).
Friederike Charlotte Louise von Massow was about 13 years old when she first met Friedrich Adolph Riedesel, a 21-year-old captain in the Brunswick cavalry and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Brunswick. Although
Wolfe* and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm*; he also composed an inscription.
As
beach lot with wharfs and sheds at Près-de-Ville, which afforded berths and other facilities for equipping, loading, and unloading vessels, he returned to his own shipyard
an assistant and by July was receiving practical instruction mostly in Wales from Logan and Henry Thomas De la Beche, director of the survey. The winter months were spent studying chemistry and
attend, MacKay went down to Montreal on rotation, returning to Kaministiquia in 1806. In the assignment of departments that year, his was somewhat unusual: “to Watch De Lorme.” MacKay did more than
.
Michèle Brassard and Jean Hamelin
AC, Montréal, Cour supérieure, déclarations de sociétés, 1, nos
* de Monts and Samuel de Champlain* in 1604 determined which of three rivers known as the St Croix was the St Croix intended in
De Witt*, Galt, Henry Smith*, Jean Chabot*, John Young, and Ira Gould to present
other prominent booksellers, including Albert Britnell, for selling Sir Richard Francis Burton’s unexpurgated translation of Arabian Nights’ entertainments and short stories by Guy de
. Prospects for a recovery by the HBC were seriously damaged with the capture of York Factory by the Comte de Lapérouse [Galaup*] in August
in the Canadas, acquired for speculation or in satisfaction of debts. Some time after 1810 he had bought the 45,000-acre seigneury of Rivière-de-la-Madeleine, in the Gaspé, which was more useful for
Jan. 1884 in Alkmaar, Netherlands, eldest child of Jan van der Pant and Catharina Sophia Ezerman; m. 6 July 1911 Catharina Johanna over de Linden (d. 1955) in
came in November 1892, when Abbott was appointed aide-de-camp “on the Staff of the Commanding Officers Dept.” of New York, the highest military honour ever bestowed to that time on a person of
esprit de corps by Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur William Currie*, commander of the Canadian Corps
board which became vacant in February last [1843] by the retirement of Mr. [Thomas Andrew Strange] De Wolf”; thus Almon was probably a temporary member of the council in 1843 but it was not
1923; he also belonged to the Société Internationale de Chirurgie and became an honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1931. He received an honorary doctorate from Queen’s
1881 in Montreal: Bibliothèque et Arch. Nationales du Québec, Centre d’arch. de Québec, E14, S1, 1960-01-033/1068, 36.
Bibliothèque et Arch
. Moose fort journals, 1783–85, ed. E. E. Rich and A. M. Johnson, intro. G. P. de T. Glazebrook (London, 1954). Northern Quebec and Labrador journals and
de Grave in the late 1600s and his paternal grandfather, who according to family tradition came from Waterford (Republic of Ireland), had migrated in the 1760s to St John’s, where he became a
Leader (Regina), 18 Feb. 1913. Qu’Appelle Vidette (Fort Qu’Appelle, [Sask.]), 17 Oct. 1895. Canada Gazette, 1871–72: 1237; 1880: 1422. Vittorio De Vecchi, “From
, Dictionnaire. Hector Berthelot, Montréal, le bon vieux temps, É.-Z. Massicotte, compil. (2v. en 1, Montréal, 1916). Robert Rumilly, Histoire de Montréal
the extreme northeastern parts of her dominion, and Billings, as Cook’s former “companion,” appeared a suitable choice as a leader. In August 1785, spurred by news that the Comte de Lapérouse
.
