output of respected translations of such authors as Horace, Catullus, and Schiller. In 1901 he provided the introduction to a de luxe Canadian edition of the writings and speeches of Edmund Burke. The
), Tombstone inscription. Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1775; the most important documents pertaining thereto, ed. W. H. Siebert (2v., De Land, Fla., 1929; repr., intro. G. A
of Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin (Belgium) and Émile Picard (France), both strong exclusionists. The atmosphere at Strasbourg was bitter. During the congress Leonard Eugene Dickson
inscribed by Fisher for General John Hale; the general’s son John* had been aide-de-camp and military secretary to Edward Augustus at Quebec, where Fisher
Sergeant and to get advice. Fullartine was there on 16 July 1686 (o.s.) when the threat became a reality and Governor Sergeant surrendered to Pierre de
., 1: 1063. Burke’s peerage (1967), 1076. DNB. Dictionary of South African biography, ed. W. J. de Kock et al. (4v. to date, Pretoria, South Africa, 1968
time of his death Lester owned the largest firm in the England-Newfoundland cod trade. His Newfoundland headquarters were at Trinity, but he also owned properties distributed between Bay de Verde and
force’s bands for many years. Other titles were “Song of the chinook,” “Northern harvest,” and “Calgary, city of the foothills.” She reviewed performances by local singers and musicians such as Odette de
September at Torbay, some ten miles north of the capital. The enemy squadron under Charles-Henri-Louis d’Arsac* de Ternay fled
war, the HBC posts on Moose, Rupert, and Albany Rivers had been captured by Pierre de Troyes* and all the inmates taken prisoner. Somewhere
the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. Haliburton rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Nova Scotia militia, and in 1862 he was made an aide-de-camp to the lieutenant governor, Lord Mulgrave
. J. Larocque, “Fine intentions: an account of the Owens Art Institution in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1884–1893” (ma thesis, Univ. of N.B., Fredericton, 1996). E. de
Albertan that she had had a “most delightful time in Paris,” and she spoke of “the beautiful Bois de Boulogne and the wonderful shops they visited.” Rome, she mused, “is perfectly wonderful
from the University of Edinburgh in 1819. His graduation thesis, in Latin, was entitled “De tetano.” After completing his studies, he visited London and Dublin, and spent a short time in Paris before
biographique des gouverneurs, lieutenants-gouverneurs et administrateurs du Canada et de ses provinces, 1604–1921 (2v., s.p., s.d.). Canadian biog. dict. Canadian
Wolseley*’s coterie of careerist officers, provided influence. Within the Wolseley ring, Hutton made a “mounted infantry” his particular crusade. Promoted colonel and appointed aide-de-camp to Queen
” portion of it during the Carib uprising of 1795. Four years later he became aide-de-camp to the island’s commander-in-chief. At some point thereafter he returned to England (possibly to Wiltshire), but he
Assembly, App. to the journal, 1839–40, 2: xii; Journal, 1833–40. William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de Selincourt et al
renovated the palatial Château de Longueuil on Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal, he took up residence there late in 1798. Determined to recover at least the equivalent of what he had lost in New York, he became
July, 17 Oct. 1822. Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson), 2: 137–74. [Jacob] Brown, “Gen. Brown’s inspection tour up the lakes in 1819,” Buffalo Hist. Soc., Pub
until the return of Governor Sergeant. Since the French under the Chevalier de Troyes* captured the posts at the Bottom of the Bay (James Bay
de la Roche*, Merrill Denison*, and Charles George Douglas
, which also received convicts suffering from insanity from the St Vincent de Paul Penitentiary in Quebec. In 1881 a new three-storey asylum was inaugurated to house 28 “lunatics.” The building had
Reid*; Sir William Duff Reid*]. The poll resulted in a tie. Defeated in Port de Grave, Lloyd lost again in the 1909 run-off
, Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel*, a vigorous battler for Catholic expansion, had been seeking relief from his episcopal
, with their application to field works: also, the practical methods of defilading field works (London, 1830); Description of Chasseloup de Laubat’s system of fortification as executed at
et de ses provinces, 1604–1921 (2v., s.l., n.d.). Joan Brockman, “Exclusionary tactics: the history of women and visible minorities in the legal profession in British Columbia,” in Essays in
(Toronto and Halifax). He also annotated works of English literature, The deserted village, The task, and Sir Roger de Coverlet (Toronto, 1881) and Scott’s
Ire., 21 (1892): 305–18. She published In-cow-mas-ket (Chicago, 1900) under the nom de plume Stratton Moir. She also wrote “The Similkameen Indians,” Similkameen Star (Princeton, B.C
influenced in plan and content by Mme de Staël’s popular novel Corinne (1807), the book was a sentimental Childe Harold’s journey for impressionable
remained at the academy, where he was soon recognized as an outstanding student, until 1852, when he proceeded to the Séminaire de Québec. He returned to Prince Edward Island in 1853 or 1854, apparently
seized the post. McDonald then returned to Montreal and in the spring of 1817 took charge of the group of soldiers from the disbanded De Meuron’s Regiment recruited by Lady Selkirk to reinforce
-gouverneurs et administrateurs du Canada et de ses provinces, 1604–1921 (2v., n.p., n.d.). Can., Dept. of Militia and Defence, Report on the state of the militia (Ottawa), 1883. Canadian
Askin and Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Testard Louvigny de Montigny, were
son of the Reverend Jonathan Odell*, loyalist poet and scholar, and Anne De Cou; m. 31 Dec. 1808 Elizabeth Newall (Newell
thesis, McGill Univ., Montreal, 1972). “Liste générale des géologues, minéralogistes et paléontologistes,” Annuaire géologique universel et guide du géologue autour de la terre … (Paris), 1886. G
.
Owen’s government, which included Thomas Heath Haviland* as colonial secretary, Frederick de St Croix
responsive to its aspirations. In 1901 the leaders of the Société Nationale de l’Assomption, J.-Lucien Belliveau, Pierre-Amand Landry*, and
Cahan* to leave his Halifax office and become the new company’s general counsel and on-site manager. Two years later, he helped F. S. Pearson to promote the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and
consent of the prefect of Pas-de-Calais, France, the body of Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe was moved from its resting place at Épinoy to a private vault close by, and it was eventually reburied in Lindsay
, Journal, 18, 25 Aug. 1812. C. L. Stieglitz, Plans et dessins tirés de la belle architecture . . . (Paris, 1801). Nova Scotia Royal Gazette, 13
Rudolph von May, an officer in De Meuron’s Regiment, visited Bern to recruit settlers on behalf of Lord Selkirk [Douglas*] for the
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que. He supervised its construction and for staff he raided the OAC, the experimental farms, and American colleges; the first students were enrolled in 1907. But if Robertson had
the rebellion, he was an aide-de-camp to Sir Francis Bond Head*. After the rebel defeat, he was given the task of carrying dispatches
from across Canada, who included premiers Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley
(lld). Among the many foreign honours he received was the Lalande Medal of the Institut de France.
Although science was his occupation, the
Jackson*], once secretary to Louis Riel* and now Sherman’s aide-de-camp and personal secretary
Smyth*; beginning in 1819 he served as aide-de-camp, acting also as private secretary, and he was one of the executors of the estate when Smyth died in March 1823
). Lawrence Surtees, Pa Bell: A. Jean de Grandpré and the meteoric rise of Bell Canada Enterprises (Toronto, 1992). G. D. Taylor, “Charles F. Sise, Bell Canada, and the