Canadian Deaths 1878-1886
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HACKETT, Thomas Lett – Died July 12, 1877 in Montreal, Quebec – Shot during the Orange troubles – His body, which had been lying in the vault of the Protestant Cemetery, is quietly buried by the Orange Order on July 12, 1880. – (JRO 80-81).

HADEN, Mrs. Richard – Died July 24, 1879, Middleton, Nova Scotia – Killed by lightning – (JRO 79).

HAINAULT, L. – Sheriff of Beauharnois, Quebec – deceased – Successor appointed on December 15, 1880 – (PAPS Quebec 80-81).

HAINAULT, Louis – Sheriff of Dist. of Beauharnois, Quebec – Died November 22, 1880 – (Obit. 80-81).

HAINES, Fred. – Died March 7, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – Fireman crushed under a wall. – (ADS 86).

HAKER, Isaac – Died November 14, 1878, Peel, below Florenceville, New Brunswick – Burnt to death when a a passenger train is thrown off the track and the passenger car rolls down an embankment, catching fire at the same time – (JRO 78).

HALBISON, J. – Died September 24, 1882, St. Catharines, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HALES, Nettie E. – Died August 17, 1886 at Gananoque, Ontario – Drowned. – (ADS 86).

HALL – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 1 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

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

HALL, Charlotte (Miss) – Died June 18, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec where she had long resided aged 76 – She was niece of the late Mr. Benj. Hall – (Obit. 86).

HALL, G. B. – Saw-mill and timber limit owner – deceased – What is probably the largest conveyance of real estate ever made in the Dominion to a private individual is made on June 7, 1883 the vendors being the executors of the estate of the late B. B. Hall and the purchaser Mr. L. A. Senecal. – (JRO 83).

HALL, George – Clerk – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 29 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HALL, George – Merchant – Native of Armagh, Ireland – Died November 13, 1879 in Quebec City – He came to this country when young – (Obit. 79).

HALL, J. W. – Local Master for Wellington of Supreme Ct. of Judicature for Ontario – Deceased, successor appointed on March 8, 1884 – (PAPS Ontario 84).

HALL, James – C.E., P.L.S., ex-M.P. for Peterborough in the Can. Assembly (1848-51, and for East Peterborough in the House of Commons (1874-78) – Born April 1806 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland – Died October 11, 1882 at Peterboro', Ontario – Came to Canada in 1820 with his father, who settled in Lanark, Ontario – (Obit. 82).

HALL, John (Mrs.) – Died October 21, 1883 at Sheet Harbor, Nova Scotia aged 98 – (DL 83).

HALL, Mary, matron – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 23 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HALL, Peter – Died March 24, 1883, Picton, Ontario – Mill accident – (ADS 83).

HALL, Sydney – Died June 14, 1883, Galt, Ontario aged 19 – Drowned – (ADS 83).

HALL, Thos. – Died November 14, 1883, Tweed, Ontario – Exposure – (ADS 83).

HALL, Vice Admiral Robert, C.B., – Navel Secy. To the Admiralty – Born July 5, 1817 at Kingston, Ontario – Died June 11, 1882 in London, England – (Obit. 82).

HALLEN, Rev. George, B.A. (Ch. of Eng.) – Born in 1794 in England – Died September 3, 1882 in Penetanguishene, Ontario – Came to Canada in 1835 – (Obit. 82).

HALLIBURTON, J. C. – Clk. of the Leg. Council, Nova Scotia – Deceased, successor appointed on February 19, 1885 – (PAPS Nova Scotia 85).

HALLIBURTON, John Croke – Clerk of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia (1838) – Died November 7, 1884 at Halifax, Nova Scotia aged 78 – He was the eldes and only surviving son of the late Sir Brenton Halliburton, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. – (Obit. 84).

HALPINE, Wm. Henry (Rev.), M.A. – Late Classical and Mathematical Professor in Huron College, London, Ont. – – Born at Oldcastle, Meath, Ireland – Died October 6, 1878, London, Ontario – Died of paralysis – He was a brother of ''Miles O'Reilly'' the well known American humourist – (Obit. 78, see p. 353).

HALSTEIN, Wm. – Died January 8, 1886 at Eganville, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 86).

HALY, General Sir Wm. O'Grady, K.C.B. – Commander of the Forces – Funeral March 22, 1878 at Halifax, Nova Scotia – (JRO 78).

HALY, William O'Grady (General Sir), K.C.B. – Commander of Her Majesty's forces in B. N. A. – Born in 1811 – Died March 19, 1878, Bellevue House, Halifax, Nova Scotia – Gout of the stomach – He was the son of the late Aylmer Haly, esq., J. P. of Wadhurst Castle, Sussex, England. He married in 1839, Hariette Craven, daughter of Hamilton Hebden, Esq., J. P., of Ely Grange, Frant, Sussex – (Obit. 78).

HAMEL, Peter – Died November 4, 1886 at Chatham, Ontario aged 65 – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

HAMETIN, Louise – Died January 1, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – Explosion of a stove – (ADS 83).

HAMILTON, Chas. C. – M.D., ex M.P.P, having sat for Kings in the N.S. Assembly – Died October 23, 1880, Canard, Nova Scotia aged 67 – (Obit. 80-81).

HAMILTON, David – Died June 11, 1884 in Orillia, Ontario – Shot dead in a house of ill-fame by Peter Cosse, who calls himself ''Doctor Cosse'', and claims to be a private detective, and is attempting to arrest Hamilton on a charge of burglary. – (JRO 84).

HAMILTON, George – Manager of the banking firm of Manning & Co., at Brandon Manitoba – Died August 1882 at Brandon, Manitoba – Died by his own hand. He was a son of Hon. John Hamilton, Senator of Kingston, Ontario – (Obit. 82).

HAMILTON, George (Rev.) (Church of Eng.) – Born January 18, 1850 in Quebec – Died May 6, 1880, South of France – Took a severe cold, in 1879, from the effects of which he never recovered – Eldest son of Robt. Hamilton, Esq., of the firm of Hamilton Bros., Hawkesbury and Quebec. He married in 1870, Grace Julia, second daughter of the late A. Davidson Parker, Esq., of Montreal. – (Obit. 80-81).

HAMILTON, Jno. – Died August 16, 1886 at Orr Lake, Ontario – Drowned while fishing. – (ADS 86).

HAMILTON, Jno. – Died March 1, 1886 at Perth, Ontario – Suffocation – (ADS 86).

HAMILTON, John (Hon.) – Senator (1867-82) – Born 1801 at Queenston, Ontario – Died October 10, 1882 at Kingston, Ontario – He was the son of a Scottish gentleman who settled at Kingston towards the close of the last century – (Obit. 82).

HAMILTON, Thos. – Born in Scotland – Died November 14, 1886 in Harrisburg, Ontario, aged 97 – (DL 86).

HAMILTON, W., of Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ontario – Died November 12, 1884 returning in a skiff from Cape Vincent – Drowned – (JRO 84).

