Canadian Deaths 1878-1886
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CHAGNON, Eloi – Died January 26, 1886 at Verchères, Quebec aged 86 – Father of the late Hon. Justice Chagnon, of the Superior Court, Quebec – (Obit. 86).

CHAISSEN – Died July 24, 1882, Rollo Bay, P.E.I. – Drowned – (ADS 82).

CHAISSON, Wm. – Died May 9, 1881, Pinette, P.E.I – Burned to death on board the schooner Pursuit – (JRO 80-81).

CHAMBERS, Robt – Advocate (1834), late mayor of Quebec City – Native of Hull, Quebec – Died January 1, 1886 in Quebec City aged 76 – (Obit. 86).

CHAMPUT, Marie Charlotte – Born in 1794 – Died October 18, 1884 – Her husband, Chas. Blanchet died the same day. They had been married 69 years. They are buried together in the parish of St. Madeline, Quebec. They leave living 5 sons, one of whom, Mr. Gideon Blanchet, is Mayor of Ste. Madeline, 39 grand-children, and 90 great grandchildren. – (JRO 84).

CHANDLER – Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – deceased – Successor appointed on February 11, 1880 – (PAPS Dominion 80-81).

CHANDLER – Member of the Legislative Council, New Brunswick – deceased – Sussessor appointed on May 25, 1882 – (PAPS New Brunswick 82).

CHANDLER, Albert – Died August 23, 1886 near Brown's Bank, Nova Scotia – Drowned. – (ADS 86).

CHANDLER, Edmund Leavens – M.P. for Brome, Quebec – Born December 21, 1829 at Frelighsburgh, Quebec – Died August 21, 1880, Brome Corners, Quebec – Third son of the late Mr. Horace M. Chandler, of St. Armand, and grandson of late Danl. Chandler, of Hartford, Connecticut. – (Obit. 80-81).

CHANDLER, Edward Barron (Hon.), Q.C. – Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – Born in 1800 at Amherst, Nova Scotia – Died February 6, 1880 at Fredericton, New Brunswick – The remains were interred at Dorchester. Son of the late Sheriff Chas. H. Chandler, of Cumburland, Nova Scotia, and grandson of Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Connecticut, a well-known loyalist. – (Obit. 80-81).

CHANDLER, Stephen M. – Died October 10, 1878 at Bulmer's Mill, near Sackville, New Brunswick – Killed by falling over an embankment – He was the eldest son of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – (JRO 78).

CHANDONNET, Rev. Thomas Aimé, D.D., D.C.L. (Roman Catholic) – Born in 1834 at St. Pierre-les-Becquet, Quebec – Died August 4, 1881 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

CHAPAIS, Jean Chas. (Hon.) – Senator (1868) – Born December 21, 1812 at Rivière Ouelle, Quebec – Died July 17, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit. 85).

CHAPELLIERE, Father; and 4 Indians – Died August 12, 1882, Lake Muskegs (N.W.T., today in Saskatchewan) – Drowned – (ADS 82).

CHAPLEAU, Pierre – An old and respected citizen – Born in 1809 at Ste. Thérèse de Blainville, Quebec – Died January 31, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario – He was for many years a resident of the Seigniory of Terrebonne, where his ancestors had been early settlers during the existence of French rule. He was the father of Hon. J. A. Chapleau, late Primier of Quebec and now Secretary of State of Canada. – (Obit. 85).

CHAPLEAU, Zoé (nee SIGOUIN) – Died March 19, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec aged 67 – Wife of Mr. Pierre Chapleau, of Montreal, and mother of Hon. J. A. Chapleau, Q.C., M.P.P., (now Premier of the Province of Quebec) – (Obit. 79).

CHAPMAN, C. S. (Mr. and Mrs.) – Clerk in the Dept. of the Interior – Died October 30, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario – Found in bed suffocated to death, whith his wife lying insensible beside him. It is supposed they were overcome by the fumes of gas, generated by a coal stove. – (JRO 85).

CHAPMAN, Eliza – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 25 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

CHAPMAN, Henry Saml. (Hon.) – Late a Judge in New Zealand – Born July 21, 1803 at Kennington, Surrey, England – Died December 27, 1881, Dunedin, New Zealand – He came to Canada in 1823. He returned in England several years later, and left for the antipodes shortly after he was called to the English Bar in 1840. – (Obit. 80-81).

