X-Nico

unusual facts about Canada West



Augustus Stephen Vogt

Born in Washington, Oxford County, Canada West, Province of Canada, the son of German immigrant John George Vogt and Swiss immigrant Marianna Zingg, Vogt grew up in Elmira, Ontario.

Benjamin McConnell

McConnell was born in Point Alexander, north Renfrew County, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of Benjamin McConnell and Catherine Melville.

British-American Institute

The British-American Institute was a school started in 1842 by Josiah Henson near Dresden, Western District, Canada West, Province of Canada, as part of the Dawn Settlement, a community of fugitive slaves who had escaped to Canada.

Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart

Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart GCB (Walton-on-the-Naze 21 December 1783 – 16 July 1859 St Leonards-on-Sea), styled Lord Greenock between 1814 and 1843, was a British Army general who became Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West (26 November 1845 – 30 January 1847).

Executive Council of the Province of Canada

Members were appointed, often for life and came from Canada East and Canada West.

Great Coalition

The previous collapse after only three months of a coalition government formed by George-Étienne Cartier and Conservative John A. Macdonald (the sixth government in six years) had demonstrated that continued governance of Canada East and Canada West under the 1840 Act of Union had become untenable.

Henry Horton Miller

Born in Owen Sound, Canada West, Miller was educated at the public and high schools of Owen Sound.

James Hill Hunter

He was born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1839, the son of Archibald Hunter and Elizabeth Hill, came to Canada West with his family in 1842 and was educated at Goderich and Upper Canada College.

James Masson

He was born in Seymour Township, Canada West, the son of Thomas W.S. Masson, and educated there and in Belleville.

John Clitherow

In 1841, he was transferred to Canada West to command British forces there and was made governor by Lord Sydenham.

John George Hess

He was born in Beerfelden, Germany in 1838, the son of Jacob Hess and Anne Marie Seip, and came to Canada West with his family in 1858, settling in Berlin (later Kitchener, Ontario).

John Yates Beall

On his release, he returned to the north shore of Lake Erie, to Canada West, part of the Province of Canada, in order to implement a plan to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island.

Joseph Elijah Armstrong

Born in York County, Canada West, Armstrong was educated in National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, PA.

Robert Richard Hall

Born in Fenelon Township, Victoria County, Canada West, Hall was educated at the Cambray Public School and the Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School Institute.

Roderick R. McLennan

Born in Charlottenburgh, Canada West, the third son of Roderick McLennan, McLennan worked in construction of railways and other public works, including sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior.

Wellington David Cargill

He was born in Nassagaweya Township, Canada West, the son of Henry Cargill, and educated in Galt and Guelph.

William Foster Cockshutt

Born in Brantford, Canada West, the son of Ignatius Cockshutt, Cockshutt was educated in Brantford and at the Galt College Institute.

William James Gage

He was born in Toronto township, Canada West, the son of Andrew Albert Gage and Mary Jane Grafton, and was educated in Brampton and at the Toronto Normal School.


see also

2011–12 Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's ice hockey season

On February 25, 2012, Iya Gavrilova scored the game-winning goal in the deciding game of the 2012 Canada West tournament, as the Calgary Dinos claimed their first ever tournament title.

Alexander Morris

He ran as a Liberal-Conservative in the riding of Lanark South in Canada West, supporting the government of George-Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald.

Cedres

Montréal/Les Cèdres Airport, general aviation aerodrome near Montreal, Quebec, Canada west of Vaudreuil-Dorion

George Connor

George Skeffington Connor (1810–1863), lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West

George Hall

George Barker Hall (1819–1858), lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West

Lorn

John Lorn McDougall, Sr. (1800-1860), businessman and political figure in Canada West

Scoble

John Scoble (1799–?), a British abolitionist and political figure in Canada West

Willard Reaves

Willard's son Ryan Reaves is a professional hockey player and right wing for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League; while other son Jordan played high school basketball in Winnipeg for the Shaftesbury High School Titans, and now plays for the Brandon Bobcats in the Canada West division in the CIS.

William Boulton

William Henry Boulton (1812–1874), lawyer and political figure in Canada West

William Henry Brouse

Born in Matilda Township, Dundas County, Upper Canada of German ancestry, he attended Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, Canada West in 1839, Victoria College until 1845, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1847 from McGill College.

William Parker Kennedy

In 1935 he was made a full-time union officer, responsible for the northwest United States and for Canada west of Port Arthur, Ontario.