HAMILTON, Wm. (Rev., Presb.), D.D. - Died February 18, 1807 at Garvagh, Derry, Ireland – Died April 13, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – Coming to Canada, he served for a short time at Picton, Ontario, but, in 1848, owing to continual ill-health he removed to the U.S.A. and became pastor successively in Michigan, Ohio and New York. About six years ago, he came to Toronto, where his son Mr. J. C. Hamilton, barrister, resides. – (Obit. 86).

HAMMILL, Thos. – Died June 3, 1885 on the borders of Kootenay Lake (British Columbia) – Murdered by Robert Evan Sproule who was executed on October 29, 1886. – (JRO 86).

HAMMOCK, Sam. – Died May 28, 1882, Walkerville, Ontario – Caught in machinery – (ADS 82).

HANBURY, Miss, of Owen Sound (Ontario) – Passenger – Died September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck of the steamer Asia – (JRO 82).

HANBURY, Thos. and wife, from Owen Sound – Died May 18, 1882 off Shoal Point, 4 miles from Manitowaning, Lake Huron – Lost in the wreck of the steam-ship Manitoulin – (JRO 82).

HANCOCK, James – Blacksmith – Died August 2, 1879 at Hamilton, Ontario – Instantly killed by the a derrick on which he was working – (JRO 79).

HANDY (HARDY?), H. (Mrs.), matron – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 30 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HANDYSIDE, N. J. (Lieut.-Col.) – Late in command of the Victoria Rifles of Montreal – Died September 22, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec – (Obit. 84).

HANEY, F. – Died November 19, 1886 at Dunville, Ontario aged 34 – Mill accident. – (ADS 86).

HANEY, Henry Ryan – M.D., M.P.P. – Born in 1835 – Died November 17, 1878, Fenwich, Ontario – (Obit. 78).

HANIFEE, Jno. – Died February 27, 1886 at Morisburg, Ontario – Suffocation – (ADS 86).

HANLAN – Died July 18, 1883, Deux Rivieres, Ontario – Railway accident – (ADS 83).

HANNA, Michael (Most Revd.) – R.C. Archbishop of Halifax, N.S. – Born July 20, 1821 at Killmallock, Limerick, Ireland – Died April 17, 1882 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – He came to Nova Scotia when 18 years of age – (Obit. 82).

HANNA, W. – Died January 11, 1883, Belleville, Ontario aged 17 – Brakesman, fell between cars – (ADS 83).

HANNAH, Eliza (Mrs.) – Died April 3, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

HANNAHAN, Wm. – Died May 3. 1883 in the Vale mine, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia – Killed when, coming up from his work, the rope attached to the rake breaks, and the boxes run down the slope. – (JRO 83).

HANNON, Mrs. Elizabeth – Died May 10, 1879, Dalhousie, Nova Scotia aged 100 – (JRO 79).

HANSON, H. – Died August 17, 1886 at Victoria, British Columbia, aged 21 – Explosion on board Queen of the Pacific(ADS 86).

HARDY, H. A. – County Crown Attorney, Norfolk, Ontario – deceased – Successor appointed on September 19, 1880 – (PAPS Ontario 80-81).

HARDY, Hy. Alex. – Clerck of the Peace and County Attorney, Norfolk, Ontario – Born in 1811 in County Brant, Ontario – Died September 9, 1880, Simcoe, Ontario – (Obit. 80-81).

HARDY, Nellie – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 3 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HARDY, William – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HARE, Alex., half-breed – Died January 31, 1881, New Westminster, B.C. – Executed with brothers Archibald, Chas., and Allan McLean, half-breeds, for the murder of John Ussher, Government agent at Kamloops, and a settler named Jas. Kelly, in December, 1879 – (JRO 80-81).

HARE, Robert B., Ph.D. – Professor of Chemistry at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario – Born in 1845 in Nepean, near Ottawa, Ontario – Died September 22, 1885 at Guelph, Ontario – (Obit. 85).

HARKIN, Wm., M.D. – M.P.P. for Prescott and Russell in the Ont. Assembly – Born in 1831 at West Hawkesbury, Ontario – Died January 11, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario – Died attending to his Legislative duties – (Obit. 80-81).

HARKLEY, Thos. – Died November 3, 1883, Midland, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 83).

HARKNESS, Thomas Francis – Officiating Collector, East Indian Civil Service – Born in 1843 on St. Helen's Island, opposite Montreal, Quebec – Died October 18, 1879, Mozaffangar, East Indies – His father, Mr. Joseph Harkness, was killed at the Desjardins Bridge disaster on 12th March, 1856; and the widow and children moved from Niagara (Ontario), where thay had been living, to Kingston (Ontario). He visited Canada in 1875, when he was married to a daughter of Rev. Canon Innes, of London, Ontario, to whom he had been attached before leaving home – (Obit. 79).

HARNEY, Gahel – Died March 9, 1881, near Branchton, Ontario – Buried alive in a sandpit. He dies before being relieved – (JRO 80-81).

HARPER, David, hostler – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 47 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HARPER, John – A young person – Died May 25, 1885 in Toronto bay – Drowned in a boat accident. – (JRO 85).

HARPER, Louis George – Dist. Magistrate for Gaspé (1876) – Born February 28, 1830 at Cap Santé, Quebec of Scottish and French descent – Died April 16, 1884 at Percé, Quebec – (Obit. 84).

HARRINGTON, George – Died November 20, 1879, Cookstown, Ontario – Takes a drink of murlatic acid in mistake for whiskey and dies – (JRO 79).

HARRINGTON, Thomas Douglsa – Late Deputy Receiver-General of Canada (1858-78) – Born June 7, 1808 at Windsor, England – Died January 13, 1882 at Prescott, Ontario – Came to Canada in 1832. He was accorded a Masonic funeral, his remains being interred in the old Blue Church Burial ground at Augusta, Ontario – (Obit. 82).

HARRIS, Bessie (Mrs. DeWolf) – Died June 19, 1879, Wolfville, Kings' County, Nova Scotia – Murdered, shot by her husband Dr. Alfred DeWolf who subsequently commits suicide in jail – (JRO 79).

HARRIS, Ed. – Died October 13, 1883, Windsor, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 83).

HARRIS, Eunice Sophia (Mrs. Kaulbach) – Died October 2, 1879, Lunenburgh, Nova Scotia aged 32 – (Obit. 79).

HARRIS, G. S. – Sheriff of Pictou, Nova Scotia – Deceased, successor appointed on June 3, 1885 – (PAPS Nova Scotia 85).

HARRIS, Geo. S. – Hight Sherriff of Pictou, Nova Scotia – Died June 6, 1885 at Pictou, Nova Scotia – (Obit. 85).

HARRIS, Jas. Beveridge (Capt.) – Late Capt. In H. M.'s 24th Regt. (1828) – Died September 5, 1884 at his residence, Benares, Credit, Ontario, aged 88 – (Obit. 84).

HARRIS, Joseph Hemington (Rev.), D.D. – Late Principal of Upper Canada College, Toronto – Died June 29, 1881 in England aged 81 – He came to Canada in 1829 and returned to England in 1837. – (Obit. 80-81).

HARRIS, Moses (Mrs.) – Died August 23, 1886 at East Point, P.E.I aged 104 – (DL 86).

