A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography

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Table of Contents

PREFACE.

INDEX.

Cartier, Jacques

Young, Charles

Ussher, Brandram Boileau

"Who will be king I do not know,

But I’ll be D’Arcy of Dunmow."

Bayard, William

Stevens, Lorenzo Gorham

Klotz, Otto

Waddell, John

MacVicar, Malcolm

Heavysege, Charles

Torrance, Robert

Moore, Paul Robinson

Archambault, Urgel-Eugène

Stewart, Wm. James

Bayly, Richard

Mowatt, Andrew Joseph

Mitchell, James

MacFarlane, Foster

Burns, Robert Ferrier

Bullock, Joseph

Binney, Irwine Whitty

Berthelot, Joseph Amable

MacLeod, John M.

Sifton, John Wright

Armstrong, W. D.

Guthrie, Donald

Hinson, Walter

Allison, Charles F.

Senkler, William Stevens

Hill, Andrew Gregory

Anderson, Alexander

Reddin, James Henry

Galbraith, William

Craig, James

Smith, John H.

Cairns, Thomas

Cairns, George Frederick

Wright, Aaron A.

Stratford, John H.

Benson, Manly

Tilley, Samuel Leonard

Cluxton, William

Falconbridge, William Glenholme

Sanderson, G. R.

Hunter, Samuel James

Mathison, George

Flewelling, William Pentreath

Le Pan, Frederick Nicholas D’Orr

Shaw, James

"In social haunts the ever welcome guest,

So generous, noble, and of portly mien;

‘One of a thousand’ has been well expressed—

No finer type of gentleman was seen."

Saint-Pierre, Henri C.

Hemming, Edward John

McCosh, John

Norman, Richard Whitmore

Rice, Charles

Taylor, Henry

Milligan, George Macbeth

Wilson, Robert

Wallis, Herbert

Long, Thomas

Hall, Francis Alexander

Wild, Joseph

Kelly, Thomas

Reddy, John

Harris, Christopher Prince

Beckwith, Adolphus George

Sutherland, Alexander

Beckwith, John Adolphus

Macfarlane, Thomas

Currey, Lemuel Allan

Burwash, Nathaniel

Currie, John Zebulon

Elliott, Andrew

Morson, Walter Augustus Ormsby

Gray, James

La Mothe, Guillaume Jean Baptiste

MacColl, Evan

Say, Kingston, tell us where is Evan?

Thy bard o’ pure poetic leaven!

And is he still amang the livin’?

Or plumed supernal,

Has taen a jink and aff to heaven,

There sing eternal!

Or if within your bounds you find him,

A’ bruised and broken, skilfu’ bind him;

Or sick, or sair, O! carefu’ mind him,

Thy darling chiel!

And dinna lat him look behind him

Until he’s weel.

But if he’s gane, ah, wae’s to me!

His like we never mair shall see,—

Nae servile, whinging coof was he,

Led by a string,

But noble, gen’rous, fearless, free,

His sang he’d sing.

Hech, sirs! we badly could bide loss him,

For should this world vindictive toss him.

Or ony hizzie dare to boss him.

Clean gyte he’d set her;

The deil himsel’, he daur’dna cross him,

Faith, he ken’d better!

Let any man, o’ any station,

But wink at fraud, or wrong the nation,

E’en gowd, nor place, ’twas nae temptation

To sic a chiel,—

He’d shortly settle their oration,

And drub them weel.

Or let them say’t, be’t high or low,

Auld Scotia ever met the foe,

That laid her in the dust fu’ low,

Right at them see him!

Professor George still rues the blow

MacColl did gie him.

Is history in Fiction’s grip,

Does Falsehood let her bloodhounds slip,

Crack goes his castigating whip,

With patriot scorn!

Macaulay laid upon his hip.

Amidst the corn.

Does English critic meanly itch,

To cast old Ossian in the ditch,

And trail his laurels through the pitch

Of mind benighted;

Our bardie gies his lugs a twitch

And sees it righted.

In a’ this warld, there’s no a skellum,

Nor silly self-conceited blellum,

But Evan, lad, wad bravely tell ’em

The honest truth;

E’en if he kend that they should fell ’im

Withouten ruth.

Ye feathered things in mournfu’ tune,

Come join my waesome, doleful croon;

Ye dogs that bay the silver moon,

Your sorrow show it;

And a’ ye tearfu’ starns aboon,

Bewail our poet.

What though this grasping world, and hard,

May barely grant him just reward,

Still shall his genius blissful starred,

Effulgent shine,

And endless ages praise the bard

Of fair Loch Fyne.

Lake, John Neilson

De Sola, Abraham

Carleton, John Louis

Finnie, John Thom

Alward, Silas

Kellond, Robert Arthur

Maunsell, George J.

Baxter, Robert Gordon

Branchaud, Moise

Irving, James Douglas

Creed, Herbert Clifford

Harrison, Thomas

Blanchet, Joseph Goderic

Harris, Michael Spurr

Bell, Andrew Wilson

McIntyre, Peter

Fitzgerald, David

Brock, Sir Isaac

BROCK.

"’Tis true our province faces heavy odds

Of regulars but fifteen hundred men

To guard a frontier of a thousand miles;

Of volunteers what aidance we can draw

From seventy thousand widely scattered souls.

A meagre showing ’gainst the enemy’s,

If numbers be the test. But odds lie not

In numbers only, but in spirit too—

Witness the might of England’s little isle!

And what made England great will keep her so—

The free soul and the valour of her sons;

And what exalts her will sustain you now,

If you contain her courage and her faith.

