, by its pro-British sentiment. Lyrics celebrating Canada as a place where “the Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine / The Maple Leaf for ever” exclude the fleur-de-lis, and the description of Major

proves impossible. The theme, developed from Mme de Staël’s Corinne, ou l’Italie (1807), served as a stimulus for a number of essays Murray contributed to the Christian Guardian

later he was appointed chaplain of the Baron de Roll’s regiment of infantry. For some time before his return to Scotland in 1814 he served as chaplain to the British embassy in Madrid. He continued to

position had clearly become invidious, and he predicted that imperial support for confederation would speed “my departure from this unlucky ‘cul de sac’ in which I have got myself pouched.” Much to his

; clarsach na coille: a collection of Gaelic poetry, comp. A. M. Sinclair, ed. Hector MacDougall (2nd ed., Glasgow, 1928), and in Dain spioradail le Iain Mac-Gilleain maille ri beagan de

only £200 in salary and his successor Pierre Rastel* de Rocheblave would receive £400

, ms coll. 31, box 25, file 7, Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson),1: 117, 123. Docs. relating to NWC (Wallace). HBRS. (Rich); 2

. H. Raddall, Halifax, warden of the north (Garden City, N.Y., 1965). M. de L. Walsh, The Sisters of Charity of New, York, 1809–1959 (3v., New York

, from Rio de Janeiro. Posted once more to the Caribbean, he suffered yet another attack of yellow fever, for which he was sent home in 1834. For the next four years he was unattached except for one month

, Charlottetown; and baptismal records of the De Sable parish at the western end of his charge, in the possession of the Reverend David Compton, Hampton, P.E.I

. There are a number of secondary studies, apt to be written on the principle de mortuis nil nisi bene. Much the best is J. M. Cameron, Political Pictonians: the men of the Legislative

Macdonells of Lundie.” Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson), vol.1. Docs. relating to NWC (Wallace). Hargrave, Hargrave corr. (Glazebrook). HBRS, 2

was appointed an aide-de-camp to Governor Sir George Prevost*. He was with Prevost at the attack on Sackets Harbor, N.Y., in May 1813

Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson). Docs. relating to NWC (Wallace). Innis, Fur trade in Canada (1962). E. A. Mitchell, Fort Timiskaming

professor of philosophy and was de facto vice-principal. Classes started in October with 110 students. The college offered preparatory courses and secondary and postsecondary education. In 1904 McMaster

’Arsac* de Ternay]. Once the 77th was disbanded in 1763, McKinnon went on half pay, and some time afterwards he accompanied a party of surveyors to southwestern Nova Scotia, where they were to lay out

, Essai de bibliographie canadienne . . . (2v., Québec et Montréal, 1895–1913; réimpr. Dubuque, Iowa, [1962]), 1: 465. M. L. Walker, A history of the family of Need of Arnold

. In the summer of 1808 at Bas-de-la-Rivière (Fort Alexander) Nelson married according to the custom of the country Mary Ann, an Ojibwa of the loon clan; this union was later formalized on 16 Jan

confederacy lore. He had begun collecting information in the 1870s; by 1880 he had completed a small edition of what was to become his “Cosmogony of De-ka-na-wi-da’s government.” He produced expanded versions

Université de Paris. For this gesture he received later that year one of the first honorary degrees conferred by the university and two years later he would be awarded the cross of the Legion of Honour from

). [F.] B. Cumberland, A century of sail and steam on the Niagara River (Toronto, 1913). G. P. de T. Glazebrook, A history of transportation in Canada (Toronto, 1938; repr

until his great-nephew, Victor de Bedia Oland, became lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 1968. A freemason, member of the St George’s Society, and captain of No.4 Battery of the 1st

exceedingly clever young officer, who, being on the spot & faute de mieux, might make a good successor to Colonel Moody, in the Office of Chief Commr. of Lands.” The disbandment of the detachment in

. J. Van Den Bergh, “Pedlar Pangman of the Saskatchewan” (typescript, 1963). Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson), 1: 10, 35, 38. Docs. relating to NWC

*], Payipwat, and other Cree leaders who supported treaty revision attempted to establish a de facto Indian territory in the Cypress Hills by requesting contiguous reserves, and

Dubreil* de Pontbriand, the family was reunited at Quebec in the spring of 1757, John’s education being undertaken at the Jesuit college. After the capture of Quebec in 1759, the family returned to Nova

, 13–15, 298–300, 313–16. [John Tanner], A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner (U.S. interpreter at the Sault de Ste-Marie) during thirty years of residence

commissions d’enquête à l’origine d’une politique de tutelle et d’assimilation, 1828–1858 (Québec, 2010).