HARRIS, Mrs., a deaf woman – Died November 1, 1879, near Paris, Ontario – Knocked down by a locomotive and instantly killed on the track of the Great Western Railway – (JRO 79).

HARRIS, Samuel (Rev., C. of E.) – Born in 1799 in Suffolk, England – Died November 2, 1884 at Simcoe, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1839. – (Obit. 84).

HARRIS, Thomas – High Sheriff of Vancouver Island, B.C. (1876), first Mayor of Victoria, B.C. – Born in 1816 in Hertfordshire, England – Died December 4, 1884 in Victoria, British Columbia – (Obit. 84).

HARRIS, Wm. H. – High Sheriff of the County of Pictou, N.S. (1857-83) – Born in 1805 at Pictou, Nova Scotia – Died August 1, 1883 at Pictou, Nova Scotia. The Shrievalty was held by the father of the late sheriff, and is now in the enjoyment of latter's son, Mr. G. S. Harris. The family has been connected with Pictou since 1767, in which year his grandfather, Dr. John Harris, afterwards a member of the N.S. Assembly, arrived there with others from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – (Obit. 83).

HARRISON, Charles (Hon.) – ex-M.L.C. of New Brunswick – Born in 1794 at Sheffield, New Brunswick – Died May 8, 1879 – He was a son of the late Lieut. Jas. Harrison, formerly of the New Jersey Volunteers, who went to New Brunswick with other Loyalists at the close of the American Revolutionary war. He was a brother of Rev. Canon Harrison – (Obit. 79).

HARRISON, Frank – Died April 2, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – Suffocated by gas. – (ADS 86).

HARRISON, Harry – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 8y 6m – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HARRISON, Robert Alexander – Chief Justice of Ontario – Funeral November 1, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario, died aged 45 years, 2 months, 29 days – (JRO 78).

HARRISON, Robert Alexander, (Hon.) D.C.L. – Chief Justice of Ontario – Born August 3, 1833 in Montreal, Quebec – Died November 1, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario aged 45 years, 2 months, 29 days – He was the eldest son of the late Richard Harrison, Esq., formerly of Skegarvey, County Monaghan, Ireland, by Frances Butler, of Newtownbulter, Fermanagh, Ireland – (Obit. 78).

HARRISON, William (Rev.) – Clergyman of the Church of England – Died May 5, 1879, Beech Hill, King's, New Brunswick – (Obit. 79).

HART, Adolphus Mordecai – Advocate of Quebec – Born April 11, 1816 at Three Rivers, Quebec – Died March 23, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec – He was a son of Mr. Jas. Henry Craig Hart, of Three Rivers– (Obit. 79).

HART, Joseph (Rev.) – Pastor of the Centenary (Methodist) Church, St. John, N.B. – Born in 1837 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia – Died March 19, 1880 in St. John, New Brunswick – (Obit. 80-81).

HART, Wm. – Died October 23, 1882, Essex Centre, Ontario – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

HARTMAN, M. – Died September 13, 1882, Port Lambton, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HARTT, Charles Frederick, M.A. – Superintendent of the Geological Survey of the Empire of Brazil – Born in 1840 in Fredericton, New Brunswick – Died March 18, 1878, Rio Janeiro, Brazil – Died of yellow fever – He was the son of the late J. W. Hartt, Esq. – (Obit. 78).

HARTZ, Angele – Died August 1, 1885 at Pembroke, Ontario – Drowned – (JRO 85).

HARVEY – Died June 17, 1882, Isle aux Grues, Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HARVEY, Alex – A prominent merchant – Born in 1827 in Aberdeen, Scotland – Died March 7, 1886 in Hamilton, Ontario where he had long resided. – (Obit. 86).

HASLEY, Willoughby – Died July 26, 1882, Brockville, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HASTINGS, Chas. – Died April 27, 1884 in Georgian Bay between Midland and Present Island – Drowned when a yacht is upset during a squall – (JRO 84).

HATTON, D. G. – Police Magistrate, Peterborough, Ontario – deceased – Sussessor appointed on November 25, 1882 – (PAPS Ontario 82).

HAULTAIN, Frederick William (Lt.-Col.) – Registrar of Peterborough (1873) – Born November 7, 1821 at Brussels, Belgium – Died December 9, 1882 at Peterboro', Ontario – The son of the Late Maj.-Genl. Francis Hautain, of the British Army. He came to Canada in 1860 – (Obit. 82).

HAULTAIN, W. – Registrar of Deeds for Peterborough, Ontario – Deceased, successor appointed on January 19, 1884 – (PAPS Ontario 84).

HAVILAND, Robert Arthur – Died November 14, 1883 at Charlottetown, P.E.I., aged 32 – Second son of Lieut.-Gov. Haviland, of P.E.I. – (Obit. 83).

HAWKINS, Rev. Charles W., B.A. – Methodist Clergyman – Died April 13, 1879, Beamsville, Ontario aged 32 – (Obit. 79).

HAWKINS, Thos, M.R.C.S. (Eng.) – Born August 1807 in London, England – Died January 16, 1886 at Port Stanley, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1834. – (Obit. 86).

HAWLEY, D. R. – Died June 10, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec aged 37 – Falls from a trapeze – (ADS 86).

HAWLEY, Joseph Adolphe – an ex-journalist – Born in 1824 in Montreal, Quebec – Died December 11, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Died from the effects of a fall, caused by his throwing himself while deranged from a window in the Notre Dame Hospital – He was a nephew of the late Mr. W. F. Hawley, the author of Quebec, The Harp, &c. – (Obit. 82).

HAWSE, Mrs. A. R. – Died April 8, 1883, Victoria, B.C. – Burnt to death – (ADS 83).

HAY, A. – Died October 1, 1886 at Mildmay, Ontario aged 21 – Falls into a threshing machine – (ADS 86).

HAY, Alex. – Died June 20, 1886 near Winnipeg, Manitoba – Drowned – (ADS 86).

HAY, John – Died March 5, 1883, Galt, Ontario aged 52 – Suicide by drowning – (ADS 83).

HAY, John – School teacher – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 23 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HAYES, John J. – Died February 25, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Shot dead when attempting to separate two men involved in a scuffle. Chas. Smith, chief of the bell-boys at the Windsor Hotel, a coloured man, is found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary – (JRO 82).

HAYES, Michael – Clerk of the Peace and County Crown Attorney for the County of Perth, Ontario – Died June 19, 1879, Stratford, Ontario – (Obit. 79).

HAYMAN, Charles W. – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 2 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HAYMAN, Henry – Bricklayer – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 37 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HAYMAN, Mary Jane, matron – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 37 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HAYVERN, Hugh, a convict – Died December 9, 1881 in Montreal, Quebec – Executed for the murder of another convict, Thos. Slater, on June 29th, 1881 – (JRO 80-81).

HAZARD, John – Measurer and Surveyor of Shipping for the County of Queens, in the Province of Prince Edward Island – deceased – Successor appointed on May 16, 1878 – (PAPS Dominion 78).

HAZARD, Mrs – Died April 18, 1882 in Toronto, Ontario – Suffocated by gas – (ADS 82).

