Coll., Mexico Northwestern Railway Company, Records of the Ferrocarril Noroeste de México, 1910–19. Univ. of Texas at El Paso Library, C. L. Sonnichsen Special Coll. Dept

expressed through the authorship of “small volumes” earned for Starr acceptance into the inner circle of Halifax’s social establishment. In the mid 1830s he was named aide-de-camp to Lieutenant Governor Sir

establishments in Trinity harbour, and had branches at Bay de Verde, Heart’s Content, Old Perlican, Scilly Cove (Winterton), Catalina, Bonavista, Barrow Harbour, and Greenspond. Northward of Cape Freels, the firm

Company, 4 Oct. 1795; Sutherland to James Reid, 23 Aug. 1798; Sutherland to Mme de Lavaltrie, 11 March 1811; Sutherland to W. B. Berczy, 3 Oct., 19 Dec. 1818; 4, 16 Aug

, ledger, 1829–33). MTL, Laurent Quetton de St George papers, 1810–13. PAC, RG 1, L3, 497: T10/35, T11/5; 498: T12/10; RG 5, A1: 51867–68; RG 68, General index, 1651–1841: 469. A manual of

schoolmaster in Port de Grave, an outport in Conception Bay, and the year after that he went to Bird Island Cove (Elliston), Trinity Bay, where he is said to have kept a pedlar’s shop. During his two years in

l’interprétation de la constitution fédérale . . . (2v., Québec, 1883–84), which favoured provincial autonomy. Despite Travis’s claim that demonstrating legal science was his only objective, his self

De Cosmos* and others in opposing the authoritarian ways and powers of Governor James Douglas and the

1756 in Attleborough (Attleboro), Mass., son of Simeon Washburn and Jemimah Gary; m. first Sarah De Forest, and they had nine children; m. secondly 24 Jan. 1803 Hannah McBride, a

resumed his former professions; soon after, he moved to Havre de Grace, remarried, and became manager of the Legh Furnace, an ironworks owned by an old business associate, Legh Master. Unable to recover his

confusing variety of texts. From the start White urged an end to such usage. In his report on Ottawa’s French schools in 1892, he was disdainful of the Christian Brothers’ choice of the De La Salle

Oliver*, who succeeded him as pastor of the mother church, thus perpetuating for at least a generation de facto leadership by African Baptist ministers. “More than a pastor,” a contemporary of White’s

Kent and Strathearn, who had been living in Halifax and who left for England, with Thérèse-Bernardine de Saint-Laurent*, in August

Toronto papers, Board of Health papers, 20 June 1832; John McGill papers, B40: 42; W. D. Powell papers; Laurent Quetton de St George papers; Alexander Wood papers and letter-books. PAC, RG

history of St John’s School and Lower Canada College” (ma thesis, Macdonald College, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., 1961). Church of England in Canada, Diocese of

information” to the official journals. This volume supplements Bliss’s work, and the 33-page introduction supplements E. [A.] De Schweinitz’s biography, The life and times of David Zeisberger, the

, the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, the Standard Life Assurance Company, and the Canadian Pacific Railway. A private, dispassionate person, who avoided conflict

part in the attack on Flushing (Vlissingen), in which he was wounded once again. From 1810 to 1812 he acted as aide-de-camp and military secretary to Lieutenant-General George Don, the lieutenant

De Cosmos. Begbie survived these attacks as well as accusations of judicial impropriety, the most serious of which was that of accepting a bribe from land speculators in the so-called

from the disbanded De Meuron’s Regiment. The departure of the NWC spring brigade from Montreal for Fort William (Thunder Bay, Ont.) was an annual

d’Arsac* de Ternay], and after the French surrender carried out surveying tasks in Newfoundland in conjunction with James Cook

of the city of London, because in 1626 a Recollet missionary, Joseph de La Roche* Daillon, had given the first mass in the

result of his wrongful imprisonment. Almighty Voice crossed the South Saskatchewan River near Saint-Laurent-de-Grandin (St-Laurent-Grandin) and made his

 century. The feudal lord Robert de Lambton (d. 1350) is the most distant ancestor who can be documented. Through marriages nearly always based on family interests and social affinities, the Lambtons