So not the odds so much are to be feared

As private disaffection, treachery—

Those openers of the door to enemies—

And the poor crouching spirit that gives way

Ere it is forced to yield."

Johnson, Francis Godschall

Desjardins, Louis Edouard

Dickson, William Welland

Stockton, Alfred Augustus

Cram, John Fairbairn

Ross, Alexander Milton

DR. A. M. ROSS.

For his steadfast strength and courage

In a dark and evil time,

When the Golden Rule was treason,

And to feed the hungry, crime.

For the poor slave’s hope and refuge,

When the hound was on his track,

And saint and sinner, state and church,

Joined hands to send him back.

Blessings upon him!—What he did

For each sad, suffering one,

Chained, hunted, scourged and bleeding,

Unto our Lord was done.

Secretary of the Convention in 1833,

which formed the American Anti-Slavery Society.

No, friend Ross! thou art not old;

A heart so true, so kind, so bold,

As in thy bosom throbs to-day,

Never! never! will decay.

Some I know, but half thy years,

Are quite deaf to all that cheers;

They are dumb when they should speak,

And blind to all the poor and weak.

There are none I know, in sooth,

Who part so slowly with their youth,

As men like thee, who take delight

In helping others to live right.

Lucretia Jenks.

Rhode Island, 22, 11mo., 1885.

Ellis, William

Call, Robert Randolph

Dowdall, James

Dowdall, James

Barclay, James

Watson, George

Crisp, Robert S.

Harris, Joseph A.

Hunt, Henry George

Cooke, Thomas Vincent

Rottot, Jean Philippe

Wanless, John

Boswell, George Morss Jukes

Ogilvie, Alexander Walker

Campbell, Robert

Inches, Peter Robertson

Leach, William Turnbull

St. George, Percival Walter

Palmer, Caleb Read

Ferguson, Donald

Ross, James Duncan

McLeod, Joseph

Chesley, John Alexander

MacCallum, Duncan Campbell

Williams, Thomas

Pickard, Humphrey

"In peace and cheerful hope I wait,

On life’s last verge quite free from fears,

And watch the opening of the gate,

Which leads to the eternal years."

Kennedy, George

Turnbull, William Wallace

Sprague, Thomas Farmer

Gaynor, John Joseph

"Seek the best where’er ’tis found,

On Christian earth or pagan ground."

de Martigny, Adelard Le Moyne

Rogers, Henry Cassady

Wilson, J. C.

Wedderburn, William

Steeves, James Thomas<

Van Wyck, James

Bronson, Erskine Henry

McPherson, R. B.

Cameron, Matthew

Talbot, Thomas

"God speed the stalwart pioneer!

Give strength to thy strong right hand!

And aid thee in thy brave intent

To clear and till the land.

’Tis men like thee that make us proud

Of the stubborn Saxon race

And while old England bears such fruit

We’ll pluck up heart of grace."

Barrett, M.

Nettleton, John

Fowler, Robert

McEachran, Duncan McNab

Holmes, Simon H.

Archibald, Adams Geo.

McCaul, John

Cross, Alexander

Baillairgé, Chas. P. F.

Gilpin, Edwin

Lambly, William Harwood

Jarvis, Frederick William

Church, Charles Edward

Buller, Frank

Willmott, James Branston

Patton, James

Harrison, Archibald

Gilmour, John Taylor

Williams, William

Glackmeyer, Charles

Gilpin, Edwin, jr.

Bégin, Louis Nazaire

Anderson, Edward Brown

Robb, Alexander

McNeill, John Sears

DesBrisay, Theophilus

Simcoe, John Graves

Robb, David W.

Fraser, John James

Green, Harry Compton

Fogo, James

Fothergill, Matthew Monkhouse

Longley, James Wilberforce

Humphrey, John Albert

Garneau, Pierre

Beaton, Alexander H.

Ross, William

Labelle, Jean Baptiste

MacCoy, William Frederick

Whidden, Charles Blanchard

Cuthbert, Edward Octavian J. A.

Baby, Louis François Georges

Ritchie, Joseph Norman

Lorrain, Narcisse Zephirin

Coleman, Arthur Philemon

Macdonnell, Daniel James

Hunton, Sidney Walker

Kay, John

Macdonald, James Charles

Macpherson, Henry

Campbell, Kenneth A.

Bruce, George

Stewart, John

Workman, Joseph

Campbell, George W.

Coburn, George Hayward

Foster, James Gilbert

Barker, Frederic Eustace

Murphy, Owen

Smith, H. Percy W.

Mackay, Alexander Howard

Archibald, Abram Newcomb

Grant, R. N.

Chauveau, Alexandre

Keating, Edward Henry

McRitchie, George

Graveley, John Vance

Roche, William

Mitchell, Samuel E.

Beek, James Scott

Lord, Artemas

McLeod, Neil

Le May, Léon Pamphile

Murchie, James

Morse, William Agnew Denny

Morrow, John

Meredith, William Collis

Harris, William Richard

Hearn, David A.

Girouard, Désiré

Stewart, Geo., jr.

Ruel, James Rhodes

Earle, Sylvester Zobieski

Kennedy, George Thomas

Adams, Michael

Stephen, George

Harper, J. M.

Lyall, William

Johnston, Chas. Hazen Levinge

Mercier, Honoré

Chamberlain, David Cleveland

Angers, Auguste Réal

Wood, Robert Edwin

Flynn, Edmund James

Hanington, Daniel L.

Mellish, John Thomas

Moody, John Thomas Tidmarsh

He joined

Each office of the social hour

To noble manners, as the flower

And native growth of noble mind.

Crinion, James Eugene

King, Edwin David

Antliff, J. Cooper

Robinson, Samuel Skiffington

Baillairgé, Louis de Gonzague

Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope

Archibald, Peter S.

