stone house on Rue des Casernes (Rue de l’Arsenal) in Upper Town, paying immediately the entire purchase price of £300 sterling; until then he had lived on Rue du Sault-au-Matelot, a commercial street in

Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac and “kept Fostr out til 1:15.” In May 1919 the summary of the Treaty of Versailles was made public. Borden returned to Ottawa, and Foster was given

. (www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/sports/exploits/exploits.html) and the Arch. de Radio-Canada (archives.radio

–1979, comp. E. de R. McMann (Toronto, 1981). B. K. Sandwell, “Most famous Canadian picture and its painter: Robert Harris, r.c.a., and ‘The Fathers of

. Jones had barely settled into the routine of his judicial activities when rebellion broke out in December. He was immediately appointed one of Head’s aides-de-camp and commanded a small picquet; he was

members of De Meuron’s Regiment set out from Rainy Lake (Ont.) to reassume control of the colony. On 10 Jan. 1817 they captured Fort Douglas, then in the hands of the NWC. Macdonell spent a few months

De Cosmos* in the British Colonist. “British Columbia must feel pleased with her first war, – so cheap – all for nothing.” The cost had been increased by Moody’s ordering up

“quintessentially Western energy.” In 1915 her best-known volume, In times like these, was published. This tour de force, a mixture of wit, satire, good

joie de vivre almost backfired. While living in Montreal, he concocted a spurious and ribald account of the supposed sexual and obstetric practices of an Indian tribe in Quebec, sending it under a

William Otter and Anna de la Hooke; m. 3 Oct. 1865 Marianne Porter in Toronto, and they had a daughter; d. there 6 May 1929

translation of M. M. Franzini’s Roteiro das costas de Portugal, ou Instrucções nauticas . . . ([Lisbon], 1812), entitled

the best years for the incipient reform party as its optimistic and enthusiastic members threw themselves into the task of reorganizing colonial society. In the attempt, they developed an esprit de

de facto recognition for their schools prior to 1871, challenged the constitutionality of the new legislation in the courts and refused on principle to participate in the election of trustees or

proposed change was defeated 27 to 8. While not officially the Conservative leader at this time, Roblin became the de facto head of the small

Shore* in 1815. She and her husband cultivated the friendship of Lieutenant Governor Smyth and by 1822 Shore was acting at times both as his private secretary and as his aide-de-camp. This

the province about the future. For another thing, Sifton in 1912 brought Cross into the cabinet as attorney general, thus partially healing the Liberal rift. Finally, the ablest Conservative and de

Smith was born into a penurious and somewhat eccentric family. His father, a captain in the British army, had served as an aide-de-camp to Lord George Sackville, but when the latter was cashiered in

Unwin Harwood*, was a member of the socially and politically prominent Chartier de Lotbinière family of Vaudreuil. Marie was also athletic

” were revealed by Sullivan and Francis Hincks, when he came to see Metcalfe as “a misrepresented and injured man.” Under the transparent nom de plume of Legion, Sullivan answered in 13 letters in

in other parts of the country, such as the work of Maurice Galbraith Cullen* and Marc-Aurèle de Foy

Bankers’ Association possess institutional archives in their head offices in Toronto. There are three biographies: George P. de T

Canadiana: paintings, water-colours and drawings (Manoir Richelieu collection) (Ottawa, 1983). Annemarie De Waal Malefijt, Images of man: a history of

Sir Humphry Davy’s Elements of agricultural chemistry (London, 1813) and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s Traité élémentaire de chimie (Paris, 1789). His comparison of the low state of

minorities and his legal fees in the case were paid by the Association Catholique Franco-Canadienne de la Saskatchewan. Although Diefenbaker’s civil case

more compliant speaker, Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal, in the chair, Canadian leaders

. Breaking with precedent, Byng insisted on having a Canadian presence in his household: Major Henry Willis-O’Connor became his aide-de-camp, and Major Georges-Philéas

Chauveau*, Narcisse-Henri-Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Daniel

president of the publishing company. This small publication reverted to a weekly in 1915, then became a monthly, and later moved to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. Fielding continued to edit the Journal

that the only policy worse than government ownership was turning everything over to the Canadian Pacific to create the de facto monopoly that the Montreal-based firm frequently advocated

taken responsibility for the prime minister’s welfare, Gzowski was thrilled in 1879, after Sir John had returned to power, to be named honorary aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. The sinecure

the second expedition as published in 1801, and all known letters and fragments of letters. It has an extensive bibliography. Volume 1 of Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson

Forwarding Company, whose private lock at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue gave the partners control over access to the newly completed route to the lakes via the Rideau Canal and thus an important advantage over their

lieutenant, Frederick de St Croix Brecken*, were personally defeated in Charlottetown by the Free Schoolers’ leader, Louis Henry

the HBC. In return the British company undertook to provide the Russians, based at Sitka, with foodstuffs at favourable prices. The strength of this arrangement, which ceded de facto

inconvenience will deter us.” It was this fighting spirit which made his newspapers such effective journaux de combat; it also brought him before the courts several times, on charges of trespass, “riot

d’Éducation des Canadiens Français de l’Ontario aggressively pressed the government for approval of a rational program for bilingual schools, for the establishment of bilingual normal schools and secondary

the dominion’s primary land force, he also served in the BEF. He could not very well ignore Haig’s orders, but he was able to use his status as a de facto national army commander to extract extra guns

had recruited in 1946. Staffed by expert economists, including Thomas Shoyama, the board determined the pace and manner of development. With Douglas’s blessing, Cadbury and his team de-emphasized public

found in most private manuscripts and government collections relating to the period. The essential sources are the Baldwin papers and the Laurent Quetton de St George papers at the MTRL and the

(Kingston, Ont., 1989). The Fredericton census of 1871, ed. R. F. Fellows (Fredericton, 1974). G. P. de T. Glazebrook, A history of transportation in Canada (Toronto

 Oct. 1913 was held, it was Morris who prevailed; the People’s party won 21 seats, the Union party 8, and the Liberals 7. With the exception of Port de Grave, where George Frederick Arthur

De Cosmos* in Victoria and John Robson in New Westminster, that he was despotic. As he prepared to step down from office in the spring of

Burns did for Lowland Scots. The purist would say that both wrote a bastard language, but to most others their writing is a successful tour de force

under his roof in Fredericton. His only daughter married his aide-de-camp in 1839 and they lived at Government House. The death of his eldest son, on 22 March 1839, was the only tragedy to mar what

. Finally, J. L. Granatstein ably covers the electoral coup de grâce administered to Meighen by the voters in “The York South by-election of February 9, 1942: a turning point in Canadian

surrogates had neither an ethnic nor a sectarian character. The four constables delegated to eject the fishermen were Irish and Lundrigan’s trial was conducted in an Irish planter’s home at Port de Grave. The

, including Howe’s in Montreal in January 1961, and was occasionally invited to state occasions, such as the banquet honouring the visit of French president Charles de Gaulle in Quebec in 1967. His wife died in

time after 1794 and is in the Musée du Séminaire de Québec. Berczy made what seem to be two copies in oil of this water-colour, but slightly modified, being head to waist portraits, with the right hand

residence in Quebec. Chapleau was not unwilling, but the premier of Quebec, Charles-Eugène Boucher* de Boucherville, an old

Privy Council, Mowat carried a provincial statute designed to test the provinces’ claim to constitutional equality with the dominion. The coup de grâce was delivered by a case originating in New