(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

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).

general, and he made room for the impatient young opportunists under Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau* by appointing Levi Ruggles

 Nov. 1867 in Lévis, Que., Helen Anderson, half-sister of the Reverend Duncan Anderson, and they had four sons and five daughters; d. 26 June 1911 in Breakeyville

du régiment de Maisonneuve, 1880–1980 (Montréal, 1980). Qué., Statuts, 1870, c.43. P.-G. Roy, La famille Rocbert de La Morandière (Lévis, Qué., 1905). Benjamin

inclination and steered him into classical studies, which he took initially at the Collège de Lévis in 1866–69 and continued at the Petit Séminaire de Québec in 1869–75. Brousseau was remembered at the latter

Lévis run by D. Laîné et Compagnie [see Charles William Carrier*]. In 1867 he returned to Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-Sud

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

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

New York and then in 1858 to Saint John, where Solomon eventually established a successful tobacco business. Joined a year later by brothers-in-law Henry Levy and Nathan

caisse populaire; b. 5 Nov. 1854 in Lévis, Lower Canada, son of François Roy, dit

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

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

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

Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire in Lévis. His stay there was marked by three developments in particular. Through his efforts the Marist Brothers were put in charge of the boys’ schools in the town of Lévis in

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

Ottawa and London in an endeavour to obtain government investment in this project. One result of these efforts would be the construction of the Louise Basin and the Lorne Dry Dock in Lauzon (Lévis). In

: 19–20; no.10: 25–26. Lucien Rioux, Gilles Vigneault (Paris, 1969), 82–83. Placide Vigneau, Un pied d’ancre; journal de Placide Vigneau . . . (Lévis, Qué., 1969).