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                  livres. Apparently on the recommendation of Frontenac [Buade
                   
                  DESJORDY MOREAU DE CABANAC, FRANÇOIS (Sourdy), knight of the order of Saint-Louis, commandant of Fort Frontenac, 1696, commandant of
                   
                  Buade* de Frontenac’s guards in the 1670s. Louvigny, however, arrived in New France only in 1683. Prior to that date he had served as a subordinate officer in the Régiment de Navarre for six years
                   
                  off till the middle of May 1673, and it is known that he was at Fort Frontenac in July 1673, at the time of the inspection by Frontenac
                   
                  Borgia on the occasion of the dedication of the Jesuit church in Quebec in August 1673. He was chaplain of the Château Saint-Louis and was also the confessor of Louis de Buade de Frontenac. These
                  steamboat Frontenac. The Frontenac was not the first steamboat in the Canadas; that honour goes to the Accommodation, constructed in Montreal in 1809 for John
                   
                  Buade de Frontenac wrote on 9 Jan. 1673: “The great zeal that Sieur Abbé de Fénelon has exhibited for several years in the propagation of Christianity in this colony, and the devotion that
                   
                  , and on one occasion advanced money for the fortification of Detroit and Michilimackinac. In 1690, sent by Governor Frontenac
                   
                  Buade* de Frontenac was unable to have him appointed an ensign until 1698. In 1703 he was with his father, who was then commandant of Fort Frontenac. He may have succeeded the latter as commandant of
                   
                  Buade* de Frontenac and of Intendant de Meulles, lieutenant general of Trois-Rivières, seigneur of Rivière
                   
                  Buade* de Frontenac as a lifelong ally of the French, and warned him privately against the treachery of the Foxes and Mascoutens, whose spokesmen were also present. A few days later Iroquois were
                   
                  Brisay* de Denonville and then Frontenac [see Buade] praised him, and the
                   
                  . Chingouessi came to Quebec in July of 1698 to report to Governor Buade* de Frontenac that his neighbours, the Kiskakons and
                   
                  Denonville* had desisted from giving any such dramatic presentations. Frontenac [see Buade
                   
                  . Nevertheless, Buade de Frontenac, the new governor, was already thinking of depriving Villeray
                   
                  general. The latter, a victim of the ill-will of Frontenac [Buade*], whose hostility was unrelenting, had been ill for
                   
                  ), captain, commandant of the forts at Niagara, Frontenac, and Chambly, town major of Trois-Rivières; baptized 26 April 1655 in Orléans, France, son of Jean Blaise Des Bergères, master coachman, and Marie
                   
                  rapidly grew more bitter. During this period the country was rent by party quarrels: Frontenac [see
                   
                  the fishing industry, farming, settlement, and soldiering. On 24 Oct. 1676 Buade* de Frontenac granted him
                   
                  Frontenac allowed Vieuxpont to enlarge his seigneury by granting him a new concession on 23 Aug. 1674. It consisted of 15 acres, comprising the territory stretching “from the third to the fourth
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