, came to New France with the Régiment de Carignan-Salières. He took up farming and on 7 Jan. 1677 in Montreal married Madeleine Millots. Thus began the long line of Lauriers in North America

the Missaguash River Lawrence found French forces under Louis de La Corne, who had orders to prevent

initiated and when its first director, Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, saw Logan’s maps for South Wales he adopted them, because “the work on this district [was] of an order so greatly superior to that

leader in the Senate,” Canadian Liberal Monthly (Ottawa), 1 (1913–14): 123. M. F. Girard, L’écologisme retrouvé: essor et déclin de la Commission de la conservation du Canada (Ottawa

, and, despite his decades of experience, a strategy for coping with the adversity caused by local de-industrialization and federal policies that favoured central Canada

. de l’archevêché de Saint-Boniface (Saint-Boniface, Man.), Cathédrale, reg. des mariages, 11 sept. 1867. Man., Legislative Library (Winnipeg), Vert. file, J. C. Schultz. NA, MG 26, A

early in December 1837, Sherwood, who had been commissioned lieutenant in the West York militia in 1827, was at once appointed as one of the provincial aides-de-camp to Lieutenant Governor Sir

Rangers, from the end of the year 1777, to the conclusion of the late American war (Exeter, Eng., [1787]), Simcoe published Remarks on the travels of the Marquis de Chastellux, in North America

which had many paying pupils from well-to-do families. In 1787 he was selected, largely through family influence, as an aide-de-camp to a distant relative, the Marquess of Buckingham, lord lieutenant of

(Greenfield), one of Brock’s aides-de-camp, that the mission had been completed successfully and that he was prepared to serve again if called upon. He then returned to Niagara, and he was subsequently

independence platform for their party. Simultaneously, the French government under Charles de Gaulle lavished attention on visiting Quebec politicians while regularly snubbing Canadian representatives. As a

. His thesis was to focus on Jean-Marie Roland de La Platière, a leader of the Girondist faction during the revolution. Luella even mused about writing a companion biography of Mme Roland, who

(Toronto, 1996); and Une pensée libérale, critique ou conservatrice?: actualité de Hannah Arendt, d’Emmanuel Mounier et de George Grant pour le Québec d’aujourd’hui, sous la dir. de Lucille Beaudry

Oliver*, a Prohibitionist, called a general election for 1 December, with liquor-control policy as a central issue. Attorney General John Wallace de Beque Farris recruited Mackenzie to run

that while they had been on the plains, settlers from Ontario had staked out claims by the Rivière aux Îlets-de-Bois, which they renamed the Boyne River. Their claims posed a direct challenge to the

of John Brock and Elizabeth De Lisle; d. 13 Oct. 1812 at Queenston Heights, Upper Canada. He never married, and there seems to be no real evidence to support the stories that

, methodically charting their economic and physical condition and then calculating targets for sales and dealer recruitment. As part of this marketing tour de force, advertising was revamped (some of it quite

the duties of staff officer and drew him as well into the councils of war. On 27 May 1813 he had his horse killed under him while acting as aide-de-camp during the American attack on Fort George

. Girard, L’écologisme retrouvé: essor et déclin de la Commission de la conservation du Canada: 1909–1921 (Ottawa, 1994).  d.j.h.]

the nom de plume that would become his most characteristic signature, A Bystander. It was intended to imply that he was an outsider and therefore detached and analytical. In fact, it was soon

postponed since 1808. En route he left his wife and children at Fort Bas-de-la-Rivière (Fort Alexander, Man.) with her sister Nancy, country wife of John

held. When members of the English party protested compensation to the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice for extinction of its seigneurial rights, Thomson denounced the “spirit of intolerance” shown by the

Canadian Art Hist. (Montreal), 8 (1984): 50–78. Gonzalo de Quegada, “The iron horse in east Cuba,” Gulf Stream (Havana, Cuba), [1 ] (1929), no.3. “Railways in Cuba: the completed trunk line of

Alderson to Canada as GOC. By the end of 1901, as a brevet colonel, Alderson was inspector-general of mounted infantry with the rank of brigadier-general, a cb, and an aide-de

his aide-de-camp. In religion Allen was at first a moderately low-church Anglican, choosing to attend Fredericton’s parish church rather than Bishop John

and J. E. Van de Wetering, What must I do to be saved? The Great Awakening in colonial America (Hinsdale, Ill., 1976); Gordon Stewart and G. [A.] Rawlyk, A people