Taylor was a chemist’s apprentice in London and in his writings he professed an early admiration for pneumatic chemistry and the discoveries of Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestly, and Antoine-Laurent de

Huskins Algoma Univ., Engracia De Jesus Matias Arch. and Special Coll. (Sault Ste Marie, Ont.) houses the Anglican

dismay that reforms enacted with labour support, including pensions, mothers’ allowances, and minimum wages for women, had not been implemented by the Conservative government of Leonard Percy de Wolfe

., George de Rottenburg, “Map of the principal communications in Canada West” (c. 1855–56). UWO, Norfolk County, Ont., Registrar, naturalization records, I. F. H. Baddeley, “An essay on the

1860s the vogue had been for cartes de visite and cabinet-sized photographs but by the turn of the century larger prints, mounted on dark-olive-coloured card embossed with the Topley name, were a major

; Canada’s first bank, I, 144, 228–29, 232–34, 243, 293; II, 30, 577. Rumilly, Hist. de Montreal, II, 152, 191, 277, 328. E. C. Springett, For my children’s children

from Cambridge that Townshend had been allowing smuggling from the Îles de la Madeleine, led to an investigation by the commissioners of customs. When the case was settled early in 1788 Townshend was

(Toronto, 1956). The list of Dutch casualties at Waterloo appears in [François de Bas], Prins Fredrik der Nederlanden en zijn tijd . . . (4v. in 6, Schiedam, Netherlands, 1887–1913 [i.e

appointed a naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, a position he held until he became rear-admiral on 27 Aug. 1851. In April 1857 he hoisted his flag in the Cumberland as commander

of the Université de Moncton. The following year the government extended its family legislation by granting full property rights to all married women living apart from or deserted by their husbands

Waddington’s road for an excursion to a glacier which “very much resembled . . . the Mer de Glace,” a celebrated glacier near Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France. Bute Inlet reminded him of some lines of

. Ramsay Cook et al. (Toronto, 1967), 69–84. J. C. Dent, The last forty years: Canada since the union of 1841 (2v., Toronto, [1881]). G. P. de T. Glazebrook, The story of

from the same fund for the Chateau de Glenmore, a known brothel briefly owned by him in 1882, but at the time of the mortgage the property of his brother, Melville Burke, a local liquor dealer and rake

resulting “power of the Ledger” he was able to exploit their labour and timber. He was also de facto land agent for Sir George Seymour’s holdings in Lot 13, a position that was formalized in

 Sept. 1796. He served in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798 and in Egypt in 1801, and he was aide-de-camp to General Henry Edward Fox in Gibraltar and Sicily between 1804 and 1806. On 17

Vallières de Saint-Réal, Gosford defended them at the Colonial Office and arranged for each a 12-month leave of absence at full pay. He considered the union bill of 1840

the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, and from the library of the Séminaire de Québec, the new dominion archives, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. At the same time Akins continued

. He took little part in council meetings, being dispatched to Louisbourg in the fall of 1720 to negotiate with the French governor, Saint-Ovide de Brouillan

Dufferin-Carnarvon correspondence, 1874–1878, ed. C. W. de Kiewiet and F. H. Underhill (Toronto, 1955; repr. New York, 1969). A collection of Dufferin’s public addresses during

province as an aide-de-camp. Bulkeley was soon actively engaged in carrying out Cornwallis’ orders for the establishment of Halifax, the new capital of Nova Scotia. Commissioned by the governor as an ensign

made a brigade-major. Campbell, who was promoted captain on 9 Jan. 1805, returned to England as aide-de-camp to Lord Wellesley, Arthur’s

Letellier* de Saint-Just. Letellier had discharged a provincial Conservative government and installed a Liberal one. The action was vindicated in the provincial election of May 1878, but the Liberals

artist Constant-Auguste de L’Aubinière and his English-born wife, Georgina Martha, née Steeple, showed Carr that art could be more than an accomplishment for young ladies. In 1890 Withrow enabled Carr to

COCHRANE, FRANCIS, businessman and politician; b. 18 Nov. 1852 in Clarenceville (Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville), Lower

