Bainbrigge, Philip John, 1817-1881 : Philip John Bainbrigge (1817-1881), son of General Sir Philip Bainbrigge (1786-1862), was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, on January 16, 1817. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1830 and graduated in 1833. He requested for a posting abroad and arrived in Canada on June 25, 1838, in time to take part in the military operations along the Richelieu River and at St. Eustache during the Rebellion of 1837-8. He travelled widely in Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritimes, reporting on fortifications and other defensive measures.
He was assigned on special survey duty concerning the Maine-New Brunswick boundary dispute and was acting as adjutant from 1841 until his return to England on August 4, 1842.
Bainbrigge is associated with a large group of other officers and colonial officials and their families in terms of copying and exchanging art works. He copied works by or loaned works to such individuals as Millicent Mary Chaplin, George St. Vincent Whitmore, Fanny Bayfield, Henry James Warre, Alexander Mercer, and James P. Cockburn. Bainbrigge painted mostly watercolour scenes of Upper and Lower Canada.
Married in 1846 to Margaret Jane, daughter of Colonel Paterson, Bainbrigge died at Blackheath on October 23, 1881.
Vincent, Nicolas, 1769-1844 : Nicolas Vincent (baptized Ignace-Nicolas; called Tsaouenhohoui) was born in 1769 in Jeune-Lorette. He was the son of Louis Vincent (Sawantanan) and Louise Martin (Thodatowan). Named War Chief in 1803, Nicolas Vincent went on to become Grand Chief of the Huron-Wendat Nation in 1810. During his mandate, he embarked on a long process of land claims that took him to England in 1825, where he presented the grievances of his people to King Georges IV. He also had to face the numerous problems caused by colonization, including logging within the borders of the lands the Hurons-Wendat needed for subsistence.
The first Aboriginal to speak to the Members of the Assembly of Lower Canada, at the request of colonial authorities, in 1829, he drew the map known as the "Vincent Plan", identifying a portion of the hunting lands used by his compatriots. After a long political career, Nicolas Vincent died on November 1, 1844 at the age of 75.
