endeavours devoted to intellectual and moral improvement and the formation of national identity: he was a founder of the Champlain Society, sometime president and director of the Strathroy Mechanics’ Institute

insisted, and the next year he took the position of general manager of the new subsidiary company, Champlain Oil Products Limited, with an annual salary of $20,000

(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

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

heavy involvement. Further attacks drained his energy, and he experienced pain doing practically everything except walking. On Anne’s initiative, they built a summer house on Lake Champlain in Vermont

Champlain*’s Voyages, began publishing his own translation of Marc Lescarbot*’s Histoire de la Nouvelle-France, and co

annually (1912). Also, for the entire period of his terms of office as mayor, he carried out complex and difficult negotiations with the federal government concerning the sale of the Champlain market, the

. [G.] Shaw, Our Lady of the Cape, (Montreal, 1954). E[ugenie] Talusier, Autour du clocher natal: notes historiques sur la paroisse de Saint-Prosper, comté de Champlain (Trois-Rivières

Blondin* for the neighbouring riding of Champlain. Bureau’s anti-conscription fervour and his unshakeable loyalty to Laurier helped him regain some of the prestige he had lost in 1910

,” dans Léon Le Clerc, Champlain, célébré par les Normands et les Canadiens : mémorial des fêtes données à Honfleur les 13, 14 & 15 aout 1905 (Honfleur, France, 1908), 48–55

*, of the Champlain Society, an organization which publishes historical documents. His interest in history also led him to serve the National Battlefields Commission, the Quebec tercentenary committee

erecting historical monuments to Samuel de Champlain* and Octave Crémazie

fers, La découverte du Canada, Champlain, Maisonneuve, Dollard, Montcalm ou la trahison), and three biblical dramas (Le meurtre de Caïn, Joseph, Les

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

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

positions before being appointed secretary to the president and the general manager. In 1884 he became superintendent of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, which provided the Central Vermont with

de Guérin, as well as the Bible and the church fathers. The Canadian works she referred to included those of Samuel de Champlain

. . . . Taché would promote the first large commemorative monuments at Quebec, including that of Samuel de Champlain* (1898). Bent on embellishing

. His plan to close down the Champlain market at Quebec aroused sharp opposition. Armand La Vergne*, the Nationaliste

most important church decorations still in existence are those of Saint-Michel in Vaudreuil, Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation in Champlain, Saint-Philippe in Saint-Philippe-d’Argenteuil (Saint-Philippe), and