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Blanshard, Richard ( 1817 ?- 1894)
Appointed governor of Vancouver Island by Earl Grey; left England, 1849, and reached Victoria in March of the following year by way of Panama. The Hudson's Bay Company at that time controlled the situation. The governor, without salary o...
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Family Compact: Samuel Peters Jarvis (b. 1792; d. 1857)
Son-in-law to W. D. Powell. Called to the bar in 1815, was from 1814 to 1839 employed in the provincial secretary's office. Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. He was a director of the Bank of Upper Canada, 1825-1844 and 1846-1847. ...
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Family Compact: George Strange Boulton (b. 1797, d. 1869)
a lawyer, Registrar of Northumberland, Member of Assembly for Durham in the Legislative assembly, 1830-1841. ...
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Bellew, Edward Donald
Captain, 7th Battalion, C.E.F. Awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. At Keerselaere, in the Ypres Salient, April 24th, 1915, he held up the enemy's attack with a machine-gun. When his ammunition fail...
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Avaugour, Pierre Dubois, Baron d'
Governor of New France, 1661-1663, succeeding D'Argenson. He was at variance with the Jesuits as to the existing liquor laws, which he thought too severe. His is described as the onlysober description of the great earthquake of 1663. Died 1...
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19 jan 02
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Family Compact: James Buchanan Macaulay (b. 1793 at Niagara; d. 1859)
Served in the War of 1812, was called to the bar in 1822 and became a judge of the Court of King's Bench in 1829....
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20 mai 2000
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Family Compact: John Simcoe Macaulay (b. 1792 at Kingston, UC; d. 1857)
Educated by Strachan at Cornwall. He became Surveyor General in 1836 and between 1838 and 1842 held the post of inspector general. At Kingston he was a postmaster, a magistrate and from 1823 to 1836 agent for the Bank of Upper Canada. In 18...
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Astor, John Jacob (1763-1848)
Born in Waldorf Germany. Came to America in 1783 and embarked in the fur trade. Founder of Astor Fur Company. He was closely associated with the Canada fur trade for some years, had a warehouse in Montreal, and had intimate business and so...
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19 jan 02
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Anderson, A. Caulfield
An officer of the Hudson's Bay Company, employed for many years im the New Caledonia district, under Dr. McLoughlin. He had charge of Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser river, and explored a road from Kamloops to the lower Fraser. Bib.: Coats...
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19 jan 02
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Lettre de John Ryerson à Egerton Ryerson (Toronto, 13 avril 1838)
This afternoon Lount's friends applied to the Governer for his body, but the Governer declined granting it. I am told his Excellency's reasons were the apprehensions he entertained relative to the effect it might produce in the country, wer...
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20 mai 2000
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