Mathews, George D.

Bentley, George Whitefield Wheelock

Jack, William Brydone

Cowperthwaite, Humphrey Pickard

Lachapelle, Emmanuel Persillier

Allen, John C.

Chapman, Robert Andrew

Steele, D. A.

Flint, Thomas Barnard

Wickwire, William Nathan

Mathieu, Michel

Johnston, James William

Macdonald, Charles John

Berryman, Daniel Edgar

Bell, John Howatt

Mackay, Norman E.

Proudfoot, William

Wilkinson, William

Cargill, Henry

Stennett, Walter

Bélanger, François Honoré

Joseph, Abraham

Pelletier, Hon. Honoré Cyrias

Fizét, Louis Joseph Cyprien

I.

Voyez venir la horde meurtrière ...

Voyez venir les bourreaux de trente-huit!

Ils ont lancé la torche incendiaire

Contre nos toîts dans l’ombre de la nuit!

Chœur .

Serrons nos rangs, luttons contre l’orage ...

Soyons unis, vaillants comme autrefois!

Courons, courons arracher à l’outrage

Nos saints autels, notre langue et nos lois!

II.

O Liberté qu’insulte leur audace!

C’est en ton nom qu’on veut nous égorger! ...

Fille du ciel, protège notre race ...

Accorde-nous l’honneur de te venger!

Serrons nos rangs, etc., etc.

III.

Vaincre ou mourir! fut le grand cri de guerre

Que nos aïeux ont cent fois répété ...

Vaincre ou mourir! ... Au sein de l’Angleterre

Qu’il retentisse! ... il sera respecté!

Serrons nos rangs, etc., etc.

Le Chant des Chasseurs.

I.

Entendez-vous ces cris de rage?

L’aigle du nord, vainqueur là-bas,

Vient assouvir sur ce rivage

La mort qui le pousse aux combats!

Marchons! sa haine héréditaire

Nous vaudra de nouveaux lauriers ...

Pour nos autels, pour nos foyers

Soyons un peuple militaire!

Chœur .

Ce bruit sourd qu’apporte le vent,

C’est la voix du canon qui tonne! ...

A la baïonnette .. en avant!

Pressons le pas; la charge sonne!

Pour chasser les envahisseurs

Soyons chasseurs! Soyons chasseurs!

II.

Dans la paix vous trouviez des charmes,

O vous, qui révez le bonheur!

Mais, Dieu le veut! l’appel aux armes

Nous guide au sentier de l’honneur ...

Amis, nous sommes de ces races

Que la peur ne flétrit jamais!

Anglo-Saxons, Normands Français,

De nos aïeux suivons les traces!

Chœur .

Ce bruit sourd, etc., etc.

III.

Gloire à toi, jeunesse intrépide,

A toi le poste du danger;

Déjà ton cœur bat, plus rapide,

Du noble espoir de nous venger!

La paix énervait ton courage ...

Méprisant un lâche repos,

Tu l’as compris, les vrais héros,

Eclairs, jaillissent de l’orage!

Chœur .

Ce bruit sourd, etc., etc.

IV.

L’Américain ne fera guère

Dans nos hameaux un long séjour;

Nos pères l’ont vaincu naguère

Leurs enfants le battront un jour!

Fils d’Albion, fils de la France,

On veut en vain vous asservir!

Soyons soldats! plutôt mourir

Que de perdre l’indépendance!

Chœur .

Ce bruit sourd, etc., etc.

Kilgour, Robert

Casgrain, Thomas Chase

McDonald, Alexander Roderick

Clark, W. B.

With a sorrowful heart,

She prepared to depart

From dear old Scotland’s shore;

For well she knew,

That its mountains blue,

Her eyes should behold no more.

But when duty called,

No danger appalled

That heart so devoted and true.

She had left, for the truth,

The sweet manse of her youth,

And now bade her country adieu.

In weakness and pain,

O’er the dark, stormy main,

She came to this old fortress town;

Where, in slow decay,

She wasted away,

My faithful Jeanie Brown.

But severe though her pain,

She did not complain;

For it taught her, she told us, to see

More clearly the woe,

In the regions below,

From which the redeemed are set free.

By St. Lawrence’s side,

As he rolls, in his pride,

To the great Atlantic down,

By a walnut’s shade,

The dear dust we laid

Of my sweet Jeanie Brown.

And now she sleeps,

Where the green wave sweeps

Past the ocean’s river’s shore;

But I’ll meet her again,

In that blessed domain,

Where the weary part no more.

Thompson, John Sparrow David

MacLean, Alexander

Perrigo, James

Medley, Charles Steinkopff

Macdonald, Charles De Wolf

Bethune, John Lemuel

Hatt, Samuel Staunton

McMaster, William

Rutherford, John

Kerr, William

David, Laurent Olivier

Mountcastle, Clara H.

Oh, sea, had’st thou no power to save,

Could’st thou not raise that glorious face;

Nor let thy suffocating breath,

That heaven-born life of song erase;

Nor calm that wild heart unto death.

Oh, cold, cold wave, that pressed her cheek,

I hear thy murmuring undertone.

For ages wilt thou sob and moan,

In vain repentance o’er thy deed

The howling winds shall lash thy breast,

And zephyrs mourn around thy shore,

And murmur all thy rocks along;

And thou, who stilled the voice of song,

Thy deep great heart shall know no rest—

Shall know no peace for evermore.

Williams, John Æthuruld

Ker, Robert

Pelton, Sandford Harrington

Shakespeare, Noah

Fielding, William Stevens

Hetherington, George A.

