position proved to be less secure. In 1862 controversy erupted when Charles Tupper*, de facto leader of the Conservative party, disclosed

rivers flowing into Passamaquoddy Bay was indeed Samuel de Champlain*’s St Croix. Negotiations ended successfully for the British in

Buade de Frontenac, but if the seduction of the English governor’s allegiance was any part of the French plan, it was unsuccessful even during the particularly difficult conditions which

 Carmen Beattie, known as Bella, whom he had met some years earlier in Switzerland. She was the daughter of a Scot who owned a sugar plantation in Santiago de Cuba, where she had been born. Her family

-de-camp to Governor Thomas John Cochrane*, in June 1834 a justice of the peace, and in the same year a road commissioner. In the

Zionist Societies of Canada (later renamed the Zionist Organization of Canada) in 1919, succeeding Clarence Isaac de Sola*, a post he

Philippe Landry were talking with three mps when the governor general’s aide-de-camp

nom de plume Andrew McSpurtle. Through the McSpurtle epistles, which would appear over a 30-year span, Boyle expressed the tenets of his national concept, one based on imperialism, Anglo-Saxon

need to lobby Congress. Elgin went to Washington and in a diplomatic tour de force persuaded the Southern senators that reciprocity would prevent, not provoke, annexation. It was a brilliant

, education for workers, and improved benefits. As a lieutenant-colonel, with his popular older son as aide-de-camp, he organized the Grand Trunk Railway Regiment, on 27 April 1866, to meet the Fenian

* was allowing use of the Îles de la Madeleine for the evasion of customs duties, he was quick to publicize the fact. In doing so he precipitated a struggle because Townshend retaliated by seizing several

Presbyterian clergyman. Though his family was Anglican, he was then sent, along with his brother Charles James, to the Roman Catholic Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Lower Canada, where he acquired a sufficient

Bennett*, then the governor’s aide-de-camp and a magistrate. Cormack’s only companion was Joseph Sylvester*, a young Micmac hunter from Bay

government, Amor De Cosmos*, editor of the opposition newspaper the British Colonist (Victoria), contended that his victory had been

along with former adversary George DeBlois against Pope and Frederick de St Croix Brecken*. Davies spoke at meetings across

, civic, and charitable institutions. As the funeral cortège proceeded along the Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, a naval salute testified to Dawson’s public prominence

purchased his captaincy, and while holding this rank through the 1830s he served as an aide-de-camp at Quebec. By 1841 he had been promoted to major. Doyle, who had served in both the East and the West Indies

Heble shows how the “de-colonisation of Canada” in The imperialist is accomplished through the skilful manipulation of narrative voice. Stephen Scobie also highlights Duncan’s technique, praising

years of his employment, Dunlop bristled with schemes for the company’s advantage. Not a few were impractical, such as his idea for the company’s canalization of the Rivière de la Petite Nation between

mounted at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in 1927 and later travelled to the Musée du Jeu-de-Paume in Paris. Though the so-called “Canadian artists” are listed separately with the titles of their

son Henry briefly succeeded Joseph Marshall* de Brett Maréchal as superintendent of education for New Brunswick, his son

Toronto. The J. H. Fleming fonds (SC29) at the ROM, Libraries and Arch., is a tour de force of ornithological activity during the period 1891–1940; it contains manuscripts, photographs, notes

Military Instruction of Quebec, and the Collège de Marieville. His father, a teacher, sent him on occasion to spend time with a family in St Albans, Vt, to master English. Forget considered entering the

politics of New Brunswick, 1878–1883” (ma thesis, Univ. of N.B., 1961). D. M. M. Stanley, Au service de deux peuples: Pierre-Amand Landry (Moncton

responsible for the design and construction of drill halls and armouries, prison buildings (notably at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Que.), customs warehouses, immigrant reception sheds, hospitals

pension plan in 1888, the establishment of which, he later noted, “tended to create a loyalty to the institution and an esprit de corps quite noticeable.” He concerned himself as well with proper

