each geographical feature, listing the species of trees, and, like Jacques Cartier
called Fort George, now Lake George, N.Y.). He acted as adjutant, administering the affairs of all the militia units, to the great satisfaction of Vaudreuil who claimed that “because of his diligence, our
grandfather of George-Étienne*. By 1770 Jordan was creditor of Jean
. Alastair Sweeny, George-Étienne Cartier: a biography (Toronto, 1976), 19–21, 24, 39, 41, 91. B
Gagnon married Catherine Cartier, daughter of a prosperous farmer from Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie (L’Acadie). He already owned two properties and had at his disposal more than 14,000 livres
Cartier* and subsequently aunt of Sir George-Étienne Cartier*. Through her mother, Cécile was a cousin of Bishop Joseph
-Laurent on the island of Montreal. At this gathering a body to focus resistance, the Comité Central et Permanent du District de Montréal, was set up and Lorimier and George-Étienne
1852, following the resignation of the commissioner of public works, John Young*, and the refusal of George-Étienne
April 1858 that the government, now under the leadership of Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier*, was not “absolutely the best
saltpetre and sulphur do not whiten what is black!”
In March 1834 Duvernay had joined with George-Étienne
Canadian government in Paris, and Hortense married George-Étienne Cartier*, whom
. Macdonald*, whom Hogan had admired as a young politician, and George-Étienne Cartier* returned to power that same month, he did not
Patrie, a paper Rambau began publishing in Montreal in September 1854. As the organ for the liberal-conservative coalition of which George-Étienne
about attacking not only the liberal democrats of the Institut Canadien and their organs Le Pays and Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe, but also the supporters of George-Étienne
, Boutillier was one of those who, with George-Étienne Cartier* and Augustin-Norbert
. Although he began as a declared independent in parliament, he soon supported the Liberal-Conservatives of George-Étienne Cartier* and gave
the little comedy, “La Tuque bleue,” which appeared in early August 1848 in L’Avenir and which depicted George-Étienne
turned to George-Étienne Cartier*; his notary was Théodore-Benjamin Doucet
terrible” bore the brunt of the attack. In one incident his efforts were vain: George-Étienne Cartier*, during the episode of “La