- 2026-10-08Born in Montreal, Rankin moved to this province about 1830 and qualified as a deputy provincial surveyor in 1836. The…
- 2026-10-08Bergin was born in York (Toronto) and received his medical degree from McGill College in Montreal. He practised medicine in…
- 2026-10-08Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he forfeited 500,000 acres near Albany, New York, by taking up arms for the King on…
- 2026-10-08Graham Thomson Lyall emigrated from Britain in 1911, eventually settling in Niagara Falls where he worked for the Canadian Niagara…
- 2026-10-08In April 1615, Samuel de Champlain (c.1574-1635) embarked from Honfleur, upon his seventh voyage to New France. Upon arrival in…
- 2026-10-08The Father of New France, Samuel de Champlain, made the first of two voyages into what is now Ontario in…
- 2026-10-08In September, 1615, a small party of Frenchmen, commanded by Samuel de Champlain, and some five hundred Huron Indians, passed…
- 2026-10-08A leader in the radical reform movement in 19th century Ontario, Clarke was born in Lincoln, England. In his youth,…
- 2026-10-08This pioneer surveyor was the pathfinder who opened much of this region to settlement. Born in Enniskillen, Ireland, Rankin came…
- 2026-10-08Sangster, one of the most significant Canadian poets of the pre-Confederation period, was born at the naval yard, Point Frederick.…