FORTUNE, ROSE, porter and informal law-enforcement officer; b. c. 1774 in Pennsylvania; d. 1864 in Annapolis

Trottier* Dufy Desauniers, refused to surrender their British commissions as militia officers, they were arrested and imprisoned at Fort Chambly. On 1

: both were military men by temperament as well as vocation, and when Smith decided in October 1815 to stiffen the enforcement of militia laws he had Holland’s full support. Within a month this program had

Presbyterian, represented the liberal strain. They agreed on the value of education, hard work, parliamentary democracy, and the rule of law, and were even prepared to act cooperatively when it appeared in their

he became colonel of the 35th Foot. He was made lieutenant-general in 1805 and general on 1 June 1814. In 1790 Lennox had been elected to

of the House of Commons. John George would go on to become an international authority on parliamentary procedure and constitutional law, a popular and respected historian, and the first honorary

*, an explorer and HBC chief trader, and Elleonora C. Stirling; m. first, 1 April 1886 Harriet Burns, daughter of Saulteaux (Ojibwa) chief

faction his popularity was severely damaged. In his first speech to the House of Assembly, on 1 Feb. 1848, Campbell recommended a series of administrative reforms in the management of the postal

Richelieu valley. As late as 1 September Cartier had written to Baby: “Nothing new here. Things are very quiet. People no longer speak of the Bastones.” Ironically, Brigadier-General Richard

, and in the Mississippi region. At first he was very successful. After his father’s death in 1757 his mother settled in Montreal, where on 1 Sept. 1763 she bought a spacious house on Rue Saint-Paul

), soldier, accountant, writer, magazine owner, and professor; b. 23 Nov. 1852 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval), Lower Canada, son of Joseph Chartrand, a joiner, and Virginie Lacasse; m. 1

friendship in private life, and of his patronage as Governor in Chief.” Chisholme had studied law in Scotland and had held legal appointments there, but following his sudden immigration to the Canadas he

could see, the Inuit lacked any kind of religion, laws, or government, but he noted that they did not drink, seldom quarrelled with each other, and as yet had few diseases, not even smallpox, and

was called to the bar on 1 April 1826. To help his mother, who was being pursued by various creditors for more than £980, Deblois in

gunpowder and ammunition into the interior. Ducharme, willing to defy the law for profit, took several canoes of ammunition up the Ottawa River route to Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) and La Baye

federal law declaring that only American citizens could be government employees. From then until 1885 he worked in the insurance business and subsequently for a mining company. During his years in the

 May 1702 Claire, daughter of Louis Jolliet*; seven of their children lived to adulthood; d. there 1 May 1755

promoted lieutenant-colonel, a rank he would not achieve in the army until 1 Oct. 1887, he probably accepted the move as much for monetary as for career considerations. Conscious of the withdrawal of

return to the United States. Gagnon and several of his companions were imprisoned by the American authorities for having violated the country’s neutrality law. They were nevertheless quickly released by a

codicil to his will, drafted only a couple of weeks before his death in October 1783. Raised by Langley’s brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Sarah Langley, Garry was well educated and learned to speak