Askin and Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Testard Louvigny de Montigny, was

that the Eskimos on the opposite side of Davis Strait probably were similar to the Greenlanders in their language and customs. Erhardt wrote to Bishop Johannes [John de Watteville] in 1750 offering his

ANQ-M, État civil, Anglicans, Christ Church (Montréal), 8 Oct. 1789; Greffe d’E. W. Gray, 18 août 1783; Greffe de J. A. Gray, 25 août 1809. PAC, MG 19, A2, ser.1, 1, 3; ser

(Thwaites), IX, 32. Sagard, Histoire du Canada (Tross), passim. Desrosiers, Iroquoisie, 111. P.-G. Roy, La ville de Québec, I, 65–66.

1808 he was an officer in the Nova Scotia militia, and he served as an honorary aide-de-camp to Prince Edward* Augustus, commander of the forces

children apprenticed there. Anne made her début as Cora’s child in Pizarro, by Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan, and became a regular member of the corps de ballet around 1816. Between 1819

hockey (Greenwich, Conn., 1987). Souvenirs des fêtes jubilaires du collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, 1848–1898 (Montréal, 1898). D. J. Thom, The hockey bibliography

 9, I, C1, 19, 20; C3, 11; C6, 7; 174, no.1002; RG 30. [G.-É. Cartier], Discours de Sir Georges Cartier . . . , Joseph Tassé, édit

.” Jack Jedwab AC, Montréal, Cour supérieure, déclarations de sociétés, 7, no.1324 (1876); 10, nos.1138–39 (1883); 15, no.470 (1890

11, [CO 42] Q, 48–2: 651–54. “Les dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis), ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 71, 121, 172. Quebec Gazette, 5 Sept. 1765; 19 June 1777; 3 March

Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Church (Arichat, N.S.), records. PANS, MG 2, 733, nos.456, 457, 468, 485; 734, nos.977, 1000; RG 1, 176, p.4; 200, 19 June 1854, 6 May 1856, 20

, their son was raised and remained an Anglican. He attended Westminster School in London and subsequently entered military service; by 1743 he was a captain in the 62nd Foot. In 1745 he was aide-de-camp to

Aylmer and Peel streets in the last quarter of the 19th century. Educated at home in a bilingual environment until age ten, he attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal in 1877–78, but he did not

active military service. He was appointed a provincial aide-de-camp to Isaac Brock* on 14 August and was gazetted a major in the militia

Abercromby’s attack on Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga, N.Y.) in 1758, and in 1759 Amherst promoted him acting major. He served as de facto commander of his regiment in the

. Appointed a physician at the Winnipeg General Hospital and at the Hôpital de Saint-Boniface, Good would later practise general surgery at those hospitals. After studying diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and

mission, that if the 49th parallel were to be the boundary, Vancouver Island, possessing good harbours, commanding the Juan de Fuca and Georgia straits, and soon to be the company headquarters in the region

an intensive two-year course at the Université de Paris. His time in Paris made him, in the words of his grandson Michael Ignatieff, “a committed francophile for the rest of his life.” He improved his

. Four years later Graves’s eldest daughter, Bessie, and her husband, Vernon Nathan De Mille, bought the whole Macleod Trail ranch, including Underwood’s share. Around this time Graves entered a homestead

. With the end of the war in North America, Gridley returned to civilian pursuits, and in 1760 he petitioned Amherst for a grant of the Îles de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St

–48. Hamilton, the Birmingham of Canada (Hamilton, 1892). Marcel Moussette, “Répertoire des fabricants d’appareils de chauffage du Québec (1760–1867),” Can., Direction des parts et des lieux

Herbert], Dufferin-Carnarvon correspondence (de Kiewiet and Underhill), 156, 164, 283, 346–48, 384, 419. The annual register: a review of public events at home and abroad for the year

De Smet* described him as a “most amiable gentleman” and Paul Kane* in 1847 found him a kind, considerate, and even lavish host at Edmonton

and general register (Montreal), 1845–59. Terrill, Chronology of Montreal. Atherton, Montreal, I–III. Camille Bertrand, Histoire de Montréal (2v., Paris et Montréal

of early Canadian poetry (Montreal, 1957), 145–49. Lareau, Hist. de la littérature canadienne, 75. Lit. hist. of Canada (Klinck et al

parents, had been professor of English history and literature under his father at McGill Normal School. Hicks spent his last years on a country property at Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon. He died in early August

an aide-de-camp to a number of governors general. A member of the councils of the Dominion and Ontario rifle associations, from 1897 to 1903 he was secretary of the national organization. In 1903 he

