mission there for blacks. The public school he attended was no doubt segregated – de facto segregation did exist in St Catharines – and he would have known of the race riot of 1852, in which
. Private arch., Hilari Farrington (Abercorn, Que.), Notes and corr. Joseph Bouchette, Carte topographique de la province du Bas-Canada . . . (n.p., 1815; réimpr. Montréal, 1980
immediately recognized as the long-sought-for strait said to have been discovered by Juan de Fuca*. On his chart he named it after Fuca. He was surprised
.
Descended from the Chevalier de Bayard of 16th century France, Robert Bayard’s family was prominent in New York before the American War of Independence. His father settled at Wilmot at the conclusion of the
of Canada in 1793, ed. Walter Sheppe (Montreal, 1962). Morice, Dict. hist. Can. et Métis. Joseph Tassé, Les Canadiens de l’Ouest (2e éd., 2v
1814. ANQ-Q, CN1-284, 10 nov. 1800. AP, Saint-Athanase (Iberville), Notes du notaire Didace Tassé, 19 sept. 1874. Arch. du séminaire de Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières, Qué.), Fords Hart, G, no
chairmanship until he returned to England in 1822. While in Newfoundland, he first served in the circuit of Lower Island Cove and Perlican, and then in St John’s, Harbour Grace, and Port de Grave
, 1978). Jacques Rouillard et Judith Burt, “Le monde ouvrier,” Les travailleurs québécois, 1851–1896, sous la direction de Jean Hamelin (Montréal, 1973), 61–111.
the Admiralty spoke of the Îles de la Madeleine as “a receptacle for the smuggled produce of the States of America, and of course a most essential injury to our Newfoundland and Nova Scotia fishery
-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Que., and Lower Fort Garry, Man. [see Samuel Lawrence Bedson]. In 1868
Schultz*; he was also nominated for the provincial constituency of Baie de Saint-Paul. Following his victory in the provincial election of 30 Dec. 1870, Dr Bird withdrew from the federal
winter at Torbay, north of St John’s. In August 1827 he requested a transfer; he had first sought Harbour Grace, but he agreed to go to Port de Grave
two daughters; m. secondly 18 Oct. 1909 Elizabeth Baird in Rio de Janeiro; they had no children; d. 23 June 1914 in Toronto
mai 1870; 28 août 1873; 18 mars 1875; 7 févr. 1878; 19 juin 1896; 27 oct., 3 nov. 1904; 16 mars 1911. Les familles de Caraquet
dismissed from this office by the lieutenant governor, George Stracy Smyth*, who appointed his aide-de-camp, Captain George
1780 as a private in De Lancey’s Brigade. Booth appears on the United Empire Loyalist list as a sergeant. After the revolution he immigrated to Upper Canada and was granted land in Ernestown Township. He
Bishop Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel* in 1858. The first Canadian-born member of the congregation, she now became the
Ryland, and his aide-de-camp. He seems to have accompanied Prevost to England upon the latter’s recall in 1815, and to have spent the next decade there. It is difficult to elaborate upon this
colleagues such as Beardsley, Marr, and Spry reveal in their correspondence a growing, almost ebullient esprit de corps arising from their identical training at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich
.
