dissatisfied members of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation at Champlain. He began to levy charges for certain dispensations that he granted, both “to strengthen the sinews of discipline” and to provide

Cartier*, the military alliance of Samuel de Champlain* with the Hurons, and the behaviour of Jacques-René de

, with his partners in the ironworks, he bought from Alexander Ellice the seigneury of Champlain, near Trois

tribes who were to aid in the defence of Lake Champlain. In August Louis-Joseph sent Bourlamaque a

war of 1812–1814 on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain (Ottawa, 1977). R. A. Preston, “The fate of Kingston’s warships,” Historic Kingston, 1 (1951–52), no.5: 3–14. A. J

, and no ways answer immediate exigencies.” What was particularly urgent was to ensure control of the main access routes – the Richelieu and Lake Champlain on one hand, the upper St Lawrence and

to leave for the colonies.” Although the citizens of Montreal protested, the unfortunate magistrate got off with taking the road to Lake Champlain and being “kept a prisoner for 18 months

Neptune and a Wolfe for two commercial buildings at Quebec (1901), a bust of Champlain for the capital’s tercentenary (1908), and a Frontenac and a Lord Elgin for

the Indians. After leaving Trois-Rivières 16 May 1646, the expedition ascended the Richelieu and crossed Lake Champlain. Jogues was the first

-stock, which was second-hand, had been bought from the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. Along with these contributions to the economic

numerous property transactions at Quebec, where he owned houses and lots on Rue de la Montagne, Rue Champlain, and Rue Saint-Louis, speculated on lands in the townships, and was a member of the Quebec Fire

1681, at Champlain where her parents were dwelling at the time after living at Batiscan, she married Jacques Aubuchon, by whom she had a daughter. She married again, in 1688, at Batiscan, her second

the astronomical position of the lights at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, and supervising construction and maintenance of a portion of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. In the process he assumed the

l’hon. M. Lemieux à Niagara Falls, Ont. (n.p., 1908); Speeches, by Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, postmaster general of Canada, delivered at the Champlain Tercentenary, 1909 (n.p., [1909

stories of Samuel de Champlain*, Jacques Cartier*, Huronia, and the like

pioneer Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad and a fervent promoter, major shareholder, and director of the St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad; the latter, running 245 miles from Saint-Lambert

. Mure took other steps to solidify his commercial base at Quebec. In 1809 he secured from the government a 21-year lease to the King’s Wharf on Rue Champlain. This large dock and storage facility became

industrial development of the region. In 1831 McGill became the first chairman of the board of directors of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad

(Toronto, 1913). In the same year he sent off an almost-completed book-length manuscript to the Champlain Society, but it was rejected because it was a long narrative history rather than a collection of

in my editorial work on the Champlain Society’s volume, The papers of the Palliser expedition, 1857–1860 (Toronto, 1968). A few new fragments of information have come to light since that work