BEEMER, SARA GALBRAITH (Calder), philanthropist; b. 19 Aug. 1846 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, daughter of Levi Beemer, a
: architects, artisans and builders (Ottawa, 1984), 101. A.-B. Routhier, Québec et Lévis à l’aurore du XXe siècle (Montréal, 1900).
unequivocally advised him against giving it any business: “Of all the English banks it has the lowest cash reserve against the circulation and deposits.” He also took exception to the charges banks levied to
1868–69 and the Collège de Lévis in 1869–70.
It was love that changed the direction of Dionne’s vocation and career. In 1869 he announced to his
fabrique. The capitation was a new type of levy which obliged the village people also to pay for religious services previously paid for by the farming
Moyne-White, Le Moyne des Pins: genealogies from 1655 to 1930 . . . (Lévis, Que., 1930).
. . . (3v., Montreal and Toronto, 1904–7), 3: 91. Gary Levy, Speakers of the House of Commons
Laurier to levy an export duty on nickel and the determination in 1899 of the provincial Liberal administration of George William
secondary studies at the Collège de Lévis from 1862 to 1867. In 1865, following the premature death of his only brother, Robert, who had been heading for a business career, he was enrolled by his father in
committee of citizens from Lévis. Along with these pieces, he had been working since 1883 on the pulpit of Notre-Dame church in Montreal. This imposing work, which would occupy him until 1887, must be
(4 sér., Lévis, Qué., 1933), 4: 170–72; Les juges de la prov
, Quebec and Lévis, 1900–2. Martin Gaudreault, “Une ville, Roberval,” Continuité (Québec), 47
government had “only administered a homeopathic dose to the manufacturers of the country,” he argued that it should have significantly reduced the levy on agricultural implements
In addition to the works already mentioned, Pamphile Le May is the author of Petits poèmes ([Québec], 1883) and Fêtes et corvées (Lévis, Qué., 1898). Manuscripts of his
leaders. He took part in the Quebec election campaign of June 1890. While going by train from Lévis to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (La Pocatière) on 16 June to vote at Rivière-Ouelle (and
general, and he made room for the impatient young opportunists under Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau* by appointing Levi Ruggles
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 the
nearer acquaintance,” while the Rossland Record, also in the Kootenays, cited these financial levies as evidence of “the Premier’s ability to set public duty above private interest.” Meanwhile
of Jacques Cartier*; Charles Levi Woodbury, an expert on the fisheries of the North Atlantic; and James Phinney Baxter, who studied