Henry took commercial studies at the High School of Montreal, which he completed in 1856. He then spent a winter in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville) with notary Jean-Baptiste-Arthur
,” Medical Library Assoc., Journal (Baltimore, Md), 48 (1960): 37–43. Johanne Collin et Laurence Monnais-Rousselot, “La communauté médicale montréalaise de 1850 à 1890: variations sur
served as a major; during the War of 1812 he was to act as provincial aide-de-camp to the administrator and commander of the
award the following year, in an attempt to establish de facto authority, the government of Oliver Mowat* divided the new territory along the 87th
translation of Pierre-Jean de Béranger’s songs (1837). Bourne was a competent lawyer but, as he admitted to Colonial Secretary Lord Stanley in 1843, had he “been very eminent . . . in the Law, or
£500 to the Hôpital de Saint-Boniface and his support of a bill to incorporate the diocese of St Boniface which permitted it unlimited landholding were hurled against him. His response in part was
: American artist life . . . (New York and London, 1867; repr. 1966). John Wilmerding, William Bradford, 1823–1892 (exhibition catalogue, De Cordova Museum, [Lincoln, Mass
, rn, of Harwich, England; m. 1835 Sarah Christiana Dunscombe, daughter of John Dunscombe, aide-de-camp to Governor Sir Thomas John
BANQ-CAM, CE601-S17, 4 déc. 1881. FD, Cimetière de l’Est, Repos Saint-François-d’Assise (Montréal), 13 avril 1939; Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Montréal), 26 juin 1906. VM-SA, VM74, procès-verbaux
Seneca chiefs from Buffalo Creek reported on a meeting with the Americans. Shortly thereafter he was made an aide-de-camp to Simcoe and expressed a wish for a permanent position in the Indian Department
, having been recommended by the departing incumbent, Zebulon Aiton Lash*. Soon after his arrival in Ottawa he became de facto head of
., Annual calendar (Montreal), 1882. Claudine Pierre-Deschênes, “La tuberculose au Québec au début du XXe siècle: problème social et réponse réformiste” (thèse de
disagreements with the Roman Catholic clergy. In 1822 he became a visitor of its school in Pointe-Lévi along with the parish priest of Saint-Joseph-de-Lévis (Lauzon), Michel Masse, but Masse resigned in 1823
the seal fishery of the Îles de la Madeleine. His effectiveness as governor in 1771 was limited by his inability to visit the outports, since he had been instructed by the Admiralty to make his seamen
much as Crerar believed free trade with the United States would help them. In 1920 Caldwell took part in founding the Progressive Party, of which Crerar became de facto leader, and he was among the
, Heroines and history: representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (Toronto, 2002). J. L. Field, Janet Carnochan (Markham, Ont., 1985). Gerald Killan, Preserving
those of David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings, and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, and Augustin Cournot, Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la
Campbell, the son-in-law of Luc de La Corne. On 11 Nov. 1775 Claus took passage to England
Christmas tale (Montreal and Toronto, 1858); the latter was translated into French by Henri-Émile Chevalier and published as Le foyer canadien ou le mystère dévoilé, nouvelle du jour de Noël
reduced after the War of 1812 may have been in part due to the influence of his mother’s brother-in-law, Harris William Hailes, administrator of New Brunswick in 1816–17 and afterwards aide-de-camp to
was appointed provincial aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Major-General Roger Hale Sheaffe*. For his service with Sheaffe at Queenston
Charles-Michel d’Irumberry* de Salaberry and the battle of Châteauguay, Coffin did his best to provide both the founding
to have led a troubled and unsettled life, at least in later years, for he had resided in New Brunswick and the Îles de la Madeleine, as well as Nova Scotia and Lower Canada, before arriving in Prince
Elizabeth A. Vermaelen, “Elizabeth Seton – educator” (paper presented at secondary school forum, April 1974, New York). Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul Arch. (Halifax), Biog
life pills” and “Phoenix bitters” and as a commissioner for the small debts court in the Crapaud and De Sable area. He was also appointed justice of the peace for Queens County in 1847, a position he
daughters and a son within the next five years. The family lived in an impressive house called Rose Hedge, next door to prosperous sugar manufacturer Peter Redpath, and they also had a country home on Île de
ill fitted for their positions. A family tradition holds that Crosskill disapproved of the prince’s companion, Mme de Saint-Laurent