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Saint-Roch and along the St Lawrence on Rue Champlain, as well as of a farm and sawmill in Stoneham Township, north of Quebec. A number of these properties, fitted up as shops, inns, or other commercial
 
. In November 1798 James Johnston made his will, and on 8 April 1800 he died at Quebec in his house on Rue Champlain. With his death the firm of Johnston and Purss was dissolved and its
 
Fort Chambly on the upper Richelieu, then extended down the Richelieu to Fort Saint-Jean where it linked up with a ferry, a flat-bottomed boat built in 1741 to navigate on Lake Champlain as far as Fort
, Prouville de Tracy. On his return he escorted the army chaplain to Fort Sainte-Anne on Lake Champlain. In addition, in the summer of 1671, he took part, as an interpreter, in a new expedition to
 
, and at Lake Champlain, Vt. When the bridge was completed on 30 Nov. 1859 it was the world’s longest bridge, and to eulogize the engineers engaged on the project Legge wrote A glance at the
 
remained there long. On 20 July 1755 Beaujeu was granted the seigneury of Beaujeu on the west shore of Lake Champlain, but the concession apparently
 
. Following the arrival of reinforcements from Britain in May and June 1776 the Americans hurriedly left the colony. That fall a struggle developed for the control of Lake Champlain, and in the naval
 
conference in New York City. Bishop Francis Asbury appointed him to open up a new area around Lake Champlain, but Losee remained in this district only a few months before obtaining permission to minister to
 
gratitude for his father’s missionary work. However, Lÿdius settled on the Hudson River at the great portage between the Hudson valley and Lake Champlain. His establishment, called Fort Lydius (Fort Edward
. Most of the letters have been published by the Champlain Society in Letters of Letitia Hargrave, intro. by M. A. MacLeod. PAM
 
he moved there and opened an office and warehouses for lumber which was shipped from Lake Champlain down the Rivière Richelieu to Quebec. Macnider, Durette, and Marchand decided to terminate their
 
forced to launch a new life. Initially, along with other loyalist officers and soldiers, Meyers settled at Missisquoi Bay, at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. His family soon joined him in Quebec and
 
Lanoullier* de Boisclerc to Batiscan, Champlain, and finally Saint-Maurice, he drew up a report to Maurepas, the minister of Marine, which included an assessment of the favourable and disadvantageous
 
) in 1759 and of a combat near the subsequent site of Sherbrooke. The surveyor general commissioned him to survey and subdivide several townships around lakes Champlain and Memphrémagog, including those
 
 Sault-au-Récollet, ses rapports avec les premiers temps de la colonie; mission-paroisse (Montréal, 1898), 182–84, 192–95, 201, 212–18. [Prosper Cloutier], Histoire de la paroisse de Champlain
 
fers, La découverte du Canada, Champlain, Maisonneuve, Dollard, Montcalm ou la trahison), and three biblical dramas (Le meurtre de Caïn, Joseph, Les
 
. On the documentary sources see PAC Report, 1883; 1894; 1912, 18, 23–24. Champlain, Works (Biggar), V, VI, Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, I
 
Quebec in October 1783. Savage applied for lands east of Lake Champlain. The Allen brothers, who commanded the Green Mountain Boys, were then trying
the Ohio, Niagara, and Lake Champlain fronts for 1755. Johnson was selected to command the expedition against Fort Saint-Frédéric because of his influence with the Indians, who were a key factor in
city changed the street names Sydenham, Seaton, and Durham to Maisonneuve, Champlain, and Plessis. He became better known, however, as the champion of the Conservative party. More than 200 Tory
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