Wallace, Joseph James

Loranger, Louis Onesime

Alexander, Finlow

Ross, David Alexander

Ingram, Andrew B.

McGee, Thomas D’Arcy

Ah! wad that he was here the nicht,

Whase tongue was like a faerie lute!

But vain the wish: McGee! thy might

Lies low in death—thy voice is mute.

He’s gane, the noblest o’ us a’—

Aboon a’ care o’ warldly fame;

An’ wha se proud as he to ca’

Our Canada his hame?

The gentle maple weeps an’ waves

Aboon our patriot-statesman’s heed;

But if we prize the licht he gave,

We’ll bury feuds of race and creed.

For this he wrocht, for this he died;

An’ for the luve we bear his name,

Let’s live as brithers, side by side,

In Canada, our hame.

Dunnet, Thomas

Doutre, Joseph

Thorne, William Henry

Creelman, Samuel

Hind, Henry Youle

Knowles, Charles Williams

Woodland, Jas. Barnaby

Drummond, Andrew Thomas

Hewson, Charles Wentworth Upham

Allison, Charles

Lyman, Frederick Styles

Robertson, Andrew

Rosebrugh, John Wellington

Lewis, William James

Daly, Thomas Mayne

Borden, Frederick William

Silver, William Chamberlain

Murphy, Martin

Barclay, John

Laviolette, Joseph Gaspard

Campbell, Francis Wayland

Park, William A.

Inch, James R.

Evanturel, Francis Eugene Alfred

Jolliffe, William John

Armstrong, James

Steeves, Chipman Archibald

Bourinot, John George

Moles, Robert George

Doney, Charles

Longworth, John

Hossack, William

Smith, Robert Barry

Kennedy, James Thomas

Cameron, Charles

Cameron, William

Strothard, James

Trueman, Harmon Silas

Dobson, William

Robertson, George

Hopper, John Elisha

Irvine, Mattew Bell

Wilson, Daniel

Miller, John Stewart

Choquette, Philippe Auguste

Méthot, Michel Edouard

Cloran, Henry Joseph

Edwards, William Cameron

Jones, David

Kemble, William

McMicken, Gilbert

Masson, Louis François Roderique

Belleau, Narcisse

Desaulniers, François Sévère Lesieur

McClelan, Abner Reid

Clemo, Ebenezer

Fullerton, James S.

Begg, Alexander

Panneton, Louis Edmond

Blair, Frank I.

Irving, Andrew

Laliberté, Jean Baptiste

Macdonald, Augustine Colin

Harris, John Leonard

Joncas, Louis Zephrin

Law, William

Laurie, John Wimburn

Hall, John Smythe

Labelle, François Xavier Antoine

Hale, Frederick Harding

Nelles, Samuel Sobieski

Drolet, Jacques François Gaspard

Whitney, Henry A.

Fitch, Edson

Badgley, E. I.

McConnell, John

Roberts, Charles George Douglas

Surely I have seen the majesty and wonder,

Beauty, might, and splendor, of the soul of song;

Surely I have felt the spell that lifts asunder

Soul from body, when lips faint and thought is strong.

Lowly I wait the song upon my lips conferred

The deep-eyed Night drew down to comfort him,

And lifted her great lids, and mourned for him.

All the darkness shuddered and fled back.

We all are made heavy of heart, we weep with thee, sore with thy sorrow;

The sea to its utmost part, the night from the dusk to the morrow.

All the morning’s majesty

And mystery of loveliness lay bare

Before him; all the limitless blue sea

Brightening with laughter many a league around.

Wind wrinkled, etc.

Crimson swims the sun-set over far Pelorus,

Burning crimson tops its frowning crest of pine;

Purple sleeps the shore, and floats the wave before us,

Eachwhere from the oar-stroke eddying warm like wine.

Chicoyne, Jerome Adolphe

Elliott, Edward

La Rue, Thomas George

Baynes, William Craig

Strachan, John

Wallbridge, Lewis

Brodie, Robert

Rourke, James

Ure, Rev. Robert

Taché, Eugene Etienne

Adams, Aaron A.

Cimon, Marie Honorius Ernest

de Cazes, Paul

Ratcliffe, John Hepburn

Saint-Cyr, Dominique Napoleon Deshayes

Thomas, Benjamin Daniel

Richey, Matthew H.

McNeil, Daniel

Chabot, Julien

Lugrin, Charles H.

Spencer, Elijah Edmund

Valin, Pierre Vincent

Morin, Louis Edmond

Jones, Alfred Gilpin

McConnell, John Bradford

Jones, Simeon

McLeod, Howard Douglas

McIsaac, Angus

Grant, George Monro

Gendreau, Jean Baptiste

McKnight, Robert

Torrance, Frederick William

Thomson, Donald Cameron

Oulton, Alfred E.

McIsaac, Colin F.

Philp, John

Paton, Hugh

De Wolfe, Charles Edgar

Killam, Amasa Emerson

Young, William

Cannon, Lawrence Ambrose

Torrance, David

Skinner, Charles N.

Fenwick, George Edgeworth

Adams, Thomas

Turnbull, James Ferdinand

Pacaud, Ernest

Doucet, Laman R.

Genest, Laurent Ubalde Archibalde

Lugrin, Charles S.

Chisholm, Peter J.

Guillet, George

McKinnon, John

Owens, William

Taschereau, Henry T.

McLachlan, Alexander

Here, single-handed, in the bush, I battled on for years;

My heart sometimes buoyed up with hope; sometimes bowed down with fears.

I had misfortunes not a few, e’en from the very first;

But take them altogether, Bright, thy death’s the very worst.

How can I ever clear the land? How can I drag the wheat?