Despite limited personnel and heavy commitments the Sisters of St Joseph answered an urgent appeal of Bishop Armand de
CAILLY, FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH, officer in the Swiss Régiment de Karrer; baptized 16 Sept. 1700
, Les avocats de la région de Québec; Inv. concessions. Turcotte, Le Conseil Iégislatif. Christie, Hist. of L. C. (1866), vol.3. J.-E. Roy
, corr., reports, and geneal. charts tracing hereditary condition in descendants of Louis l’Iroquois, 1954–55); Oblats de Marie-Immaculée, Forts des Prairies/1 (reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures
Jan. 1871. Beaulieu et Hamelin, Journaux du Québec. Canadian newspapers on microfilm/Catalogue de journaux canadiens sur microfilm. Montreal directory (Mackay), 1864
now was) became aide-de-camp and military secretary to Governor Charles Edward Poulett Thomson*. In this office he played a
at Canada; adventures of Big John Canadian (rev. ed., Kahnawake, Que., [1985]). Denis Gravel, Histoire du Village des Rapides: un quartier de La Salle (Montréal
witnessed on public works.” This esprit de corps, the directors stated in their report, was due to Casey’s “tact and attention.” In a period of increasing ethnic tensions, Casey’s success is
” (unpublished ma thesis, University of Ottawa, 1977). H.-P. Thibault, L’îlot 17 de Louisbourg (1713–1768) (Can., Service des lieux historiques
, Philippe-François Rastel de Rocheblave. It has been suggested that Cerré’s loyalty was encouraged by the threat posed to his business by American competitors who were invading Illinois. Whatever the case
plot. In the hope of avoiding more trouble, Émery de Caën and others persuaded Champlain to grant him a royal
, succeeded J.-B. de Lorimier as resident or superintendent at St Regis, while remaining as agent. Chesley’s residency began at about the same time as the appointment of the Reverend François-Xavier
1747 he was a captain in the New York forces and was captured near Saratoga (Schuylerville, N.Y.) by Luc de La Corne
.]
Arch. Deschâtelets, Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Ottawa), records of the Oblate missions in British Columbia (mfm. at Univ. of B.C. Library, Vancouver). BCARS, A/B/20/K12; A/C/20/K12. Kamloops Museum and
Boulton was sent to the various communities in the settlement to enrol volunteers and Codd acted as Dennis’s aide-de-camp. The surveyor-soldiers failed to rouse the settlers and, probably fearing
ASTR, Fonds Louis-François Laflèche. Le Journal des Trois-Rivières. Mandements des évêques de Québec (Têtu et Gagnon), VI. Robert Rumilly, Monseigneur Laflèche et son temps
Jamaica, and arrived there early in November. He took part in the attack on Cartagena (Colombia) in April 1741 and in the expedition against Santiago de Cuba the following August. Both attacks were
(Petite rivière de la Baleine, Que.) to Fort George (Que.). McTavish agreed, and the move was made in the summer of 1874. Cotter was promoted to chief trader in 1875, and remained at Fort George for another
British America and the West Indies. In 1863, for example, he employed 3 brigantines and 22 schooners, which made 79 voyages in and out of Halifax, mainly on runs to Labrador, the Îles de la Madeleine, and
.
Mother Youville was a woman bursting with energy. She found indirect means in the community to support the sisters’ work. After she set up the Association des Dames de Charité, the local people provided
, and he formed a close association with Joseph Dubuc*, member of the Legislative Assembly for Baie de Saint-Paul, and other leaders of the French
of the tides (Quebec, 1810).
BUM, Coll. Baby, Corr. générale, lettres de Ross Cuthbert, 17 oct. 1806; 13 avril 1807; 22
British forces, under General George de Lacy Evans, which intervened in 1837. For his services Derbishire was decorated by the queen of Spain.
On his
owned several parcels of land in the parish of Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery and a residence in Ottawa. His villa was filled with artistic treasures, including canvases by Cornelius
’Arsac de Ternay attacked the island that summer, Douglas helped to contain the invasion with his marines and was the first to inform Commodore Lord
sometimes further afield. These years of pastoral service included Port de Grave (1859–60), Lower Island Cove (1860–63), Harbour Grace (1863–66), Bonavista (1866–69), St John’s (1869–72), Twillingate
Newfoundland in 1750, serving as de facto governor under Commodore George Brydges Rodney, the senior naval officer on the station, in 1750 and 1751, and succeeding to the full office in 1752
American revolution began to trouble the Upper Lakes in 1777, Ducharme served as an informer at Milouaqui for Captain Arent Schuyler De Peyster, commanding officer at Michilimackinac. On 15 May he
displeasure his allegedly severe treatment of farmers when martial law had been proclaimed by Major-General Francis de
. DuVernet’s father, a colonel in the Royal Artillery, was an aide-de-camp to Prince William Henry. Following Abraham DuVernet’s accidental death in 1806, the prince befriended his widow and obtained commissions