a year old” supports the inference of a household à la façon du pays. While there are no further glimpses of his domestic life in Hudson Bay, it is reasonable to suppose that Howse had ample

. 1763 in Detroit, son of Jacques Baby*, dit Dupéront, and Susanne Réaume (Rhéaume), dit La Croix; m. secondly 1802

was condemned, Cobb received £16 4s. 8d. as one-third share of the prize. Later that month, while searching for a wrecked vessel at Port La Tour, Cobb discovered the

department, Jens Dahl and his assistant Adolph Nielsen, visited St John’s as part of a tour of departments and markets in North America. The visit was timely since earlier that year the Newfoundland

chaplain at Montreal, and as part of his new work he was ordered in 1830 to carry out a tour of Upper Canada. Dissatisfaction with his situation was aggravated in May 1831 when, despite his objections

the autumn of 1890. She next undertook a six-month engagement in Milan, where, it is said, she sang before Italian royalty. La Scala has been suggested by some sources as the scene of her performances

. In 1905 the Armingtons returned to Europe for further instruction. They briefly enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and later they attended the Académie Julian, in classes

. In June 1886 Dumont accepted Cody’s offer, joining the show in Philadelphia on 7 July. Until the end of the season in September he toured the eastern United States, performing as a trick-shot

family which was to lead to her first successful book. She accompanied them to the Continent in 1821, travelling in luxury “à la Milor Anglais” through the Low Countries and into

won an acquittal. Late in 1825 he finished his first tour of the assizes circuit. His friends judged him a success and, he confided to Eliza, thought a certain speech “affords a prospect of my one day

Provence after the revolution. Members of the congregation toured the country holding sessions of instruction lasting from two to six weeks. During these “missions” they taught the elements of the Catholic

Literary and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, “Ancient documents relating to Acadia: notices of the families of La Tour and D’Aulnais, therein mentioned, so far as their history is connected with it”; “A collection and

tour, including a visit with George Washington, and struck as well by Lymburner’s “fine head of hair instead of a wig he used to wear.” On

previous summer, it first materialized in a voluminous manuscript (published in 1988 in Montreal as Pour une politique: le programme de la Révolution tranquille), to which was added a

involved uncomfortably close contact with Métis neighbours, they chose an isolated holding southwest of Portage la Prairie, near Millford. Life there was demanding, yet the holding proved more prosperous

, where he assisted with research and administration. He enthusiastically participated in the station’s investigative expeditions to the Îles de la Madeleine and elsewhere on the east coast, displaying a

Cornwall on their Canadian tour to paper over her husband’s qualms as to whether he, as the king’s representative, or the duke should take precedence in public. The New York Times described her as

rest of his life, except for two stints in the late 1890s: he briefly managed a gold mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, and he toured Great Britain on behalf of the federal and British

, from its first discovery. Based largely on Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France . . . (3v., Paris, 1744) by Pierre-François-Xavier de

Salaberry exchanged into a different regiment to spare him another tour of duty in the West Indies. In the mean time Edward got several weeks’ leave for him, gave him lodging, invited him to supper every day