-Fitzmaurice and Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault; m. there 8 Nov. 1869 Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 3 June 1927 in Clonmel

it had rebuilt at L’Anse-au-Loup in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the French admiral Joseph de Richery. This event, and the closure of Spanish and Italian markets as a result of

. As early as 1866 Powell, with his colleague Amor De Cosmos*, had proposed confederation with the Canadian colonies. Powell lost his seat that

years (Toronto, 1914). Borthwick, Hist. and biog. gazetteer. Terrill, Chronology of Montreal. Atherton, Montreal, II–III. Rumilly, Hist. de

medical faculty of McGill University,” Montreal Medical Journal, 31 (1902): 561–672. F.-J. Audet, “Des hommes d’action à la tête de Montréal il y a 100 ans,” La Presse, 4 nov

wars, Robertson fought with distinction in the Crimean War where he was appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir William Eyre. When Eyre came to Canada in 1856 to command the British forces

students felt Charles Macdonald was the de facto university principal. In fairness it should be remembered that Ross had lost his wife and a daughter between 1875 and 1878

. Ross was inland when the Comte de Lapérouse [Galaup] seized York and Churchill (Man.) in 1782, and so he

adulthood; d. 12 Feb. 1863 in Quebec City and was buried two days later in Mount Hermon Cemetery, Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery (Quebec City

1902, she was Amaryllis. In the Ottawa Free Press, where she was on staff from December 1897 to February 1903, she wrote thrice-weekly as The Marchioness – a nom de plume borrowed, not from

reciprocity. During a smallpox scare in 1885 [see Alphonse-Barnabé Laroque de

nom de plume of the “Whistler at the Plough” he reported for various newspapers on the sufferings of Irish tenantry as seen on frequent trips and wrote on economic questions

company, Staines boarded the Duchess of San Lorenzo, bound for San Francisco, at Sooke on or about 1 March. The vessel, which was carrying a heavy deck load of timber, foundered in Juan de

remained the company’s main post for opposing the French coureurs de bois from the south. Staunton, made chief factor there in 1714, was instructed to “trade hard” with Indians from the north so that they

him the award. He is also reported to have been awarded the French and the Belgian Croix de Guerre and to have been mentioned in dispatches. He ended the war with the rank of captain

). Graymont, Iroquois. L. H. Morgan, League of the Ho-dé-no-saunee, or Iroquois (new ed., 2v., New York, 1901; repr. 2v. in 1, 1922). S. F. Wise, “The American revolution

. Macdonald* as federal attorney general. By 1881 he was de facto chief organizer for the Saint John Conservatives, and it was said of him that “he creates all the officers . . . for the

the Portsmouth dockyards from 1772 to 1775. In early June 1776 31-year-old Twiss arrived at Quebec and was named aide-de-camp to Colonel

Loyalists there and with them was placed in command of Fort Franklin at Lloyd Neck. He ended the war as a major in the King’s American Dragoons and an aide-de-camp to Sir Guy

), I, 348. Louisbourg journals (De Forest), 57. “The Pepperrell papers,” Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 6th ser., X (1899). PRO, JTP, 1741/42–1749, 175. Shipton, Sibley

entering the seminary in Nancy for his moral philosophy. He had completed his classical and philosophical studies when in 1856 he met the bishop of Toronto, Armand-François-Marie de

born in Lower Canada in 1863, but no corresponding registration of birth or baptism has been found. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: exhibitions and members, 1880–1979, comp. E. de