HAZEN, Ida – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HAZLEWOOD, Samuel, C.E. – District Engineer on the Canada Pacific Railway – Born in 1822 in Newtonbarry, Wexford, Ireland – Died January 11, 1879, Brockville, Ontario – Came to Canada in 1851 – (Obit. 78).

HEALE, Mr. – Died September 5, 1883 on Lake Huron beetween Goderich, Ontario to Cove Island, Ontario – Drowned when the schooner yacht Explorer founders. – (JRO 83).

HEALY, Mike – Died December 28, 1882, Ottawa, Ontario – Throws himself over Dufferin Bridge – (ADS 82).

HEARNS, Wm. – Died April 8, 1886, Napanee, Ontario aged 90 – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

HEATH – Died September 1, 1882, Chateauguay Pt., Quebec – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HEATH, Edmund – M.P.P. for Pontiac in Can. Assembly (1857-61); M.P. for same constituency in House of Commons (1867-72) – Born September 13, 1813 in Bristol, England – Died January 21, 1883 in Clarendon, Quebec – (Obit. 83).

HEATHERINGTON, Alexander, F.G.S. – Died March 8, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario – Supposed to have been of Russian origin. Resided in Nova Scotia for some years – (Obit. 78).

HEATHLEY, Thos. – Died August 6, 1883, Guelph, Ontario – Crushed by a caving bank – (ADS 83).

HEATON, Stewart – Died April 25, 1883, Trenton, Ontario – Sawmill accident – (ADS 83).

HEAVENER, Wm., of Rama (Ontario) – Passenger, lumberer or shanty-man going to the woods – Died September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck of the steamer Asia – (JRO 82).

HEBB, Abram – ex-M.P.P. for Lunenburg in the N.S. Assembly – Died September 18, 1880, Hebb's Settlement, Nova Scotia – (Obit. 80-81).

HEBDEN, Miss Ada, of Hamilton, Ontario – Died December 25, 1880, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A – Commits suicide by shooting herself whilst on a visit to her brother – (JRO 80-81).

HÉBERT – Lieut. Canadian Artillery – Deceased, successor appointed on September 14, 1883 – (PAPS Dominion 83).

HÉBERT, Maj. P. O. Joseph – Canadian artillery officer – Born 1853 in Co. of St. John's, Quebec – Died November 1, 1882 at Cairo, Egypt – Died prostrated with fever – (Obit. 82).

HÉBERT, Noël – M.P.P. for Mégantic in the Can. Assembly (1858-63) – Died in July, 1886 – (Obit. 86).

HÉBERT, Paul – Born in Quebec – Died September 29, 1886 in Napierville, Quebec aged 99 – (DL 86).

HECKERDON, Jos. – Died November 15, 1886 near Waterloo, Quebec – Suicide by hanging – (ADS 86).

HECTOR, Geo, Forbes, R.N. – Died June 1, 1884 in Toronto, Ontario – He was a son of Mr. John Hector, Q.C., of Toronto. – (Obit. 84).

HEDLEY, Wm. – Representative in the Maritime Provinces of Dun, Wiman & Co. – Born November 29, 1833 at Oban, Argyll, Scotland – Died June 19, 1885 at Halifax, Nova Scotia – He was the son of Mr. Jno. W. Hedley, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and came to Canada with his grandparents in 1845. – (Obit. 85).

HEFFERNAN, William Owen (Hon.), M.L.C., of Nova Scotia – Born in 1796 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia – Died April 3, 1878 – He was the son of Assistant-Surgeon D. Heffernan, of the Royal Navy; and a grandson of Major Wheaton, of the British Army. He married Lucretia, second daughter of Isaac Wylde, Esq., of Lancashire, England – (Obit. 78).

HEFTERSON – Died September 10, 1886 near Rat Portage, Manitoba (today Kenora, Ontario) – Railway accident. – (ADS 86).

HEIGHTON, Allan – Died May 18, 1880, Great Village, Nova Scotia – Killed by the explosion of a boiler in the saw-mill of McLeland & Blaikie – (JRO 80-81).

HELLMUTH (Mrs.) (née Evans) – Died May 21, 1884 at Birkenhead, England – Wife of the Rev. Dr. Hellmuth, late Bishop of Huron (Ontario). She was a daughter of the late Genl. Thos. Evans, C.B. – (Obit. 84).

HENDERSON, R. – Canadian Voyageur who accompanied Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon, Winnipeg Division – Died during the expedition in 1884 or 1885 – (Appendix 3, 1884)

HENDERSON, Thos. – Died June 4, 1883, Galt, Ontario aged 3 – Drowned – (ADS 83).

HENDERSON, William – Died March 12, 1883 in Toronto, Ontario aged 14 – Railway accident – (ADS 83).

HENDERSON,William – Born Shetland, Scotland – Died August 21, 1883 at Frampton, Quebec aged 100 years and 45 days – (DL 83).

HENEY, Bower, from Ottawa, Ontario – Private in the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards – Died July 12, 1879, Ottawa River aged 24 – Drowned – Last resting place at Beechwood Cemetery – (JRO 79).

HENNEGAR, J. G. (Rev., Methodist, superannuated) – Late President of the Eastern British American Conference – Died in August, 1885 – (Obit. 85).

HENRY – A young man – Died May 31, 1885 near Lachine, Quebec – Accidentally drowned by his boat being upset by a sudden squall – (JRO 85).

HENRY, Robt. – Lumberer – Died May 18, 1882 off Shoal Point, 4 miles from Manitowaning, Lake Huron – Lost in the wreck of the steam-ship Manitoulin – (JRO 82).

HENRY, Wm., of Collingwood (Ontario) – Passenger – Died September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck of the steamer Asia – (JRO 82).

HENSHAW – Died August 22, 1883, near Ottawa, Ontario – Struck by lightning – (ADS 83).

HENSON, Josiah – Pastor; an escaped slave, who became the original of the character of ''Uncle Tom'' – Born June 15, 1789 at Port Tobacco, Maryland, U.S.A. – Died May 18, 1883 at Dresden, Ontario – (Obit. 83).

HENWOOD, Edwin – M.D. (1845) – Died November 1, 1882 at Hamilton, Ontario – (Obit. 82).

HERBERT, St. Leger Algernon, C.M.G. – Born in 1850 at Kingston, Ontario – Died January 19, 1885 near Gubat, Soudan – Killed in action, serving as war correspondent – He was the eldest son of the late Com. F. C. Herbert, R. N. – (Obit. 85).

HERDEN, John (Rev.), M.A. – Rector of the Church of the Ascension, and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Hamilton, Ontario – Born in 1826 in Dublin, Ireland – Died February 2, 1878 at Hamilton, Ontario – (Obit. 78).

HERON, Gilbert – Retired merchant, one of the firm of Dickson, Logan & Co., Toronto, Ontario – Born in 1816 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland – Died January 27, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland – (Obit. 83).

HERON, Mary Ann – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 20 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HERSHEY, Mr., Warden of Welland – Died September 30, 1882, Fort Erie, Ontario – Killed when a dummy car on the International Bridge plunges into the river – (JRO 82).

HETHERINGTON – Died April 18, 1879, near New Liverpool, Quebec – One of four men and two boys drowned by the upsetting of a market boat – (JRO 79).

