good repair. In the winter of 1782–83 Renaud began his work by undertaking a tour of his district, which extended down river from Grondines on the north shore of the St Lawrence and Deschaillons

1877 he began a missionary tour along the Yukon River. The trip lasted 14 months during which he had contact with native groups along the Yukon and near the Bering Sea. After returning to Victoria via

Hillaire de La Rochette), and of others in a set of duplicate records which he was to keep for this purpose. The controller was all the more necessary because the agents at Quebec were not

, and of Anne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, both from old Acadian families. His young wife had been the widow of her first husband, the Chevalier de Saillans, since the age of 13

des miliciens de la bataille de la Châteauguay (Ottawa, 1983)). Heriot left no instructions in his will about his papers and they

by the Augustines de la Miséricorde de Jésus (Augustinian nuns), whom he would help to acquire the Hôpital de la Marine through his representations to the federal government between 1893 and 1895

fight the Fenians in 1866. On 28 September he entered the school of agriculture at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière), where he completed a two-year course in one year. In addition, he

. 8 Feb. 1829 in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, France, son of Jean Grandin and Marie Velliard, hotel-keepers and farmers; d. 3 June 1902 in St Albert (Alta

Groulx* was inspired by Belcourt’s efforts to write L’appel de la race, a novel based on the defence of Franco-Ontarian rights.) In June, accompanied to England by Senator

of a work by Hugues-Félicité-Robert de La Mennais, Paroles d’un croyant, published in Paris in 1834. Following Lartigue’s

1651 and had been made Baron de Pobomcoup by Charles de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour, governor of the colony. Benoni was

Saint-Étienne* de La Tour, the governor of Acadia, was granted the barony of Pobomcoup; near Cape Sable, by the latter in 1651 or 1653. During the expulsion of the Acadians by Governor Charles

-Esquimaux (Havre-Saint-Pierre), and decided in 1906 to move to Saint-Joseph-des-Sept-Îles (Sept-Îles), which he wanted to make the centre of his vicariate. A preliminary tour of the region in September 1903

company, the Cosmorama or Tour du Monde. At his death, he would bequeath these two enterprises to his children. Boivin’s industrial success enabled him

father, came from an old Scottish family established in Ireland; he immigrated to Canada in 1802 with his young family when the 49th Foot, to which he was attached as surgeon, was sent out on a tour of

his voyage. One thing is certain: it was as a perspicacious observer with a critical and extremely sharp eye that he carried out his tour, accumulating facts and anecdotes of all kinds

[La Croix*] on 21 Sept. 1699, Aubery then devoted himself to studying the Abenaki language at the Sault de la Chaudière mission, and in 1701 he was entrusted with founding a mission

. Chauveau, Bertrand de La Tour (Lévis, Que., 1898). A.-H. Gosselin, L’Église du Canada jusqu’à la Conquête, II, 48–363. O’Reilly, Mgr de Saint-Vallier et l

the 1852 tour to Kingston, Montreal, and Quebec. Charlotte, now 20, created a stir in the city of her birth. Billed as “La Jeune Quebecoise,” she was “nightly called before the curtain.” Her

Royal Dublin Society, and he was also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1855 Weld’s much younger half-brother, Charles Richard Weld, published A vacation tour in the United States and Canada