his apprenticeship there as a naval officer, fighting against the Turks and the pirates from Algiers and Tripoli. In 1632 he was one of the directors of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France

documentary; she was intentionally making a pictorial record of what she saw. “I took no sketch of a place I never wish to recollect,” she wrote at Cap-de-la-Madeleine

. Halkett made a short tour of the country to the west of the settlement and then embarked by canoe for York Factory (Man.) where he presided over a meeting of the HBC Northern Department council on 20

century later, it became Canada’s national anthem. First performed at the national convention of French Canadians organized by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Cité de Québec, this patriotic song soon

recorded about him during his first two years in the colony. In 1752 he accompanied Raymond on his tour of Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and gained the intimate geographical knowledge

L’Assomption. The Acadian nationalists – including the leaders of the La Tour branch of the Société l’Assomption [see Rémi Benoît

the loss of his sloop, worth £200, to privateers at either Cape Sable Island or Port La Tour. In the next few years he was a member of several government missions. He accompanied Thomas

character [was] more solidified.” Vincent’s visits to neglected missions took him to Little Whale River (Petite Rivière de la Baleine, Que.) and Great Whale

by his second wife, Margaret McKechin (Mackechnie). His youngest child, John Laing

, Lacombe visited Jasper House, Fort Edmonton (Edmonton), Lac la Biche, Lesser Slave Lake, and Fort Dunvegan (Dunvegan). By 1860 Lac Ste Anne was deemed

Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, his own two sons, and Thomas Robin, Vicomte de Coulogne, who had invested heavily in the expedition

on the strength of the diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, where Bishop Charles La Rocque* had agreed to accept him provided that he teach at

Baldwin*–Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine government and, although committed to support the

 July, 17 Oct. 1822. Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Masson), 2: 137–74. [Jacob] Brown, “Gen. Brown’s inspection tour up the lakes in 1819,” Buffalo Hist. Soc., Pub

tour occasioned by the fact that charitable donations promised for the construction of St Catherine’s Church were slow in coming. He arrived in Lévis from New York on 24 Aug. 1881. Apart from

sections; and undertook experiments to determine the causes of structural deterioration. He began sending preliminary reports to France in October. In 1751 he toured the remainder of Île Royale, as well as

pay £10,000 sterling to the equatorial missions as compensation for damage caused by Protestants.) From September 1895 to September 1896 Forbes toured Canada to solicit donations from Catholics, stir

, ’Maxwalagalis, K’ixitasu, and Nołq’ołala), HBC employee, interpreter, guide, and ethnographic fieldworker and consultant; b

Caughnawaga followed in 1922. After leading a pilgrimage to the major shrines of Europe in the summer of 1922, he published Our tour through Europe the next year. Also in 1923

apprenticed as a mechanical engineer and joined the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1891. He was soon asked to go to sea to serve in the firm’s Pacific fleet; he also worked for a Caribbean tour