Caldwell*. Ten years later he moved to Grand Falls, to manage Sir John’s mills there. John was educated locally and from 1850 to 1852 at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in Lower Canada

able to streamline the entire managerial structure. One of the first managers to de-emphasize through traffic, he cultivated instead the remunerative local trade. To guarantee high quality construction

athlete reported after his first attempt. In the final advance on Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg), on 24 Aug. 1870, he assumed an aide-de-camp’s more traditional role as a mounted scout, astride a farmer’s

Sheaffe, who had in the mean time been replaced by Francis de Rottenburg*. When Drummond reached his headquarters at Kingston on

familiarity with the work of English landscape painters such as Turner, Constable, David Cox, Peter De Wint, and John Sell Cotman, and a meeting with the eminent lithographer Charles Joseph Hullmandel

, formerly Art Association of Montreal; spring exhibitions, 1880–1970, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto, 1988). Maria Naylor, The National Academy of Design exhibition record

bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest: récits de voyages, lettres et rapports inédits relatifs au Nord-Ouest canadien, L.-F.-R. Masson, édit. (2v., Québec, 1889–90; réimpr. New

settlements, and one for Abenaki Indians at Saint-François-de-Sales (Odanak). The complexities of his charge Fulford explored in a quick survey in the late autumn. In town and countryside he found depression

. Nevertheless, Gordon, a reluctant bachelor until 1865, was lonely. His aide-de-camp and his private secretary offered some companionship but were not his equals. Only with Chief Justice Sir James

former Quebec premier Henri-Gustave Joly* de Lotbinière, a francophone Protestant

Jacobs]. On 8 Aug. 1782 Hearne and his complement of 38 civilians were confronted by a French force under the Comte de Lapérouse

with an engaging rogue, then posing as Édouard, Comte de Crillon, knight of Malta, and scion of a famous noble family of mixed Spanish and French origin. Crillon was in reality a notorious swindler named

prevented this in 1895, the associates gradually purchased control and by 1901 had achieved de facto unification of the two companies. As well, in 1901 Hill acquired the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy

Kootoonay [Columbia] River – carried into the Flat-Bow (?) [Kootenay] River – descended by the most Southly Bight of it – crossed (Portage Poil de Custer) to Flathead River

: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/british-commonwealth-air-training-plan (consulted 21 June 2023). Godfried Nijs, “Neegestorte Englase bommenwerper in de Besselinkschans, 28 januari 1942,” [Crashed

-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry in March 1756. Oswego fell to

and Roger Graham (2v., Kingston, Ont., and Montreal, 1978–83), 1: 69–71, 77, 90, 102–3. Jacques Rousseau and W. G. Dore, “L’oublié de l’histoire de la science canadienne – George Lawson, 1827

four daughters and one son; m. secondly 7 Jan. 1915 Grace Seely Henop (d. 1928), widow of Robert de Peyster Tytus, in New York, and they had one son; d. 15 Sept. 1939 in Ottawa

, Histoire de Notre-Dame des Sept-Douleurs de Grenville, P.Q. (Montréal, 1931), 29, 38, 280, 284. Somerled MacMillan, Bygone Lochaber historical and traditional (Glasgow, 1971), 66–7

., son of John Odell, a joiner, and Temperance Dickinson; m. 6 May 1772 Anne De Cou in Burlington, N.J., and they had four children; d. 25 Nov. 1818 in Fredericton, N.B

; spring exhibitions, 1880-1970, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto, 1988). Maria Naylor, The National Academy of Design exhibition record, 1861–1900 (2v., New York

degrees. Intent on entering the priesthood, he studied in Germany, Belgium, France, and Italy before returning to Canada to enrol at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal. On 21 Dec. 1908 Archbishop Joseph

Charles-Henri-Louis d’Arsac de Ternay] reached England, he was sent to Newfoundland with a

as Voyage fait en 1819 et 1820, sur les vaisseaux de S.M.B., l’“Hecla” et le “Griper,” pour découvrir un passage du nord-ouest de l’océan Atlantique à la mer Pacifique

Ottawa declined to do de jure in the treaties was being done de facto by the people in the Cypress Hills. Their efforts were frustrated

deals. That same year another was established in Havana, followed by a succession of branches in sugar-producing provinces such as Camagüey and Oriente (Santiago de Cuba), usually not far from Van Horne’s