Champlain county. A man by the name of Hubert Trépanier, sensing there was money to be made, persuaded Pierre-Léon to follow him to the United States. Far from making their fortunes, their tour of circuses
founder of the Canadian Society of Authors in 1899, the Ontario Library Association in 1900 (he served as president in 1901–2), and the Champlain Society in 1905. He was president of the Canadian Institute
episode in Casgrain’s life: he altered the text of an inscription for the monument at Quebec to Samuel de Champlain*, which Narcisse
, 1889 ([Ottawa, 1889?]; copies in the NA and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) and Political annals of Canada: a condensed record of governments from the time of Samuel de Champlain
Champlain*, he was the only anglophone invited to speak.
Marchand’s death in the autumn of 1900 left the provincial treasureship vacant, since he had
industrialize the city. In 1868–69 the produce market was enlarged. In 1869 the municipality bought a central property and created the Carré Champlain, its first public park. The water-mains system was extended
stockholder and he eventually assumed the presidency of the firm. He was also involved in the earliest railways, as a director of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad Company, which in 1851
, and editor; b. 15 Aug. 1849 in Champlain, N.Y., son of Charles Labelle and Marie Dubois; m. 5 June 1872 Marie-Louise Derome in Montreal at Notre-Dame church, and they had seven
Ross, a merchant trading to the West Indies, and Sophie-Éloïse Gouin; m. 8 Aug. 1854 Arline Lanouette, daughter of Joseph-Édouard Lanouette, in Champlain, Que.; they had no children; d. 4
writings of Samuel de Champlain*, Pierre-François-Xavier de
the counties of Champlain, Joliette, Berthier, and L’Assomption with Joseph-Édouard Cauchon*, the president, to get subsidies; the
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
sér., 3 (1897), sect.i: 119–33; and “Samuel de Champlain,” 5 (1899), sect.i: 79
1873 to 1882 as a physician at the dispensary of the Sœurs de la Charité de Québec on Rue Saint-Olivier, and from 1876 to 1885 as a vaccinating physician in Champlain and Saint-Pierre wards
and the committee for the Monument Champlain in Ottawa, he was involved first and foremost through his writing. Considering the short period during which he wrote, his literary output is extensive and
member of the Champlain Society. A benefactor and councillor of the Art Association of Montreal, he possessed “many fine pictures” and donated the stained glass windows for the Royal Victoria Hospital’s
,” had died of a bullet wound to the heart. His mother, a 36-year-old widow, said he worked 12 hours a day and had planned to go that evening to the Garde Champlain hall in Saint-Roch to play euchre. “He
published an essay on the mystery of Samuel de Champlain*’s tomb, for which he had been awarded a prize the previous year by the Spanish consul
to mark the tercentenary of Samuel de Champlain*’s founding of Quebec. Fresh from his battlefield victory, he decided to transform the
three years later with the tercentenary of the arrival at the Saint John River of Samuel de Champlain* and Pierre