How can I keep my credit good? How can my children eat?

Hurrah! for the grand old forest land,

Where freedom spreads her pinion;

Hurrah with me, for the maple tree,

Hurrah! for the new Dominion.

In her faded widow’s cap;

She is sitting alone

On the old grey stone

With her Bible in her lap.

Her years are o’er three score and ten,

And her eyes are waxing dim,

But the page is bright

With a living light,

And her heart leaps up to Him

Who pours the mystic harmony

Which the soul can only hear,

She is not alone

On the old grey stone,

Though no earthly friend is near.

Wandering spirit of the flowers.

Down from the blue the sun has driven,

And stands between the earth and heaven,

In robes of smouldering flame;

A smoking cloud before him hung,

A mystic veil, for which no tongue

Of earth can find a name;

And o’er him bends the vault of blue;

With shadowy faces looking through

The azure deep profound;

The stillness of eternity,

A glory and a mystery,

Encompass him around.

The air is thick with golden haze,

The woods are in a dreamy maze,

The earth enchanted seems.

Have we not left the realms of care

And entered in the regions fair,

We see in blissful dreams?

Now morn is ascending from out the dark sea,

A light crimson veil hanging o’er her;

The lark leaves her nest on the bonny green lea,

And flutters aloft to adore her.

And, oh, how the living beams revel and leap!

In purple and gold to enfold her;

And how the wild cataract roused on the steep,

Is shouting with joy to behold her.

O’Connor, John

Moffat, William

Ouimet, Aldric Joseph

Whelan, Edward

Underhay, John Collier

Read, John

Pope, Joseph

McCallum, George Alexander

Wallace, Robert

Dobell, Richard Reid

Carrier, Charles William

Sedgewick, Robert

Sangster, Charles

From hand to hand the ripened fruit went round,

And rural sports a pleased acceptance found;

The youthful fiddler, on his three-legged stool,

Fancied himself, at least, an Ole Bull;

Some easy bumpkin, seated on the floor,

Hunted the slipper till his ribs were sore;

Some chose the graceful waltz, or lively reel,

While deeper heads the chess-battalions wheel.

Old grey-beards felt the glow of youth revive,

Old matrons smiled upon the human hive;

Where life’s rare nectar, fit for gods to sip,

In forfeit-kisses, passed from lip to lip.

A joy from my soul’s departed,

A bliss from my heart is flown,

As weary, weary-hearted,

I wander alone, alone;

The night wind sadly sigheth

A withering, wild refrain;

And my heart within me dieth,

For the light in the window-pane.

The stars overhead are shining,

As brightly as e’er they shone,

As heartless, sad, repining,

I wander alone, alone,

A sudden flash comes streaming,

And flickers adown the lane;

But no more for me is gleaming

The light in the window-pane.

The voices that pass me are cheerful,

Men laugh as the night winds moan;

They cannot tell how fearful

’Tis to wander alone, alone;

For them with each night’s returning,

Life singeth its tenderest strain;

Where the beacon of love is burning

The light in the window-pane.

Oh, sorrow, beyond all sorrows,

To which human life is prone;

Without thee, through all the to-morrows

To wander alone, alone!

Oh, dark deserted dwelling,

Where hope like a lamb was slain,

No voice from thy lone wails welling,

No light in thy window-pane!

de La Bruère, Pierre Boucher

Fulford, Francis

Sturdee, Henry Lawrance

Hensley, Joseph

Barbeau, Henri Jacques

Pope, Percy William Thomas

Sullivan, William Wilfrid

Boire, Louis Henri Napoleon

Wade, Edward Harper

Blanchet, Jean

Phillips, Rev. Caleb Thaddeus

Jetté, Louis A.

McLellan, David<

Taschereau, Henri Elzéar

Williams, James W.

Moody, James Cochrane

Griffin, Martin J.

Hingston, William Hales

Bergeron, Joseph Gédéon Horace

Sicotte, Louis Victor

Thornton, John

Mountain, George Jehoshaphat

Blair, Andrew George

Burland, George B.

Tellier, Louis

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

Gervais, Marie Emery

Turcotte, Arthur

Fabre, Edward C.

Mackintosh, Charles H.

Paton, Andrew

Colfer, George William

Nault, Joseph

Ouimet, Gédéon

Gauvreau, Antoine

Peck, Charles Allison

Sénécal, Louis Adelard

Sweeny, John

Pidgeon, J. R.

Worthington, Edward D.

Vaughan, William

Fraser, Duncan C.

Matheson, Roderick

Peters, Simon

Lawson, John A.

Tyrwhitt, Richard

Smith, Robert Herbert

Jennings, John

Slack, Edward

Hudspeth, Adam

Morrison, Alfred Gidney

Matheson, Arthur James

Angus, Richard Bladworth

Jones, Robert Vonclure

Macdonald, Andrew Archibald

Smart, William Lynn

Van Horne, William C.

Bryson, George

Richey, Matthew

Desjardins, Louis George

Hamilton, Charles Edward

Campbell, William

Bowser, Alexander Thomas

Black, Charles Allan

Richard, Louis

Tourangeau, Adolphe G.

Carswell, James

Norquay, John

Brock, Isaac

Fournier, Telesphore

McHenry, Donald C.

Allard, Joseph Victor

Dessaulles, George Casimir

La Roque, Gedeon

Robillard, Alexander

Rexford, Elson Irving

Derbishire, Stewart

Adam, Lucien Alexandre Samuel

McConnel, William George

Maynard, Thomas

Stevenson, Samuel Cottingham

Keirstead, Elias Miles

Fitzpatrick, Charles

Williams, Richard Wellington

Duncan, John

Girard, Pierre

Allnatt, Francis John Benwell

Emmerson, Robert Henry

Brown, Henry Braithwaite

Carbray, Felix

Emmerson, Henry Robert

Nolin, Charles

MacKinnon, Tristiam A.

