joined 74 other shareholders to found the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. He continued to engage in trade, enjoying success until 1837. On

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

. Polette was married three times: on 20 Feb. 1830, at Champlain, to his cousin Henriette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Dubuc, a well-known merchant of Quebec and Batiscan; in 1834, at Quebec, to Anne

Killaly’s son Jack, he secured a job as an assistant engineer for the contractor who was building the eastern division of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad. “I was very glad that you have at length

* Des Ormeaux, or events such as the battle of the Monongahela. He also wrote a long “Exposé des principaux événements arrivés en Canada depuis Jacques-Cartier jusqu’à la mort de Champlain,” which came

his grandfather, Olivier Trudel, represented the county of Champlain in the Lower Canadian assembly from 1830 to 1838. François-Xavier-Anselme

., Manitoba and the great north-west . . . (Guelph, Ont., 1882). The original of his journal for the years 1869–70, published by the Champlain Society as Red River journal (Morton), is

Champlain Sea occupied the entire valley of the St Lawrence River and extended into Lake Champlain. Upon this sea many boulder-laden icebergs had floated, leaving their mark on the deposits below

and destroyed, as were the printing equipment on the premises and the finished copies, lithographic plates, and illustrations of the first edition of the Œuvres de Champlain, edited by Abbé

Rideau Canal to Oswego, N.Y., and a branch of the Erie Canal. He relocated in Montreal in 1848 to manage better a forwarding network that had been extended east to Quebec and south to the Lake Champlain

. His father as well was one of Papineau’s standard-bearers in the assembly, where he represented the constituency of Champlain from 1830 to 1838. The elder Dorion was also a general merchant in Sainte

Casgrain*, during digs at Quebec to determine the location of Samuel de Champlain*’s grave. In the end, Drapeau’s view prevailed. From 1849

-Jacques*, the rector of the Université Laval. The leaders of the Rouge party attributed the defeat of all their candidates east of Champlain riding to the absence of a forceful newspaper. They urged

. Hearn’s popularity in the Irish community had earned him election in 1856 as city councillor for the Irish-dominated Champlain ward, where he himself lived and had his business; his father-in-law had held

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

the Lake Champlain Press at Rouses Point. It served as the starting-point for Lovell’s eldest son, John Wurtele. In 1876, with his father and Adam, he established Lovell, Adam and Company in New York to

Champlain* and Jos Montferrand [Joseph Montferrand*, dit Favre] dear to the ecclesiastical élites, the Mercier who overcame a crisis

others, in the Montreal and Champlain Railroad, founded in the early 1850s, of which he was president from 1859 to 1865, in the Montreal and New York Railroad, established in 1857, and in the Carillon and

the Great Western Railway, in the autumn of 1848 he leapt at a position on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, where Francis had been hired as an assistant engineer, and the brothers were

departing vessels at a considerably enhanced wage rate. An establishment of crimps, based on Rue Champlain near the port, emerged to facilitate, for a fee, the change of employment. In 1848 the government of