CHAPMAN, R. J. (Dr.) – Late Treasurer of the County of Prince Edward, Ontario – Born in 1803 in New Hampshire, U.S.A. – Died in July, 1885 at Picton, Ontario – (Obit. 85).

CHAPMAN, Wm. – Late Commr of the Trust and Loan Co. of Canada – Died April 8, 1886 at Clifton, Bristol, England – (Obit. 86).

CHAPPLES, John, of Quebec – Fireman – Died February 10, 1882 at sea between New York and Porto Rico – Lost in the founder of the steamer Bahama in a hurricane – (JRO 82).

CHARBONNEAU, E. (Miss) – Died February 22, 1886 near Ste Rose, Quebec – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

CHARBONNEAU, Michael – Died March 7, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – Suicide by poison – (ADS 86).

CHAREST, W. – Died June 1, 1882, Weldon Station, New Brunswick – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

CHARLAND, Rev. Louis David (R.C) – Born September 14, 1809 at St. Luc, Quebec – Died October 25, 1882 at Beauharnois, Quebec – (Obit. 82).

CHARLEBOIS, John; and 2 children aged 7 and 11 – Died May 3, 1882, Gatineau, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

CHARLEBOIS, P. O. – Died July 17, 1882, Fraser River, British Columbia – Killed by a falling tree – (ADS 82).

CHARRON, Rev. Michel – Curé of St. Esprit, R. C. diocese of Montreal, Quebec – Died May 6, 1879 – (Obit. 79).

CHASE, J.– Died November 5, 1884, Tabusintac Beach, New Brunswick – Drowned – (JRO 84).

CHASE, Rev. John – Baptist Clergyman – Died November 14, 1879, Wolfville, Nova Scotia aged 75 – (Obit. 79).

CHATTELIN, Leon – Canadian Voyageur who accompanied Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon, Ottawa Division – Died during the expedition in 1884 or 1885 – (Appendix 3, 1884)

CHATTERON, Richard Dover – Late clerk of the Co. Court of Northumberland and Durham, Ontario – Died August 4, 1885 at Cobourg, Ontario, aged 85 – (Obit. 85).

CHAUSSEGROS de LERY, Hon. Alexandre René – M.L.C. of Quebec (1867) – Born March 29, 1818 in Quebec – Died December 19, 1880, Quebec City – He was a member of the illustrious Canadian family of the same name, his father being the late Hon. Chas. G. de Lery, M.L.C. – (Obit. 80-81, see p. 405).

CHECKLEY W. F. (Rev.), M.A. – Clergyman of the Church of England, curate of St. Paul's, Toronto – Born in 1825 in the West Indies of Irish parents – Died January 3, 1879 in Toronto, Ontario – Brother of the Rev. Francis Checkley – (Obit. 79).

CHECKLEY, Mark – Died January 20, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – Suicide by hanging – (ADS 86).

CHERRIER, Côme Seraphin, LL.D., Q.C. (1842) – Born July 22, 1798 at Repentigny, Quebec – Died April 10, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – In 1833, Mr. Cherrier married Madame Coursol, widow of Mr. J. Coursol, of the Hudson's Bay Company, and mother of Hon. C. J. Coursol, Q.C., M.P. The issue was two daughters, one of whom married the late Mr. Sénécal, advocate. – (Obit. 85).

CHESLEY, Solomon Yeomans – ex-M.P. for Cornwall in the Can. Assembly – Born in 1796 in Rensselaer County, New York – Died November 5, 1880, Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit. 80-81).

CHESTNUT, Maggie; and Mrs J. Babbitt – Died July 29, 1882 in St. John, New Brunswick – Drowned, Mrs Babbitt attempting to rescue Mrs. Chestnut after saving her daughter – (ADS 82).

CHEVAL, Guillaume – ex-M.P. for Rouville in House of Commons – Born in 1828 at Beloeil, Quebec – Died April 29, 1880, St. Hilaire, Quebec – (Obit. 80-81).

CHEVALIER : Three of the four children of Stanislas Chevalier, the eldest of whom in 10 years old – Died October 12, 1884 at St. Joachim, Quebec – Mr. Chevalier goes to church leaving his children alone in the house. To amuse themselves the get their father's powder horn and place it in the stove, where it explodes, killing three of the children. – (JRO 84).