Smith, William

Power, Lawrence Geoffrey

McDonald, Rev. Clinton Donald

Coldwell, Albert Edward

Spencer, Charles Worthington

Tetreau, F.

Fry, Edward Carey

Ogden, Charles Kinnis

Howard, Robert Palmer

Pope, Edwin

Amherst, Jeffery

Smith, John

Parker, William Robert

Rousseau, Joseph Thomas

Hale, Edward

Withall, William John

Hammond, John

Mackenzie, Alexander

Clarke, Edward Frederick

Carignan, Onesime

Archibald, John Sprott

Haanel, Eugene Emil

Kelly, Thomas Eugene

Weir, W.

Madill, Frank

Welton, Daniel Morse

Gagnon, Charles Antoine Ernest

Reid, Charles Peter

Power, Michael Joseph

Paquet, Benjamin

Campbell, Alexander

Vidal, Henry Beaufort

Rogers, Jabez A.

Paquet, Anselme Homere

Kelly, Samuel James

Russell, Willis

Monk, Samuel Cornwallis

Taillon, Alphonse Antoine

Vallee, Thomas Evariste Arthur

Walker, Thomas

Shehyn, Joseph

Maclaren, James

Denoncourt, Nazaire Lefebvre

McConville, Joseph Norbet Alfred

Dunn, Timothy Hibbard

Steadman, James

Macdonald, Lawrence George

McCaffrey, Charles

Seymour, James

Tims, Frank Dillon

Ostigny, Joseph Henry

Ratcliffe, John

Torrington, Frederic Herbert

Owens, John

Corning, Thomas Edgar

Black, J. Burpee

Bingay, Thomas Van Buskirk

Shields, John

Hale, John

Trenaman, Thomas

Machin, Henry Turner

Martin, Joseph

Mackay, William

Carson, W. Wellington

Reed, Robert

Girouard, Theophile

Pacaud, Gaspard

Mowat, Oliver

Desaulniers, Denis Benjamin William

King, James

Davidson, Charles Peers

Coursol, Charles Joseph Quesnel

Pim, Richard

Irvine, George

Cadman, James

Kelly, Francis

Howe, Henry Aspinwall

Guest, Geo. Hutchinson

Moore, Alvan Head

Freer, Harry Cortlandt

Montgomery, Donald

Rivard, Antoine Majorique

Cartier, George Etienne

Brown, William

Cook, John

Macdonald, John

Gouin, Antoine Nemese

Clinch, Robert Thomson

Baudouin, Philibert

Lamarche, Felix Oliver

Bresse, Guillaume (William)

Moreau, Louis Zephirin

Stevens, Gardner Green

Wood, Enoch

Courtney, Frederick

Aubrey, François Fortunat

Lefebvre, Joseph Hubert

Howe, Joseph

Coté, Louis

Casavant, Joseph Claver & Samuel

Kincaid, Robert

Laurier, Wilfrid

O’Sullivan, Dennis Ambrose

Tartre, Joseph Raphael

Edgar, James David

Price, Herbert Molesworth

Phelan, Cornelius J. F. R.

Bernier, Michel Esdras

d’Orsonnens, Louis Gustave d’Odet

Guilbault, Edouard

Dawson, J. William

Cockburn, George Ralph Richardson

Prior, James

Lemieux, François Xavier

Jolicœur, Philippe Jacques

Cabana, Hubert Charon

Botsford, Bliss

Bain, James William

Chisholm, Addie

Noyes, John Powell

Pope, James Colledge

Germain, Adolphe

Sears, James Walker

Proulx, Jean Baptiste George

Charlebois, Alphonse

Dupré, L. L.

Tessier, Jules

Aikins, James Cox

Taschereau, Jean Thomas

Morin, Eusebe

MacDowall, Day Hort

Prévost, Oscar A.

Champlain, Samuel de

Lacerte, Elie

Kerr, William Warren Hastings

Sutherland, Hugh McKay

Otter, Wm. Dillon

Hart, John Semple

Lafrance, Charles Joseph

Scarth, William Bain

Hould, Jean Baptiste Ludger

Taschereau, Elzéar-Alexandre

Curry, Matthew Allison

Price, Evan John

Larue, Jules Ernest

Elliott, George

Ives, Hubert Root

Macdonald, Duncan

Beaubien, Louis

Wright, Philemon

Quinton, William A.

Chagnon, Hubert Wilfred

Chapleau, Joseph Adolphe

Magnan, Adolphe

Jones, Septimus

Payan, Paul

Wells, Rupert Mearse

Stuart, Andrew

Dorion, Antoine Aimé

Tupper, Charles

Inglis, George

Partridge, Francis

Poupore, William Joseph

Bourgeois, Jean Baptiste

Boivin, Charles Alphonse

Hodder, Edward M.

Child, Marcus

Methot, Joseph Edouard

Ross, James Gibb

Nelson, Hugh

Pugsley, William

Slaven, John Wallace

Pope, John Henry

Shorey, Hollis

Tomkins, John

Unsworth, Joseph Lennon

Shearer, James Traill

Armour, John Douglas

Molony, Thomas J.

