-surveyor and builder; born at Trois-Rivières in 1654, son of Pierre Lefebvre and of Jeanne Aunois; married Catherine Trottier of Champlain on 3 Nov. 1683, and had eight children; buried at Trois
, his last property, a land grant at Champlain.
He went then to the island of Montreal, where the 1681 census mentions his presence and that of his wife
ACM, B.187, 5655, 5656. Champlain, Works (Biggar). Factum (1614). Couillard Després, Saint-Étienne de La Tour. Huguet, Poutrincourt. Candide de Nant, Pages
missions were set up. After a period of rest at the seminary, he attempted to resume his ministry at Champlain, but he contracted a serious illness there and went to Quebec, where he died soon after, on 23
Champlain, Neuville (Pointe-aux-Trembles), Repentigny, Saint-Joseph de la Pointe-de-Lévy, Sainte-Anne de Beaupré, and Saint-Michel. He was rewarded for this missionary life by being appointed a canon on 20
records his name appears. In 1686 he replaced the parish priest of Trois-Rivières, M. de Bruslon. From October 1687 to November 1688 he carried out the duties of parish priest at Champlain
. She then taught at Champlain, but in 1678 and 1683 she was at Ville-Marie. Her brother Nicolas, a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris, died in 1687, leaving her all his fortune. She donated it to the
Champlain’s advice, she and her family (i.e., her third husband, her 15-year-old son Guillaume, her surviving daughter
DAZEMARD (Dassemat, Dazmard, Dazmat) DE LUSIGNAN, PAUL-LOUIS, captain in the colonial regular troops, commandant; b. at Champlain (Que
Father Delhalle left the pays d’en haut he passed through Champlain: a certificate of baptism in the parish registers, dated 25 Sept. 1701 and signed by him
was one of the Montreal promoters who merged this railway with its major competitor, the Champlain and St Lawrence, in 1855, after a vicious rate war threatened to bankrupt both companies. He also
Reformers faced the supporters of Governor Charles Metcalfe*, and was elected on the Reform ticket in the county of Champlain. His
Carillon (Ticonderoga, N.Y.). Upon reaching Lake Champlain he suggested to the officer commanding the sector, Bourlamaque*, that
three years later with the tercentenary of the arrival at the Saint John River of Samuel de Champlain* and Pierre
, after 1692, henrÿ Bélisle; É.-Z. Massicotte called him Henri Belisle-Levasseur on unknown authority), barber-surgeon at Quebec, Detroit, Champlain, and Pointe-aux
for Gentilly (Bécancour) between 1817 and 1825; a cornice and baptismal fonts at Champlain from 1819 to 1823; a high altar at Batiscan around 1820; a vault and cornice for Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville
and three children, and acted as a frontier guide in the Lake Champlain region. As a result of this decision 600 acres of land he owned along the Connecticut River were reportedly confiscated, together
decision to fortify the Lake Champlain approaches to the colony, Bleury entered his element. He became chief of the intendant’s transportation services in the region. His enormous fleet of bateaux, each
of Dieppe, one of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés who had left France to relieve Champlain at Quebec