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SWAN, ANNA HAINING
NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN
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SMITH, DONALD ALEXANDER, 1st Baron STRATHCONA and MOUNT ROYAL
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HUBBARD, MABEL GARDINER (Bell)
GUYART, MARIE, named de l’Incarnation (Martin)
BUADE, LOUIS DE, Comte de FRONTENAC et de PALLUAU
CHAUVIGNY, MARIE-MADELEINE DE (Gruel de La Peltrie)
MEMBERTOU (baptized Henri)
WOLFE, JAMES
FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN
MARTIN, ABRAHAM (dit “l’Écossais” or “Maître Abraham”)
McGEE, THOMAS D’ARCY
GALT, Sir ALEXANDER TILLOCH
JACQUELIN, FRANÇOISE-MARIE
CAVELIER DE LA SALLE, RENÉ-ROBERT
McDOUGALL, WILLIAM
TILLEY, Sir SAMUEL LEONARD
GRANT, CUTHBERT (d. 1854)
ST-LAURENT, LOUIS-STEPHEN (baptized Louis-Étienne)
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