William Lyon MacKenzie

William Lyon MacKenzie

male, deceased (1861)
Scottish migrant to Ontario, welland canal, Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, Canadian, dundee, Canadianhistoricalfigure
William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 - August 28, 1861) was a Scottish-Canadian journalist, politician, and leader of an unsuccessful rebellion....
Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson

male, deceased (1611)
Jan Mayen Island, Muscovy Company, Northeast passage, Dutch East India Company, far east, arctic ocean…Canadianhistoricalfigure
Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. His place of birth was London,...
Sam Steele

Sam Steele

male, deceased (1919)
Anglican, death by influenza, Legion of Frontiersmen member, Canadianhistoricalfigure, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, General…Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, Canadian
Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO (5 January 1849 - 30 January 1919) was a distinguished soldier and famous member of the...
Augustin Langlade

Augustin Langlade

male, deceased (1771)
French, Canadian, Canadianhistoricalfigure, Fur trader, From Green Bay, Wisconsin, French and Indian Wars
Augustin Langlade (c.1695-1771) was a French-born Canadian fur trader. He established the fur trading outpost that became Green Bay, Wisconsin. His...
Charles Michel de Langlade

Charles Michel de Langlade

male, deceased (1800)
Nissowaquet, Canadian of French descent, British officer in the American Revolution, Canadianhistoricalfigure, Fur trade, Fur trader
Charles Michel de Langlade was a Great Lakes fur-trader of French and Odawa heritage. His father was Augustin Langlade; his mother was a sister of...
Andrew Onderdonk

Andrew Onderdonk

male, deceased (1905)
dutch, surveying, Canadianhistoricalfigure, canadian pacific railway, construction, seawall
Andrew Onderdonk (30 August 1848 - 21 June,1905) was a construction contractor who worked on several major projects including the San Francisco...
James Wolfe

James Wolfe

male, deceased (1759)
death by firearm in Canada, British military personnel killed in action, from Westerham, British Army general, death by firearm, Canadianhistoricalfigure
General James Wolfe (2 January, 1727 - 13 September, 1759) was a British military officer, remembered mainly for his defeat of the French in Canada...
Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat

male, deceased (1848)
The Child of the New Forest, Nautical historical novelist, English historical novelist, Canadianhistoricalfigure, children's writer, sea story
Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 - August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today...
Alexander Muir

Alexander Muir

male, deceased (1906)
Songwriter, Leslieville, Gladstone Avenue Public School, Scottish migrant to Ontario, Canadian, Battle of Ridgeway…Canadianhistoricalfigure
Alexander Muir (5 April 1830 near Lanark - 26 June 1906) was a songwriter, poet and school headmaster. A childhood immigrant to Canada from his...
Piapot

Piapot

male, deceased (1908)
First Nations leader, Canadianhistoricalfigure, cree, Sioux, First Nations
Piapot (c.1816 – 1908) was a Chief of First Nations people in southern Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1800s. His name means "H...