.” Operating from John De Cou*’s stone house near Beaver Dams, FitzGibbon’s men harassed enemy troops and observed their movements. The Americans

days; the camaraderie so evident in her diary – teas, dances, masquerades, holiday festivities – was part of No.3’s esprit de corps. In the summer of 1915 she helped equip the wards of

Commerce. In the 1882 general election he had been an unsuccessful candidate in the Port de Grave district for the mercantile New party, led by James J

, and workers as necessary. A picture from 1903 shows the company offices and plant in five multi-storied buildings occupying a five-acre site on de

arrival of George Rogers Clark and his Virginia militia in the Illinois country. Philippe-François Rastel de Rocheblave surrendered Kaskaskia to them in July, and the inhabitants of Vincennes declared for

cancelled and another drafted in his own favour. (Small wonder his motto was “Do it now.”) Townshend was so amazed at this coup de main that he referred to Rogers’s defeat in his letter of

Bibliothèque nationale du Québec (Montréal), Société historique de Montréal, Coll. La Fontaine. MTCL, Robert Baldwin papers. PAC, MG 24, A13; E1; RG 4, C2, 2, 24; RG 5, B30, 1–6; C1, 882–85

administrative achievements. Herchmer took over a dispirited and poorly organized police force. He raised the standards for enlistment, promoted better training, restored discipline and esprit de corps

. Jacques Gouin, “Histoire d’une amitié: correspondance intime entre Chapleau et De Celles (1876–1898),” RHAF, 18 (1964–65): 364. Desmond Morton, “Taking on the Grand Trunk: the locomotive engineers

sometimes tended to create the impression that Weeks was very much the leader de facto. Scornfully Woodworth suggested they might settle the leadership in the manner of the Tycoon and the Mikado, the

” (ma thesis, Univ. of Victoria, 1964). N. de B. Lugrin, The pioneer women of Vancouver Island, 1843–1866, ed. John Hosie (Victoria, 1928), 288–89. C. H

another factor was likely what the Globe (26 June 1900) called a new “esprit de corps” among RMC graduates: “They seem to have imbibed an aversion to conditions in the Imperial army, and are

ISAPO-MUXIKA (Crowfoot, occasionally known in French as Pied de Corbeau), Blackfoot chief; b. c

, 1880–1970, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1988). “Name origins of North Dakota cities, towns and counties,” N.Dak. Hist. (Bismarck), 13 (1946

and an admirer of his party’s nominal leader, James William Johnston*, and its de facto leader, Charles

broader objectives by compiling trade statistics and marshalling arguments on behalf of reciprocity with the United States in collaboration with Israel de Wolfe

KEMP, Sir ALBERT EDWARD, businessman and politician; b. 11 Aug. 1858 near Clarenceville (Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville

the astronomical position of the lights at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, and supervising construction and maintenance of a portion of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. In the process he assumed the

other contemporary plates depicting his commissions may be seen in C. P. De Volpi, Toronto, a pictorial record: historical prints and illustrations of the city of Toronto, province of

appearance of early feminist writings from such women as Mme de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Harriet Martineau. Anne, however, espoused feminist views only as far as circumstances required. Her personal

). Essays in the history of Canadian law . . . , ed. D. H. Flaherty et al. (7v. to date, Toronto, 1981–  ), 2. G. P. de T. Glazebrook, Sir

., vol.1. Thomas Jones, History of New York during the Revolutionary War, and of the leading events in the other colonies at that period, ed. E. F. de Lancey (2v., New York, 1879). J

Ralston*, A. K. Maclean’s law partner, to replace him as minister of national defence and de facto leader of the federal Liberal Party in Nova Scotia, but, desiring to give the prime minister a

. Mackenzie felt the absence of good men in cabinet in another way. He made decisions on a consensual basis, explicitly so when he was de facto leader of the opposition between 1867 and