, France, Pierre Le Sueur was ordained a priest on 15 March 1710 and in July sailed for Canada. He arrived in Montreal on 8 October. He spent his whole life in the parochial ministry. He

present during Wolfe*’s siege of the capital, but his role in its defence and in the subsequent operations leading to the fall of Canada is unknown

. James S. Pritchard [Claude de Bonnault, “Saintonge et Canada: les Tilly,” BRH, XLI (1935), 238–56, 296–313; Le

manager of the Prévoyants du Canada, an insurance company. They settled in the Montcalm district, a developing area in Upper Town that was attracting white-collar workers of the francophone lower middle

 berceau de la famille de Lessard,” BRH, XXXV (1929), 75–78. Gustave Ouimet, “La dévotion à sainte Anne au Canada,” BRH, VIII (1902), 218f. M. de Ste-A., “La première

), 300–9. “Les mariages à la gaumine,” APQ Rapport, 1920–21, 366–407. PAC Report, 1899, 94, 281, 328. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” 278, 296, 300. Tanguay, Dictionnaire

. concessions, I, passim. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), I, 83. A.-Émile Ducharme, “Olivier Le Tardif,” SGCF

believed that annexation to the United States was preferable to union with Canada. He played an active role in the campaign against confederation, and was rewarded with the post of attorney general in

for Canada to cut the imperial knot and enter into a continental partnership with the United States. George Monro Grant* suspected that

of that decade. The increase in Catholicism had also outstripped the resources of the church in Canada West, with the result that in 1859 in the diocese of Toronto, which included the counties of

priest at 1641, returned to France to complete his spiritual training at Rouen (1642–43), and sailed for Canada, reaching Miscou on 15 Aug. 1643. Father de Lyonne was intended for the Huron

 Jan. 1870). Canada, Province of, Sessional papers, XXVI (1866), pt.4, no.43, pp.1–180. Nova Scotia, House of Assembly, Debates and proceedings, 1864–65, 163–65; Journals and

engagé of the Hudson’s Bay Company, was born in Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan (Saint-Jacques), Lower Canada, to Joseph Chevaudier, dit Lépine, and Marie-Anne Pellerin. His mother, the daughter of an

. 1734, probably in Edinburgh, Scotland; d. unmarried, 3 Jan. 1792 at Sillery, Lower Canada. The first 26 years of Adam Mabane’s life remain

becoming more so after 1858 with the increased number of Canadian settlers agitating for representative government and the annexation of Red River to Canada. If ever the HBC was an unpopular government, it

. 1625; d. 1669. He came to Canada around 1651, and from 1653 to 1655 he was garrison corporal and surgeon at the Trois-Rivières fort. In 1657 he

 May joined a group under Sulpician François Picquet which travelled to Canada on the frigate Gloire. Ordained

, Ireland, son of Matthew Maguire and Catherine O’Hara; d. 5 July 1880 at Quebec. John Maguire arrived in Canada in 1823 with his parents. He

en l’Ile de Montréal, dite à présent Ville-Marie, en Canada, de l’année 1659 . . .”; and other documents. Morin, Annales (Fauteux et al.). Lefebvre, Marie Morin

, 1741” (Massicotte), 31. Morisset, Coup d’œil sur les arts. Antoine Roy, Les lettres, les sciences et les arts au Canada sous le regime français (Paris, 1930), 241–55. Gérard

-Jacques Marest entered the Jesuit noviciate 25 Sept. 1671, and taught at Vannes, La Flèche and the Collège Louis Le Grand in Paris. He came to Canada about 1686 and spent the next two

 Lawrence valley of Canada, in the 200 years before the abolition of slavery in 1834, they lived an average of 25.2 years from birth. Their life expectancy in the West Indies was considerably lower

, militia officer, politician, and office holder; b. 6 Nov. 1833 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, son of Joseph Masson* and Marie-Geneviève

a second stay at La Flèche, Father Massé sailed again for Canada in 1633. He lived at Notre-Dame-des-Anges until 1642, gladly undertaking all the most menial daily tasks. From 1641 on, as age and

. Robert Meighen was brought to British North America by his mother after the death of her husband in January 1838. She joined her brother Charles McLenaghan on his farm near Perth, Upper Canada, on 9