HETHERINGTON, Wm. – Died October 9, 1884 at Cumminsville, Ontario – Killed when three out of twelve of the buildings used in the manufacture of explosives by the Hamilton Powder Co. are blown up. – (JRO 84).

HETU, Narcisse – Died February 16, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

HEU de BOURCK, Wm. Harvey (Rev., Congregational) – Born in 1803 in London, England – Died August 17, 1883 at Cap Rouge, Quebec, near Quebec City – He emigrated to Canada around 1845. – (Obit. 83).

HEYGHTON, Peter, of Quebec – Chief engineer – 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).

HEYSEL, Jno. – Died October 14, 1886 at Woodstock, Ontario – Killed by a falling tree. – (ADS 86).

HEYWARD, James – Died April 22, 1886 at Wallaceburg, Ontario – Mill accident. – (ADS 86).

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

HIBBARD, Ashley (Lt.-Col.) – Late Commanding 6th Batt. Hochelaga Light Infantry, V.M. – Born March 28, 1827 in Stanstead, Quebec – Died March 23, 1886 at his home ''Commeston,'' near Frelighsburg, Quebec – (Obit. 86).

HIBBARD, Francis (Hon.) – M.L.C. of N.B. – Born in 1811 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – Died November 25, 1880, St. George, New Brunswick – (Obit. 80-81).

HICKS, John G. – Receiver of Wreck – deceased – Successor appointed on May 2, 1878 – (PAPS Dominion 78).

HICKS, Jos. – Died October 11, 1886 at North Gower, Ontario – Shoots himself acciden'tly. – (ADS 86).

HIGGINS, Jesse – Died May 30, 1884 in the township of Rama, about 12 miles from Orillia, Ontario – Beaten by Edward Steele who is arrested, tried, and found ''not guilty''. – (JRO 84).

HIGGINS, W., of Winnipeg, Manitoba – Wholesale merchant – Died November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. – Lost in the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO 85).

HILL, Capt. R. and 12 of the crew – Died November 24, 1880 off Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron, Ontario – Lost in the founder of the steamer Simcoe – (JRO 80-81).

HILL, Charlotte, a poor charity girl – Died on or about September 3, 1880 in Nova Scotia – Murdered by Joseph Nick Thibeau, overseer of the poor, executed in the jail yard at Annapolis, Nova Scotia February 8, 1881 – (JRO 80-81).

HILL, T. – Porter on the AsiaDied September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, OntarioLost in the wreck of the steamer Asia – (JRO 82).

HILLIARD, Geo. – Born Tralee, Ireland – Died April 28, 1882, Ottawa, Ontario aged 110 – (DL 82).

HILLSON, J. – Died February 12, 1883, Sackville, New Brunswick – Railway accident – (ADS 83).

HIMSWORTH – Clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada – deceased – Successor appointed on January 13, 1880 – (PAPS Dominion 80-81).

HIMSWORTH, Wm. Alfred – Clerck of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada – Born August 28, 1820 at Three Rivers, Quebec – Died January 7, 1880, Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit. 80-81).

HINCKS, Emily Delatre (Lady) – Born in 1811 in India – Died May 14, 1880 in Montreal, Quebec – Wife of Hon. Sir Francis Hincks, K.C.M.C., C.B., to whom she was united, 1875, she being then the relict of Hon. Justice R. B. Sullivan of Toronto – (Obit. 80-81).

HINES, Mrs. – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HINKS, Francis (Hon. Sir), K.C.M.G. (1869) – Prime Minister of Canada 1851-54, Governor-in-chief of Barbadoes and the Windward Islands 1855-62, Governor of British Guiana 1862-69 – Born December 14, 1807 in the city of Cork, Ireland – Died August 18, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – Died from small-pox – He settled in Canada in 1832. – (Obit. 85).

HINKS, Matilda (Mrs. Beresford) – Died January 1, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec aged 45 – Relict of Capt. Henry Clement de la Boer Beresford, 3rd West India Regt., and younger daughter of Hon. Sir F. Hinks, C.B., K.C.M.G. – (Obit. 84).

HIRTLE, Wm. – Died June 22, 1886 near Bridgewater, Nova Scotia – Suicide by drowning – (ADS 86).

HISLOP, a train hand – Died August 28, 1881, near Lancaster, Ontario – Killed in a collision on the Grand Trunk Railway – (JRO 80-81).

HOBBS, Wm. A. – Died January 3, 1886 at Hamilton, Ontario aged 27 – Stabbed – (ADS 86).

HOBSON, Robt. – Sheriff of Welland, Ontario – deceased – Successor appointed on September 10, 1881 – (PAPS Ontario 80-81).

HOBSON, Robt. – Sheriff of Welland, Ontario (1856) – Born in 1805 at Appleby, England – Died August 16, 1881, Welland, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1818 – (Obit. 80-81).

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

HODDER, Edward Mulberry – M.D., F.R.C.S (Eng.) – Born December 10, 1810 at Sandgate, Kent, England – Died February 20, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario – He was the son of Capt. Hodder, R. N. He came to Canada around 1838. He was married to a daughter of Captain Tench, H. M. 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. Besides his widow, he leaves a large family of sons and daughters to mourn his loss – (Obit. 78).

HODGES, James, C.E. – Engineer of the contractors in the construction of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, Quebec – Born April 6, 1814 at Quennborough, Kent, England – Died May 28, 1879, Penny-Hill, Bagshot, Surrey, England – (Obit. 79).

HODGSON, Daniel – Clerk of the Crown and Prothonotary, P.E.I. (1830-83) – Born in 1803 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. – Died July 21, 1883 in Charlottetown, P.E.I – He was a son of Mr. Speaker Hodgson, of the P.E.I. Assembly, by Rebecca, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Joseph Robinson, of the South Carolina Regt., a U. E. loyalist, and a brother of the late Sir. Robt. Hodgson, Lieut.-Gov. of P.E.I. He was thrice married, and by his second wife (the youngest daughter of the Hon. Geo. Wright, Presdt. of the Leg. Council) he had two sons : Mr. E. J. Hodgson, the well-known, Q.C., and the Rev. G. W. Hodgson, M.A., an eminent Ch. of Eng. divine. – (Obit. 83).

HODGSON, Geo. Wright (Rev.), M.A. (1864) – Born January 15, 1842 at Charlottetown, P.E.I – Died July 20, 1885 at Chalottetown, P.E.I. – He was the second son of the late Danl. Hodgson, Esq., and a brother of E. J. Hodgson, Esq., the well-known Q.C. – (Obit. 85).

HODGSON, Robert (Sir.) – Late Lieut.-Governor of P.E.I. (1874-79) – Born in 1798 at Charlottetown, P.E.I. – Died September 15, 1880, Charlottetown, P.E.I. – He was the son of Robr. Hodgson, formerly Speaker of the Island Assembly, by rebecca, daughter of Lieut. Col. Joseph Robinson, of the South Carolina Regt. He married in 1827, Fanny, Daughter of the late Capt. Ranald Macdonald, of the Glengarry Light Infantry and Town Major of Charlottetown. – (Obit. 80-81).

