the Lethbridge one; from 1898 to 1902 he was the de facto supervisory superintendent for both Lethbridge and Fort Macleod; from 1902 to 1906, after falling foul of Clifford

Ezekiel Boggs (Halifax, 1916). A. W. H. Eaton, “Old Boston families, number one: the De Blois family,” New England Hist. and Geneal. Reg. (Boston), 67

.), 21 (1986–87), no.3: 106–32. F. A. de Luna, “Rules of the road: left, right or down the middle?,” Beaver (Winnipeg), 73 (1993), no.4: 17–21. Hugh Durnford and Glenn Baechler, Cars

). DNB [see articles on Sir Bernard Drake, Edward Flowerdew, Sir Amyas de Preston]. English privateering voyages to the West

was the first ship to join Pepperrell at Canso (Canseau). During the siege Durell assisted in the capture of the Vigilant (Capt. Alexandre de

[Indispensable for any study of John DeCow are Ernest Green’s excellent article “John DeCou, pioneer,” OH, 22 (1925): 92–116, and The genealogy of the De Cou family, showing the

, Halifax,” Journal of Canadian Art Hist. (Montreal), 7 (1983–84): 138–55; C. P. de Volpi, Nova Scotia, a pictorial record; historical prints and

Du Pont* Duchambon de Vergor]. Three years later he received a Massachusetts captain’s commission to raise a company for “the Reduction of Canada,” but the expedition was aborted after James

Hargrave correspondence, 1821–1843, ed. G. P. de T. Glazebrook (Toronto, 1938), 4, 6. HBRS, 2 (Rich and Fleming). Mackenzie, Journals and letters (Lamb), 478, 495

Mountain*], and from 1803 to 1805 he was treasurer of the Théâtre de Société [see Joseph Quesnel*]. In his later years he was a member

had 78 students, 58 of whom were studying the classics. In 1836 Esson was elected a member of the management committee of the École Normale de Montréal, and he was the only clergyman of his

. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Esterházy’s “Report on Hungarian colonization” appears in the report of the minister of agriculture for

“practical draughtsman,” one of the mid-level positions. Nevertheless, by January 1875 Ewart had become the highest-paid architectural draftsman in the office, and by 1879 he was de facto assistant

harbourmaster, and Margaret Elizabeth Greig; m. 1852 Eliza Charlotte de Hertel, and they had seven children, only one of whom survived their father; d. 26 June 1894 in Montreal

.” At the same time, he decided to marry and move permanently to Montreal. He and his country wife at Green Bay, Thérèse de Gère, dit Larose, had had three sons and two daughters. On 13 Nov. 1816

“dispersing the rebels” in Lower Canada. He and his regiment were stationed at Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie in February and March 1838. That November, with fighting breaking out anew, they made a foray into

1890 Froude sympathized with the plights of the poor he encountered in Rio de Janeiro and the convict labourers he saw working at the Cape of Good Hope

, Singapore, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town. Branches were later established in China and Hong Kong. Fulford’s nephew, Charles Taylor Fulford, set up a imitative operation in Australia

Joly* de Lotbinière asked McBride to form a government in June 1903, he accepted and announced that his administration would be Conservative, thereby introducing party lines into provincial

the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy – after council had rejected a version presented by Seth Newhouse [Da-yo-de-ka-ne*], which

company also acquired mills on the Rivière Blanche and the North Nation (Rivière de la Petite Nation). Aided by the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States, production had increased by 1860 and

, Loyalists in east Florida, 1774 to 1785; the most important documents pertaining thereto (2v., De Land, Fla., 1929; repr., intro. G. A. Billias, Boston, Mass., 1972), II, 63

Français, Les jeux de la VIIIe olympiade, Paris 1924: rapport officiel (Paris, [1924?]). Comité Olympique Suisse, Résultats des concours des IImes jeux olympiques d’hiver

, 1: 84, 86, 122, 132, 160–61, 427. Miquelon, “Baby family,” 191, 194–95. Robert Rumilly, Histoire de Montréal. (5v., Montréal, 1970–74), 2: 152. Alfred Sandham, Ville-Marie, or, sketches

chief factor, and Helmcken thus joined what Amor De Cosmos* would refer to as the “family-company compact.” Like the Douglases an Anglican

awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government. After the war she returned home to resume her exploring, writing, and lecturing. She had been elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1913

