ASHE, EDWARD DAVID, naval officer, astronomer, writer, and office holder; b. c. 1813 in Bath

Hamilton*, and C. A. Low – to obtain a monopoly on exploitation of timber on the Gatineau River. This profitable partnership, in which each participant took out 2,000 sticks of red pine

 Jan. 1731 at Montreal (Que.); m. c. 23 Nov. 1760 at Detroit (Mich.) to Susanne Réaume (Rhéaume), dit La Croix; 11 of their 22 children survived to adulthood; d

 mai 1803; CN1-284, 13 sept. 1797; ZQ-75. AP, Notre-Dame-de-l’Annonciation (L’Ancienne-Lorette), Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 23 mai 1758, 9 févr. 1802. ASQ, C 35

. Pierre B. Landry S. C. Bagg, The antiquities and legends of Durham, a lecture before the Numismatic and

British Library general catalogue, and the National union catalog. PAM, HBCA, A.11/28: f.264d; A.32/21: f.77; B.134/c/62: f

BARNES, JOHN, army officer and politician; b. c. 1746, probably in Great Britain; d. 30

. 1866. Le Monde, 10 janv. 1881. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Montréal, 247, 270. C.-P. Beaubien, Écrin d’amour familial: détails historiques au sujet dune

and part of his congregation in Perth joined them in 1830, securing the services of the Reverend Thomas C. Wilson, and, in 1832, building St Andrew’s Church. Bell, too, longed for the

. Yves F. Zoltvany AN, Col., B, 35, 43; C11A, 44, 52, 56, 63; C13A, 9, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20; D2C

BLANCHARD, TRANQUILLE, merchant; b. c. 1773, probably in Caraquet (N.B.), son of Olivier Blanchard

the Newfoundland company. Under Charles the Liverpool firm, renamed C. T. Bowring and Company, became a major international shipping and insurance business, while Bowring Brothers became one of the

which is preserved in USPG, C/CAN/Nfl., 5, and The two religions: or, the question settled, which is the oldest church, the Anglican or the Romish? A sermon . . . (London, 1841). His

Univ. of Pa. Library (Philadelphia), Charles Durang, “History of the Philadelphia stage between the years 1749 and 1855” (mfm.). F. C. Wemyss, Chronology of the American stage from

BROWN, JAMES, bookbinder and businessman; b. 1776 in Glasgow; m. c. 1795 and had at least

. Paola Brown disappears thereafter and it has been alleged that he died a pauper. John C. Weaver

Canada (London, 1832). Political appointments, 1841–65 (Coté; 1866). Turcotte, Le Conseil législatif. Buchanan, Bench and bar of L. C. T.-M. Charland

in the printing shop of the Eastern Ontario Review. Having settled in Montreal with his family from the age of 15, he pursued his training at the Librairie C.‑O. Beauchemin et fils for

, caused the English-language historian John C. Webster to say, basing himself upon Gosselin, that Michel’s son was illegitimate, whereas he was born three years after his parents’ marriage

, 275–77, 295, 297–300; 6: 205–8; 8: 56–57, 131–32; RG 8, I (C ser.), 249: 348; 511: 1v, 1 1/2, 6, 79–80; RG 10, A1, 1–4; 486: 3856–57; A2, 8–12; B8, 768: 10; 10019: 135; 10020: 16