HOGAN, Jno., from Toronto – Died May 18, 1882 off Shoal Point, 4 miles from Manitowaning, Lake Huron – Lost in the wreck of the steam-ship Manitoulin – (JRO 82).

HOGAN, Minnie – Died May 24, 1881, London, Ontario aged 12 – Drowned by the upsetting of the steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

HOGGART, James – Miner – Died February 11, 1885 at Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia – Victim of an explsion in the old pit of the Vale colliery – (JRO 85).

HOILE, Mrs., a French Canadian – Died October 13, 1879, Grenville, Quebec aged 109 – (JRO 79).

HOLDEN, James – Managing Director of the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway – Born February 29, 1829 (sic) at Stouffville, Ontario – Died October 24, 1881, Dominion City, Manitoba – (Obit. 80-81).

HOLDEN, John Rose, Barrister at Law – Died February 25, 1879 at Hamilton, Ontario – (Obit. 79).

HOLDEN, Thos. – Police Magistrate at Belleville, Ontario – Died June 28, 1884 at Belleville, Ontario aged 44 – (Obit. 84).

HOLDEN, Thos. – Police Magistrate for Belleville, Ontario – Deceased, successor appointed on July 19, 1884 – (PAPS Ontario 84).

HOLIDAY, George – Died September 8, 1882, Inwood, Ontario – Sawmill accident – (ADS 82).

HOLLER, Conrad – Died September 26, 1885 at Ethel, Ontario – While driving a load of lumber, falls backwards off the load, dislocating his neck, and causing his death in thirty minutes. – (JRO 85).

HOLMAN : a child – Died July 10, 1883 in or around London, Ontario – Drowned in the sudden rise of the river Thames caused by heavy rains. – (JRO 83).

HOLMAN, Miss Julia – Actress and singer – Died August 17, 1879, London, Ontario – She had a sister – (Obit. 79).

HOLMES, Clara – Died August 22, 1883, Port Carling, Ontario aged 15 – Drowned – (ADS 83).

HOLMES, David – Died August 10, 1882, Winnipeg, Manitoba – Railway accident – (ADS 82).

HOLMES, John – P.L.S., ex-M.P.P. – Born in 1828 in Newtownforbes, Longford, Ireland – Died about September 24, 1879, Christ-Church, New Zealand – Came to Canada with his parents in 1846, and settled in Huntley, Ontario. He had recently gone to New Zealand to take possession of a large estate to which he had fallen heir – (Obit. 79).

HOLT – Judge of the Sessions of the Peace for City of Quebec – deceased – Successor appointed on January 16, 1880 – (PAPS Quebec 80-81).

HOLT, Charles Gates, – Q.C., Judge of the Sessions of the Peace at Quebec – Born in 1822 in Quebec City – Died October 4, 1879 in Quebec City – He was the son of the late Mr. Charles A. Holt, merchant, of Quebec – (Obit. 79).

HOLT, J. R., and John McMillan – Died February 1, 1883, Fort Walsh, N. W. T. – Frozen while on their way from Maple Creek to a dance at F. Walsh – (ADS 83).

HOLT, Wm. – Died October 28, 1882, Barrie, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HOLTON, Ezra W. – Merchant – Born September 7, 1810 in Vermont, U.S.A. – Died June 27, 1879, Belleville, Ontario – (Obit. 79).

HOLTON, George C. – Collector of Inland Revenue at Belleville, Ontario – Died November, 1878, Belleville, Ontario aged 36 – (Obit. 78).

HOLTON, Luther Hamilton (Hon.) – M.P., Canadian statesman – Born in October, 1817 in South Leeds, Ontario – Died March 14, 1889 in Ottawa, Ontario – Funeral in Montreal, Quebec. Died suddenly while he was in Ottawa attending to his Parliamentary duties – Early in life went to Montreal, where he lived with his uncle, a Mr. Gilbert, lumber merchant. In 1839 he married Eliza, daughter of Mr. Wm. Forbes of Montreal. – (Obit. 80-81).

HOMER, Joshua Attwood Reynolds – M.P. for New Westminster in the House of Commons (1882-86) – Born in August, 1827 at Barrington, Nova Scotia – Died September 20, 1886 at New Westminster, British Columbia – He went to British Columbia in 1859 – (Obit. 86).

HONE, Jas., and wife – Died October 11, 1884 in Halifax harbour – Drowned by the capsizing of their boat during a squall. – (JRO 84).

HONSBERGER, Jno. – Died April 13, 1886 near Beamsville, Ontario aged 70 – Railway accident – (ADS 86).

HOOKER, Alfred – One of the early pioneers in the forwarding trade between Montreal and the Upper Lakes – Born August 18, 1799 in Meriden, Connecticut– Died August 29, 1880, Prescott, Ontario – (Obit. 80-81).

HOOPER, Angus Cameron – Member of the firm Wm. Dow & Co., Brewers, of Montreal – Native of Sussex, England – Died December 4, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec, aged 58 – He came to Canada about 1854 – (Obit. 84).

HOOPER, Rev. William (Bible Christian) – Died March 1, 1882 at Exeter, Ontario – He entered the ministry in 1840, in England, and, in 1845, was sent as a missionary to America. He had been Presdt. of the B.C. Conference on several occasions – (Obit. 82).

HOOVER, James H. – Died May 19, 1883, Aylmer, Ontario – Explosion of a soda water machine – (ADS 83).

HOPE, Hon. Adam – Senator (1877-82) – Born January 8, 1813 at West Fenton, Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland – Died August 7, 1882 at Hamilton (Ontario) – He came to Canada in 1834 – (Obit. 82).

HOPE, Octave – Died June 5, 1884 at Key Brook, Bromption, Quebec aged 18 – Drowned in Wm. Long's mill-pond. – (JRO 84).

HOPKINS, Abraham, A.B., M.B., M.R.C.S. (Irel.) – Born July 27, 1827 at Shillelagh, Wicklow, Ireland – Died August 28, 1884 at Cookshire, Quebec – (Obit. 84).

HOPKINS, Caleb – ex-M.P.O. for Halton in the U. C. Assembly and in the Can. Assembly – Born in 1787 in New Jersey, U.S.A. – Died October 8, 1880 in Toronto, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1798 with his father who was a loyalist. – (Obit. 80-81).

HOPKINS, Mrs. – Died July 10, 1883, Kensington, Ontario – Drowned in the sudden rise of the river Thames caused by heavy rains. – (JRO 83).

HOPKINS, Wm. – Died April 2, 1883, Belleville, Ontario – Brakesman, Ry. acc'dt – (ADS 83).

HOPKINS, Wm. (Mr.) – Died October 28, 1885 at Peterboro', Ontario – Killed by being thrown out of his buggy while driving – (JRO 85).

HORNE, Charles – Died July 17, 1883, Windsor, Ontario aged 12 – Drowned – (ADS 83).

HORNE, T., of Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ontario – Died November 12, 1884 returning in a skiff from Cape Vincent – Drowned – (JRO 84).

HORRIGAN, P. – Died October 15, 1883, Port Hope, Ontario – Suicide by drowning – (ADS 83).

HORTON, Mrs. C. E. – Died June 1881, Canso, Nova Scotia aged 100 – Death from longevity – (DL 80-81).