. This activity and his writing talent first merged in an 1837 article on the habits of the salmon family and its conservation. Under an appropriate nom de plume, Piscator, four long letters were

*, Hensley acquired a key place in the new administration. As Premier Coles’s mind gradually gave way, he shouldered more and more of the burden of leadership. By the session of 1868 he was de facto

December 1872, Holbrook became a leader of the opposition to Premier Amor De Cosmos*, whose power-base was Victoria. Holbrook championed

medals at the international exhibitions of the 1860s and 1870s and his encounters with leading scholars led to his election in 1862 to such scientific organizations as the Société géologique de France, and

Triandra Phelia Boyd Heu-de-Bourck; m. 2 Oct. 1906 Annie Beatrice Mary Bonner in Toronto, and they had two daughters; d. there 5 Nov. 1923. Of British

and sexual misconduct. John Turner, a young man of native and European ancestry, helped Horden for a short time, but in 1854 he was transferred by the HBC to Little Whale River (Petite Rivière de la

1867, and in Qué., Parl., Doc. de la session, 1869 to 1888.  r.s.] Borthwick

with the support of an industrial bonus from that municipality. This new firm, the Compagnie de Filature Ste-Anne, with an authorized capital of $300,000, had a very brief corporate existence. Hudon lost

, probably on 23 June, but that she had arrived too late for her information to be of value. Lieutenant FitzGibbon had said in his report on the battle of Beaver Dams: “At [John] De Cou’s this

post at Little Whale River (Petite Rivière de la Baleine, Que.) by an Inuk called Noma. The post record relays his information: “All the Men and Women Engaged in the murder are said to have a line

). ASSM, 8, A; 36, André Cuoq, “Notes inédites pour servir à l’histoire de la mission du Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes” (typescript). PAC, RG 10, vols. 409–10, 511, 532, 2221. UCA, Mission register for

, ff.21–23; 194/8; 194/9; 194/12; 194/13, ff.164–68; CSP, Col., 1717–18; 1728–29; 1730; JTP, 1708/9–1714/15; 1754–1758. Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la N.-F., II

inspecting field officer of recruiting at Glasgow but was reduced to half pay in 1796. Three years later, as lieutenant-colonel unattached, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir Ralph Abercromby, then

and De La Salle Institute and was a page in the legislature. In 1887 he joined the London and Canadian Loan and Agency Company as a clerk. A

deferred to Kenny, recognizing him as a de facto leader of the Irish Catholic element in provincial politics. Edward Kenny’s support for

. 1847. Stanstead Journal (Rock Island, [Que]), 9 April 1846. G. Turcotte, Cons. législatif de Québec, 9, 132–33. C. M. Day, History of the Eastern

sent to the Séminaire de Québec in 1808 and was ordained there in 1810. Although over the years Lambert sent several other seminarians to Lower Canada, only one other, William

“his gentlemanly bearing and affable manners [which] endeared him to us all” and also called him “the ablest mangeur de lard [novice] we have had in the country for a number of years.” The

d’Arsac* de Ternay. Criticized by some of the inhabitants, who had at least talked of resistance, he was made to give up his magistrate’s commission by Governor Thomas

education, he was made chairman of the newly formed Charlottetown Board of School Trustees in 1878. He also acted as aide-de-camp to several lieutenant governors between 1863 and 1879. His last years were

brevet lieutenant-colonel the following year. Back in England, he was aide-de-camp in 1859–60 to the general officer commanding, South West District

County militia, and the following year he raised and was commissioned colonel of the third battalion of De Lancey’s Brigade. His Long Island home became a favourite retreat for “British officers and

Puisaye*, Comte de Puisaye, who were on their way to establish a military settlement at Windham, a few miles north of York. In 1799 Administrator Peter Russell made Macdonell his French secretary

* (Greenfield) (an aide-de-camp to Brock) and Donald Macdonell* (Greenfield), had served. His strong Catholic faith was exhibited in his memoir of