Haythorne, Robert Poore

Gingras, Jean Elie

Weldon, Richard Chapman

McNicoll, David

Ellis, Wm. Hodgson

Robitaille, Louis Adolphe

Caron, Joseph Philippe Rene Adolphe

Edgar, William

Perley, William Dell

Stephenson, James

Masson, James

Mills, John Burpee

Roy, Rouer Joseph

Weeks, Otto Swartz

Purcell, Patrick

Nantel, Guillaume Alphonse

Macdonald, John Alexander

Weller, Charles Alexander

Belanger, Louis-Charles

Berryman, John

Jaffray, Robert

Jamieson, Philip

Schiller, Charles Edward

Ouellette, J. R.

Grant, Henry Hugh

Webster, Walter Cheste

Papineau, Louis Joseph

Greenwood, Stansfield

Smith, James Cowie

Carling, John

Smith, Arthur Lapthorn

Boak, Robert

Normand, Telesphore Euzebe

Duhamel, Joseph Thomas

Woodward, James Robertson

Hall, Robert Newton

Raymond, Joseph Sabin

Montagu, Walter H.

Willets, Charles E.

Matheson, David

Cardin, Louis Pierre Paul

LaRocque, Charles

Prince, John C.

Blake, Edward

Morison, Lewis Francis

Fulton, John

Binney, Hibbert

Tooke, Benjamin

Scott, Peter Astle

La Rocque, Paul S.

Bowell, Mackenzie

Ritchie, Robert J.

McLelan, Archibald Woodbury

Reesor, David

Read, Philip Chesshyre

Sterling, Alexander Addison

Torey, Edgar J.

Blackadar, Hugh William

Plumb, Josiah Burr

Peterson, Peter Alexander

Costigan, John

Barnard, Edmund

Moodie, Susanna

McMillan, John

Larocque, Joseph

McDonald, James

Merritt, Jedediah Prendergast

Scott, Thomas

Ogden, William Winslow

Burrill, James

Murray, John Robert

Lawson, George

Allison, David

Radenhurst, W. H.

St. Georges, Charles

Burrill, William

Charland, Alfred N.

Lefebvre, Guillaume

McIlwraith, Thomas

Fiske, Edward

Barry, Denis

Pettit, Charles Biggar

Dunbar, James

Meek, Edward

Smith, Andrew

Guy, Michel Patrice

Thompson, David

Davie, George Taylor

Kenny, Thomas Edward

Rose, George Maclean

LaRocque, Basile

Black, Thomas R.

MacMahon, Hugh

Ryan, Patrick George

Wainwright, William

Rose, John E.

Macallum, Archibald

Cooley, John W.

Young, James

Hamilton, Robert

Lount, William

Buchanan, Wentworth James

White, Thomas

Duplessis, Louis Theodule Neree LeNoblet

Clarke, Henry Edward

Desilets, Joseph Moise

Morris, John Lang

Shortt, William

Langevin, Hector Louis

Bridges, Henry Seabury

Starnes, Henry

Gravel, Joseph Alphonse

Fraser, John A.

Chênevert, Cuthbert Alphonse

Robinson, D. A.

Foster, George Eulas

Leclerc, Joseph Uldaric

Sanford, William E.

Routhier, Adolphe Basile

Shannon, Samuel Leonard

Sinclair, Donald

Scott, Richard William

Adam, Graeme Mercer

Dickson, George

Stephen, Alexander

Hill, George Frederick

Thomas, Newell Wood

Bethune, Robert Henry

McLeod, John David

Wilmot, Robert Duncan

Rogers, Robert Zacheus

Bourgeois, George A.

Brooks, Edward T.

Cooke, Richard S.

MacGillivray, Angus

Castle, John Harvard

Ball, George

Boulton, D’Arcy Edward

Baptist, George

Klein, Alphonse Basil

Honey, John Sleep

Dessaint, Alexander

Honan, Martin

Gilmour, Arthur H.

Deschenes, Geo. Honore

Duchesnay, Henri Jules Juchereau

Duclos, Silas T.

Robertson, Norman

Gibsone, William Cuppage

Farrell, Edward

Henderson, David

Payzant, John Young

Macpherson, Alexander

Cooke, Thomas

Prefontaine, Raymond Fournier

Piché, Eugene Urgel

Guevrement, Jean Baptiste

Allan, George William

Futvoye, Isaac Booth

Leblanc, Pierre Evariste

Davis, Donald Watson

Motton, Robert

Mara, John Andrew

Strange, Thomas Bland

Hark! hark! the iron tongue of time

Clangs forth a hundred years,

And Stadacona on her heights

Sits shedding mournful tears!

Oh! spirits fled, oh! heroes dead,

Oh! ye were slain for me,

And I shall never cease to weep,

Ah! Wolfe, brave soul for thee.

Again the foe are made to know

The force of British steel;

Montgomery and his comrades brave

Fall ’neath the cannon’s peal.

Sudden she sprang upon her feet,

With wild dishevelled hair—

"What are those sounds I hear so sweet

Upon the trembling air?

"The frowning Citadel afar

Is all ablaze with light,

Awake the slumbering night."

Then on she sped, with airy flight,

Across the historic Plains,

And there beheld a splendid sight—

Valor with beauty reigns.

Where fearless Carleton stood at bay

A hundred years ago,

Under the gallant Strange’s sway

They still defy the foe.

"My sons! my sons! I see ye now,

Filled with the ancient fires,

Your manly features flashing forth

The spirit of your sires!

"Yet here, surrounded by the flower

Of Canada’s fair dames,

Ye are as gentle in these bowers

As brave amidst war’s flames.

"Long may ye live to tell the tale

Transmitted to your mind,

And should again your country call

Like valor she will find."

Commandant! we rise from our graves to-night,

On the Centennial of the glorious fight.

At midnight, just one hundred years ago,

We soldiers fought and beat the daring foe;

And kept our dear old flag aloft, unfurled,

Against the armies of the Western world.