HORTON, Wm. – Died May 20, 1879, Fenelon Falls, Ontario – Drowned – (JRO 79).

HORWAY, John – Died May 2, 1882, London, Ontario aged 6 – Burnt to death – (ADS 82).

HOSKINS, Chris. – Died June 30, 1884 at South Wellington colliery, near Nanaimo, British Columbia – Killed when an explosion of gas occurs in shaft No. 3 – (JRO 84).

HOSSACK, Wm. – A young person – Died May 25, 1885 in Toronto bay – Drowned in a boat accident. – (JRO 85).

HOTTE, Sévère Césaire (Rev.) – Retired clergyman of the Church of Rome – Born June 6, 1814 à St. Martin, Quebec – Died August 1, 1879, Notre Dame de Richelieu, Quebec – (Obit. 79).

HOUDE, Frederic – M.P. for Maskinongé in the House of Commons (1878-84), Lieut.-Col. commanding the 86th Three Rivers Batt. of Infantry (Volunteer Militia) – Born September 23, 1847 at Rivière-du-Loup en haut, Quebec – Died November 15, 1884 at Rivière-du-Loup en haut, Quebec – Buried with military honours. He founded in 1857 a paper called L'Avenir National at St. Alban's, Vermont, U.S.A. In 1870 or 1871, he was one of the publishers of Le Foyer Canadien at Worcester, Mass. U.S.A. In 1874, he became editor of Le Nouveau Monde of Montreal, Quebec. – (Obit. 84).

HOUDE, Mad. (Madame Bélanger) – Born Quebec – Died March 27, 1882 St. Jean P. Joli, Quebec aged 101 – (DL 82).

HOUDE, Moise – Represented Maskinongé, Quebec in the Can. Assembly from 1863 ot the Union in 1867, and subsequently in the Quebec Assembly – Died in July, 1885 at Louisville, Quebec – (Obit. 85).

HOUGH – Working man – Died February 10, 1882, near Madoc, Ontario – Died as a result of an exposion of a demijohn of coal oil, setting a residence on fire – (JRO 82).

HOULISTON, Jno. – An old and respected merchant – Born June 8, 1801 on the Lammermoor hills, Scotland – Died December 30, 1885 at Three Rivers, Quebec, where he had resided since 1830. – (Obit. 86).

HOW, Henry, D.C.L. – Professor of Chemistry in King's College, N. S. – Died September 27, 1879 – (Obit. 79).

HOWARD, Gunner (B Batt) – Died August 2, 1882, Pittsburg, Ontario – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HOWARD, Isaac Brock (Rev., Meth., retired) – Died January 31, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – (Obit. 86).

HOWE, Michael Callanan , M.A., LL.D. (1859) – Born in Tipperary, Ireland – Died August 3, 1884 at Sidney, New South Wales – He came to Canada (Ontario) in 1851 and proceeded to Australia in 1866. – (Obit. 84).

HOWE, Thos. – Died October 29, 1883, Windsor, Ontario – Railway accident – (ADS 83).

HOWE, Wm., Q.C. (1873) – For many years Registrar of Probate, Halifax, Nova Scotia – Died June 8, 1886 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 72 – He was a half brother of the late Hon. Joseph Howe. – (Obit. 86).

HOWELL, Bus. – Died November 19, 1879, Oakville, Ontario – Lost when the scow Pinta is sunk – (JRO 79).

HOWELL, James (Rev.) – Late Secy. of the Can. Congregational Indian Missionary Society – Born in 1809 in Hampshire, England – Died November 5, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario – Came to America in 1854, and subsequently removed to Canada. – (Obit. 80-81).

HOWELL, Thomas – Died June 17, 1882, Belleville – Drowned – (ADS 82).

HOWICH, J. – Died July 28, 1882, Blind River (Ontario?) – Bursting of a pulley – (ADS 82).

HOWICK, Levi – Died August 9, 1883, St. Williams, Ontario – Boiler explosion – (ADS 83).

HOWIE : newborn boy of John Howie – Died December 13, 1883, Hanwell Settlement, New Brunswick – The wife of John Hovie is delivered of 4 boys, one of whom only lives a few hours, but the others seem strong and hearty. – (JRO 83).

HOWIE, James (Rev., Presb.) – Born in 1814 in Kilmarnock, Scotland – Died in November, 1884 at Comber, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1864. – (Obit. 84).

HOWIE, Maggie – Died March 28, 1882, Napanee, Ontario aged 17 – Murdered with an axe by Michael Lee on her refusing to marry him. His death sentence is commuted for imprisonment for life, on the ground of insanity – (JRO 82).

HOWLAND, Lydia (Mrs.) – Native of Paulding, Duchess County, New York, U.S.A. – Died September 14, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario where she had lived for 40 years, aged 95 – Wife of the late Mr. Jonathan Howland, and mother of Sir W. P. Howland, K.C.M.G. – (Obit. 80-81).

HOWLAND, Susannah Julia (Lady) – Born May 4, 1830 – Died February 21, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – Wife of the Hon. Sir W. P. Howland, K.C.M.C., C.B., formerly Lieut.-Governor of Ontario, to whom she was united, as his second wife, 1866. Her first husband was Mr. Hunt, of the Military Store Dept. – (Obit. 86).

HOYER, Antoine – Died June 8, 1883, East Templeton, Quebec – Mine accident – (ADS 83).

HOYLES, Jean (Lady) – Died Januray 17, 1886 at Halifax, Nova Scotia – Wife of Sir H. W. Hoyles, formerly Chief Justice of Newfoundland – (Obit. 86).

HUBBARD, Nathaniel – Judge of Probates and Registrar of Deeds and Wills for Sunbury, N.B. – Died May 29, 1878, Burton, County of Sunbury, New Brunswick – He was the son of the late Judge Wm. Hubbard – (Obit. 78).

HUBERT, Rene Auguste Richard – Joint Prothonotary of the Dist. of Montreal (1866) – Born June 5, 1811 at St. Denis, River Chambly, Quebec – Died June 16, 1884 at Montreal, Quebec – He was related to the late Sir G. E. Cartier. – (Obit. 84).

HUDON, Edmond (Rev.), S.J. – Born March 10, 1838 in Montreal, Quebec – Died March 20, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec – He was a son of Victor Hudon, Esq. – (Obit. 79).

HUDON, Pantaléon – Editor of La Voix du Peuple (St. John's, Quebec) – Died August 17, 1879, St. John's, Quebec aged 35 – (Obit. 79).

HUE, J. B. – Died August 11, 1886 at Norwich, Ontario – Waggon accident. – (ADS 86).

HUGHES, Mrs. (née Thompson) – Died February 13, 1883 at Willow Grove, about 12 miles from St. John, N.B. – Murdered by her husband Wm. Hughes, a coloured man – It appears that Mrs. Hugues left her husband on account of alleged illtreatment, and went to reside with her mother, Mrs. Henry Thompson, at Willow Grove. Hughes follows, and endeavours to persuade his wife to return with him, and on her refusing, he seizes an axe and chops her several times about the neck and head. He his sentenced to be hanged on the 9th May, on which day the sentence is carried out in the jail yard in St. John. – (JRO 83).