Oise; then, at his own request, his superiors allowed him to go to Canada, where he arrived on 10 Oct. 1849. He was at first curate at Notre

father and his six brothers to settle in Brant County, Canada West. All the brothers made their careers in inland shipping, Duncan immediately taking employment on Royal Mail Line steamers running between

, and 1768 (London, 1781; repr. Minneapolis, Minn., 1956), 95–99. Alexander Henry, Travels and adventures in Canada and the Indian territories, between the years 1760 and 1766 (New York

MONK, MARIA, supposed author; b. 27 June 1816 in Dorchester (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada

rashly, and being the first girl that they received into their company in the third year after their arrival in Canada, I have had the good fortune to be an eye witness of almost everything that they have

council, judge; b. at La Rochelle, France; d. 17 June 1769 in Quebec. François Mounier, a Huguenot merchant trader, came to Canada

and were generally Scots. They sought to benefit from the rapid development of Upper Canada, in large part through arrangements with merchants in Montreal, whose hinterland that colony formed. Yet their

PANS, John Inglis papers, Journal, 1806–7; letters to SPG, 19 Jan. 1827, 17 Nov. 1846. Morning Chronicle (Halifax), 23 Dec. 1878. Encyclopedia of Canada

League). In September 1867 McDonald contested the riding of Lunenburg in Canada’s first federal election. He campaigned and was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia party, the political wing of the

, JOHN LORN, businessman, politician, and civil servant; b. 6 Nov. 1838 in Renfrew, Upper Canada, son of John Lorn

. McGillivray’s self-sacrificing and resolute character won him the love of his people. Queen’s College at Kingston, Canada West, rewarded his efforts with an honorary degree in 1858. His own farm, as well as the

magazines. Ill health caused his return to Canada in 1852. His writing continued throughout this period. In 1850 he had published St

organizations in late-19th-century Canada. Early on it adopted prohibition, legislated by the state, as its main platform. Methods used by the union to achieve this goal included the circulation of public

PAC, RG 10, B3, 3614, file 4063; 3625, file 5489; 3642, file 7581; 3654, file 8904; 3716, file 22541. Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1883, IV, no.5. Morris, Treaties of Canada with the

from Lower and Upper Canada. Finally, the magazine carried a register of births, marriages, and deaths, meteorological tables, and lists of consumer prices

, 1741” (Massicotte). Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” APQ Rapport, 1949–51, 423, 425, 439. “Marguilliers de la paroisse Notre-Dame de Ville-Marie de 1657 à 1913,” BRH, XIX (1913

time of his forced retirement in 1855 Noad, like most of the other pensioned officials, left Newfoundland. He moved with his family to Woodstock, Upper Canada, where he died a poor man

Akins*. The rows of stone buildings with ingeniously varied fenestration of their Italianate façades comprise one of the few homogeneous blocks of early business buildings remaining in Canada

Dominion of Canada and the colony of Newfoundland in the Labrador peninsula . . . (12v., London, 1926–27), IV, 1800–6. PRO, CSP, Col., 1696–97; 1697–98. The registers of St

Royal Bank of Canada Archives (Montreal). Acadian Recorder (Halifax), 10 April 1879. Morning Chronicle (Halifax), 12 April 1879. Morning Herald (Halifax), 11

. The following year Father Nédélec was assigned to the Oblate residence at Betsiamites, Lower Canada. He threw himself into his work at this Indian mission and even learned Montagnais. He also ministered

, and in 1744 was still living on Rue Saint-Roch. After the conquest, he was named in the affaire du Canada owing to an agreement that he had

Huronia, which finally ended the Huron-Iroquois struggle. Early in 1647, two Susquehannah Indians, who had been sent as deputies by their chiefs, visited the Hurons in Canada. They stated that ambassadors

. Concurrently, Paradis pursued a successful business career. An active member of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce, in 1910 he became the sole eastern Canada agent for the Asbestos Manufacturing Company Limited

. It is not known when Roland Paradis came to Canada, but at the time of his marriage in 1728 he evidently had been here for some years, since the kind of marriage licence that persons newly arrived had