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Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB (August 11, 1718 – June 5, 1791) was a British army officer and governor.
Haldimand was born, baptised and died in Yverdon, Switzerland as François-Louis-Frédéric Haldimand and spent his early military career, from 1740 to 1756, in North America during the Seven Years' War. He remained in Canada after it was conquered from the French in 1759, serving as military governor of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He became governor of Quebec (which at the time included what is now Ontario) in 1778 serving through the American Revolution.
Haldimand built up Quebec's defences and sent raiding parties (Carleton's Raid (1778) and the Burning of the Valleys in 1780) into the rebellious American colonies. At the end of the American Revolution he helped settle American refugees who became known as United Empire Loyalists in what became Ontario and also settled the Six Nations in Canada.
Haldimand County, Ontario and Haldimand Beach near the town of Gaspé, Quebec are named after him.
External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Index of the 232 series of the Haldimand Collection
1718 births | 1791 deaths | Governors of British North America | Natives of Vaud | British Army generals | Knights of the Bath | Lieutenant Governors of the colonial Province of Quebec
"Frederick Haldimand"