CHEVALIER, Henri Emile – French Litterateur – Died September, 1879 in Paris, France aged about 55 – He left France after the coup d'etat in 1851, and proceeded to Montreal, Quebec. He returned to Paris in 1860 – (Obit. 79).

CHEVIGNY, Marie Edmond Joseph (Rev., R.C.) – Curé of St. Augustin, Two Mountains, Quebec – Died August 8, 1884 in St. Augustin, Two Mountains, Quebec – (Obit. 84).

CHEYNE, George (Rev.), M.A, – Ritired clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in Canada – Born July 15, 1802 at Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – Died April 1, 1878 (in Ontario) – He came to Canada in 1831 (Obit. 78).

CHIASSON, keeper of the lighthouse at the Bird Rocks, and two others – Died August 13, 1881, Magdalen Islands, Quebec – Killed by the explosion of a barrel of gunpowder – (JRO 80-81).

CHILDS : daughter of Mr. Childs – Died April 30, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec aged 6 months – Accidental poisoning – (ADS 86).

CHINIC, Julie Marguerite (Madame Angers) – Died January 11, 1879 in Quebec City aged 32 – Wife of Hon. A. R. Angers, M.P., late Attorney General of Quebec, she was a daughter of Hon. Senator Chinic – (Obit. 79).

CHIPMAN – Died September 29, 1886 near Amherst, Nova Scotia – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

CHIPMAN, Zachariah – Merchant and ship owner – Born in 1814 at Cornwalis, Nova Scotia – Died October 16, 1883, St. Stephen, New Brunswick – One of his daughters was maried to Sir S. Leoanrd Tilley, K.C.M.G., Finance Minister of Canada, and another to Mr. W. H. Howland, of Toronto. – (Obit. 83).

CHISHOLM, D., of Parry Sound (Ontario) – Passenger – Died September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck of the steamer Asia – (JRO 82).

CHISHOLM, Danl. – Died October 29, 1884, or shortly after, at the west ore mine, in connection with the works of the Canada Steel Co., Londonderry, Nova Scotia – Precipitated to the bottom of a shaft a distance of 220 feet when the gearing breaks – (JRO 84).

CHISHOLM, Wm. (Rev., R.C.) – Died February 17, 1884 at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, aged 54 – (Obit. 84).

CHISNER (Mr.) – Died August 11, 1886 at Marthaville – Falls from a derrick. – (ADS 86).

CHRISTIAN, Thos. Robert – Bank manager – Born in 1827 in Sligo, Ireland – Died May 12, 1879 at Hamilton, Ontario – (Obit. 79).

CHRISTIE, Hon. David – Senator – Born in 1818 in Edinburgh, Scotland – Died December 15, 1880, The Plains, Paris, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1833 – (Obit. 80-81).

CHRISTIE, Rev. Thos. M. – For 8 years a missionary (Presb.) at Trinidad – Died in October, 1885 at Kelseyville, California, U.S.A. – (Obit. 85).

CHRISTIE, Wm. and wife (newly married), of Collingwood (Ontario) – Passengers – Died September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck of the steamer Asia – (JRO 82).

CHRISTIN, W. – Died July 12, 1885 near Mattawa, Ontario – Accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the rapids – (JRO 85).

CHRISTOPHER, Thos. – Died November 21, 1883, Holland Landing, Ontario – Railway accident – (ADS 83).

CHRYSLER, J. P. – Registrar of Deeds, Dundas, Ontario – deceased – Successor appointed on May 14, 1881 – (PAPS Ontario 80-81).

CHRYSLER, John Pliny – ex-M.P. for Dundas in the Can. Assembly – Born February 26, 1801 on Chrysler's Farm, Ontario – Died April 7, 1881, Morrisburg, Ontario – He was a son of Col. J. Chrysler, a U. E. loyalist, who represented Dundas in Parlt. for 16 years. – (Obit. 80-81).

CHURCH, William – Farmer of Leeds, Quebec – Died in September, 1885 at Beauport, Quebec – Becomes hopelessly insane through religious excitement engendered by attendance at Salvation Army meetings in Sherbrooke. He is taken to Beauprot Asylum but dies 2 days after admittance. – (JRO 85).




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