Canada
Quebec
Lacolle
Hundreds of Yorkshire families settled in Lacolle, Quebec during the depressed years after the Napoleonic Wars. They took with them new and better methods of farming and husbandry. Over 170 years many of their descendants are farming the same land.
John Cockerline
John was born 1797 at Hollyn in the East Riding of Yorkshire; he died 1872 in Henrysburg, Quebec. He married 1823 Mary JACKSON (See below) in Easington, Yorkshire. She was born 1803 in Skeffling, Yorkshire; she died 1869 in Henrysburg, Quebec. Her father, Marmaduke Jackson also moved to Lacolle.
Frobisher
Benjamin FROBISHER (1740-1787) born in Halifax, Yorkshire. Eldest of the Frobisher brothers that went to Canada to become succesful fur traders. He went to live in Montreal, Quebec and worked in the fur trade. When his brothers, Benjamin, Thomas and Joseph joined him they traded as Frobisher & Co., then later changed the name to the North West Company, who became rivals to the Hudsons Bay Company.Thomas FROBISHER (1744-1788) born Halifax, in 1776 he founded the first trading post at La Crosse, a stepping stone to the Athabasca Lake country. He died in Montreal in 1788, aged 44.
Joseph FROBISHER (1748-1810) born in Halifax, travelled as far as the Churchill River in northern Canada. He nearly died of starvation when he spent the winter of 1744-5 on the Athabasca River, in an attempt to cut off the fur trade from Fort Churchill downriver to the Hudson Bay Company. In 1776, he settled in Montreal and became a wealthy fur merchant. In 1798, he retired and lived at Beaver Hall. He died in 1810 aged 62.
Hague
George Hague, general manager of the Mercantile Bank, Montreal, was born 1825 in Rotherham, to John and Sarah (Nee Dyson). He spent several years with the Sheffield Banking Co. He went to Canada where he was Financial Manager for a railroad company. He later joined the Bank of Toronto where he was made Cashier in 1856. In 1877 he accepted the Presidency of the Merchants Bank. In 1908 he published a book, 'Banking and commerce'. He died aged 90 at his home Rotherwood in Montreal.Jackson
Marmaduke Jackson. His 4 older children were baptised in the East Riding of Yorkshire:- 1823 Ann
- 1825 Ester
- 1829 William
- 1832 John.
Their younger children: Mary (1835); Elizabeth (1838) and Charles (1841) were born in Henrysburg, Quebec