HUGHES, Wm., gunner in the Royal Artillery – Died January 17, 1879, Fort Cambridge Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia – Fell asleep on the road while intoxicated and froze to death – (JRO 79).

HUGILL, Emily – Died July 30, 1879 at Brockville, Ontario aged 18 – Accidentally drowned while out bathing – Daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Hugill, of the Methodist Communion – (JRO 79).

HUGILL, Sophia – Died July 30, 1879 at Brockville, Ontario aged 12 – Accidentally drowned while out bathing – Daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Hugill, of the Methodist Communion – (JRO 79).

HUGUES, Arthur Henry – Surgeon Major, of the Indian Medical Dept. – Born in 1847 in Toronto, Ontario – Died April 24, 1882 at Bombay, India – (Obit. 82).

HUGUES, Josias Chas. – Indian agent at Metlakahtla, British Columbia – Born May 5, 1843 at Omemee, Ontario – Died November 8, 1886 at New Westminster, British Columbia – He went to B.C. in 1862. – (Obit. 86).

HUGUES, Wm. – Died May 9, 1883 in St. John, New Brunswick – Hanged for the murder of his wife on February 13, 1883. – (JRO 83).

HUME, Catherine (Mrs. Blake) – Died February 3, 1886 at London, Ontario – Died the result of an accident – Widow of the late Hon. Wm. Hume Blake, formerly Chancellor of Upper Canada, and mother of the Hon. Edward Blake, Q.C., M.P. She was a grand-daughter of Wm. Hume, Esq. of Humewood, M.P. for Wicklow in the British House of Commons. – (Obit. 86).

HUNT, Weston – a Quebec merchant – Died September 21, 1882 in Quebec City aged 73 – (Obit. 82).

HUNTER, Corp., A Bat'y – Died October 10, 1883 in Quebec – Killed while shifting ordnance – (ADS 83).

HUNTER, Mrs. – Died August, 1881, Markham, Ontario aged 100 – Death from longevity – (DL 80-81).

HUNTINGDON, Richard – Proprietor of the Yarmouth (N.S.) Tribune – Died in May, 1883 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia aged 64 – (Obit. 83).

HUNTINGTON, Lucius Seth (Hon.), Q.C. (1863) – A public man – Born May 26, 1827 at Compton, Quebec – Died May 19, 1886 in New York City, U.S.A. – His remains were brought to Montreal and interred in Mount Royal Cemetery. He was the grandson of a U. E. Loyalist, who at the close of the war of the Revolution removed to the County of Compton and took up land on the banks of the Coaticook river. He was twice married : first to Miriam Jane, a daughter of Major Wood, of Shefford (who died in 1871), and secondly to Mrs. Marsh, of New York, in October, 1877. He removed to New York in 1879 or shortly afterwards. His son, Mr. R. W. Huntington, who died in 1879, was editor of the Montreal Herald. – (Obit. 86).

HUNTINGTON, Russ Wood, B.C.L. – Journalist – Died November 13, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec aged 25 – He was much of his time occupied by attendance during a fatal illness on a wife to whom he had been married only a few months. He was the eldest son of Hon. L. S. Huntington, Q.C., M.P. – (Obit. 79).

HUNTON, Wm. Arthur – Died December 10, 1879, Ottawa, Ontario aged 23 – Accidentally shoots himself in his mother's house while cleaning a shot gun, one barrel of which is loaded – (JRO 79).

HUOT, Zepherin, of St. Norbert, Quebec – a wealthy farmer – Died December 27, 1882 – Murdered during a fight. Chabot, father and son, Blanchette, and Orr are arrested and held for trial – (JRO 82).

HURD : two children of L. Hurd – Died May 10, 1886 at St. Raymond, Quebec, aged 3 and 4 years – Burnt to death – (ADS 86).

HURD, Wm. – Teamster – Died December 8, 1885 at Seaton Village, Ontario – Buried in an avalanche of frozen earth and sand while loadin his waggon at a sand pit. – (JRO 85).

HURLOW, Allen – Died September 29, 1886, County of Queens – Breaks his neck – (ADS 86).

HURTEAU, Isidore – one of the Arbitrators for Canada – Deceased – Successor appointed on December 24, 1879 – (PAPS Dominion 79)

HURTEAU, Isidore ( Lieut. Col.) – Dominion Arbitrator – Born July 11, 1815 at Contrecoeur, Quebec – Died December 16, 1879, Longueuil, Québec – (Obit. 79).

HURTEAU, Marie-Albine Cordélie (Madame Dansereau) – Died August 4, 1879, Montréal, Québec aged 36 – Wife of C. A. Dansereau, Esq., advocate, and editor of La Minerve. She was a daugther of I. Hurteau, Esq.,, official arbitrator – (Obit. 79).

HURTUBISE, M. – Born in Quebec – Died November 5, 1885 in Quebec aged 100 – (DL 85).

HUSBAND, Willie – Died April 4, 1883, Port Rowan, Ontario aged 7 – Killed by a log rolling on him – (ADS 83).

HUSTON, S. – Died March 13, 1882, Rat Portage, Manitoba (today Kenora, Ontario) – Cuts his throat – (ADS 82).

HUTCHINSON, a man – Died November 28, 1879, Saurin, near Elmvale, Ontario – killed by the bursting of a circular saw in Cooper's shimble mill – (JRO 79).

HUTCHINSON, Denis – Died February 22, 1883 aged 30 – Died of injuries inflicted by Jas. Worthylake during a quarell and fight that took place at Marshalltown, 5 miles from Digby, Nova Scotia on February 5, 1883, Hutchinson killing Worthylake. They quarelled with reference to a niece of Hutchinson, who had an illegitimate child, of which Worthylake was reputed to be the father. – (JRO 83).

HUTCHINSON, James (Rev.) – Superannuated clergyman of the Church of England, diocese of Huron, Ontario – Died April, 1878 – (Obit. 78).

HUTCHINSON, Mrs. – Died July 10, 1883, London West, Ontario – Drowned in the sudden rise of the river Thames caused by heavy rains. – (JRO 83).

HUTCHISON : child of E, Hutchison – Died February 4, 1886 at Fredericton, New Brunswick – Drowned – (ADS 86).

HUTCHISON, Alex. Rankin – M.D. – Born April 5, 1853 at Miramichi, New Brunswick – Died October 19, 1880, Bundarra, N.S.W., Australia – He studied at Harvard, Edinburgh, Dublin and London. In 1879 he left London for Australia. – (Obit. 80-81).

HUTT, J. W. (Mrs) – Died January 29, 1882 at Halifax, Nova Scotia – Falls off wharf, while landing from a vessel – (ADS 82).

HUYGENS, E. (Rev.), S.J. – Clergyman of the Church of Rome – Born in 1818 in Belgium, of Flemish extraction – Died January 21, 1879 in Quebec – He ad been a resident of Canada since 1872 – (Obit. 79).

HYMAN, Ellis Walton – Merchant – Died April 12, 1878, London, Ontario aged 63 – He came to Canada in 1834 from Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He was twice married – first, to Miss Brown, of Ingersoll; second to the daughter of the late W. Niles Esq., M.P.P. – (Obit. 78).



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