Removed to Upper Canada; studied law and called to the bar, 1803. Elected to the Assembly for Leeds, 1821; Speaker of the Assembly, 1822; Speaker of the Legislative Council, 1841....
city. In 1830 came to Canada; studied law under Robert Baldwin Sullivan, and in 1839 called to the bar of Upper Canada. In 1840 partner of Robert Baldwin, the Reform leader, and bu...
Cel. Can.; Dict. Nat. Biog.
to the bar, 1878, and practised at Kentville and Halifax; appointed Q.C., 1890. In 1896 elected for the city and county of Halifax to the Dominion Parliament, and for Carleton Coun...
training fitted him for the important role he was to fill in the evolution of ocean shipping. Watched closely the early attempts to cross the Atlantic by steam, and when in 1838 th...
(Lord Sydenham era) Member of Constitutional Association, 112.
Engaged in business pursuits at Oshawa. Defeated for election to the Assembly for South Ontario, 1854, but successful, 1865. Elected to represent South Ontario in the House of Comm...
City of Quebec, at the mouth of St. Maurice River. First colonists settled there in 1633; the Jesuits arrived the following year; and the same year a fort was built by Laviolette,...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Name given by Champlain to river St. Maurice, 52.
(Joseph Howe era) Delegate of Nova Scotia Anti-Confederate party to England, to demand repeal of British North America Act, 204; receives thanks of Legislature, 218. =Bib.=: Campbe...
(1821- ). Born at Amherst, Nova Scotia. Educated at Acadia College, and at Edinburgh. In 1843 graduated M.D., and won the diploma of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. For so...
1660. =Index=: (Wilmot era) Annuls charter of London and other towns, 54. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
Complete and entire free trade with the United States, first proposed by Ira Gould, before Montreal Board of Trade, February, 1852. (See Montreal Gazette, Feb. 18-22, 1852.) The qu...
Engaged in journalism. First elected to the Assembly of Lower Canada, 1810; member of the Legislative Council, 1815. =Index=: (Louis Joseph Papineau era) Accepts Papineau's leaders...
the Universities of London and Glasgow. Emigrated to America; studied at Harvard University, and for a time tutor of Greek in that institution. Came to Canada about 1836, and engag...
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) French vessels retreat to, 152.
(Lord Elgin era) Commissioner under Seigniorial Tenure law, 186.
(Bishop Laval era) Hamlet, destruction of, 229. (Count Frontenac era) Massacre of, 251.
(Count Frontenac era) Sent to Michilimackinac, 310. (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Goes to island of Orleans to prepare ambuscade, 90; slight success of, 92.
appointed 1771. Returned to England after the Revolutionary War, and in 1786 appointed governor of the Bermudas. =Index=: (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) His letter to Haldimand, 92....
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Rights of American fishermen expire with denunciation of Reciprocity Treaty, 166; the fishermen reluctant to abandon former rights, 167; Canada's exclusi...
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Nephew of Sir Frederick Haldimand, 88; his arrival and reception in Boston, 109; promoted, 110, 294; his debts, 312.
1831, 116; moved forty miles south, 1834, 120. =Bib.=: Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names (under Port Simpson).
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Construction of, provided for by government in 1841, 98. =Bib.=: Rheaume, Lachine and Origin of its Canal (Women's Can. Hist. Soc. Trans., vol....
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Takes direction of fireships, 98.
See Sovereign Council.
Educated at Halifax Grammar School; called to the bar of Nova Scotia, 1821. Represented Guysborough in the Assembly, 1836-1848; solicitor-general in Uniacke government, 1848; appoi...
In northern British Columbia. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Hudson's Bay Company post, built on Bear Lake, 104.
Built in 1750, on Chignecto Bay, three miles south of Beausejour, where the French shortly after built a rival fort. Fort Lawrence became headquarters of the expedition sent in 175...