was summoned in 1861 to Île-à-la-Crosse, which was closer to St Boniface, and Grandin undertook a three-year tour of the northern missions. Taché, when he went to Paris to attend the general

to buy most of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour’s interest in Nova

Joséphine Berthelot, niece of Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine*; d. 1 April 1897 at Quebec

Forbin-Janson*, bishop of Nancy, during the latter’s preaching tour in Canada (1840–42). Baveux was attracted by missionary life and decided to

of the English and French commissaries, I, 21, 121, 411, 588–89, 591–96, 599–600. PRO, CSP, Col, 1661–68, nos.1868, 1877, 1898. Couillard Després, Saint-Étienne de La Tour

Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour who had been persuaded to join the English and Scottish cause and who was returning at the same time to obtain the approval of Sir

of Louis Dessane and Marie Maurel ; m. in 1847 Irma Trunel de la Croix-Nord by whom he had nine children, with three boys and four girls surviving infancy; d. Quebec, 8 June 1873

LA FONTAINE (Ménard, dit La Fontaine), Sir LOUIS-HIPPOLYTE (he signed LaFontaine; the

families of France, among others the La Rochefoucaulds, La Vieuvilles, Vitrys, and Matignons. (Furthermore, according to Costebelle, Sourdeval had come to Newfoundland following family setbacks

Bourgeoys*, the first altar-boy in the frontier settlement of Ville-Marie. He was probably trained in gunsmithery by Jean La Forest [Tavernier] and possibly transmitted his skill to his brother, Jean

crown finances. In a letter to Governor Beauharnois and Intendant Hocquart*, the minister of Marine, Maurepas, stated that Laporte was on a tour

godson of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, was the second Canadian-born

 June 1603 in the parish of Saint-Saturnin, at Tours, France; d. 1688. Nicolas Denys was the son of Jacques Denys de La Thibaudière and Marie

, her life and times,” Weekly Cape Bretoner (Sydney), 29 Sept. 1956: 17. [Joseph] de La Roque, “Tour of inspection made by the Sieur de La Roque; census, 1752,” PAC Report

-Étienne de La Tour. The fleet sailed from Dieppe 28 April 1628, followed by a supply ship that the Jesuit Philibert

General Joseph-Mathurin Bourg to serve St Mary’s Bay and Cape Sable. That fall he began an extensive missionary tour, without the permission of his superiors. At Shelburne he was asked to go to St

Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour was to play an important role in the later revival of French claims and in the final failure of Sir William’s colonizing projects. Meanwhile in

. Sallie Holman was the undisputed star of the Holman opera company which toured the eastern United States and Canada from the late 1850s to the early 1880s. Her parents were active in the theatre in New

), labourer and legendary figure; b. 17 April 1845 in Saint-Stanislas-de-la-Rivière-des-Envies (Saint-Stanislas), Lower Canada, son of Pierre Ayotte (Ayotte, dit Simon), a farmer, and

. Marchand, O’Brien, and Morisset, along with pianist Ernest Patience, founded a musical movement named the Carillon Canadien on 31 Jan. 1922. From 1922 to 1925 Marchand toured Quebec and visited parts of