Severn) after the capture by the Comte de Lapérouse [Galaup*] of its master, William Falconer. In 1786, expressing pleasure at Hodgson’s

period, such as Offenbach’s La grande-duchesse de Gérolstein and Lecocq’s Giroflé-Girofla. Other favourites included Balfe’s The Bohemian girl, Auber’s Fra Diavolo

AJM, Greffe de Charles Cushing, no.16403; Greffe de W. M. Easton, nos.4076, 4272; Greffe de I. J. Gibb, nos.5643, 11051, 12133, 15257, 15281; Greffe de William Ross, no.275. Glynn Mills and

the Sisters of Providence of St Vincent de Paul who established the first house of providence in Canada West. As bishop of Kingston, however

. In the summer of 1758 Hotsinoñhyahtaˀ went to meet Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil

’ Arsac* de Ternay]. On 24 July 1767 he was gazetted an ensign in the 36th Foot by purchase; a lieutenancy followed on 31 Jan. 1771. After service in Jamaica, England, and Ireland, Howe was

, 26 Oct. 1820, 8 Sept. 1823. Jules Romme, Odelltown, 1823–1973 (Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Qué., 1973). Robert Sellar, The history of the county of Huntingdon and of the

Iroquois, but a three-day council was held by them with Champlain on Île de Saint-Ignace. Champlain requested that Iroquet take a young French lad [possibly Étienne

, 1783–85, ed. E. E. Rich and A. M. Johnson, intro. G. P. de T. Glazebrook (London, 1954). Morton, History of Canadian west. Rich, History of HBC.

. . . issued in Toronto around 1892 with Edward Henry Keating’s report of that year, and Report on routes to the Yukon (Ottawa, 1898) (published in French as Exploration de routes vers le Yukon

(Milwaukee, [1916]). Joseph Tassé, Les canadiens de l’Ouest (2v., Montréal, 1878), 1: 213–37.

–1906, 22 June 1838 (mfm. at AO). PAM, HBCA, A.36/8: ff.9–30; A.44/4: ff.45–46; D.5/20: f.308; D.5/23: ff.88–88d; MG 7, B7 (mfm.). Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson

-General Francis de Rottenburg* for their “gallant and spirited conduct” in a recent action. Later in the war (possibly at the battle of

d’Irumberry* de Salaberry to be aide-de-camp for Canada East without having first asked the opinion of his Executive Council. On plea of sustaining their influence by their having the

, and by 9:00 a.m. was consolidating on its objective, the eastern end of Bois de la Folie, in the centre of the ridge. Before the end of the next day Lambert had been

power.” The French invasion of Newfoundland in 1762 [see Charles-Henri-Louis d’Arsac de Ternay] resulted in a heavy loss to Langman, whose

, fur trader of the North West Company, and David Thompson . . . , ed. Elliot Coues (3v., New York, 1897), II, 752, 916. Tassé, Les Canadiens de l’Ouest, II, 321

. de B. Lugrin, The pioneer women of Vancouver Island, 1843–1866, ed. John Hosie (Victoria, 1928). Helen Meilleur, A pour of rain: stories from a west coast fort

on the site of their traditional summer village, Medoctec. This area had been allotted by the Nova Scotia authorities on 15 Oct. 1784 to 120 men from De Lancey’s Brigade, including Benjamin

de Langlade rather than risk bringing them in. Long, with 36 Foxes and Sioux under Wahpasha* and 20 Canadians, went to the Mississippi to fetch the

region in the autumn of 1763. In October word reached Montreal “that Captain Lutteridge is lost in the Bay de Mischisque [Missisquoi], going to explore that Country

1718 he was entrusted by Rigaud de Vaudreuil with authority to grant lands on the Saint John River to any Acadians who wished to settle there. Few moved, however

own name. Macdonald’s first tobacco factory was on Water Street (Rue de la Commune) in Montreal. By 1871 it employed over 500 persons. As at other