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5 unusual facts about Province of canada


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.

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).

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.

St. Albans Raid

Young had become a prisoner of war after the Battle of Salineville in Ohio ended Morgan's Raid the year before; he later escaped to Canada (then part of the British Empire), and returned to the South, where he proposed raids on the Union from the Canadian border to build the Confederate treasury and force the Union Army to protect the northern border and divert troops from the South.


Decimalisation

In 1841, the united Province of Canada's Governor General, Lord Sydenham, argued for establishment of a bank that would issue dollar currency (the Canadian dollar).

Eurybia radula

Eurybia radula is present in every province of Canada east of and including Ontario and is also present on the French territory of St. Pierre and Miquelon.

John Counter

In the same year he organized accommodations for government officials when Kingston became the home of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, giving up his own home to the vice-chancellor, R.S. Jameson, and renting the new offices of the Marine Railway to the government.

Joseph Édouard Cauchon

Cauchon himself entered political life in 1844, winning election for the riding of Montmorency in the Province of Canada's legislature.

La Fontaine Park

The park was named not for its famous fountain, but instead to honor the memory of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, the first francophone prime minister of the Province of Canada.

Sisters of Saint Anne

The Sisters of St. Anne are a Roman Catholic religious institute, founded in 1850 in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada, by the Blessed Marie Anne Blondin, S.S.A., to promote the education of the rural children of the Province of Canada.


see also

Aignan-Aimé Massue

His brother Louis Massue served as a member of the Legislative Council for the Province of Canada.

Charles Cathcart

Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart (1783 – 1859), British Army general and Governor General of the Province of Canada

Édouard Masson

Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson (1826–1875), member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

Executive Council of the Province of Canada

The Executive Council of the Province of Canada had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from its inception in 1841 to 1848.

Lord Sydenham

Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham (1799 - 1841), British politician and first Governor of the united Province of Canada

Papineau

Denis-Benjamin Papineau, son of Joseph Papineau, was a Joint Premier of the Province of Canada

Philippe Panet

His brother Louis later became a member of the Canadian Senate and his brother Charles was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

William Dunlop

William "Tiger" Dunlop (1792–1848), Member of Parliament for United Province of Canada and Warden of the Forests, Canada Company.