, took the loyalist side. He fought under Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea*] and for this service received two tracts of land along the La Tranche

Plaisance (Placentia, Nfld), son of Jean-Joseph d’Allard* de Sainte-Marie and Marie-Anne de Tour de Sourdeval; m. 9 March

(John Graves) papers. PRO, CO 42/21, f.234, William Osgoode to Evan Nepean, 13 Aug. 1791. “Canadian letters: description of a tour thro’ the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, in the course of

(Métis-sur-Mer), La Malbaie, those of Anse-à-l’Eau and Moulin-Baude near Tadoussac, and those of Bytown (Ottawa) and Crosby in Upper Canada, were entered on the company’s books. Often co-ownership was

foundation created by Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix*]. He was still studying when he held the

which he supposed to be that of Jonathan Carver, where the explorer had wintered in 1766–67. Pond later wrote that he thought little of Carver and could have completed his whole tour in six weeks

member of the Indian Council, took him on a tour of India as part of the Prince of Wales’s entourage. He subsequently entered British politics as a Gladstonian Liberal. Defeated in 1878 in his bid to enter

correspondents in Paris, Bordeaux, and in La Rochelle, where they included François Havy*, partner of Jean

discontented that he had set out on a tour of inspection. On 9 and 10 November the Patriotes attacked the militiamen at Odelltown. During the decisive engagement that followed the arrival of

father, a son of Irish Catholic immigrant settlers, moved his family to Toronto, where he ran a hotel-saloon. Ambrose may have attended St Michael’s College and De La Salle Institute, both in

l’État (Neuchâtel, Suisse), fonds S.-P. Andrié, actes perpétuels, 1754–91, 65–66; fonds Abraham Bourgeois, 1: 223; fonds C.-F. Bovet, 7: 79; fonds Boy de la Tour, lettre no.3752. BL, Add

. La Fontaine government over a disagreement with Sir Charles Metcalfe* about whether a responsible ministry

* and Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine* took power in 1848. By 1849

. In the spring of 1820 he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company as a clerk and was posted to Île-à-la-Crosse (Sask.). The following year HBC governor George

. In 1910 Phillips became the guild’s ambassador to western Canada. An experienced traveller, having conducted a ladies’ sketching tour in the Netherlands in 1895 and voyaged around the world (Japan

boarder, he maintained steady habits of work and was consistently among the best pupils. In May 1857 he was admitted into the Congrégation de la Très Sainte Vierge and the following year was made

Tardivel* (through the pages of his newspaper, La Vérité), authors who became the principal influences on his thinking. “It was there,” Henri affirmed on 13 Oct. 1943, in the

make a tour of the various townships in which they were located. Following his round of inspection Bouchette published a report in 1825 which earned him a letter of congratulation from the governor

Quebec and the Etchemin mills at the mouth of the Rivière Etchemin were among the largest. Important visitors who went to see the falls of the Chaudière were sometimes invited to tour Caldwell’s

-la-Chapelle in 1748, the British government well understood that “it was essential to provide in that area a British military station of comparable strength as a counterweight and as a protection for