page_title: Robert Unwin Harwood
section_title: Arrival in Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Unwin Harwood / Arrival in Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Marie-Louise Josephte Harwood (1803-1869)
context_page_description: Robert Unwin Harwood was the last seigneur of Vaudreuil, commanding officer of the Vaudreuil Militia, and for thirty years a political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.
context_section_description: Harwood was christened at Sheffield Cathedral, England, third son of William Harwood and Elizabeth Unwin. Representing William Harwood & Sons- his family's wholesale silver and hardware business in Sheffield that exported to Jamaica, Bermuda, Baltimore and Lower Canada -he came to Montreal in 1821. The obscure young merchant's fortunes were significantly improved when, two years later, he married Marie-Louise Josephte de Lotbinière (1803 - 1869), eldest daughter of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière.
caption: Marie-Louise Josephte (Chartier de Lotbinière) Harwood, Seigneuresse de Vaudreuil; painted by Anson Dickinson c. 1824. Courtesy of McCord Museum
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