Like his father before him, the seigneur René Godefroy de Tonnancour (1669–1738) held the office of king’s attorney in Trois

Compagnie des Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice, which was becoming the seigneur and owner of the island of Montreal. The Société de Montréal was in the process of breaking up, and moreover M. de La

GODEFROY DE TONNANCOUR, LOUIS-JOSEPH, keeper of stores, king’s attorney, seigneur

the superior after Mathevet left in 1778. In this position he had a double responsibility. As the representative of the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, seigneur and landowner, the superior granted sites to

. Francheville was the son of Michel Poulin and Marie Jutra. His grandfather was Maurice Poulin* de La Fontaine, a fur-trader and

LE MOYNE DE LONGUEUIL, JOSEPH-DOMINIQUE-EMMANUEL, army and militia officer, seigneur, and politician; b. 2 April 1738 in the

Marie-Louise Dufrost de La Gemerais, sister of Marie-Marguerite, and they had 15

de La Cetière, representing the other side, and on 5 Dec. 1707 he accused La Cetière of

Beauharnois*, who congratulated him on his work with the Iroquois. On 5 Oct. 1748 Roland-Michel Barrin* de La

-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Sainte-Marie), Lower Canada; m. there secondly 19 Feb. 1849 Henriette Proulx; seven children were born of these marriages; d. 23 June 1859 in Saint

BOURDON, JEAN (sometimes called M. de Saint-Jean or Sieur de Saint-François), seigneur

Charon* de La Barre]. Around 1735 this community, with serious financial difficulties and short of personnel, was in danger of disappearing. In 1747 the Charon Brothers ran out of money and gave

a year as parish priest of Sainte-Anne-du-Bout-de-l’Île (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue), he transferred to the mission of La Présentation (Oswegatchie, now Ogdensburg, N.Y.) in 1758 and for two years

FLEURY DE LA GORGENDIÈRE, JOSEPH DE, merchant, seigneur, agent-general in Canada for the Compagnie des Indes; b. 28 March

. Paul de Chomedey was the son of Louis de Chomedey, seigneur of Chavane, Germenoy-en-Brie, and other places, and of his second wife Marie de Thomelin; the latter was the daughter of the aristocrat Jean de

Boucher* de Niverville and Marguerite-Thérèse Hertel de La Fresnière; m. 5 Oct. 1757 Marie-Josephte Châtelin in Trois-Rivières (Que.), and they had 11 children; d. there 30

Varin* de La Marre, financial commissary. As early as 1750 Claverie made an arrangement with Bigot to build a warehouse, part of which would encroach upon the king’s land and which the king would

PERTHUIS (sometimes Perthuis de La Salle), JOSEPH, merchant-trader, member of the Conseil Supérieur of Quebec

de la Madeleine. They may consequently be considered the first French priests to seek haven in Canada from the revolution. The two priests’ first

-Dame-des-Anges seigneury, the property of Françoise Duquet, widow of Olivier Morel de La