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CORTE-REAL, GASPAR
FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN
ROLET (Rollet), MARIE (Dufeu; Hébert; Hubou)
LAURIER, Sir WILFRID (baptized Henry-Charles-Wilfrid)
SIMPSON, Sir GEORGE
CARLETON, GUY, 1st Baron DORCHESTER
McGEE, THOMAS D’ARCY
GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY
GAULTIER DE VARENNES ET DE LA VÉRENDRYE, PIERRE
BRÛLÉ, ÉTIENNE
THOMPSON, Sir JOHN SPARROW DAVID
JARRET DE VERCHÈRES, MARIE-MADELEINE
ST-LAURENT, LOUIS-STEPHEN (baptized Louis-Étienne)
MANCE, JEANNE
MACLEOD, JAMES FARQUHARSON
GUYART, MARIE, named de l’Incarnation (Martin)
CARTIER, Sir GEORGE-ÉTIENNE
DIEFENBAKER, JOHN GEORGE
WOLFE, JAMES
VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS
TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT
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