from 1913 to 1915 in Clarke’s Beach. At the latter

délib., III, IV, V, VI, passim. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 356. P.-G. Roy, Inv. coll. pièces jud. et not., I

house carried on a considerable timber trade with Canada, but the St John’s branch – assuming its present name of Job Brothers and Company – continued its exclusive concern with

Labrador conservées aux Archives de la Province de Québec (2v., Québec, 1940–42), I, 271–73. Wis. State Hist. Soc. Coll., XVII. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” 414. Jean Delanglez, Louis

, La première famille française au Canada, ses alliés et ses descendants (Montréal, 1906). Hugolin [Stanislaus Lemay], Vieux papiers, vieilles chansons (Montréal, 1936). P.-G. Roy

Canada, I. [Mme Pierre [F. L.] Montagne, Tourouvre et les Juchereau . . . (Québec, 1965).] Revisions based on

John Ambrose O’Brien, who in December 1909 founded the Canadiens: the team was immediately accepted into the National Hockey Association of Canada. Nearly a year later Kendall protested on behalf of the

safely. The anonymous account makes it clear that La Court’s two ships set out with “the fleet that went to Canada,” i.e. to the St. Lawrence, probably to Tadoussac. The Soudil and the

, son of Pierre Labadie, a cooper, and Marie-Louise Paquet; d. 19 June 1824 in Verchères, Lower Canada. According to an unsigned but

.” Father Ladan remained for three more years in Canada. On 14 June 1683 he signed the protestation by the Recollets of Quebec in the “affair of the bell-tower” [see Henri

Lambly, harbourmaster of Quebec, and Frances Richardson; d. 31 Jan. 1863 in Leeds, Canada East. The parents of John Robert Lambly had been

his stay in Canada. Benjamin Sulte declares that he left for France at the beginning of the summer of 1670. He did not come back

Ireland descent. Michael attended the Bath Academy in Upper Canada and in 1839, at Weston (Toronto), joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada. He also worked in the office of the Methodist

. Toronto Daily Mail, 16 Sept. 1881. The mercantile agency reference book . . . (Toronto and Montreal), 1881; 1887. Mitchell & Co’s Canada classified

et lettres de change du gouvernement de Montréal en 1759,” APQ Rapport, 1924–25, 232, 256. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 442. “Marguilliers de la

ASQ, Documents Faribault, 17. JR (Thwaites), V, 62, 64, 196–98. Lescarbot, Histoire (Tross), II, 455. Marcel Trudel, L’esclavage au Canada français: histoire et conditions de

without delay. In parallel fashion he was soon to begin to rise through the ranks of the military hierarchy in Canada and to give proof of the bravery characteristic of his family. Having become an infantry