Although our bodies now should be decayed,

At this, our visit, be not sore dismayed;

Glad are we to see our fortress still defended,

By Canadians, French and British blended,

But Colonel, now I’ll tell you, why we’ve risen,

From out of the bosom of the earth’s cold prison ——

We ask of you to pay us one tribute,

By firing from these heights, one last salute.

’Tis Hugh McQuarters, and his comrades brave,

To-night have risen from their glorious grave ——

To you we owe our standard still unfurled,

Yet flaunts aloft defiance to the world

God grant in danger’s hour we prove as true,

In duty’s path, as nobly brave as you.

This night we pass, in revel, dance and song,

The weary hours you watched so well and long.

’Mid storm and tempest met the battle shock,

Beneath the shadow of the beetling rock;

When foemen found their winding sheet of snow,

Where broad St. Lawrence wintry waters flow.

Yes! once again those echoes shall awake,

In thunders, for our ancient comrades’ sake;

The midnight clouds by battle bolts be riven,

Response like Frontenac’s may yet be given

If foeman’s foot our sacred soil shall tread.

We seek not history’s bloody page to turn,

For us no boastful words aggressive burn,

Forgotten, few, but undismayed we stand,

The guardians of this young Canadian land.

Oh, blessed peace! thy gentle pinions spread,

Until all our battle flags be furl’d,

In the poet’s federation of the world.

For us will dawn no new centennial day ——

Our very memories will have passed away,

Our beating hearts be still, our bodies dust;

Our joys and sorrows o’er, our swords but rust.

Your gallant deeds will live in history’s page,

In fire side stories, told to youth by age;

But sacred writ still warns us yet again,

How soldier’s science and his valour’s vain

Unless the Lord of Hosts the city keep

The mighty tremble and the watchmen sleep,

Return grim soldiers to your silent home

Where we, when duty’s done, will also come.

Pipes, William Thomas

Smith, George Byron

Gould, George

Moore, Dennis

Rolland, Jean Baptiste

Drysdale, William

Some are while careful of their own affairs,

And when successfully amassing wealth,

Who oft times will withdraw as if by stealth,

To render good to others unawares.

Well known to them the haunts of poverty,

Clothed are the naked, and the hungry fed,

Oft take they place beside the patient’s bed,

To cheer sad hours; to soothe keen agony.

These are earth’s salt—they labor with a mind,

Distress relieving, lessening human woe;

In all their actions earnest, gentle, kind,

Leaving sweet impress whereso’er they go.

Theirs Heaven’s reward; a crown upon each brow,

Warm hearted Drysdale ! such a man art thou!

Van Koughnet, S. J.

Aikins, William T.

Mackenzie, John Mills

Gibbons, Robert

Robertson, Thomas

Murray, William

Young, Edward

Huggan, William Thomas

Brymner, Douglas

Cameron, Allan

Robertson, Henry

Black, William Tell

de Lottinville, Jean Baptiste Severe Lemaitre

Dymond, Alfred Hutchinson

Pelland, Basile Elie

Macdonald, Robert Tyre

Mason, Thos. G.

Hincks, Francis

Ellis, Jas. E.

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It has been too long a custom to regard as proper subjects for biographical literature only persons who have figured in political life. In preparing the present work, any man or woman who has, in any conspicuous way, contributed to the moral, intellectual, industrial or political growth of the country, has been deemed a suitable person for these pages. To the heroism and uncomplaining industry of the men who hewed out homes in the wilderness, and little by little overcame the obstacles of nature, are we indebted now for our thriving cities, and for our wide stretches of cultivated lands; and to omit a record of their labors, and select only for permanent record the deeds of those who came upon the scenes when the rugged work was done, would be singularly unjust. We have had, and still have amongst us, men of great genius in engineering skill, and in mechanical contrivance; and it was fitting that a brief record of their lives, and what they accomplished for the community, should be handed down in the history of our common country. The same may be said of men prominent in every branch of commerce, of our notable divines, our eminent judges, our great lawyers, our talented medical men, and those who have contributed to the educational growth of the country. These it was considered were worthy of place side by side with the men who chose political careers, and have won more or less distinction therein. There is to be said in justification of all these records, that even the history of the man in an obscure village is a portion of the history of the country, and the aggregate record of Representative Canadians may be regarded in a young country like Canada, as a full historical account, in every sense, for the period covered by the biographical matter in the volume. Men are forever drifting down the slow stream, and most of their deeds like themselves, pass into oblivion; it is well while the opportunity is at hand to save as much of the record as possible for posterity. The labor, the time, and the pains spent in securing data for the sketches herein contained have been greater than would be believed; and the more so since accuracy of statement of fact, and the chronological order of incidents, have been so rigidly aimed at. Dates and facts have all been verified either by reference to the best published authorities, or to the persons themselves. For the most part, the call for the coöperation of the public in furnishing data for the records has been cordially responded to. As for the literary portion of the work, no pains have been spared to make that equal to the other features. To make the volume complete in the historically representative sense, memoirs of the most illustrious of the dead of this country will be found in its pages. The enterprise has been tedious, laborious and expensive; but if it will supply a record that the country should not let die; if it preserves the names of worthy men and women whose deeds deserve to be remembered, it surely will have well repaid the time, the anxiety, and the pains that have been expended upon it. A work of this kind could not be else than tedious; and, therefore, since its commencement, several changes have taken place: some of the persons in its pages have died; others have passed from one office to another, and dropped from public places; but with these latter exceptions and some other minor ones, each memoir, it is believed, will be found to be an accurate record up to the present date.

GEO. MACLEAN ROSE.

Toronto, March, 1888.

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