Biographies: Canadians in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Contents:

General Biographies

Specific Biographies

• Brown, George
• Cartier, Georges Etienne
• Chief Crowfoot
• Custer, George Armstrong
• Dumont, Gabriel
• (Lord) Durham
• Galt, Alexander Tilloch
• Grant, Cuthbert
• King, William Lyon MacKenzie
• Laurier, Wilfred
• Macdonald, John A.
• Mackenzie, (Sir) Alexander
• Mckenzie, William Lyon
• McGee, Thomas D'Arcy
• Onderdonk, Andrew
• Papineau, Louis Joseph
• Poundmaker
• Riel, Louis
• Secord, Laura
• (Lord) Selkirk
• Steele, Sam
• Sitting Bull
• Tilley, Leonard
• Tupper, Charles
• Van Horne, William

General Biographies:

• Canada Speaks: The Prime Ministers of Canada - information on each prime minister, a portait on each, and a speech given by each
• Educator's Choice Search: Canadian Prime Ministers
• Famous Nova Scotians
• First Among Equals: The Prime Ministers of Canada (Natinal Archives of Canada)
• The Mothers of Confederation (National Library of Canada) - includes Baroness Sarah Macdonald, Lady Cartier, Lady Mowat, Lady Tilley, Lady Tupper, Mrs. McGee
• Northwest Resistance: Biographies of the Key Participants - includes Louis Riel, Poundmaker, William Dillon Otter, Big Bear, Frederick Dobson Middleton, and Gabriel Dumont
• Prime Ministers of Canada

Specific Biographies:

George Brown

• George Brown
• George Brown 1865, Reciprocity, American Military Might (National Library of Canada)
• George Brown, 1818-1880(National Library of Canada)
• George Brown Describes the Charlottetown Conference 1864 (National Library of Canada)
• George Brown: History of the Globe & Mail (Toronto, 1843)
• The George Brown House (Ontario)

Georges Etienne Cartier:

• Georges Etienne Cartier
• Sir Georges Etienne Cartier, 1814-73 (National Library of Canada)

Chief Crowfoot

• Chief Crowfoot - just a portrait, no text
• Crowfoot (Isapo-Muxika)

George Armstrong Custer:

• The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer
• Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park(North Dakota) - re: Battle of Little Big Horn
• General George Armstrong Custer Home Page - Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn
• General Terry's Written Orders to Custer - the debate about whether Custer disobedied Terry's orders regarding the battle against the Sioux at the Little Big Horn
• Home Page: Little Big Horn- includes numerous links to sites on Custer, Native Indians and their battles
• Welcome to the Calvary Man's Military History Site: George Armstrong Custer

Gabriel Dumont:

• Gabriel Dumont - the North West Resistance of 1885
• Gabriel Dumont (Univ of Saskatchewan)
• Gabriel Dumont: Virtual Saskatchewan Online Magazine
• Heroes and Leaders: Gabriel Dumont(Metis Nations of Alberta)
• Riel, Dumont and the 1885 Rebellion

Lord Durham:

• John George Lampton: First Earl of Durham (National Library of Canada)
• Lord Durham and the Union Act of 1840
• Lord Durham's Report - extracts of his report, 1839
• 1838, from Lord Durham's Report with Charles Buller's Commentary

Alexander Tilloch Galt:

• Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (National Library of Canada)

Cuthbert Grant:

• Cuthbert Grant - a biography

William Lyon Mackenzie King

• Compton's Encyclopedia: King, Mackenzie
• The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King - a portrait, a biography, and a speech
• The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Will the Real Mackenzie King Please Stand Up?

Wilfred Laurier:

• The Right Honourable Sir Wilfred Laurier
• The Right Honourable Sir Wilfred Laurier - scroll down to the link for a description and anecdote

John A. Macdonald:

• John A. Macdonald - a portrait
• John A. Macdonald on the Federal System
• John A. Macdonald: Conservative
• The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald - remember to scroll down to the bottom link containing more descriptive biography
• The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald(National Archives of Canada)
• Sir John A. Macdonald Statue

Sir Alexander Mackenzie:

• Sir Alexander Mackenzie (National Library of Canada)
• Alexander Mackenzie - a biography
• Alexander Mackenzie - a portrait
• The Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route
• Heroes of Lore and Yore: Sir Alexander Mackenzie (National Library of Canada)
• Sir Alexander Mackenzie (National Library of Canada)

William Lyon Mackenzie

• The Canadian Military Project: Rebellion of 1837
• William Lyon Mackenzie, 1795-1861

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

• Thomas D'Arcy McGee - biography and image
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee - a portrait

Andrew Onderdonk:

• Andrew Onderdonk - a brief biography
• Index of the Onderdonk Albums at the BC Archives - archival photos
• Onderdonk's Way(Kamloop's Art Gallery) - site features archival photographs documenting one of the greatest feats of the CPR, the building of a railway
from Port Moody to Craigellachie in BC,1848-1905

Louis Joseph Papineau:

• Louis Joseph Papineau (National Library of Canda)
• Louis Joseph Papineau - the family's geneology
• Papineau - a brief note

Poundermaker:

• Heroes of Lore and Yore: Poundmaker (National Library of Canada)
• Poundmaker

Louis Riel:

• Heroes and Leaders: Louis Riel(Metis Nations of Alberta)
• Heroes of Lore and Yore: Louis Riel(National Library of Canada)
• Louis Riel - a biography with picture
• Louis Riel Home Page - a very extensive list of links on various aspects of this man
• Louis Riel's Last Memoir - a text by Riel in 6 parts
• Riel House: National Historic Site - provides history and an online guided tour
• Louis Riel Outlawed! - Canadian Law: History

Laura Secord:

• The Story of Laura Secord

Lord Selkirk (The Earl of Selkirk):

• The Earl of Selkirk a very brief biography
• The Forces of Lord Selkirk
• Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk - article written by a member of the Clan Douglas

Sam Steele:

• Sam Steele's Journal
• Samuel Benfield Steele
• Who Was Sam Steele?

Sitting Bull:

• An Account of Sitting Bull's Death, 1891 - by James McLaughlin, Indian Agent at Standing Rock Reservation
• The Battle of Little Big Horn in the U.S. has Direct Ties to the Mounties
• Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) - the last of the Sious to surrender to the U.S. government
• The Great Sioux Nation: Milestones 1800 to Present
• The Last Ghost Dance
• Sitting Bull
• Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka), 1831-1890
• Sitting Bull's History - history of his life in both U.S. and Canada

Samuel Leonard Tilley:

• Alice, Lady Tilley(National Library of canada)
• New Brunswick Fathers of Confederation

Charles Tupper:

• The Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper
• The Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper - scroll down to the link for descriptive biography and anecdote

William Van Horne:

• William Cornelius Van Horne
• Calgary and Alberta: Park System



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